Hey everyone, new guy here. Making my move over to PC gaming. Parts coming from newegg and I'm excite. Been researching for 6months so hope I made the right choices.
Here's my list.
Case: Corsair 600T
CPU: i5 3570k
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i
MOBO: MSi Big Bang Z77 MPower
GPU: EVGA GTX680 FTW+ 4GB
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 8gb DDR3 1866
Boot Drive: SanDisk Extreme 120GB SSD
Storage: WD VelociRaptor 600GB HDD
DVD Drive: Asus 24x DVD Burner
PSU: Corsair AX850
Good choices! This is a beast build! Happy gamming!
The thing looks like a monster, don't plan on upgrading for a long while.
thanks Lethuss and Tiggum. Yea I wanted to future proof it. and in 2-3yrs i can just sli 680s
welcome to wonderful world of PC gaming. And I may be a bit too late to hop on this thread, but I must say, pretty darn good choices, mate!
Thanks, Rinax. Just hope everything will work and system will perform. I'm not looking to overclock it at this stage of my PC learning. Just want a stable PC that plays everything at 60fps. Going to be learning alot about managing and maintance on my PC. Alot more work them console. But I think it will be worth it.
That case is is beautiful. I built one for a friend and I was very impressed aside from the usb3 passthrough.
Build looks solid btw, GLHF and welcome to PC gaming.
Thanks for the welcome, jeffrly
I think that little [newbie] part of the title needs to be taken down...you seem to know what you're doing.
Thanks Mistklmusic. But still have alot more learning.
Haha, no problem, if you have any questions, just feel free to ask.
What is the evil thing? If this is your first gaming rig, I can guarantee you won't want to use another machine for a long while! Hell, this thing will probably kill games for the next 4 or so years no problem.
Be careful with MSI. I've had bad luck with their motherboards. I bought an MSI Z68A-GD80 for my build a little over a year ago, and it failed on me. Not to mention that the bios sucked really, really bad and was just absolutely horrible for overclocking over 4.7Ghz (it had some weird CPU throttling issue whenever you brought the multiplier above 47). Since you're building something of this caliber, and you're already considering a flagship board, I would really have to point you in the direction of either ASUS or Gigabyte instead.
If it were me, I'd probably get an ASUS Maximus V Formula.
I'd also go with a different SSD. Something like a Samsung 840, Crucial M4, Corsair Neutron GTX, Kingston HyperX, or Patriot Wildfire would work great.
The velociraptor isn't exactly necessary, so if you want to save some money to put somewhere else, you could always just get a caviar black instead.
MSI isn't that bad as im using it inside my HTPC right now, as for the SSD, I'm also using a SanDisk Extreme on my current rig and I am loving it as it seems to write faster than my Kingston but reads a little slower. Used CrystalDiskMark to check these so I'm not entirely sure these are realiable. As for his storage, it really comes down to his/her choice of performance over price or doesn't care and only needs storage.
850w is major overkill- even for power hungry cards in SLI, but if you are planning on upgrading to 2 cards later on then maybe upgrade PSU later on and just get a 500-750w and get more RAM
For your motherboard you should get an ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe. It doesn't support as much ram as the Big Bang, but really...are you going to need 128 gigs of ram?
I would nudge you more towards this : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131800 Asus's products are really outstanding, they're reliable. Its a little bit cheaper than the big bang and may not support as much ram (64g) but their BIOS is so much easier to use, and also they have DIGI power which is a good plus.
Thanks for the input everyone. Msi bigbang had great reviews and even long term review(3-4months since release). People are giving thumbs up on this board. It was in my price range and it wasn't a blue PCV board lol. I look at Asus ROG MOBO but was on a budget. Budget was around a 3570k, GTX680 and AX850 PSU. The SanDisk Extreme 120GB was only $99 newegg end of year sale. VelociRaptor was also onsale for $100 couple weeks ago. So I said why not and bought those two drives.
Love all the input, feel like I'm being welcome to the PC world with open arms lol. Thanks guys.
Mistklmusic the Asus link you posted, the MOBO is $309, not thank you lol. the MSi Bigbang is $189. If i have issus with MSi I will switch to Asus for sure.
The MSI Bigbang Z77 MPower boards are factory overclocked and tested to be prime95 stable for 24h before leaving the factory. So if dead boards appear, it's most likely because of damage during shipping or handling.
One bad experience does not define a company's philosophy. When you mass produce things, a few failures are guaranteed.
My last board that failed on me was an Asus board so should I say be weary of Asus boards? I implore you, check my profile to see what brand of motherboard I'm currently using, after having an Asus board fail on me,
After owning and building a ton of systems, I've had at least a couple of each brand fail on me. Some products are just pure shit, don't get me wrong but those are definitely easy to spot after using them.
Also, I'm pretty sure some people are confusing the MSI Big Bang Z77 MPOWER with the MSI Big Bang-XPower II which is a LGA2011 board. OP is getting the z77 mpower board, not the x79 one.
Looks awesome! It will be a great gaming system for a few years.
But, I have to ask, WHY spend the extra money on a WD velociraptor if you already have an ssd? I think you could've gotten a lot more space for less cash. Plus I hear those things can be pretty loud.
Like I said before the raptor was on sale at the same price a WB 1TB black HDD, so I got it. I don't see myself filling up 600GB in the next 5yrs. I have 2 buddies with raptors. They make no noise that I know of.