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First build - Picking components - feedback / advise would be awesome!

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October 27, 2013 4:10:21 AM

I've been doing my research and looking into putting together my first home-built PC. I wanted to get some feedback on my components, just to make sure I'm not overlooking anything major! Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

CPU: Intel i5 4670
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H87-D3H
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTx650OC

Ram: 8gb (4x2) DDR3, corsair
SSD: 120gb seasgate,
HHD: 3tb, seagate.

For PSU I'm looking at Corsair CX750M 750W ATX Power Supply

I'll also be grabbing a wifi card and an optical disc drive.

I want to make sure my MB / CPU / GPU are all gonna be compatible, and that I'll have enough power to run it all (750W I assume is overkill, and should handle this fine?)

In terms of cooling do I need anything additional, or will the fans that come with the CPU and GPU and inbuilt into the case be likely to be sufficient to cool the whole rig? I was thinking I'ld wait and see and look into additional cooling later if I found it ran hot, but assume that the fans that come with everything are going to be sufficient?

So I'm essentially asking 100 silly questions, I feel like I'm fairly confident to go ahead, but want to get some advice and make sure I don't stuff anything up.

Oh and in terms of cases, will pretty much any ATX case be happy to fit this in, I'll double check with the sizes of my PSU and GPU aswell, but want to find a good looking case to throw it all in. Are there any other components I need to be particularly aware of when choosing the case?

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a c 131 V Motherboard
October 27, 2013 1:13:25 PM

All components are compatible nothing to worry about. But if you have the budget go with GTX 760 or GTX 770.

Yes 750W PSU is bit of an overkill for now, but if you going to SLI later it will be useful.

Yes go with the stock cooler first if you are not into crazy overclocking, you can add a aftermarket cooler anytime you need.

And choose a big case, in that way you don't have to worry about components will fit or not. For big cases an airflow will be the advantage. Good luck.
October 27, 2013 2:27:22 PM

lonewolf7 said:
All components are compatible nothing to worry about. But if you have the budget go with GTX 760 or GTX 770.

Yes 750W PSU is bit of an overkill for now, but if you going to SLI later it will be useful.

Yes go with the stock cooler first if you are not into crazy overclocking, you can add a aftermarket cooler anytime you need.

And choose a big case, in that way you don't have to worry about components will fit or not. For big cases an airflow will be the advantage. Good luck.


Thanks! I'll look into the more powerful GPUs, I'm at just over a K now and I was happy to go up to 1.5k. Thats especially an area I don't mind spending more on.

I figured over doing it on the psu would be a good thing, I'ld like to keep my options open to expand this later, made sure to have a couple if spare pci-e ports.
Feel really excited and confident to go forward now!!
a c 131 V Motherboard
October 28, 2013 11:43:15 AM

Ok, I just want to add that since you are concerned about couple of PCI-E slots to make use of it in future, that your chosen MB has two PCI-E slots, but only one will run 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIE X16) (The PCIE X16 slot conforms to PCI Express 3.0 standard.).

The other one will run 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIE X4). So its better to find a MB which has two PCI-E x16 3.0 standard slots. So there will be no bandwidth constrains.

Other than this you are fine to go. Good luck.
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