Planned gaming pc

[Tocsin_786]

good specs im building mine soon too hopefully it all goes well for all of us

[TryArch]

good specs im building mine soon too hopefully it all goes well for all of us

yeah thanks good luck with your build

[TryArch]

Looks perfect. Post the pics on here when you're done

i will definitely post pics when i finish, cant wait

[TryArch]

Looks like a pretty awesome gaming PC to me! Only thing I would change with it is the GPU. Personally I would go for a 7970 because in my opinion there better at overclocking at you get that extra GB of VRam which will help in the future.

thanks ill look into the 7970

[rhyseyness]

What does a 14 year old need 2 TB of storage for? i can barely use more then 500 gb's. Other then that sounds good!

His pr0nz collection? Admitidly he's only 14 though :P

[TryArch]

Here is a list of specs for my first build, im 14

CPU: i5 3570K

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i

Motherboard: MSI Z77 MPOWER

SSD: Sandisk Extreme SSD - 120GB

HDD: Seagate barracuda 2TB

Optical drives: Samsung 24x Internal Optical Drive

RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Low Proflile Vengeance

Case: Cooler Master CMStorm Stryker

PSU: Corsair CX750M

GPU: Galaxy 680 2gb reference

plz post help, advice and questions :)

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[Nirmal]

What does a 14 year old need 2 TB of storage for? i can barely use more then 500 gb's. Other then that sounds good!

I have no idea what I did but I some how managed to use up all the space on my 64gb SSD within the first month of using it.

[Spite]

- The H100 has a horrible price : performance ratio. You can get a Noctua NH-D14 or Phanteks PH-C14PE for less and will perform the same if not better than the H100. Alternatively, if you aren't going to be overclocking very high, grab a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO for $35 as you'll be able to get a respectable overclock out of it.

- Grab 8GB of RAM versus 16GB as it's not going to give you any performance gain gaming wise.

- You should get smaller sized HDD 500GB-1TB for now and if you come close to filling it then you can purchase another.

- You could save around $65 by going with an ASRock Z77 Extreme 4, it'll do what you want it to do and will allow for SLI/CrossFireX in the future you did ever need it. Though the MPower board isn't too bad it's just you can get something less that will do what you need it to do.

Other than that it looks good. Good luck building!

[TryArch]

- The H100 has a horrible price : performance ratio. You can get a Noctua NH-D14 or Phanteks PH-C14PE for less and will perform the same if not better than the H100. Alternatively, if you aren't going to be overclocking very high, grab a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO for $35 as you'll be able to get a respectable overclock out of it.

- Grab 8GB of RAM versus 16GB as it's not going to give you any performance gain gaming wise.

- You should get smaller sized HDD 500GB-1TB for now and if you come close to filling it then you can purchase another.

- You could save around $65 by going with an ASRock Z77 Extreme 4, it'll do what you want it to do and will allow for SLI/CrossFireX in the future you did ever need it. Though the MPower board isn't too bad it's just you can get something less that will do what you need it to do.

Other than that it looks good. Good luck building!

I'm getting 16 gigs of ram for photoshop and Vegas

Pro editing and I like the look of the h100i

The 2 tb drive is 15 or so dollars more than the one tb and I will have uncompressed fraps vids in it

And I also like the look of the mpower board

Thanks for your advice though anyway

[CrysisLTU]

What does a 14 year old need 2 TB of storage for? i can barely use more then 500 gb's. Other then that sounds good!

When I was 14 I used up more than 1TB of data (no, not porn). I, for example, work with video and audio and also have a lot of games, so there you go.

[TryArch]

What does a 14 year old need 2 TB of storage for? i can barely use more then 500 gb's. Other then that sounds good!

thanks crysisLTU :)