Gaming PC Help

[FCB_M3]

Why not newegg? I've found they generally have the best prices and free shipping most of the time. They don't charge tax like amazon does.

reason being from tigerdirect is that they offer 2 year financing, did the math, its about 60-65 a month payments which I can handle, cant put out 2k like that! lol and amazon I have some gift cards I can use.

[FCB_M3]

I KEEP CHANGING MY MIND! lol K HERE it is though!!
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tWgo

[cale]

You do not need to spend $160 on ram. For what you're going to use the comp for you're essentially putting a $100 bill on your motherboard just for the sake of it for show. Trust me and everyone else, 8gb is more than enough for you. That $100 towards your video card is a HUGE upgrade vs. something you'll never even notice.

[FCB_M3]

You do not need to spend $160 on ram. For what you're going to use the comp for you're essentially putting a $100 bill on your motherboard just for the sake of it for show. Trust me and everyone else, 8gb is more than enough for you. That $100 towards your video card is a HUGE upgrade vs. something you'll never even notice.

So 8gb is good enough ? Okay might stick with 8gb and what videocard would
You suggest then?

[cale]

The one you picked is fine, but the price isn't exactly great. None of those seem like sale items. The biggest benefit of picking your own parts is pricing, but you're really limiting yourself by going with only one seller...especially one who isn't known for amazing deals. At least wait till boxing day sales and be ready to pull the trigger.

[FCB_M3]

The one you picked is fine, but the price isn't exactly great. None of those seem like sale items. The biggest benefit of picking your own parts is pricing, but you're really limiting yourself by going with only one seller...especially one who isn't known for amazing deals. At least wait till boxing day sales and be ready to pull the trigger.

Financing.. Guess that's the price I pay. But again thanks for all the input!

[cale]

So save your money and don't finance.

[k.gen04]

Do NOT skimp out on PSU, bundled ones with cases are generally shit, go for a well known and trusted brand like Corsair, Cooler Master, etc. For the type of system you're looking at 700W will be heaps.

Make sure you find a review for the PSU you're looking at on the internet that includes full testing of voltage variations, ripple etc. The most important test is the load test. Heres the type of review you're looking for on a HX750:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Corsair-HX750W-Power-Supply-Review/775/1

The pages to look for in this review are "Load Tests" and "Overload Tests".

On the load test page we have a table with 20% load up to 100% load. The important fields to watch out for in this table are efficiency, ripple, and voltage stability.

Efficiency is how much of your power from your house is actually being converted into the power the PC needs. It's measured in percentage, and a higher number is better. This PSU gets extremely high efficiency even under full load, which means the regulation circuity has been well designed.

Ripple and voltage stability are just simple pass and fails in this table, but some tables measure it in mV or V. A smaller number is better for ripple, as ripple means how much fluctuation is in the output. More fluctuation means the PSU isn't doing it's job as well and more stress is being passed on to your graphics card, HDD, motherboard...

Voltage stability, if measured, should be compared against what rail is being tested. For example, if the 12V rail was being tested and a result of 11.498V was returned then that is a good result, as it's very close to 12V. Anything within about .2V of what the rail should be is considered good.

For this unit, voltage stability passes clean across the board, but the 5VSB fails on ripple. Reading the text this is a nonissue as it's been retested with vastly different results.

Scrolling down the page a bit we see the ripple graphs. The same method as interpreting the ripple values on the table if they were in mV instead of pass/fail can be used here. We can see that there is very little ripple as the squiggly line is very close to the centre line.

Going to the overload test page now, we see the absolute max that can be pulled from the power supply with it still outputting within spec. The field we're looking for is Total, which in this case is a massive 912.9W! A higher wattage is better for this test, as the higher it is the better the PSU has been designed.