Hello, I am planning to do a gaming/rendering ITX build for around ~$1200, and here's what I have come up with:
Intel Core i7-3770 -$280
Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1155 ~$100
Bitfenix Prodigy Cobalt Blue- $85
Patriot Viper 3 16GB-$108
x2 1TB HDD's ~ $70 (I have one of them already from a friend)
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950-$280
Silverstone Strider Essential 600W 80 PLUS-$65
Windows 7-$90
Monitor-$140
Total: $1218
So does anything need to really be changed? Or should this be fine?
Not sure which Viper 3 memory that is but if it's 1866MHz or above, it might not work with your motherboard (as it supports 1600/1333/1066/800). Not sure how I'd feel about the power supply; description on the PSU itself "80 Plus Certified" but no indication as to what rating. I'd personally opt for a PSU from Corsair, SeaSonic or XFX. Aside from that, everything appears compatible but you might shop around to save some money without sacrificing quality. If so, you might be able to bump up the K SKU of the 3770, which is always nice.
im not a nivida fanboy but if your using the premer suite then you will be better off with an nivida card as the program can take advantage of the cuda cores
^ Very good point that I missed.
good idea with the power supply thing
well I gotta ask a few things, like what country do you live in, and why bother with it'd case that's larger than Matx and some atx cases? do you plan on overclock? really I would go with a silver stone Marx htpc case, Looks sexy and is small, if you rally need small get a REAL mini-itx case, I can recommend a few cases tomorrow afternoon, really, everybody and theyir mothers brother is getting the prodigy and its really not that great of a itx case, its mostly because the name sounds cool
also the APU from AMD and it runs at 4.2 with a slight overclock, and im using the stock cooler! you can also get it for under 200 and some of the motherboards are better but if your set on intel go with them
silverstones make qaulity pays, though I might suggest a cheaper qaulity brand depending on the country
I'm planning to use Sony Vegas for rendering, and also I decided to switch the PSU to this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151095&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
And by the way the Memory is 1600 mhz
I would highly not recommend a amd CPU for rendering or a APU for gaming over 500$ budget or a apu period for rendering.
I try to avoid telling or recommending people change their cases because it's highly subjective and dependent on taste (unless it's just downright terrible or incompatible in some way with what parts you have picked) but gigabuster has a point. Unless you MUST have that case, you should shop around. And excellent choice on the PSU.
why? Mine runs fine and i do the same thing he will do. I Think I smell fanboy
To gigabusterEXE,
-I live in the US
-The case is just a personal preference
-I don't plan to overclock in the future
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really, I'm apalled you even recommended
5800k for a 1200$ rendering rig and now you're calling me a fan boy, I'm on mobile can some the other system builders explain why a apu be a bad idea for a rendering and gaming rig that's around 1200$
okay, I'll throw my take on it with the bitfinix, I'll put up a build or two that have different cases just in case they take your fancy, sorry if I offended you about the case its just there are a lot better cases out there but everyone keeps going for the bitfiex without even looking at the cool selection
i think you should go with a more powerful PSU, so you have a little wiggle room.
also, an APU on a 1200 build would be a shame. APUs are meant for extreme budget builds, which this is clearly not.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=551
you notice how the i7 3770K destroys the 5800K in productivity, that's because its not a real qaud core, its a dual core split into a quad core because for each pair of cores share a FPU instead of having one for each core which might cut it for games that don't really use floats that much but does not for productivity
its the extremely high cache latencies, lack of certain intruction sets and the whole not really cores thing which makes amd bad at rendering, sure its fine, if you're a patient person por the most you do is a minute intro for a 10 minute video.
here's a few suggestions
yes xeons play games just as well
no that's not a shitty PSU, rosewill does make shitty PSUs but only certain lines, like the cheapo lines, that is not the cheapo line, I've used over 60 of them in the past 4 years and none have died 530wx 0.8=424w
I'm pretty sure a 7950 oced to 1150 at 1.25v will only use about 200w while a xeon i7 will use around 50~70, well under the PSU's max load
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/radeon_hd_7950_overclock_guide,3.html
you might want to check out this sexy case from silver stone, fits up to mATX