Help building new PC

#1

Ok im a complete hardware retard, just wondering if anyone can help me find a few last pieces and just have a glance over to makesure i havent fucked up w/ some of the stuff.

So I could do with some help finding a PSU, Any cooling parts etc & a cheap ATX case (around £40 or less i guess, don’t give a fuck about case that much)

Most of my peripherals are just cheap crap. I’m not a gamer so I didn’t go for some hightech gfx card, but I do want to house my 2 Dell U2711’s in 2560 x 1440 via displayport. Hence why I bought 2xGFX cards. Is this ok? Dual displayport cards were either ridic shit or ridic expensive.

So yeah, Case/PSU/Cooling/Maybe cables? Anything else.

Appreciate it thanks.

[b]Motherboard[/b] MSI Z77A-G45 S1155 Intel Z77 DDR3 ATX [url=http://www.dabs.com/products/msi-z77a-g45-s1155-intel-z77-ddr3-atx-80KQ.html?src=3]http://www.dabs.com/products/msi-z77a-g45-s1155-intel-z77-ddr3-atx-80KQ.html?src=3[/url] £94.99

CPU Intel Core i7-3770 S1155 3.4GHz 8MB http://www.dabs.com/products/intel-core-i7-3770-s1155-3-4ghz-8mb-7YXH.html?src=3 £232.99

RAM Corsair 32GB (4 x 8GB) Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3 DIMM CL9 Black http://www.dabs.com/products/corsair-32gb--4-x-8gb--vengeance-1600mhz-ddr3-dimm-cl9-black-86RM.html?src=3 £229.99

GFX Card 1 XFX ATI Radeon 7770 HD 1GHz 1GB PCI-Express 3.0 HDMI Core http://www.dabs.com/products/xfx-ati-radeon-7770-hd-1ghz-1gb-pci-express-3-0-hdmi-core-7YH2.html?q=displayport&src=16 £91.99

GFX Card 2 XFX ATI Radeon 7770 HD 1GHz 1GB PCI-Express 3.0 HDMI Core http://www.dabs.com/products/xfx-ati-radeon-7770-hd-1ghz-1gb-pci-express-3-0-hdmi-core-7YH2.html?q=displayport&src=16 £91.99

HDD Samsung 256GB 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD Basic Kit http://www.dabs.com/products/samsung-256gb-830-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--ssd-basic-kit-819P.html?src=2 £149.97

BD/DVD Drive Pioneer BDR-207DBK 12x SATA Int BD-RW Burner Black Bare http://www.dabs.com/products/pioneer-bdr-207dbk-12x-sata-int-bd-rw-burner-black-bare-80WC.html?q=blu-ray%20drive&src=16 £59.98

Keyboard & Mouse Logitech MK520 Wireless Combo Keyboard & Mouse http://www.dabs.com/products/logitech-mk520-wireless-combo-keyboard---mouse-7461.html?q=keyboard%20and%20mouse&src=16 £34.99

Speakers Logitech S-220 - 2.1-channel PC multimedia speaker system - 17 Watt (Total) http://www.dabs.com/products/logitech-s-220---2-1-channel-pc-multimedia-speaker-system---17-watt--total--4L6M.html?q=Speakers&src=16 £19.99

Total £1,006.88

#2

Cooler:

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 - Affordable and great cooling. (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-AR)

Corsair H80/H100 - Awesome cooling but more expensive. (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-008-CS)

PSU: Antec/Corsair/SeaSonic - I’d probably go for a 750W and modular if its within your budget.

Case: Sometimes its worth spending a bit more just for better cooling options/cable management but for that price range I have still done pretty nice builds using these:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-268-CM&groupid=2362&catid=29&subcat=

I say that about cases because with that much power for a none gaming rig I assume you’re going to be doing something that will run it hot, in which case a few decent case fans might be a worthy investment.

Final note: Buy from Overclockers/eBuyer/Dabs/Scan look for best price vs deliver options as I tend to find them all fairly competitive.

#3

Thanks alot Greeny big help.

#4

note about overclockers is they’re regarded as having really, REALLY bad customer service

#5

Wasn’t that before they switched owners or something? I’ve ordered a lot of stuff from them in the past 2 years or so and it’s been brilliant, always quick delivery, and I once sent back a dead hard drive and they replaced it ASAP no problem at all.

#6

Why are you buying a laptop hard drive?..

I don’t know if any one else noticed that but yeah.

Best price:performance ratio cooler (For a respectable price)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-CM&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat=2341

#7

[quote=“waj, post:6, topic:458245”]Why are you buying a laptop hard drive?..

I don’t know if any one else noticed that but yeah.[/quote]
It’s an SSD…

#8

I like how you called the SSD an HDD, do you know what HDD stands for? Hard Disk Drive, do you know what SSD stands for? Solid State Drive. Lol.

On a side note, I remember reading somewhere that samsung made really shitty SSDs, or it could have been really really great SSDs. It was one of the extremes anyway, just a thought.

#9

[quote=“eczema3, post:8, topic:458245”]I like how you called the SSD an HDD, do you know what HDD stands for? Hard Disk Drive, do you know what SSD stands for? Solid State Drive. Lol.

On a side note, I remember reading somewhere that samsung made really shitty SSDs, or it could have been really really great SSDs. It was one of the extremes anyway, just a thought.[/quote]Samsung makes great SSDs

#10

[quote=“eczema3, post:8, topic:458245”]I like how you called the SSD an HDD, do you know what HDD stands for? Hard Disk Drive, do you know what SSD stands for? Solid State Drive. Lol.[/quote] Wow nice nitpick bro, I used an old excel template so I didn’t forget stuff.

Anyway thx to everyone tht helped much appreciated. Maybe now I can run my databases without PC epic lagging.

#11

All I know is I am always going to refer to them as hard drives, regardless of if it is a solid state or hard disk. If it is physical and isn’t liquid and is a storage drive, then it is a hard drive to me.

#12

it is a hard drive, it’s just not a hard disk drive. A soft drive would be something like a RAM disk.

#13

I’ll invent a new word so HDD can remain. High Density Drive. Problem solved niggahs.

#14

32gb of ram

like is that even fucking necessary

you can buy 2 fleshlights if you stuck to 8gb.

#15

Maybe he wants to run lots of VMs, he mentioned databases so who knows what he could be doing. 32gb is often overkill but ram is cheap as shit.

#16

So, floppy drives?

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#18

32gb defo overkill but the databases i use mug memory, overkill ye but w/e anyway

pc is great, only thing i think is a little annoying is the case, went a lil overkill on that and its massive

#19

These guys aren’t talking shit… I have 16gb ram and I never use more than a quarter of it.

#20

I’ve got 16GB of ram, yes it’s a lot to actually have but that was the lowest memory kit available in quad channel at the speed that I wanted, so… :slight_smile: