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December 31, 2013 9:17:49 PM

Alright made the switch from console to PC! Yay everyone cheering (/_-)
Anyway can you tell me if I made a decent build for the budget of 450 ( I already have the cd drive and hdd and operating system)
Already bought the parts except the GPU. I'm kinda worried the CPU will bottleneck but after researching it doesn't seem like it, well I just need input!

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2tCcO

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December 31, 2013 9:24:08 PM

few things. check that the 12v rail on your power supply has the wattage/amps for the cpu and gpu without shutting down.
check the case spec for the length the gpu can fit into that case. a lot of micro case have 9-10 inch max gpu card lengths do to the cards hitting the hard drive bay. the gpu you have is a good unit. myself i would have used one 4g dimm to save a slot.
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December 31, 2013 9:28:21 PM

smorizio said:
few things. check that the 12v rail on your power supply has the wattage/amps for the cpu and gpu without shutting down.
check the case spec for the length the gpu can fit into that case. a lot of micro case have 9-10 inch max gpu card lengths do to the cards hitting the hard drive bay. the gpu you have is a good unit. myself i would have used one 4g dimm to save a slot.


To be honest I have no idea what you said, I'm very new to this sorry!
The only reason why I'm going with just 4gb ram is this is not going to be my permanent pc.
I'm going to build another one and give this to a family member later down the road.
Also the case has room for 330mm GPU, this should be fine.
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December 31, 2013 9:38:39 PM

on the ram if you can change it from 2 dimms to one 4g dimm it be better as you wont fill all the dimm slots with low sized ram where if you family wanted more ram they have to toss out the small 2g sticks. on the case there a max lenth inside the case from the back of the case to the front of the case. (see from newegg photo they removed the lower hard drive bays for longer gpu. if you look at the power supply spec the 12v line has 38a max limit. (456w). the cpu is 100w and the gpu is 120w at max output. those two will use 18.3 amps. or 220w. with power supply's you dont want to get close to there max output or your rig have issues. use a power supply calulator or two to make sure before you buy a power supply it sized right to the rig.
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December 31, 2013 10:33:27 PM

smorizio said:
on the ram if you can change it from 2 dimms to one 4g dimm it be better as you wont fill all the dimm slots with low sized ram where if you family wanted more ram they have to toss out the small 2g sticks. on the case there a max lenth inside the case from the back of the case to the front of the case. (see from newegg photo they removed the lower hard drive bays for longer gpu. if you look at the power supply spec the 12v line has 38a max limit. (456w). the cpu is 100w and the gpu is 120w at max output. those two will use 18.3 amps. or 220w. with power supply's you dont want to get close to there max output or your rig have issues. use a power supply calulator or two to make sure before you buy a power supply it sized right to the rig.


So is the PSU I chose good enough? I did the PSU calculator and it said 337W out put under 90% load with 1 sata hdd
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December 31, 2013 10:43:22 PM

I bump it up to the one I picked out. or a 500w unit in cosair. you want to give the power supply some overhead. if you run it to close to it max output to long it can shut down or your rig can lock up in games.
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December 31, 2013 10:49:01 PM

smorizio said:
I bump it up to the one I picked out. or a 500w unit in cosair. you want to give the power supply some overhead. if you run it to close to it max output to long it can shut down or your rig can lock up in games.


The one I chose is the 500w Corsair.
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