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HerbertThePervert

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After a long time of thinking and researching, I've finally chosen the parts of my first PC build.

GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202006

PSU: Seasonic M12II 620 Bronze 620w http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151095

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504

Case: NZXT Phantom Phan-001RD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146074

Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-V LK http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837

Ram: G. Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2X8GB) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231568

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148910

DVD Burner: ASUS 24X DVD Burner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

OS: Windows 7 (Home Premium or Professional)

My main questions are:

1. Are any of the parts going to be bottlenecked with this build?

2. Should I get Home Premium or Professional? What would be the benefits of getting Professional?

3. Are the new processors from Intel coming out in June going to be any faster?

4. I don't plan on overclocking my CPU right away, nor will I overclock it over 4.5 GHz, but how well will I be able to overclock?

5. How good is the motherboard overall?

6. How good is this PC build?

The only parts I have so far are the GPU and PSU. So, if any of the other parts suck, what would you recommend for me? My budget for this PC is up to $1500.
 
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For a very long time, around 4-5 years at least...
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completelyrandomname

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1. You should be fine, very balanced build.
2. Not worth buying Professional, most users don't use the extra features
3. No
4. Depending on you CPU cooler. I suggest you get a Hyper 212 EVO, you should be able to get to 4.2 or 4.4. Just get it, it's so cheap.
5. Very good
6. Change it to 8Gb of RAM if you are just gaming. 16Gb has no effect.
 
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thor220

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Pretty good build overall. Should have good airflow and overclocking.

I would have to suggest a different hard drive though.
Western Digital Black 2 TB - $159.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792

It's more pricy but comes with higher performance, reliability, and a 5 year warrenty.
 
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I would have to suggest a different hard drive though.
Western Digital Black 2 TB - $159.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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The only thing that's different is the label. Pretty much all hard drives come off the same assembly line.

1. Nope. If you have money left over you should add a solid SSD like the OCZ Vector or Samsung 840 Pro, you will notice a significant increase in performance.
2. No reason to get Pro if you don't need more than 16GB of RAM.
3. Not necessarily. They'll be slightly faster but not a significant increase in performance.
4. You can easily overclock it past 4.5 with the right cooling and a change in the multiplier.
5. Asus makes quality boards (except for the Sabertooth), you can't go wrong with theirs.
6. I'd give it a 9/10. All quality parts, but missing an SSD.
 
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1. nope

2. professional just gives you more features that really doesn't impact you unless you're trying to run legacy applications and etc...

3. 2-10% faster. You should just wait for it anyways (only a couple weeks away). since it'll should result in a small price drop for current gen processors.

4. if you do ANY overclocking, you should consider buying a 3rd party cpu cooler (like the CM 212 EVO).
You can do it one of two ways.
Easy way: get something like the Asus AI suite and have it automatically overclock your processor for you. (They'll usually overvolt the processor, on my set-up they set the core voltage to be 1.236V where it actually only needed around 1.144V)
Hard way: read up on overclocking and go into the Bios and change the FSB/multiplier/voltage yourself.

5. It's a alright motherboard. just pretty much a standard good quality motherboard from ASUS. choosing a Motherboard is mostly dependent on personal manufacturer preference except for some small instances.

6. Pretty good build suited for pretty much everything.

 
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Yeah except that the black edition comes with dual processors, a 5 year warranty, better mechanics, and goes through a more rigorous testing cycle. I've had 3 blacks, 3 green, and 2 seagate. Both the seagate failed and the green did as well. Never had a black fail. Data integrity is a nice feature.
 
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Your build looks good overall. I would lower your memory down to 8gig because a gaming build will not need 16gig. I do have 16gig in my i5 build but only because when I got my 16gig kit it was on sale for the same price as the 8gig kits at the time.

Asus makes some really good motherboards(including the Asus Z77 Sabertooth).

If you plan to overclock you should look into a aftermarket heatsink/fan as the stock heatsink/fan is some what loud and is not very good for overclocking. As above the Hyper 212 EVO is really good and is a good price.
 
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An ssd has great speed and will make your os faster although it does have a limited life.

The black edition hard drive is faster than all the other 7200 rpm drives and is good for:

- video editing
- gaming
- 3d modeling
- other pro apps

If you think you don't need that, just get your original seagate drive.

 
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HerbertThePervert

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Thank you. Also one more question, how long do you think this build will last for gaming without an upgrade? I'm comfortable to playing with settings as low as medium and I can play at 30 fps.
 
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For a very long time, around 4-5 years at least. Your processor is going to be 3x the speed of the next gen consoles and your video card around 2x.
 
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