Problems with building my first PC

[BCEGhost]

Good day,

I wanted to build a new PC,but not entirely from scratch.

I own a ACER Aspire AX3900 (Mini-Tower), which I bought about 3-4 years ago.

I want to reuse my HDD, 4gb of RAM, the motherboard, my CD/DVD-Drive and my Cardreader.

Well to be honest, I expected all of this to not be that complicated and the most problems I have, have something to do with my old PC, but I will go into detail later.

 

For my new PC, I already bought a 

-Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce( http://www.gigabyte.de/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4629#ov  ) , which Linus talked about on his youtube channel (

 

)

-Be Quiet Straight Power 680W power supply ( http://www.bequiet.com/de/powersupply/276) 

-Intel Core i7-860 Socket 1156 CPU. It's not a new product and it's tray (No cooler came with it, so I think that's the right word for it? ) ; ebaylink in german unfortunately (http://www.ebay.de/itm/111379834657?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT)

 

I bought a case and some more RAM aswell, but failed horribly and ended up sending everything back and paying a lot of money for the shipping, money that I as a student don't have... 

I am really scared of making more mistakes, so I figured I have to ask for professional help.

 

So let's talk about the problems with my old PC.

I have no idea, which motherboard and RAM is in there. What I do know is that I have 4 RAM Slots and 2 are being used. And I have 4 gb of DDR3 RAM. What I also know is that my motherboard has the CPU socket 1156 and needs 4 screws for the CPU-Fan

I made a picture of two kind of bar code things on my motherboard, which might help me/you find out which motherboard I am using. Unfortunately I can't take a photo of the barcode on my RAM, because it is blocked by my DVD-Drive.

 

First Picture: Shows the barcodes on the motherboard.

 

 

 

Second Picture: Shows the inner life of my PC from the right side.

 

 

 

 

A friend of my dad, who is good with PCs, told me which CPU and power supply is good. He will overclock my PC, once he got back from his vacations in 3 months.  Because he is on vacation and I can't reach him, he can't help me with the rest of my first build. 

I hope you could help me with deciding,

if I should by additional 4gb or 16 gb of Ram( I have only 2 free slots left),

which RAM I should buy, so 1600mhz or more/less and by which company,

if I should try to sell my CPU and buy a new motherboard and a new CPU (which motherboard/CPU would you suggest then?)

which CPU cooler fits to my i7-860 and my plans of overclocking,

which case I should buy (I am not sure if I have USB 3 on my current motherboard and I highly doubt it and I don't know, which features are essential for a case and I had accidentally bought a case that was too small for my GPU)

 

Thank you so much for reading through this novel of tech-info and livestories and thanks for everything you post in advance.

 

 

Additional information:

-current GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5570

-current CPU: Intel Core i5-650 ; 2 physical cores and 4 cores via hyperthreading

-my age: I am 18 years old

 

I am sorry for any grammer mistakes I made, I am from Germany and English is not my first language. Please bear with me, I tried my best not to make any stupid mistakes.

 

Thanks for everything in advance.

 

Cheers,

 

Simon

[bry.yyyy]

i don't really understand what is you say it

my primary language not english but indonesia

can you just tell me the problem ?

 

 

Good day,

I wanted to build a new PC,but not entirely from scratch.

I own a ACER Aspire AX3900 (Mini-Tower), which I bought about 3-4 years ago.

I want to reuse my HDD, 4gb of RAM, the motherboard, my CD/DVD-Drive and my Cardreader.

Well to be honest, I expected all of this to not be that complicated and the most problems I have, have something to do with my old PC, but I will go into detail later.

 

For my new PC, I already bought a 

-Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce( http://www.gigabyte.de/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4629#ov  ) , which Linus talked about on his youtube channel (

 

)

-Be Quiet Straight Power 680W power supply ( http://www.bequiet.com/de/powersupply/276) 

-Intel Core i7-860 Socket 1156 CPU. It's not a new product and it's tray (No cooler came with it, so I think that's the right word for it? ) ; ebaylink in german unfortunately (http://www.ebay.de/itm/111379834657?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT)

 

I bought a case and some more RAM aswell, but failed horribly and ended up sending everything back and paying a lot of money for the shipping, money that I as a student don't have... 

I am really scared of making more mistakes, so I figured I have to ask for professional help.

 

So let's talk about the problems with my old PC.

I have no idea, which motherboard and RAM is in there. What I do know is that I have 4 RAM Slots and 2 are being used. And I have 4 gb of DDR3 RAM. What I also know is that my motherboard has the CPU socket 1156 and needs 4 screws for the CPU-Fan

I made a picture of two kind of bar code things on my motherboard, which might help me/you find out which motherboard I am using. Unfortunately I can't take a photo of the barcode on my RAM, because it is blocked by my DVD-Drive.

 

First Picture: Shows the barcodes on the motherboard.

 

 

 

Second Picture: Shows the inner life of my PC from the right side.

 

 

 

 

A friend of my dad, who is good with PCs, told me which CPU and power supply is good. He will overclock my PC, once he got back from his vacations in 3 months.  Because he is on vacation and I can't reach him, he can't help me with the rest of my first build. 

I hope you could help me with decidin,g

if I should by additional 4gb or 16 gb of Ram( I have only 2 free slots left),

which RAM I should buy, so 1600mhz or more/less and by which company,

if I should try to sell my CPU and buy a new motherboard and a new CPU (which motherboard/CPU would you suggest then?)

which CPU cooler fits to my i7-860 and my plans of overclocking,

which case I should buy (I am not sure if I have USB 3 on my current motherboard and I highly doubt it and I don't know, which features are essential for a case and I had accidentally bought a case that was too small for my GPU)

 

Thank you so much for reading through this novel of tech-info and livestories and thanks for everything you post in advance.

 

 

Additional information:

-current GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5570

-current CPU: Intel Core i5-650 ; 2 physical cores and 4 cores via hyperthreading

-my age: I am 18 years old

 

I am sorry for any grammer mistakes I made, I am from Germany and English is not my first language. Please bear with me, I tried my best not to make any stupid mistakes.

 

Thanks for everything in advance.

 

Cheers,

 

Simon

[WyvernAbstracts]

take the ram out and take a photo of it? 

[BCEGhost]

take the ram out and take a photo of it? 

you genius, how could I not think of this... thank you

[BCEGhost]

i don't really understand what is you say it

my primary language not english but indonesia

can you just tell me the problem ?

 

I hope you could help me with deciding,

if I should by additional 4gb or 16 gb of Ram( I have only 2 free slots left),

which RAM I should buy, so 1600mhz or more/less and by which company,

if I should try to sell my CPU and buy a new motherboard and a new CPU (which motherboard/CPU would you suggest then?)

which CPU cooler fits to my i7-860 and my plans of overclocking,

which case I should buy (I am not sure if I have USB 3 on my current motherboard and I highly doubt it and I don't know, which features are essential for a case and I had accidentally bought a case that was too small for my GPU)

 

the rest is basically just stuff that you (might) wanna know

[bry.yyyy]

 

I hope you could help me with deciding,

if I should by additional 4gb or 16 gb of Ram( I have only 2 free slots left),

which RAM I should buy, so 1600mhz or more/less and by which company,

if I should try to sell my CPU and buy a new motherboard and a new CPU (which motherboard/CPU would you suggest then?)

which CPU cooler fits to my i7-860 and my plans of overclocking,

which case I should buy (I am not sure if I have USB 3 on my current motherboard and I highly doubt it and I don't know, which features are essential for a case and I had accidentally bought a case that was too small for my GPU)

 

the rest is basically just stuff that you (might) wanna know

 

can i know how much your budget for this new RAM ? And yeah you should change that CPU

[William12h]

Well what is your Budget in total? and how much of it are you willing to spend on different components? 

And What is your PRIMARY use of the computer? We can recommend and adjust products best on the systems use. 

 

I hope you could help me with deciding,

if I should by additional 4gb or 16 gb of Ram( I have only 2 free slots left),

which RAM I should buy, so 1600mhz or more/less and by which company,

if I should try to sell my CPU and buy a new motherboard and a new CPU (which motherboard/CPU would you suggest then?)

which CPU cooler fits to my i7-860 and my plans of overclocking,

which case I should buy (I am not sure if I have USB 3 on my current motherboard and I highly doubt it and I don't know, which features are essential for a case and I had accidentally bought a case that was too small for my GPU)

 

the rest is basically just stuff that you (might) wanna know

 

[BCEGhost]

Just took out my RAM:

 

 I hope that helps Wyvern Abstract

 

can i know how much your budget for this new RAM ? And yeah you should change that CPU

Well for 16gb the absolute maximum is 100€. So Corsair products aren't included anymore

 

 

Well what is your Budget in total? and how much of it are you willing to spend on different components? 

And What is your PRIMARY use of the computer? We can recommend and adjust products best on the systems use. 

 

What I am willing to spend is 600€. The absolute maximum is 700€. 

The power supply was ~95€, the GPU ~ 265€ and the CPU ~105€ (=465€).

So if I'll get a new CPU, I will sell the old one. 

The primary use of my PC will be Gaming. Especially playing Arma 2,3 .

I don't really knonw how much I am willing to spend on the rest of the components. The things I was willing to spend the most were a good GPU, power supply. 

[William12h]

Would you mind Listing all your components and if you are keeping or replacing etc. Ill look into components with around 600 max. Any particular website you prefer to buy items from? 

Just took out my RAM:

 

 I hope that helps Wyvern Abstract

 

Well for 16gb the absolute maximum is 100€. So Corsair products aren't included anymore

 

 

 

What I am willing to spend is 600€. The absolute maximum is 700€. 

The power supply was ~95€, the GPU ~ 265€ and the CPU ~105€ (=465€).

So if I'll get a new CPU, I will sell the old one. 

The primary use of my PC will be Gaming. Especially playing Arma 2,3 .

I don't really knonw how much I am willing to spend on the rest of the components. The things I was willing to spend the most were a good GPU, power supply. 

[William12h]

Your Specs are pretty good if it all works. Just upgrade the RAM, another 4GB will be fine but you can never have enough RAM :3 Speed preferable 1600 mhz or above, i always prefer higher mhz like 2133 mhz+ 

 

Your CPU if okey, only issue i find is its 2.8Ghz but turbo cores to 3.46 so isn't that bad. If you upgrade you may want to go for something like a Core i5 4670K. And if you want better cooling, you can look at corsair hydro water coolings.

[BCEGhost]

Your Specs are pretty good if it all works. Just upgrade the RAM, another 4GB will be fine but you can never have enough RAM :3 Speed preferable 1600 mhz or above, i always prefer higher mhz like 2133 mhz+ 

 

Your CPU if okey, only issue i find is its 2.8Ghz but turbo cores to 3.46 so isn't that bad. If you upgrade you may want to go for something like a Core i5 4670K. And if you want better cooling, you can look at corsair hydro water coolings.

Alright. I'm gonna stick with 8 gb RAM then As my i7 is tray, I don't have a cooler... which one is good? I thought about buying this one:

EKL Alpenföhn Brocken Tower Cooler

 

 

Would you mind Listing all your components and if you are keeping or replacing etc. Ill look into components with around 600 max. Any particular website you prefer to buy items from? 

CPU: i7-860 (new)

CPU-Cooler: default i5-650 cooler, but I want to buy a new one

GPU: GTX 770 (new)

RAM: 4gb(old pc) + 4gb(not bought yet)

Motherboard: I have no idea, which one I have... the only information I have are above in my first post and are called "First Picture".

                      I would buy a new one if I could choose but the ones I found are extremely expensive

HDD: 1TB and I want to get another 1TB or 500Gb

SDD: I also wanna get a new one

Power supply: Be quiet Straight Power 680W

Case: I will buy a case, when I am sure which components to buy. I also have no idea, which one to buy, but it shouldnt cost more than 50€

 

The second HDD and SDD are parts, that aren't that important for me so don't care about them, when you look for components.

Thanks in advance William!

[bry.yyyy]

@BCEGhost

i would recommend upgrade all things

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€199.90 @ Caseking)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (€31.63 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€104.81 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (€70.39 @ Hardwareversand)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (€147.50 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (€109.90 @ Caseking)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€57.56 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €721.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-21 11:41 CEST+0200

[BCEGhost]

@BCEGhost

i would recommend upgrade all things

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€199.90 @ Caseking)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (€31.63 @ Amazon Deutschland)

Motherboard: Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€104.81 @ Amazon Deutschland)

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (€70.39 @ Hardwareversand)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (€147.50 @ Amazon Deutschland)

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (€109.90 @ Caseking)

Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€57.56 @ Amazon Deutschland)

Total: €721.69

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-21 11:41 CEST+0200

why should i downgrade my gtx 770 and my power supply? And I have already bought it and can't send it back as I bought one month ago

I also think that the case is way to expensive.... what makes it worth the price?

 

but thanks for the rest mate