Pondscumz Posted November 9, 2011 Member ID: 1723 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 54 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 166 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 1375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/23/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 5, 2015 Birthday: 01/16/1960 Share Posted November 9, 2011 My kids' computer at their mothers house is very sick. It is about 3 1/2 years old, maybe older. I am thinking of replacing it with one that I throw together myself. With some assistance from a few XI members, we came up with the following: HITACHI 500GB3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive COOLER MASTER HAF912 RC-912-KKN1 Black Computer Case MSI GeForce GTX460 (Fermi) N460GTX Hawk Video Card COOLER MASTERR4-S2S-124K-GP 120mm Case Fan 4 in 1 pack XFX Core EditionPRO550W (P1-550S-XXB9) 550W Power Supply SAMSUNG Black SATADVD-ROM Drive Model TS-H353C G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR31600 GIGABYTEGA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AMD Motherboard AMD FX-6100 3.3GHzSocket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor What do you peeps think of this system? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CplMOFO Posted November 9, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 21, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I'd personally go with a 650watts XFX, as the price is pretty close to the 550 watts...just to be on the safe side.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Dark Asylumn Posted November 9, 2011 Member ID: 809 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 41 Topic Count: 251 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2835 Content Per Day: 0.54 Reputation: 1016 Achievement Points: 20374 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/29/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 06/25/1979 Device: Windows Share Posted November 9, 2011 your hard drive is gonna be a major bottle neck. it only has a 16 mb buffer. tbh if you could wait a few weeks the prices should start coming back down on the hard drives before the floods for 99 you could get a wd 64mbs sata 6.0 gb/s black edition 1 tb. here is a 2 tb wd green 64 mb/s drive for less than 40 more honestly this drive will perform alot better than that 16mb drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514 if 135 is too much for you here is a wd green 32 mb/s 500gb drive for 109 that will be alot better than the 16mb your looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136358 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Joe Canadian Posted November 9, 2011 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted November 9, 2011 Pondscumz - New Gaming Rig? My kids' computer at their mothers house is very sick. It is about 3 1/2 years old, maybe older. I am thinking of replacing it with one that I throw together myself. With some assistance from a few XI members, we came up with the following: HITACHI 500GB3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive COOLER MASTER HAF912 RC-912-KKN1 Black Computer Case MSI GeForce GTX460 (Fermi) N460GTX Hawk Video Card COOLER MASTERR4-S2S-124K-GP 120mm Case Fan 4 in 1 pack XFX Core EditionPRO550W (P1-550S-XXB9) 550W Power Supply SAMSUNG Black SATADVD-ROM Drive Model TS-H353C G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR31600 GIGABYTEGA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AMD Motherboard AMD FX-6100 3.3GHzSocket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor What do you peeps think of this system? Thanks How much are you looking to spend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NightmareXI Posted November 9, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Share Posted November 9, 2011 CplMOFO I'd personally go with a 650watts XFX, as the price is pretty close to the 550 watts...just to be on the safe side.... agreed I think this sys recommends around 500 watts at 90% load used the psu calculator if you add anything a little later you might have to buy a new PSU LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
CplMOFO Posted November 9, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 21, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Dark Asylumn your hard drive is gonna be a major bottle neck. it only has a 16 mb buffer. tbh if you could wait a few weeks the prices should start coming back down on the hard drives before the floods for 99 you could get a wd 64mbs sata 6.0 gb/s black edition 1 tb. here is a 2 tb wd green 64 mb/s drive for less than 40 more honestly this drive will perform alot better than that 16mb drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514 if 135 is too much for you here is a wd green 32 mb/s 500gb drive for 109 that will be alot better than the 16mb your looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136358 Well Dark, I'm saying your mostly right, this is a $$$ issue at the moment, all the good HDD's prices are thru the roof.. I remind the price of the WD Black 1TB 64mo to be around $79 a few months back! Some HDD manufacturers will soon start to resume production, and hopefully this will cause the prices to drop back to when they were... As for the WD GREEN....they're not bad drives, but they're mostly storage drives, because they're made to save on electricity, they park the "reading head" really often, it's like they go to sleep a lot more often than regular drives...that's why I'm not too fond on those to be used as Operating System drive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Dark Asylumn Posted November 9, 2011 Member ID: 809 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 41 Topic Count: 251 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2835 Content Per Day: 0.54 Reputation: 1016 Achievement Points: 20374 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/29/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 06/25/1979 Device: Windows Share Posted November 9, 2011 CplMOFO Dark Asylumn your hard drive is gonna be a major bottle neck. it only has a 16 mb buffer. tbh if you could wait a few weeks the prices should start coming back down on the hard drives before the floods for 99 you could get a wd 64mbs sata 6.0 gb/s black edition 1 tb. here is a 2 tb wd green 64 mb/s drive for less than 40 more honestly this drive will perform alot better than that 16mb drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514 if 135 is too much for you here is a wd green 32 mb/s 500gb drive for 109 that will be alot better than the 16mb your looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136358 Well Dark, I'm saying your mostly right, this is a $$$ issue at the moment, all the good HDD's prices are thru the roof.. I remind the price of the WD Black 1TB 64mo to be around $79 a few months back! Some HDD manufacturers will soon start to resume production, and hopefully this will cause the prices to drop back to when they were... As for the WD GREEN....they're not bad drives, but they're mostly storage drives, because they're made to save on electricity, they park the "reading head" really often, it's like they go to sleep a lot more often than regular drives...that's why I'm not too fond on those to be used as Operating System drive... im not the biggest fan of the greens used as op sys drives but compared to the 16mb drive hes looking at. the green will do a much better job at running his system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
CplMOFO Posted November 9, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 21, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Scumz, I seen that one from COMPUSA (I think you got one close to home AFAIK) XFX 650 watts for $59.99 AFTER MAIL-IN rebate.... http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=125450&CatId=1483 This is a good one...manufactured by Seasonic and rebranded XFX... But Compusa has some serious crap for sale also...gotta be careful sometimes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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