Components picked need feedback

[Harrylipwig]

Ok, an insane amount of Internet browsing later and I have settled on all the parts that I'm going to put into my build. I went over my target budget, but kept under my overflow marker of E1500. I'm going to put all the parts up before I buy them which I will hopefully do tonight or in the morning. I just wanna know if anyone see's any problems with the parts. It's my first time trying something like this, so let me know where I might have gone wrong.

I already have the CPU bought it's an I5 2500k. And I'm using a 40" 1920x1080 5series samsung smart tv as a screen.

Mobo: is an extreme6 Z77
http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog/ASRock-Z77-Extreme6-Intel-Z77-Mainboard-Sockel-1155::18876.html

Ram: 8gb corsair vengeance
http://www.dabs.ie/products/corsair-vengeance-8gb--2x4gb--ddr3-1600mhz-cl9-xmp-79V4.html

case: Corsair 500R
http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/midi_tower/20097407/corsair_carbide_500r_mid_tower_no_psu/details.aspx

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 670 Superclocked +, 4096 MB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0, DP
http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-670-Superclocked-4096-MB-DDR5-PCIe-30-DP::19913.html

PSU: XFX 850W XXX Edition Single Rail Semi Modular PSU
http://www.dabs.ie/products/xfx-850w-xxx-edition-single-rail-semi-modular-psu-7TD1.html

HDD/SSD: Seagate 2TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM Hard Drive
http://www.dabs.ie/products/seagate-2tb-barracuda-sata-6gb-s-64mb-7200rpm-hard-drive-7XD7.html
ADATA XPG SX900 Series 2.5-inch SSD, SATA 6G - 64 GB
http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog/ADATA-XPG-SX900-Series-25-Zoll-SSD-SATA-6G-64-GB::19962.html
I'm going to use the SSD as cache for the disc drive. Using an SSD lower than 250gb for boot drive would be wasted as I need 96gb for a emulator frontend.

optical drive: Sony 24x DVD-RW SATA Black Bare Internal Drive
http://www.dabs.ie/products/sony-24x-dvd-rw-sata-black-bare-internal-drive-7QC0.html

All the parts came to E1395.38c plus about 60 quid for the OS (windows 7 prem OEM). Can't remember what I paid even though it was only 2-3 hours ago. My brain must be like porridge.

Let me know what you think and if I have to make or should make any differences. The graphics card I picked because I don't want to have to use medium settings on new games and I want to put mods on skyrim and gta4.

Cheers for any and all help

 

[g-unit1111]

I'd say get an M4 instead of that SSD but otherwise everything else looks good to me. Add a Hyper 212 Evo in case you plan to overclock.

 

[dingo07]

+1

Enjoy the build!

 

[Harrylipwig]

I'd say get an M4 instead of that SSD but otherwise everything else looks good to me. Add a Hyper 212 Evo in case you plan to overclock.

S**t I forgot to add in the H100 I picked for the cooling. I'm going to try and get it in push/pull to exhaust out the top of the case, with all the other fans blowing in. I have low ambient temps of about 20c or less. So if I overclock I could get 4.5 stable hopefully/maybe. I know zero about ocing, but I'll learn. lots of threads on here. And why the m4 over the aData? the aData is like ronseal when it comes to its stated capacity, is m4 better for cache? And do you know if the gpu I picked will let me play ultra settings on mostly everything, Metro2033 is a resource hog so I don't expect to do it and get great fps on that, but what about everything else?

 

[Harrylipwig]

I hope someone can answer this question for me as my brain is completely fried from reading and looking at this screen all day. But I was going to change my hdd to a 3tb one as a boot drive, when I thought would it even be able to be used as a boot drive, from what I read it can cause trouble and will need tweaking as window has a 2tb limit. But I'd like to have the 3tb as my main drive as it will save on power and cabling, and just having to mess around with other drives. If someone can be kind enough to explain it like I was a chimp I'd be a happy chappy. And while I think about it would the drive I've already picked up above be ok as my boot drive?

cheers

 

[g-unit1111]

S**t I forgot to add in the H100 I picked for the cooling. I'm going to try and get it in push/pull to exhaust out the top of the case, with all the other fans blowing in. I have low ambient temps of about 20c or less. So if I overclock I could get 4.5 stable hopefully/maybe. I know zero about ocing, but I'll learn. lots of threads on here. And why the m4 over the aData? the aData is like ronseal when it comes to its stated capacity, is m4 better for cache? And do you know if the gpu I picked will let me play ultra settings on mostly everything, Metro2033 is a resource hog so I don't expect to do it and get great fps on that, but what about everything else?

Don't get an H100. They're the very low end of the liquid cooling spectrum. Comparing an H100 to a real custom liquid loop - it's like a plastic toy vs. real construction equipment. It's like grade school t-ball vs. the New York Yankees. There's nothing that says that an H100 is better for cooling than a strong air fan other than you lose the giant heat sink. If it's your first time - get a 212 Evo or a Noctua NH-U9B but don't get an H100.

And then for the SSD the reason I say the M4 and the Samsung are better drives are the controller. The ADATA uses Sandforce 2.1 which is fast but not at all stable and known to have driver issues and BSOD errors. The Samsung and Crucial drives use the Marvell controller which is not as fast but far more stable. The Samsung drive also has Toggle NAND controller which provides a significant speed boost.

 

[dingo07]

just read this for the low-down on SSD's
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html

 

[Harrylipwig]

Don't get an H100. They're the very low end of the liquid cooling spectrum. Comparing an H100 to a real custom liquid loop - it's like a plastic toy vs. real construction equipment. It's like grade school t-ball vs. the New York Yankees. There's nothing that says that an H100 is better for cooling than a strong air fan other than you lose the giant heat sink. If it's your first time - get a 212 Evo or a Noctua NH-U9B but don't get an H100.

And then for the SSD the reason I say the M4 and the Samsung are better drives are the controller. The ADATA uses Sandforce 2.1 which is fast but not at all stable and known to have driver issues and BSOD errors. The Samsung and Crucial drives use the Marvell controller which is not as fast but far more stable. The Samsung drive also has Toggle NAND controller which provides a significant speed boost.

thanks for the advice I went with the Noctua NH-D14 and scraped the H100. pretty much the same cooling but cheaper by E30 or so, which I put into the ssd. Went with the samsung 128gb for boot drive, I won't bother with the caching now that I can put the Hyperspin project on an external drive. Again thanks for your help mate.

 

[Harrylipwig]

just read this for the low-down on SSD's
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html

Cheers, guide helped me with my decisions as to what way to go on the SSD side of things.

 

[g-unit1111]

thanks for the advice I went with the Noctua NH-D14 and scraped the H100. pretty much the same cooling but cheaper by E30 or so, which I put into the ssd. Went with the samsung 128gb for boot drive, I won't bother with the caching now that I can put the Hyperspin project on an external drive. Again thanks for your help mate.

Yeah no problem. What store are you buying from? We can link to it in the master sticky.