2 quick q's

[ashholt]

Hello lads,

Looking into building a new system, obviously. I plan on using the old case (Antec P180 v.1) and power supply (Corsair VX550w). It's been a while since I last built one and therefor my questions are:

- will the case fit a socket 1155 motherboard?
- will the power suppyy be suficient to power, say, aformentioned form factor motherboard with a pentium i5 processor, an Ati 7950, 3 gb card, ssd drive and regular hdd?

Thanks very much.

 

[hillmanant]

The case should be fine, if i found the right one it seems pretty flexible for fitting that giant GPU in there, the power supply would work but it would be bare ass minimum, if your going to OC the i5 (recommended 4.5 Ghz is an easy OC with the i5), or the GPU, I think I would go a little bigger, like 650 watt maybe even 700 for future upgrades.

Edit: If this is the right case. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article255-page6.html

 

[TheBigTroll]

you are fine. the case is universal in terms of what sockets you can put.

do not put a pentium 5 with a 7950. those chips will bottleneck the 7950 so badly

 

[hillmanant]

you are fine. the case is universal in terms of what sockets you can put.

do not put a pentium 5 with a 7950. those chips will bottleneck the 7950 so badly

+1
Man good call , I've got so used to seeing core i5 I missed it Pantium, no no Intel Core i5 or AMD FX-6300.