a1's Sandy Bridge SC2 Builds - Page 3

ataryens

Iran213 Posts

May 19 2011 16:17 GMT

#41

Thanks buddy, I am having second thoughts about overclocking now :S maybe i should go with 2500 or 2400 and H board and not spend money on a cooler.

EliteReplay

Dominican Republic913 Posts

May 19 2011 18:19 GMT

#42

thanks for the info im AMD builder but i want to have a resume about shipset in Sandybridge mobos

Quarry

14 Posts

May 20 2011 09:06 GMT

#43

Being completely incompetent regarding hardware, i just bought components based on some computer-build guide. I wish I red this thread beforehand. Should I return the AMD CPU? If so, the motherbord and the RAM (the power supply?) have to be replaced as well, right?

Here is what I bought:

1. CPU: AMD AM3 Athlon II X3 450 Box (3x 3,2 GHz)

2. Motherboard: ASRock 880G PRO3

3. Memory: Kingston PC1333 4GB (1333 MHz, 240-polig) DDR3-RAM Kit

4. Video Card: Sapphire HD5830 Xtreme (PCI-e, 1GB, GDDR5)

5. Hard Drive: Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB

6. Power Supply: be quiet BN105 Pure Power 430W

7. Case: Lancool PC-K58ATX Midi Lancool PC-K58 ATX Midi

I hope to post in the right thread. Thank you in advance.

android_245

Australia103 Posts

May 20 2011 09:24 GMT

#44

I'd just like to suggest adding the new Z68 chipset based motherboards which allows overclocking and enables the usage of the integrated Intel HD Graphics (also allows GPU switching between discrete and integrated GPU). Its basically a H67+P67 mobo with additional features such as SDD caching but no benefits to gaming Although the Z68 mobos poses no improvement in gaming over the P67 mobos, I just think it'll be good to put it in to reduce any confusion.

JingleHell

United States11308 Posts

May 20 2011 11:48 GMT

#45

On May 20 2011 18:06 Quarry wrote:
Being completely incompetent regarding hardware, i just bought components based on some computer-build guide. I wish I red this thread beforehand. Should I return the AMD CPU? If so, the motherbord and the RAM (the power supply?) have to be replaced as well, right?

Here is what I bought:

1. CPU: AMD AM3 Athlon II X3 450 Box (3x 3,2 GHz)

2. Motherboard: ASRock 880G PRO3

3. Memory: Kingston PC1333 4GB (1333 MHz, 240-polig) DDR3-RAM Kit

4. Video Card: Sapphire HD5830 Xtreme (PCI-e, 1GB, GDDR5)

5. Hard Drive: Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB

6. Power Supply: be quiet BN105 Pure Power 430W

7. Case: Lancool PC-K58ATX Midi Lancool PC-K58 ATX Midi

I hope to post in the right thread. Thank you in advance.

You actually aren't completely incompetent regarding hardware. You would be if you thought you weren't, at the same level of knowledge. You're somewhere 5-10% higher than you actually thought.

That won't technically be a useless computer, at least for low end gaming, but you'd do much better on bang for the buck with one of a1's builds, yes.

But as for your question, only the CPU and Motherboard would have to be swapped. The DDR3 RAM would still work on an 1155 socket motherboard. The PSU, I don't know if it's all that great or not.

Quarry

14 Posts

May 20 2011 15:48 GMT

#46

Thanks a lot for your advice. I guess I'll swap with the Core i3-2100 and ASUS P8H67-M LX from a1's $500 build then.

Gara

Canada435 Posts

June 01 2011 20:31 GMT

#47

Thank you so much for the motherboard part of this guide! I was so confused when trying to research motherboards for my first build!

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