- Jan 17, 2009
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Good morning and happy new year from Greece,
In anticipation of sandy bridge release at the 9th of January, i started thinking about the components i needed,and all of a sudden i discovered that i have no clue about the case and the memory i need.
I plan on buying a sandy bridge quad core CPU(which one depends on the benchmarks that will be released),a mobo with SATA3/USB 3, along with a gtx 570. I already have everything else(700W thermaltake toughpower PSU, 50gb Caviar black,,1.5 TB caviar green HDD, mouse,keyboard,speakers, 24' 1920x1200 PVA panel-HP LP2465-)
1)Case
My current case is a cheap mid ATX. My (college) room isnt very spacy,so if i plan to buy a full ATX i gotta re-arrange some stuff (and of course,i dont want to do that unless i absolutely have to). First of all,do i need a full ATX tower? If yes, which one would you suggest? Im thinking about buying the HAF 932 or thermaltake's newer model HAF X(but the cost 160 and 180 euros respectively so i hesitate spending so much money into something that potentially could be trivial). Also the HAF X markets itself as having 2 USB 3.0 in the front panel. I though usb 2 and usb 3 were -mechanically- equal(i.e usb 3 fits in usb 2,but it just wont work). If that's true USB2 openings in the front panel could be used for usb 3, am i right?
2)Memory
Here,im a little confused. I can find 8gb DDR3 1600Mhz CL8 from corsair pretty cheap(180 euros): Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1600 Kit (2x4GB, PC3-12800, 8-8-8-24, CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8)
But on the same e-store other 1600 Mhz,CL9 memory is more expensive. Am i supposed to look for something else rather than the Hz,latency and warranty on the memory?I though all good-brand memories(like corsair,ocz etc) pretty much overclock well enough.
Any answers would be apreciated.
In anticipation of sandy bridge release at the 9th of January, i started thinking about the components i needed,and all of a sudden i discovered that i have no clue about the case and the memory i need.
I plan on buying a sandy bridge quad core CPU(which one depends on the benchmarks that will be released),a mobo with SATA3/USB 3, along with a gtx 570. I already have everything else(700W thermaltake toughpower PSU, 50gb Caviar black,,1.5 TB caviar green HDD, mouse,keyboard,speakers, 24' 1920x1200 PVA panel-HP LP2465-)
1)Case
My current case is a cheap mid ATX. My (college) room isnt very spacy,so if i plan to buy a full ATX i gotta re-arrange some stuff (and of course,i dont want to do that unless i absolutely have to). First of all,do i need a full ATX tower? If yes, which one would you suggest? Im thinking about buying the HAF 932 or thermaltake's newer model HAF X(but the cost 160 and 180 euros respectively so i hesitate spending so much money into something that potentially could be trivial). Also the HAF X markets itself as having 2 USB 3.0 in the front panel. I though usb 2 and usb 3 were -mechanically- equal(i.e usb 3 fits in usb 2,but it just wont work). If that's true USB2 openings in the front panel could be used for usb 3, am i right?
2)Memory
Here,im a little confused. I can find 8gb DDR3 1600Mhz CL8 from corsair pretty cheap(180 euros): Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1600 Kit (2x4GB, PC3-12800, 8-8-8-24, CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8)
But on the same e-store other 1600 Mhz,CL9 memory is more expensive. Am i supposed to look for something else rather than the Hz,latency and warranty on the memory?I though all good-brand memories(like corsair,ocz etc) pretty much overclock well enough.
Any answers would be apreciated.
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