Journal #7928 by Skals

Skals

Posted 12 years ago2012-08-08 10:53:45 UTC

SkalsLevel Designer

So I finally assembled my brand new pc all by myself.
It's awesome! I haven't even played games yet, but everything seems to be so extremely fast. I had an intel core 2 duo before, and now I've got the best quadcore cpu (3770k) :D, it's literally 10x faster.

My specs:

i7 3770k
cooler master 212 evo
asrock extreme4
gtx 560ti
3x 4gb 1300mhz ddr3 ram
asus xonar dg
NZXT Lexa S

Boy, it was quite hard to assemble this thing, I made a few mistakes here and there, I was even such a genius as to screw the dvd rw drive in the wrong way up, so when I finally got it to work it opened up and I was like... wtf?? RAAAAGE!
But it works perfectly, got everything to work, fans, led's, even fan control, everything works nicely

Stojke

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 11:36:13 UTC Comment #55353

YEAH! New PCs rule! >: O

rufee

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 12:37:57 UTC Comment #55348

I would have invested in a better MB.
Have fun

Stojke

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 12:49:31 UTC Comment #55354

I told him the same, but what the heck, that mo bo is pretty good.

Penguinboy

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 13:04:24 UTC Comment #55344

Don't listen to these guys, cheap or expensive, all motherboards serve the exact same purpose. Obviously you don't want a cheap piece of crap, but after a certain price point it's just marketing buzzwords and people get suckered into that stuff. No need to spend more than $150 on a motherboard. A quick Google shows that it's around that range anyway, so good choice

Of course if you had 10 hard drives or wanted to do SLI or something unusual, that would be a completely different story.

rufee

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 13:15:15 UTC Comment #55349

To put it simply: want reliability go with Intel, they will never break though not much fancy features. Want something with features and somewhat reliable - ASUS, MSI. Everything else is crap.

Stojke

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 15:16:05 UTC Comment #55355

MSI? Gigabyte is crap? How high are you?

And Penguinboy it all has to do with features and durability.

Striker

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 15:28:25 UTC Comment #55346

In my computer, everything has changed besides the case and the motherboard. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-965P-S3, bought in 2007. It was around 120$ at the time I think. I had to upgrade the BIOS in 2010 when I bought a newer CPU( my old CPU was a Intel Pentium D 3.2 ghz, and the new one is an Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6500 2.9 ghz). It worked flawlessly.
The conclusion is that more expensive motherboards are more future proof.

Is this i7 you bought an Ivy Core?

[EDIT] Btw, my mobo has no "solid-capacitors", and I've yet to see any bloated one. Marketing...

Skals

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 16:17:46 UTC Comment #55345

It's the best quad-core cpu, and it's unlocked for overclocking. i7 3770k 3rd generation intel ivy bridge cpu.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Striker

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 16:20:45 UTC Comment #55347

Oh, very nice :D.

rufee

Commented 12 years ago2012-08-08 16:44:28 UTC Comment #55350

Wish i had the cash for a 2011 socket oh wait i cant even afford a 2nd gen 2700k