Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Ok folks, old PC has died, so its time for a new one. Its been 5 years so I am rather out of the loop, but from what I can ascertain the following should serve me well. Any comments/suggestions welcomed. It needs to be fast and quiet: MB - Gigabyte G1 Sniper - $291 CPU - Core i7 3770K - $350 Ram - Corsair Vengence 16GB $200 PSU - Enermax MaxRevo 1350 $364 Cooler - Noctua NH-D14 $103 GPU - Gainward GTX 770 Phantom $550 HDD - Samsung 250gb SSD + a 3TB of some description Windows 8 Pro Got an original Coolermaster Cosmos case with a couple of optical drives so I'll strip that out. Any point in getting a bluray writer? I cant think of a need Is there much of a market for old parts? GPU's are dead, but the rest probably works good enough
LogicprObe Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Looks good to me. I have a Bluray writer.......................never written a BR disk with it though! Are you getting a touchscreen monitor?
rocky500 Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) What about looking into the new Intel Haswell LGA1150? If your buying new why not have the latest. Edited July 11, 2013 by rocky500
Guest fordgtlover Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Here's a neat reference page: http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_gaming_configs_1
Addicted to music Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Agreed with LP, However I won't by a stand alone PC anymore, I have 2 at home that no one uses, instead everyone in this household use Laptops and iPads, this ensure mobility in every part of the house including the backyard, all connected via WiFi modem to access ADSL2+
LogicprObe Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Here's a neat reference page: http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_gaming_configs_1 Their Quiet Deluxe build is very similar to mine.............except I use the i7 CPU.
Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Should have said, I've got a 30" Dell, so no new screen. I have a policy of not spending about more than $350 on a chip, I'll look into it
Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 pchan - we have 2 laptops and an ipad, this is for photo processing
LogicprObe Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 You'll want this then. http://www.classicshell.net/ Should have said, I've got a 30" Dell, so no new screen. I have a policy of not spending about more than $350 on a chip, I'll look into it
davewantsmoore Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) Any comments/suggestions welcomed Great. Expensive. Nice kit. You may want to look into whether CPU = Haswell i7 4770 (New last month) is a better choice for you ... especially if this is a PC you will keep for years. You might be able to go up or down on the GPU for better "value/$" ... I'm slightly out of the loop there too, I'm a computer-nerd... just no longer a big gamer (hence why you will need to get the detail on Haswell yourself too, soz) You might be able to get a few hundred for your old PC ?!... could be more value to stick a real cheap (EDIT: like $30) GPU in it, and give it to a family / friend / home-office computer/ etc ?! Edited July 11, 2013 by davewantsmoore
Addicted to music Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 pchan - we have 2 laptops and an ipad, this is for photo processing My son is in his 2nd and final year in photography, he does all his photos and processing via photoshop and Lightroom on the latest MacBook Pro, that consist of a i7 chip and 500gb SSD, it has USB3 and a Retina display. The camera he uses are 2x Canon 5D MK3. He transfer most RAW data on a separate drive.
Guest myrantz Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 What about looking into the new Intel Haswell LGA1150? If your buying new why not have the latest. Haswell is still new... don't overclock that well.. Having said that, 3770k is kind of old? Another issue with the 3770k is it doesn't have IOMMU (not a issue I guess if OP don't run virtual machines)... Not sure if IOMMU is used on another things. Also might as well go water cooling. My 3770k with air cooling don't seem to overclock that well. Kind of a waste to not go water cooling with a K chip?
Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) My son is in his 2nd and final year in photography, he does all his photos and processing via photoshop and Lightroom on the latest MacBook Pro, that consist of a i7 chip and 500gb SSD, it has USB3 and a Retina display. The camera he uses are 2x Canon 5D MK3. He transfer most RAW data on a separate drive. I'd rather sit in front of a matt calibrated screen that is 30". Well and that sits next to 24" that I run other stuff on (vids, music etc). I find this a much more productive work environment. We've got a good 15" laptop, I dont like it. I get more use from my 11" ultrabook that I travel with. That and my wife will be working from home soon and she wants our study to be her "work area" - pretty sweet IMO, got Vaf soundwall in there to: [/url] Looks like I need to do some more digging about this chip. Thanks for the advice. I was thinking about water cooling, but most of them are louder than the Noctua from what I can ascertain Edited July 11, 2013 by Peter the Greek
Guest Muon Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) I found these CPU water coolers pretty good, easy set up too. Installed one a while ago on that i7 you are looking at. http://www.umart.com.au/newindex2.phtml?bid=2 Pretty quiet, I think....worth researching. Are you going to OC? heavily or moderate? Edited July 11, 2013 by datafone
Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 No, I've never OC'ed, dont really have a dying need as I only play games on xbox now. I'll speak with the place I get my gear from. If I can get a water cooler with Noctua fans I'll do it Ok - so I'll get the 4770k chip
Leon Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Make sure everything will fit with that cooler, I have it and had to modify one of the the memory modules so the cooler would fit. The new Haswell chipset has a bug where USB3 ports won't reconnect after sleep I believe, this won't be fixed till the second generation boards come out with a new updated chipset..
Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Ah thanks Leon - I dont generally let the PC go into sleep mode, I just turn it off. Will that be ok?
Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Here's the word on liquid cooling v the Noctua http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/water2.0-extreme-kraken-x40-hydro-h90-elc120,3434-14.html
Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 13, 2013 Posted July 13, 2013 Ordered today, ended up with a different mobo (a better gigabyte) and the new 760 GPU (the cheaper model basically), oh and a smaller PSU (same brand) This'll be my 3rd PC from IT Estate in 12 years. Good prices and it'll be ready on Thursday.
Guest Muon Posted July 13, 2013 Posted July 13, 2013 (edited) No, I've never OC'ed, dont really have a dying need as I only play games on xbox now. I'll speak with the place I get my gear from. If I can get a water cooler with Noctua fans I'll do it Ok - so I'll get the 4770k chip I would be more concerned with the rest of the unit, the fans can be changed, and I found the ones installed just fine. Edited July 13, 2013 by datafone
LogicprObe Posted July 13, 2013 Posted July 13, 2013 The D14 is quieter than watercooling. I have water cooling............only because it was on sale cheap. I've run the D14 without any fans at all with no probs. Not O'C'd though.
Guest Peter the Greek Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Picked it up today. All good except for an incomparability with the darn Cosmos S case's power button. They've "jimmy rigged" a rubbish switch that I have run out of the top of the case I like things neat....Its not bothering me yet so I'll see. I might get one of those military style bomb switches perhaps. Nice and quiet and boots really fast like my ultrabook, which also has a SSD. .....and yes, Windows 8 stinks Test will be Photoshop.....once I can figure out how to get that working.....bring on 8.1! In the meantime I'll look at those apps
LogicprObe Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Grab the Classic Shell. It works well. Mine just upgraded a few days ago.
CraigC Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Persist with 8 and its fine. Just annoying to change
LogicprObe Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Persist with 8 and its fine. Just annoying to change Oh, it's fine with a touch screen. Alas, I don't have one yet!
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