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getochkn

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It's my bday in a few weeks and time to treat myself to a new tower and monitor. Trying to stay around $1000 canadian before taxes, which this system works out to about exactly.

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/getochkn/saved/2D8L


I think it's a solid build. I do some music stuff, photo work, fractal design, gaming, bit of everything so I think it's well rounded and the 16gb ram would help with some of those things I do as will the 6core cpu.

Reviews/comments are welcome.
 
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Amit Parmar

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My opinion, for a $1000 no one should be using a FX 6300 or any 78xx card. You need to reduce some other things because your graphics card should be the main thing of your build.

1. You don't need liquid cooling for something that small. Even with an i5 you are better off with a 212 EVO. And the 8350 is much better for this.

2. You don't need 2TB. You can easily get another HDD once 1TB fills up. And that won't be anytime soon.

3. No need for all those fans because it won't heat up that much. This isn't a 4-way SLI build that you would need 4 fans for. 1 or 2 is enough.

3. Get an HD 7950.

4. Lower your motherboard to about $50 so you can fit in other stuff.

3. Asus VS248H-P

My opinions
 
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getochkn

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1. I do plan on overclocking it and like a cool pc. When rendering 12 hour fractals or 6 hour audio mixdowns, the CPU is maxed the whole time, so cooling and quiet were my reasoning with that. In Canada the 8350 is well over $100 more.

2. I can easily fill a 2TB drive and about 5x more than that. Trust me, I can suck up storage like nothing.

3. 2 of the fans were to replace the ones on the liquid cooling for quieter fans and since the MB had blue accents, the video card had blue accents, the ram had blue accents, i went for blue/black fans to replace the cooler fans and case fans.

3. The 7850 is $70 off right now, hence including it. I don't game huge and could play BF4 with my 7750/Phenom Combo I have now at 1080p at lower res and was with the performance.

4. $50 MB's suck ass. lol. You can't get a 970/990 chipset for AMD's at that price and I want to overclock it, and the VRM's on a $50 will die in no time.

3. I want a 27" Have a 22" now and it's too small and my monitor will double for watching my digital HD cable in my room, so 27" is better.


Thanks for the comment though.
 
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Amit Parmar

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I ALSO LIVE IN CANADA. And even if you are overclocking there is no need for water cooling because 6300 isn't exactly a beast.
 
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Asus m5a97 R2.0 also isn't a very good board for overclocking. Your H60 Will be wasted.
Try and get the M5a97 "EVO" R2.0 [better VRM] if you plan to stick to fx6300 BUT
I'd highly recommend upgrading CPU to 8320 and the mobo to M5a99fx pror2.0 and for awesome overclocking and fast rendering :)

More 120mm fans = more noise , get a 200m fan to replace 2 of your 120mm fans

Also be sure to claim the 70$ rebait, because if you are unable to do so you'll be at a huge loss [for 200$ you could have got a way better gpu]
 
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getochkn

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Ditched the monitor now, I'll stick with my Asus 22" VS. It has a nice pic, I'm happy.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($189.82 @ Canada Computers)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($112.98 @ Canada Computers)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($111.85 @ Canada Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($198.86 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($101.68 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($71.17 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card ($236.17 @ Canada Computers)
Case: BitFenix Ghost (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.00)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($90.38 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $1231.91
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-04 18:16 EST-0500)

And that's what I built today. Had a different case but had to return it so I had room to fit the Seidon in there. System rocks though, got the RAM running at 1866, OC'd to 4ghz right now, just getting into it, but ran for 20mins with prime, hit about 45c. Probably going to replace the Seidon fans with some Antec ones I bought and then move the coolermaster ones around and try and OC some more, but so far, a rocking system.
 
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Amit Parmar

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The Corsair CX PSUs are for the VERY desperate. http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-power-supply-120pg0650gr

That should be be better for you.

And are you sure you want that case? Looks a bit overpriced for what it is. With that price you could get a Phantom 410 or a Guardian 921.
 
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getochkn

getochkn

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Already built the system today. The case is actually nice and since I bought everything in person I was limited in what I could get. I need a full size case to fit the 240mm rad and 2x120mm fans for the cooler in the top. No mid-sized case had enough room, I looked at like 15 of them.

The case I got has a HD bay at the top to plug in a SATA drive, nice little feature which I will use a lot, USB 3.0, ton's of room, nice design.
 
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Amit Parmar

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I hope you will like it a lot forever.
 
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