- Jun 26, 2013
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Hello everyone! So I'm a pretty broke college student, but I've been hoping to save up the money this summer to build a new PC that I can play games on and use in the future for my coding and creating games myself(I am a computer science major). Anyway, I have a stock desktop computer that I bought a couple years back. Its a HP with AMD cpu. About 8 months ago I put in a new graphics card: Nvidia Geforce 630 and a new power suppl: Thermaltake TR2 600w. (I didn't know I could put in a PCI 3.0 graphics card into a PCI 2.0 slot)
I want to switch over to Intel. Here is the initial setup I was thinking:
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155
MOBO: ASRock Z77 Extreme6 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Tower: nzxt phantom (either mid of full... not sure what I need)
So I had already ordered the extreme6 MOBO cause it seems to have what I want and looks really cool. But someone told me that its very power hungry and that I would need to upgrade my power supply. And that furthermore, I would need new RAM cause this board takes more expensive stuff. I would just like a second opinion on that since I don't know too much about building a PC except for what I read online. I can't seem to find any information on a minimum wattage requirement for the MOBO. (I don't have the money to have to spend 100 more on a PSU and 100 more on an upgraded ram). I currently have 8gb of ram, but its just stock ram.
I guess the nitty gritty that I want to know is whether I could set up what I want to with my current power supply, ram, and any other stock parts you might imagine, and have an improvement in performance over what I have now. (Obviously I would upgrade my ram eventually when I save up for it, I just haven't thought of it as being essential at this time.)
Anyway, thank you for reading through all of this and please let me know what you think! Any other suggestions, or if I can get something better for the price I would really appreciate it!
I want to switch over to Intel. Here is the initial setup I was thinking:
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155
MOBO: ASRock Z77 Extreme6 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Tower: nzxt phantom (either mid of full... not sure what I need)
So I had already ordered the extreme6 MOBO cause it seems to have what I want and looks really cool. But someone told me that its very power hungry and that I would need to upgrade my power supply. And that furthermore, I would need new RAM cause this board takes more expensive stuff. I would just like a second opinion on that since I don't know too much about building a PC except for what I read online. I can't seem to find any information on a minimum wattage requirement for the MOBO. (I don't have the money to have to spend 100 more on a PSU and 100 more on an upgraded ram). I currently have 8gb of ram, but its just stock ram.
I guess the nitty gritty that I want to know is whether I could set up what I want to with my current power supply, ram, and any other stock parts you might imagine, and have an improvement in performance over what I have now. (Obviously I would upgrade my ram eventually when I save up for it, I just haven't thought of it as being essential at this time.)
Anyway, thank you for reading through all of this and please let me know what you think! Any other suggestions, or if I can get something better for the price I would really appreciate it!
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