Hello, I have a few questions before I will be buying my PC and would love it if anyone one could answer them, before I state my questions here are some links to my PC, all the infomation to my PC should be there, and also keep in mind that I live in Austrlia so everything might be a bit more expensive.
So I have been looking at motherboards for a little while now but need some help on what to get. Currently I just can't tell the differnce between motherboard except for what CPU it can use as well as RAM typs ect... I have been looking into the ASRock Extreme 4 as it seem to be a rather good motherboard but for the price it seems rather cheap. If that motherboard is no good then what one would you recommend, I will also be doing overclocking to my CPU and GPU if that matters. My budget for the motherboard is $250. My CPU is an i5 3570K and is socket LGA1155. any help would be appreciated.
My other question is about the powesupply, I have picked the Silverstone Strider Plus 750W, is that over kill for my sytem if so is there one that you could recommend. My budget for the Powersupply is $150
My next question is about RAM, I will be doing some editing not alot just things like montages but alot more gaming. I am unsure weather to get 2x4GB 2400Mhz, 2x4GB 2133Mhz or even say 2x4GB 1866Mhz or 2x4GB 1600Mhz. There is alot to choose from but I have no clue for why type of brand to go for or what Mhz to get, my budge for RAM is $100. If anyone has any type of knowledge of what sort of RAM I should get would be well appreciated.
Now my final questiong is what sort of CPU cooler I should get, I am planning to over clock my Core i5 3570K socket LGA1155 to 4.4Ghz but don't know whether to get a water cooler or an air cooler. my budget is $150 for either a water cooler or an air cooler. Any help on what type of CPU cooler I should get will be well appreciated.
Thank you if you were able to answer any of the question and once again any help would be appreciated.
Mainboard: im personaly not a big fan of asrock, with overclocking, the cheap vrms, somethimes just burn. i allways prefer Asus or Msi boards. i realy like the Msi Z77 mpower (big bang series)
For the ramm, faster is allways better ofc, but i think 1600 or 1866mhz is just fine, look at some g-skil ripjaws of crosair vengence, ive got 2x8 GB crosair vengence in my amd system for about 85 dollar.
The power supply is a inportant thing ofc but the 750 W silver is a realy good thing wenn you gonne oc, but i think als a 80+ bronze certified one is also good for youre needs, i have a Enermax Naxn 82+ 750W atx 80+ bronze. 120 dollars, so that diffrence isnt that big in price, but you also have some crosair 750 W 80+ bronze psu´s for less good luck :)
I would get some G.Skill SNiper series 1866mhz RAM. Ivy Bridge won't support RAM with a voltage above 1.5 on RAM, so you will need to overclock to get to 2400mhz on RAM, plus proces for that RAM speed out of the box are absolutely freaking ridiculous. Your power supply is good, but if you can afford it, I reccomend an NZXT Hale 750 watt. And I have an AsRock motherboard, but I would get an MSI-Z77A-GD65. Military grade components, stable overclocks so that's a plus.
I'm really sorry for calling you out on a random forum topic, and I also understand that English may not be your native tongue, but RAM doesn't have two Ms in it, as it stands for Randomly Accessable Memory (sometimes also referred to as Random Access Memory, but that is just a qualifier and doesn't represent the action, so is therefor a flawed description.)
Another funny thing to note, acronyms, or abbreviations of words to their intial characters would abbreviate of course to oc. I really have great disdain for things like text-speak, as I'm sure is evident by my entirely-too-lengthy responses to everything.
Back to the original topic: as far as MSI or Asus go for quality, they are very, very nice boards, but ASRock also has some very nice quality on their more enthusiast grade boards. If you really want to go crazy about the VRMs, you'll have to talk about the Gigabyte Z77X UP7.
And about RAM, you can get two 4GB sticks of Patriot 2133 MHz RAM for about $56. While that isn't quite as nice as 16 GB, it more than suffices for most cases.