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ZzachBbrown
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I'm building my first computer tomorrow ( I've been waiting for my graphics card.) Is there anything I can do now, software wise or anything that can speed up the process for tomorrow? I have already installed these preliminary windows http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media onto a USB drive. Which i will later add a product key to when I go to install windows on my new build. As for drivers, can i put them on the same USB that I have the windows files on. 

 

I'm not looking for people to criticize me on the parts I picked. Just a friendly hand to get a head start for tomorrow. You could say i'm very excited to get this build started, i've wanted this for a long time. 

 

My parts; http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WFJfLk 

 

 

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I will warn you. Do not overclock. That PSU if you overclock could take out your whole PC because.. Well the corsair CX series PSUs aren't very good. Other then that its a great build I personally would of gotten a Samsung SSD and a BeQuiet! Pure Rock CPU but that's me :). Have you gotten everything setup and ready to go, have steam games downloaded and stuff so you just gotta put the GPU in and start playing?

 

 

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I have no overclocking intentions. Yeah i was actually looking at the BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 3. As silly as it seems, i have not started the build yet. Building the entire thing at once seems more fulfilling to me. I want all of the pleasure and pain that comes with building a PC to come at once, not over a course of days. 

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I will warn you. Do not overclock. That PSU if you overclock could take out your whole PC because.. Well the corsair CX series PSUs aren't very good. Other then that its a great build I personally would of gotten a Samsung SSD and a BeQuiet! Pure Rock CPU but that's me :). Have you gotten everything setup and ready to go, have steam games downloaded and stuff so you just gotta put the GPU in and start playing?

Sure........

I suspect that you probably never had some personal experience with CX PSUs and took your info off the internet......

It's not all bad if it don't happen to all CX PSUs. Just because one PSU has a bad failure, it doesn't mean that every CX PSU will have it. 

I have a CX750M and it's perfectly fine. 

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Sure........

I suspect that you probably never had some personal experience with CX PSUs and took your info off the internet......

It's not all bad if it don't happen to all CX PSUs. Just because one PSU has a bad failure, it doesn't mean that every CX PSU will have it. 

I have a CX750M and it's perfectly fine.

That's a CXM, Not a CX. The CXMs are decent but the CX PSUs were never meant for high end systems.

 

 

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Regardless what ever class it is, it's still the same PCB layout with modular system.

like I said it could take out his whole system or just the PSU alone could fail. It may just take one thing out but he should be fine if he doesn't overclock. He may have no troubles at all but the CX series aren't all that great to begin with.

 

 

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like I said it could take out his whole system or just the PSU alone could fail. It may just take one thing out but he should be fine if he doesn't overclock. He may have no troubles at all but the CX series aren't all that great to begin with.

Their meh, but their okay to use. It's not some Raidmax PSU to avoid, it's fine to use.

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