I'm on a tight budget, but I still want to build a nice computer together. Even if it takes me a few months to gather the money for a part, I think it'll be worth it. I don't want to die without doing this once. Being that I'm on a tight budget and I have no prior experience to building computers, I use pcpartpicker. It's a wonderful website, but I have a question about the compatibility of two components. How would these two components work together:
I observed that the motherboard has an integrated graphics card? I'm not sure. This motherboard does not support crossfire or SLI, so would adding a graphics card cause a problem?
I feel like I should not be posting here, but this is the only site I trust other than pcpartpicker. Thanks!
p.s. If you have some websites you recommend me reading first, or some tips, that would be greatly appreciated.
edit: I'm sorry for making it difficult to look up the parts. I've added the hyperlinks
In the future just copy & paste the perma link from the pcpartpicker system build page ... it makes it easier for us.
that mobo will work however that GPU is very loud and your case is not sound insulated ... so I would highly recommend these parts to complete your build ...
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RtZ6NG
On board graphics are not a problem. You can disable the on board graphics in ... control panel / system / device manager ... choose the on board graphics adapter & choose to disable & press apply
I know the Antec 750W 80+ Platinum Cert is overkill but for $80 it was hard to pass on that level of efficiency.
And the quiet of the Sapphire R9 280X 3GB Vapor-X compared to the Asus R9 280X is worth the $40 to me ...
Finally the Seagate 2TB Hybrid drive's performance should make for a fairly quick system overall.
Will the motherboard have a bottleneck effect because it doesn't have the pci express 3.0? Also, what is cas latency, ram timing, and does it matter what speed of ram I get since I'm going for a dedicated graphics card? sorry for so many questions.
You will get a few more frames out of faster RAM but not enough to justify its cost. HOWEVER 1866 is about the same price as 1600.It starts to matter in Rendering and video editing. CAS latency, is the delay time between the moment a memory controller tells the memory module to access a particular memory and the time it actually does it. so, Think of it like this 1866 is the size of the truck (bandwidth) and CAS is the speed at which the truck travels . with what you have, you will get no "bottleneck"
and normally I would probably go with a more modest power supply like the below and save a few bucks. But Ratzzz is right about that promo grab that up! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182263
If speed is your thing then I might consider dropping the 2 TB HDD and getting 2x