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Hi Guys, I have not played with a new build for about 5 or 6 years. But this thread
and the release of Intels Ivy Bridge has got me all hot and bothered. So would the
following be overkill for a system that does mostly Internet, movies, dvd ripping,
and occasional gaming.

CPU: i5 3570K
Mainboard: Gigabyte Z77X - UD3H
GPU: Gigabyte AMD Radeon 7850
HDD: Seagate 2TB
PSU: Corsair TX650W
RAM: Corsair Vengence 16GB - 4GBx4 - DDR3-1600
Case: CM 690 or CM Silencio 550
Optical Drive: Asus DVD-RW 24X

Any thoughts?
 
A friend's looking at building a general purpose PC for a bit of work and a bit of gaming, more gaming than anything else. He doesn't want to overclock and has storage and OS already. The rest he wants to spend about R7k - R7.5k on.
Any suggestions ?
 
PostmanPot said:
Thought this pic was relevant. AMD A4-3400 Dual, Asus F1A75-M LE, Cooler Master Silencio 550, Corsair CX430.

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Best thing about that case is the cable management.
 
zophas said:
Hi Guys, I have not played with a new build for about 5 or 6 years. But this thread
and the release of Intels Ivy Bridge has got me all hot and bothered. So would the
following be overkill for a system that does mostly Internet, movies, dvd ripping,
and occasional gaming.

CPU: i5 3570K
Mainboard: Gigabyte Z77X - UD3H
GPU: Gigabyte AMD Radeon 7850
HDD: Seagate 2TB
PSU: Corsair TX650W
RAM: Corsair Vengence 16GB - 4GBx4 - DDR3-1600
Case: CM 690 or CM Silencio 550
Optical Drive: Asus DVD-RW 24X

Any thoughts?
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Looks very good and sensible, though the 16GB of RAM might be considered overkill, but RAM prices aren't going to be this low for quite a while to come so grab as much as you want while you can. If you are willing to wait, the best option would be to wait for Nvidia to release the rest of their Kepler GPU's to see how they fair and to force AMD to drop prices on their cards since the prices of most of the current 7xxx cards from AMD are highly inflated.
 
Thanks for the input, Duff-Man. I think I will stick with that. Probably go with the Silencio thanks to potty Postman's post. :D Will try to squeeze a SSD in there somewhere and then I think I will be set oh.. for the next 5 or 6 years!
 
zophas said:
Thanks for the input, Duff-Man. I think I will stick with that. Probably go with the Silencio thanks to potty Postman's post. :D Will try to squeeze a SSD in there somewhere and then I think I will be set oh.. for the next 5 or 6 years!
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No problem, always a pleasure to help ;)
 
Invader_zim said:
A friend's looking at building a general purpose PC for a bit of work and a bit of gaming, more gaming than anything else. He doesn't want to overclock and has storage and OS already. The rest he wants to spend about R7k - R7.5k on.
Any suggestions ?
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For his needs I recommend that he/she takes an i5 build

Here's my quote:

CPU : i5 3550 @R2000
Motherboard : ASRock Z77 Extreme4 @R1745
GPU : MSI Radeon 6870 @R1700
Power Supply : Corsair CX500 @R640
RAM : Kingston Hyper X 8GB - 1600MHz @R455
Case : Aerocool Cyborg X @R700
Optical Drive : Asus DVD-RW 24X @R150

Total = R7390

Hope this helps
 
Just finished updating the thread to cater for Ivy Bridge CPU's and the new motherboards.
 
Thanks for the input guys. The reason i said i3 build was because I thought later on in the year i could drop in i5 2400/2500 in there. If i wanted for performance. But i guess the AMD system suites my purposes. The above i5 rig sounds beautiful. I need to think long and hard about what I'm going to do. So many choices available. May i should save up abit more cash.
 
Btw what is the basic requirement to playback HD content(downloaded)? RAM and CPU wise. Celeron D 2.8 2GB ram just won't cut it, wouldn't it?
 
The minimum requirements to play 1080p content with standard Codecs is

Processor: Dual Core - 2.4GHz/Single Core - 3.5GHz

Graphics: Nvidia/ATi graphics card with 256MB VRAM and a core clock of 600Mhz.

So using standard codecs your Celeren D won't cut it, but you could use a program called CoreAVC which is a proprietary codec for decoding H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats, it allows you to take full advantage of your hardware unlike the KLite Codec Pack and the VLC Media Player's codecs

The minimum requirements to play 1080p content on CoreAVC is

Processor: Dual Core - 1.5GHz/Single Core - 2.6GHz

Graphics: Nvidia or ATi graphics card with 128MB VRAM, core clock 300Mhz.


Hope this helps

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Sads-1-zn said:
Btw what is the basic requirement to playback HD content(downloaded)? RAM and CPU wise. Celeron D 2.8 2GB ram just won't cut it, wouldn't it?
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Sorry for the late reply on this.

Technically you just need a newish graphics card capable of decoding the videos using hardware acceleration.
For example, the HP Microserver's 1.5GHz dual core CPU is too poor to playback 1080p videos, but if you just add a GeForce GT520 (~R500 or perhaps even less), then you can playback 1080p videos!
 
Thanks for the info Pada. I think I'll have a look at the HP Microserver.
 
Hi DuffMan

Great work on starting this thread man!

I`m currently in the process of researching a few components for my upgrade. All I`m upgrading is my CPU, motherboard and RAM (I might stick in a SSD too). So far I've decided on getting the 3570K, but I`m not quite sure which motherboard to get. Bare in mind that I am a gamer and I like to run all my games on High/Ultra graphics. I also decided against the 3770K becuase the 3570K is more than enough for gaming, although I would like to overclock it in the future if need be. For this reason, I`m thinking that I should use the money I saved on the 3770K to buy a more futureproof board with better OC abilities. Connectivity is not of that great importance. As long as I have 4+ USB ports, a couple of SATA 3GBps and 6GBps ports and the option to use SLi/CrossFire.

My boards of choice include:
- Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H
- Asus Sabertooth Z77
- MSI Z77A-GD65

If you could/would recommend any other board, I would appreciate it. I do not want to spend more than R2.5k on a board unless it's REALLY good. I also need to decide on RAM... (ideas?) :)

Thanks in advance
 
EtTA said:
Hi DuffMan

Great work on starting this thread man!

I`m currently in the process of researching a few components for my upgrade. All I`m upgrading is my CPU, motherboard and RAM (I might stick in a SSD too). So far I've decided on getting the 3570K, but I`m not quite sure which motherboard to get. Bare in mind that I am a gamer and I like to run all my games on High/Ultra graphics. I also decided against the 3770K becuase the 3570K is more than enough for gaming, although I would like to overclock it in the future if need be. For this reason, I`m thinking that I should use the money I saved on the 3770K to buy a more futureproof board with better OC abilities. Connectivity is not of that great importance. As long as I have 4+ USB ports, a couple of SATA 3GBps and 6GBps ports and the option to use SLi/CrossFire.

My boards of choice include:
- Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H
- Asus Sabertooth Z77
- MSI Z77A-GD65

If you could/would recommend any other board, I would appreciate it. I do not want to spend more than R2.5k on a board unless it's REALLY good. I also need to decide on RAM... (ideas?) :)

Thanks in advance
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Hi EtTa


I would, for your price range, recommend the ASUS P8Z77-V @R2346, it has, 4x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 ports, 2 x SATA 6GB/s ports and 4 x SATA 3GB/s ports and the option for Quad GPU SLI along with 3-way Crossfire support . If you could push your budget a bit then I would recommend the Pro version. As for RAM I would recommend a Kingston Hyper X 8GB Kit @R455

Hope this helps, if you have any questions just ask ;)
 
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