Hi everyone.
I've been meaning to build a (my first) fairly powerful rig for a while now, though being a Uni student this was financially beyond me. But I got some holiday work, and was given an older desktop from which I salvaged some parts and have decided to go ahead with the following build. Since this is my first attempt, I'm asking here to double check that everything I'm looking at won't blow up in my face when I put it all together. Here goes:
Case(Salvaged): Gigabyte GZ-X5BPD-400
PSU(Salvaged): GE-P450N-C2 550W (2x12V 18A Rails if I read it correctly)
HDD(Salvaged): Samsung, 500GB 7200RPM
MOBO: Asrock Z77-EXTREME4 Z77/4 x DDR3/2 x PCI-E3.0/4 x SATA3/6 x USB3.0/HDMI/D
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_review.phtml?id=10&bid=2&id2=177&sid=89527
GPU: Gigabyte OC 3GB 7970
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=248&bid=2&sid=87011
CPU: i5-3570k
RAM: G Skill 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1600Mhz
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_review.phtml?id=10&bid=2&id2=153&sid=59837
Optical Drive(Salvaged): 2xDVD Reader Writer
Any feedback would be great. I intend to put in an SSD in probably 6-12 Months time, but right now I am mostly interested in game performance.
Thanks!
I've been meaning to build a (my first) fairly powerful rig for a while now, though being a Uni student this was financially beyond me. But I got some holiday work, and was given an older desktop from which I salvaged some parts and have decided to go ahead with the following build. Since this is my first attempt, I'm asking here to double check that everything I'm looking at won't blow up in my face when I put it all together. Here goes:
Case(Salvaged): Gigabyte GZ-X5BPD-400
PSU(Salvaged): GE-P450N-C2 550W (2x12V 18A Rails if I read it correctly)
HDD(Salvaged): Samsung, 500GB 7200RPM
MOBO: Asrock Z77-EXTREME4 Z77/4 x DDR3/2 x PCI-E3.0/4 x SATA3/6 x USB3.0/HDMI/D
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_review.phtml?id=10&bid=2&id2=177&sid=89527
GPU: Gigabyte OC 3GB 7970
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=248&bid=2&sid=87011
CPU: i5-3570k
RAM: G Skill 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1600Mhz
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_review.phtml?id=10&bid=2&id2=153&sid=59837
Optical Drive(Salvaged): 2xDVD Reader Writer
Any feedback would be great. I intend to put in an SSD in probably 6-12 Months time, but right now I am mostly interested in game performance.
Thanks!