Bulding a new PC - from scratch

[hiho7]

Hello,

I'm planning to build my self a new PC and would like to hear your opinion about it.

Case ZALMAN Z12 Plus, ATX, USB3.0 Black - link
PSU FORTRON RAIDER 750 SILVER, 750W - link
Motherboard ASROCK Fatal1ty B85 Killer, B85, DDR III 1600/1333/1066 - link
CPU INTEL CORE i5-4460, 3.20GHz, 6MB, BOX, LGA1150, Haswell Refresh - link
CPU Cooler COOLER MASTER Hyper 412S, s.All CPU, 1300 rpm, 22.5 dB - link
GPU GIGABYTE 2048M GTX750 N750OC-2GL DDR5 PCI-E 3.0 - link
GPU Cooler VGA Cooler Accelero Twin Turbo III - link
RAM KINGSTON 4GB DDR III 1600 HyperX FURY - link
SSD CORSAIR 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk SSD, SATA III, Force LX, 7mm - link
Wireless PCI Card Canyon WF511

It's going to be used as a regular PC - nothing special, apart from running from time to time some of the .NET technologies (for testing purposes) - ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server 2014, Visual Studio 2012/3.. and playing Dota 2.

Edit: changed the PSU.

 

[AddRAM]

I`d go with a 4690K, and get a video card with at least 4 GB of memory, something in the 900 series, not the 700 series.

EVGA - Products - EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ - 04G-P4-3966-KR

 

[hiho7]

Hm.. I really don't think I'll need that powerful card, it's a bit expensive.. what do you have in mind?

 

[AddRAM]

Then go with your original choice.

 

[hiho7]

I'll get the cpu.

And sorry, didnt want to be rude..

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I believe Samsung still has some great deals on 850 evo ssd's
SSD 850 EVO 2.5" SATA III 120GB | Samsung Solid State Drives

Here's a great deal on a liquid cpu cooler,
CORSAIR Hydro Series H75 CW-9060015-WW Water/Liquid CPU Cooler 120 MM - Newegg.com

 

[hiho7]

I was thinking to skip the coolers for now (and get them later, eventually if needed) and get a better SSD (maybe the 250 GB Evo?). I suppose there isn't a difference between the quality of the 120/250 gb versions?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Larger SSDs tend to have better benchmarks, but you'd never notice the difference in actual usage.

Buy the capacity you need.

 

[ThrashZone]

I personally load of course the os but also all programs on the same ssd everything just works better
Games on the other hand can be on a separate ssd or hdd for that matter so I've read
120gb sounds like a lot but in reality it goes pretty quickly plus windows shows it as much less than 128gb more like 117gb
250/ 256gb is a realistic size with growing room to spare.
99.us is cheap for a 850 pro evo

Typically I load windows then shrink it in half
That way I don't end up with a system reserved partition to deal with and the ssd space is half of 256gb actually half of 240gb

I do like the liquid cpu coolers corsair has

 

[mjf]

I'm starting a new build for my son. So comments on a couple of components that I'm looking at:
- i5 4590 which performs so close to the i5 4690 (do you really need to overclock the CPU?)
- CPU cooler - Cooler Master Hyper 212x (make sure it fits the case)
- RAM GSkill RipjawsX 16GB. Check your RAM has been tested with your motherboard. I'd consider 8GB a minimum.
- SSD probably Samsung 850 EVO 250G - but then I'd partition it in 2. You want to keep your OS partition to a size that allows efficient system imaging. I think the 850 EVO 120G would be ok if you wanted to save some money.

 

[hiho7]

About the SSD - I've got an external 750gb drive, so do I really need to shrink it in 2? My ideas was to leave the SSD as a system disc and dont store any sensitive info there.

About the cpu - I'm not going to oveclock, but this was the best option in terms of price/money that I could find.

My concern is about the motherboard - it appears to be hard to find network drivers (I'll be using wi-fi connection 100%). Not sure if I have to consider another motherboard or I can keep it and use it with the canyon wi fi card?

 

[AddRAM]

You`ll get a driver disc with the motherboard.

 

[mjf]

About the SSD - I've got an external 750gb drive, so do I really need to shrink it in 2?

Your SSD would be your main OS drive. If it was a 250GB then I would partition it. If you stick with a 120/128 GB SSD then you wouldn't bother partitioning it.

 

[ThrashZone]

No you don't have to shrink it at all I just do it so windows doesn't write too far out on the ssd
256gb is mostly for future expandability
You can leave it with the entire volume it really doesn't hurt anything.

I agree the mother board does have all drivers on the disk that comes with it so you will need to load it after getting to your desktop from loading windows
But you will need to skip activation of windows until you get the drivers disk installed.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

I would also question the PSU choice and and opt instead for a Seasonic, Corsair, Antec, EVGA, XFX, CoolerMaster or Silverstone. Think of the PSU as the muscle behind the scenes that if it goes south takes many other expensive things with it. Try to buy as much quality PSU as possible. Remember that the extra capacity allows for future expansion and normally PSU's loss .5-1.5% of their capacity a year !

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