My 650D Build in Progress

[Guest King of Old School]

Hey Guys  :) 

 

My Current Build atm

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 4

CPU: intel i3 2130

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S

Memory: Kingston 1333MHz 8GB

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 OC

Sound Card: ASUS DG

SSD Drive: OCZ Solid 3 120GB

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB

Sound Card: ASUS DG - Changing this too

 

If you guys would like to give me some advice on my future upgrades please feel free to give me some pointers i would be so thankful.

 

I think i did a good enough job on the Cable Management, I know there is still some more places i still need to fix up inside the case.

 

 

Thank You for reading my post  :D 

[Bluejay0]

Hows the clearance for the cooler?

[Guest King of Old School]

Hows the clearance for the cooler?

 

its good i can take the door off and put it back on without any problems, since you can fit a NH-D14 into this case i guess you can fit any air cooler on the market.

[Nicktrance]

Wow that is really overkill on the PSU. Upgrades depend a lot on how much you're willing to spend but here are some tips:

 

CPU: intel i3 2130 - Don't bother upgrading unless you're getting a high end GPU too

 

RAM: Low end Kingston but will be upgrading this too - what do you mean low end? frequency and timings don't really matter much since you're running a discrete GPU with dedicated memory. I'd recommend 8GB of it though.

 

Video Card: Gigabyte GTX 650 - Highest priority but wait until AMD releases Volcanic islands GPUs before making a decision.

 

Sound Card: ASUS DG - Changing this too - you'd probably be better of spending the money elswhere but Xonar DSX offers really good bang for he buck for a mid range card if you really want to.

 

Hard Drive: OCZ Solid 3 120GB upgrading this as well - depends on how many writes it has had (judging by the fact that it was released 2 years ago I'm guessing that's not a problem), you probably won't see enough of a difference to upgrade as long as you have TRIM turned on.

 

Back to the build, good job on the cable management, that looks really clean, you should consider sleeving the GPU cables too, especially if you get a card with two connectors, that would look really sharp.

[Eddprzz]

Hey Guys :)

My Current Build atm

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 4

CPU: intel i3 2130 - but i will upgrade to a i5 3570K when i have the cash

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S

RAM: Low end Kingston but will be upgrading this too

Video Card: Gigabyte GTX 650 - Will be upgrading this next month but haven't worked out which one yet

Sound Card: ASUS DG - Changing this too

Hard Drive: OCZ Solid 3 120GB upgrading this as well

Hard Drive: Seagate 1TB

If you guys would like to give me some advice on my future upgrades please feel free to give me some pointers i would be so thankful.

I think i did a good enough job on the Cable Management, I know there is still some more places i still need to fix up inside the case.

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Thank You for reading my post :D

id say go for gtx 770 Kingston hyperx ssd and case fans make difference some corsair af fans

[Guest King of Old School]

 

Wow that is really overkill on the PSU. Upgrades depend a lot on how much you're willing to spend but here are some tips:

 

CPU: intel i3 2130 - Don't bother upgrading unless you're getting a high end GPU too

 

RAM: Low end Kingston but will be upgrading this too - what do you mean low end? frequency and timings don't really matter much since you're running a discrete GPU with dedicated memory. I'd recommend 8GB of it though.

 

Video Card: Gigabyte GTX 650 - Highest priority but wait until AMD releases Volcanic islands GPUs before making a decision.

 

Sound Card: ASUS DG - Changing this too - you'd probably be better of spending the money elswhere but Xonar DSX offers really good bang for he buck for a mid range card if you really want to.

 

Hard Drive: OCZ Solid 3 120GB upgrading this as well - depends on how many writes it has had (judging by the fact that it was released 2 years ago I'm guessing that's not a problem), you probably won't see enough of a difference to upgrade as long as you have TRIM turned on.

 

Back to the build, good job on the cable management, that looks really clean, you should consider sleeving the GPU cables too, especially if you get a card with two connectors, that would look really sharp.

 

With the RAM its only 1366, but its 8GB tho but i'm looking to buy some 1800 ram, i'm look to buy Corsair Gen2 White Sleeved Modular Cable Kit, I will have to check to see if i have TRIM turn on.

 

Thanks for your Advice

[Guest King of Old School]

id say go for gtx 770 Kingston hyperx ssd and case fans make difference some corsair af fans

Hey a 770 would be nice but we get ripped off in Australia for computer parts but i'm thinking about buying one from ebay and trying to save $50.00, with the SSD i'm looking at a Samsung but i will keep the Kingston in mind i'm wating on Noctua to release the black fans.

 

Thanks for your Advice

[Eddprzz]

Hey a 770 would be nice but we get ripped off in Australia for computer parts but i'm thinking about buying one from ebay and trying to save $50.00, with the SSD i'm looking at a Samsung but i will keep the Kingston in mind i'm wating on Noctua to release the black fans.

Thanks for your Advice

unless ur goin for the pro version or Evo jus buy Kingston also noctua black fans if u want to wait

[Nicktrance]

With the RAM its only 1366, but its 8GB tho but i'm looking to buy some 1800 ram, i'm look to buy Corsair Gen2 White Sleeved Modular Cable Kit, I will have to check to see if i have TRIM turn on.

 

Thanks for your Advice

 

I'm guessing you mean 1066? If you're just gaming you probably won't see much difference even going to 1600/1866 or even higher, so if you really want to upgrade it make sure it's a much lower priority than the rest of the parts you mentioned.

[Guest King of Old School]

unless ur goin for the pro version or Evo jus buy Kingston also noctua black fans if u want to wait

Yeah i was going to the pro but since they have come out with the evo i think i will end up going with the evo, yeah i can wait for the black noctua fans

 

Thanks again

[Guest King of Old School]

I'm guessing you mean 1066? If you're just gaming you probably won't see much difference even going to 1600/1866 or even higher, so if you really want to upgrade it make sure it's a much lower priority than the rest of the parts you mentioned.

The ram i have is 1333 (i just check the ram) but i could be wrong tho, i do other things on the computer apart from gaming i also do video encoding as well but i don't think the ram will help with that tho

 

Thanks again

[Guest King of Old School]

Hey All,

 

I have been doing some upgrades in the last week just waiting on the hardware to show up, when i do the rebuild i will do an update of the part lists.

 

[Willson94]

Out of interest why did you buy a load of hardware that you were just going to replace are u going to throw it all into another build, or sell it. 

[Guest King of Old School]

Out of interest why did you buy a load of hardware that you were just going to replace are u going to throw it all into another build, or sell it. 

I'm not sure what i'm going to do with the old parts atm, Thanks for the reply

[Guest King of Old School]

My build is still in progress

 

The Old Build

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 4

CPU: intel i3 2130

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S

Memory: Kingston 1333MHz 8GB

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 OC

Sound Card: ASUS DG

SSD Drive: OCZ Solid 3 120GB

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB

 

The New Build

Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD65

CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S

Memory: G.Skill Ares 1866MHz 8GB

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 Superclocked

Solid State Drive: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB

Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Black 2TB

 

maybe to some people its not much of an upgrade but i'm still happy with it Still planning on more changes, here are the pictures of the current build.

 

I think my cable management is getting better, but meh i don't know if it can be any better tho

 

Thanks for looking

[purplepenguin202]

I'm pretty sure you can get a free backplate from EVGA.  You should do that, the GPU looks a little saggy 

[whatthe_fuzz]

Very good job on the cable management. 

 

You should change the color of the '860' on the PSU to blue

[Guest King of Old School]

I'm pretty sure you can get a free backplate from EVGA.  You should do that, the GPU looks a little saggy 

Thanks for that i'm not sure how i would get one do i just have to look on the EVGA website.

Update: i checked on the EVGA website and the Free Back plate ended at the end of September but you can buy them tho so i will end up buying one for about $30.00 AUD 

 

Very good job on the cable management. 

 

You should change the color of the '860' on the PSU to blue

yeah i wouldn't mind doing that, i think i would be nice if Corsair release a black and blue stickers for the AXi series PSU's, Thanks for the advice

[Guest King of Old School]

Update: I have ordered a back plate for GTX760, the back plate should be here tomorrow!

 

 

Thanks All

[Guest King of Old School]

Back plate has turn up it was little bit of a pain to install but its all sorted out now so i'm very happy with the back plate.