SwagBossMan

What the title says, on the "where do you want to install windows" screen, one partition on my, to my knowledge (bought refurbed), wiped drive is labelled "MSR (reserved)" and the other on is "primary", according to the 'type' column. I don't get most of everything on my screen right now, I'd appreciate any help..

Ah, thank you. Thanks to both of you for all your help, and I'll see you somewhere in the next 24 hours or so with another question, probably sorryyyyy

dang, interesting. I might try the 3470 as a stepping stone, as its relatively inexpensive. to both you, and @TofuHaroto, does ram speed matter that much? do you think in my build, with the 770, i'll need to be worried about having that cap at 1333 mhz if i go with either of the second gens i mentioned? also, tofu, what are some of those second gen CPUs who don't have that memory speed cap? I'm pretty dumb with computer hardware on a whole so i'd appreciate any help (also thanks for the power supply advice)

yeah tbh im just not the brightest I don't think i ought to mess with overclocking, its my first build, and im on a q77 board, for anyone wondering. a 2600 is only like £48 so I might go with that. I don't have any budget I'm trying to stick with for the processor, just kind of hypothesizing as of now, but thank you guys.

Title says all. I've already ordered an i3 2120 to use to begin with, but intend to upgrade it as soon as possible. My board supports second and third gen Intel, the three I had on my radar was an i5 2400 (£18), i5 2500 (£22) , i5 3470 (£22), but I'm willing to hear out any other suggestions. I'm considering the 3470 because my ram is 1600mhz, so, what i believe to be all, second gen cpus can't use that to its full potential. Thank you to everyone on this forum for guiding my step by step through this whole process. Best believe any issue I get while building, I'll probably come here to cry about.

That's probably a bit high for me. i get i really shouldn't go for anything cheap with a PSU, but i'll probably keep sifting through some local sites. Thanks, to all of you!

I did get those 2, but novatech had some of the best prices ive seen yet, honestly wish I had this earlier. Thanks man

Thanks! I don't recall hearing the name novatech before, but they deliver to me, a nice change compared to currys, and are actually in stock, compared to amazon. Thank you so, so much! Ah- how does CoolerMaster's MWE550 Bronze seem? the 600+ units are meant to be B, and the <500 units are meant to be C (i believe. i have no clue with anything here, sorry), so where does that put this guy?

Could you link me to the forum list? If its somewhere obvious, im sorry

at least youre making me feel better about myself for missing that one, lol

I'm good with going above 50, its just that was how much I had already budgeted in of my ~£200 mostly used part build.

I WISH I could get those kolinks... I had a kolink core 600w on my radar and when i ordered my parts last night, the PSU was the last tab, and you best believe everything but like the <450w had sold out... I'm talking about UK here. If you do have somewhere I could get a 500w+, any 80 plus rating, for sub-£50, please let me know. This was my first build, I'd already planned all my parts out before getting that PSU swiped from me >:0 Thanks anyways, dude

Is the CV550 safe and good and all? I couldn't see it on the tier list, but i think i might have been ctrl+f'ing the wrong keywords or something. Thank you

Can't say you're wrong. Here's the meticulously crafted website, lol

Though I'm aware its a huge overestimate, i was looking to power an old GTX 770, while making sure the power supply could last me past this one config, leaving some wiggle room in the future. I get I won't need too much more than a 500w, but I wasn't aware of any damages for going with (reputable) higher capacities, right?

Have you guys heard of this brand? Its the first I'm seeing of them and their price for the 650w is cheaper than the cheapest (in stock) 600w PSUs. If you know about them, I'll appreciate your word. Thanks in advance lads

I was heading off of a 760, how does that sound to you?

Good to hear! Thanks, dude. I'll probably get that PCIe 2.0 board

Both old Intel LGA1155 motherboards, going off of an i3 2120. I get that its a poor CPU that really could do with, at the very least, an upgrade to an i5 2400, but I wanted to build something that would be satisfactory for my needs atm but is still modular. The one I was looking at (16gb max, pcie 3.0), the DH61WW The one I'm looking at now (32gb max, pcie 2.0), the DQ67OW. We're talking ddr3 ram here, and before everyone and their children correct me, I am aware I should upgrade that processor first

Sorry, poor wording. The board i found with the max capacity of 32 i wanted, also had a PCIE 2.0 slot, while the old one i was looking at with a 16gb max capacity had a PCIE 3.0 slot. I wanted to know the difference speed-wise between the 2 PCIE slots to know if its worth going for the new motherboard.

Title has all there is to say. I wanted to up the maximum capacity of ram on the motherboards i was looking at, but the cheapest ones that fit the bill have PCIE 2.0 x16 slots as opposed to 3.0. Past the, from what I've seen, 5%ish less performance, and having half the bandwidth, would it affect me much? This is a system whose most challenging tasks would probably include playing more esports oriented titles, like CSGO. And if the system were to play something more challenging, would the 2.0 slot make much difference? Thanks

Oh dang, that sounds a lot better than the few parts I considered getting off of AliExpress in the past, with their predicted 40 days delivery for things like gpus i checked a few months back. Appreciate it.

Yeah, I already accounted for sata cables, but outside of that I didn't know anything else I would need. It was just a list of parts, the goal was to build a PC myself. Sorry for the delayed replies, dude, and thanks for the help so far.

Sorry, my bad. I had a coupon for a parts store, I was getting the parts listed and a cheap monitor for £160, I just put them into partpicker like that to check for compatibility issues. Thanks, dwonz, for the suggestion of AliExpress, that could be a decent idea, and the motherboard was already coming from ebay. thanks to all of you for your suggestions

indeed, total. I needed help pointing out some of the things I missed. I'm pretty sure i've got a good amount of everything I needed but could you help me out with telling me the components I'm missing, and what you'd recommend, regardless of price?