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Hello,
I am building a pc with a budget of roughly 650 USD. ( I live in the US)
I put some parts together and came up to be about $800. All of the parts are the ones I need. (no case, no keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc)
If someone can suggest some changes to it that will lower the price a bit and keep the performance at the highest possible for the price would be appreciate it.
Here is the link to the parts.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/18Mdk
The pc will be for regular use and casual gaming. If possible I would like the keep the GPU , or at least something very close to it.
Thanks.
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When adding a CD Drive to your pc, what do i need to think of? any special cables needed( getting the D3H mobo if it matters )
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On June 22 2013 04:56 KapsyL wrote:
When adding a disc writer to your pc, what do i need to think of? any special cables needed( getting the D3H mobo if it matters )
The disc burner uses the same cables and connects the same way as a HDD / SSD does. SATA cables are provided to you by your motherboard.
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So I would need to use a SATA burner and buy cables for it or are they included?
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On June 22 2013 04:42 xasuma wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Hello, I am building a pc with a budget of roughly 650 USD. ( I live in the US) I put some parts together and came up to be about $800. All of the parts are the ones I need. (no case, no keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc) If someone can suggest some changes to it that will lower the price a bit and keep the performance at the highest possible for the price would be appreciate it. Here is the link to the parts. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/18MdkThe pc will be for regular use and casual gaming. If possible I would like the keep the GPU , or at least something very close to it. Thanks.
If you're buying the motherboard from Microcenter then you generally want to purchase the processor from there as well since they have processor + motherboard bundles which are significantly less than what you find online.
A 600w power supply is not necessary. A Capstone 450 is a better choice.
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On June 22 2013 04:42 xasuma wrote:Hello, I am building a pc with a budget of roughly 650 USD. ( I live in the US) I put some parts together and came up to be about $800. All of the parts are the ones I need. (no case, no keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc) If someone can suggest some changes to it that will lower the price a bit and keep the performance at the highest possible for the price would be appreciate it. Here is the link to the parts. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/18MdkThe pc will be for regular use and casual gaming. If possible I would like the keep the GPU , or at least something very close to it. Thanks.
Not much you can bring it down, $510 (before monitor) is a really tight budget for a PC. You can't get a gtx660 in that with a decent CPU.
If anything, i'd say add $55 and go for the microcenter 4670k + asus z87-a combo. It's a far superior CPU.
You should get 2x4gb RAM (never 1 stick) and try to get something without big heat spreaders attached to the top of it, they are pointless and can get in the way of some things either now, or in the future if you keep the RAM.
A 600w power supply is not necessary. A Capstone 450 is a better choice.
It's $29.99 after rebate, that's probably what he's going for.
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On June 22 2013 05:00 KapsyL wrote:
So I would need to use a SATA burner and buy cables for it or are they included?
Not sure what you mean?
A regular disc reader connects the same way. But yes you would need SATA for a modern PC as most of the motherboards (except the very very low end ones I guess) do not support the older IDE standard.
SATA cables are included with your motherboard. Low-end boards typically give you two which is enough for a storage drive and a burner.
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I wasnt sure what I meant either. Thanks anyway I think i got it understood now.
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A 600w unit isn't necessary. You can downgrade to the CX500M if you want a modular unit, otherwise the XFX Core Edition 550 would be better. The rest looks okay.
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I will look into it. I went with that particular PSU because it was modular and I kinda wanted to overkill atleast a little bit. Just before I linked this to here i went down from cx750 because according to partpicker my build is only gonna require about 350w and i would be paying nearly 20 euro extra...
I do want to go a bit overkill for the future since im add additional things(SSD, CPU Cooler) Will CX500 suffice for this?
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SSDs use less power than HDDs and that is hardly any. A heatsink is just a block of metal with a fan on it, fans hardly use any power as well.
A CX430 would suffice but the GTX 660 uses two PCIe connectors but the CX430 only has 1 PCIe connector so it would require you to use a molex to PCIe adapter. So to save you the trouble of doing that, you get the CX500 instead which has two PCIe connectors.
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You're the best. many thanks!!
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You might want to browse the Fractal Design homepage and look at all their cases. Perhaps you'll like one of their mATX cases. Their cheapest mATX case is also half the price of the one you chose.
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Why are you comparing the sizes of case and motherboard. An mATX or ATX motherboard will fit inside any ATX case.
I guess you never seen the inside of a computer?
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rofl im just over thinking stuff i guess? gonna go to bed before i post any more stupid questions that make no sense at all. x) sorry
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The picture is also how it'll look for you, KapsyL. That's an mATX board in the picture, and you also chose mATX. Look at the expansion slots the case has. That's what I meant by suggesting to perhaps look for an mATX case. There's some wasted space with an ATX case and you might like a smaller case better.
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Only problem with looking for other cases is I have no freakin clue whats good or bad, a friend picked this one for me. a friend who has waay more experience then me in this matter D:
I will look into it further tomorrow. gn
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On June 21 2013 20:03 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2013 12:40 Shikyo wrote:
Hmmm so a quick question. For a Haswell system it'd be beneficial to just go for a 75 euro 8GB 2400 mhz ram kit instead of a ~53 euro 1600 mhz kit? As in it's relatively cost-efficient if I'm planning on OCing? I think so, because of the performance gains. If you can get cas10 or 11 (or even cas12) 2400 kit, you can actually get a notable performance gap. I'l post numbers when i have them. As iTzSnypah said in the post above (i think that's the RAM i linked earlier) 2400 cas11 1.65v RAM for $7 more than cheapest ddr3? That's not even a question. And to the other post, Noctua u12p? You mean u12s or is there a specific reason to get the p? Show nested quote +Whereas the NH-U12S comes equipped with the renowned NF-F12 120mm fan and succeeds the highly popular NH-U12P The u12s and u14s turned some heads, but i don't think i even heard of the u12p in particular, before those versions, are they almost as good or significantly worse?
From my brief research the only difference between the S and the P is $3 and a second fan.
E: By brief I mean looking at the product pictures. Maybe I should have checked fan numbers.
P comes with 2x NF-P12 while S comes with 1x NF-F12.
NF-F12
http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=42&lng=en&set=1
NF-P12
http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=12&lng=en&set=1
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