Computers Help building my first gaming rig - Page 13

**hometeam** · 12-26-2013, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jerm

Ok thinking seriously about getting a gaming rig and I can get the following for $625 from Craiglist and need to see if it's worth that and any good....

Specs....

OS- Windows 8 64-bit
Case- Cooler Master Storm Scout 2
CPU- AMD FX 6300 3.5 ghz 6 core
Motherboard- Gigabyte 970A-UD3
Video card- Gigabyte HD 7850 2GB SC
Power supply- Corsair CX500
RAM- corsair vengance 8gb (2x 4gb)
HDD- WD 500gb 7200rpm
Misc- Tenda Wireless PCI adapter

New or used? If its new, deal is ok. If its used? meh, you could likely build it new for that much or less.

TheUte · 12-26-2013, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jerm

Ok thinking seriously about getting a gaming rig and I can get the following for $625 from Craiglist and need to see if it's worth that and any good....

Specs....

OS- Windows 8 64-bit
Case- Cooler Master Storm Scout 2
CPU- AMD FX 6300 3.5 ghz 6 core
Motherboard- Gigabyte 970A-UD3
Video card- Gigabyte HD 7850 2GB SC
Power supply- Corsair CX500
RAM- corsair vengance 8gb (2x 4gb)
HDD- WD 500gb 7200rpm
Misc- Tenda Wireless PCI adapter

That pricing is slightly better than Newegg. With a little bit of looking you can do much better.

Jerm · 12-26-2013, 08:42 AM

Slightly used...

Jerm · 12-26-2013, 02:35 PM

Forgot to mention that deals includes a 24'' inch Asus monitor...don't really know if that changes opinions or not lol.

**hometeam** · 12-26-2013, 02:44 PM

With the monitor its a better deal. I bet if you looked hard you could find an even better one though. Depends on how hot you are on it.

Jerm · 12-26-2013, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

With the monitor its a better deal. I bet if you looked hard you could find an even better one though. Depends on how hot you are on it.

I'm just not very good at searching for parts or building lol...

ragedogg69 · 01-07-2014, 11:15 AM

Got my rig finally going last night. Seriously ground shipping from tigerdirect takes forever. Couple of issues:
--The (Free) Raygo case I got has a rolled metal bar right next to PCIE 3.0 socket. It blocked my HDMI cable from going in all the way... ugh. Had to take pliers to bend it out of the way.
--XBMC does not play nice with my GTX 770 when setting to "Match refresh rate to match video" is enabled. IE Watching 24fps video causes stuttering on video when XBMC changes the refresh rate. Yet if I manually change the refresh rate myself in the Geforce Control Panel it plays just fine. A minor annoyance. Playing all content at 24 or 60 plays fine. It is only when the video player tries to change it will it stutter.
--Went to register my GPU online at PNY (lifetime warranty), the serial number is only on the video card itself rather than on the box or anything. That is crazy and now I have to take apart my rig tonight to get to it.
--I heard a minor coil whine after a while. It was sporadic and not too annoying.

A few bumps in the road. Ran the Bio Shock Infinite Benchmark and the slowest segment was 55 fps. Avg was 120 fps. I am happy.

**hometeam** · 01-07-2014, 01:09 PM

same reason i havent registered my 780

ragedogg69 · 01-09-2014, 11:32 AM

Simply for me to brag. I just hope all my rebates come in. Some things I have already. (The SSD was free with a net top PC I built previously) I have 360 Controllers from my two RROD Xboxes. Mouse and keyboard from my previous computer. etc.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $222.00)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright TS-120M(BW) 56.2 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For $42.90)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste (Purchased For $7.49)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (Purchased For $84.99)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $59.99)
Storage: A-Data S510 Series 60GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $69.00)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $74.99)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (Purchased For $279.99)
Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99)
Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 660W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $79.99)
Other: Raygo Computer Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Other: Microsoft 360 Wireless Receiver (Purchased For $16.99)
Total: $948.31
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-09 12:31 EST-0500)

The other nice thing is all I have to upgrade is the motherboard and I can get some SLI to fit under the Power supply. Not bad.

**hometeam** · 01-09-2014, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

Simply for me to brag. I just hope all my rebates come in. Some things I have already. (The SSD was free with a net top PC I built previously) I have 360 Controllers from my two RROD Xboxes. Mouse and keyboard from my previous computer. etc.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $222.00)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright TS-120M(BW) 56.2 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For $42.90)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste (Purchased For $7.49)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (Purchased For $84.99)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $59.99)
Storage: A-Data S510 Series 60GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $69.00)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $74.99)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (Purchased For $279.99)
Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99)
Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 660W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $79.99)
Other: Raygo Computer Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Other: Microsoft 360 Wireless Receiver (Purchased For $16.99)
Total: $948.31
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-09 12:31 EST-0500)

The other nice thing is all I have to upgrade is the motherboard and I can get some SLI to fit under the Power supply. Not bad.

Very powerful rig for the price.

WANNA RACE

ragedogg69 · 01-09-2014, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

Very powerful rig for the price.

WANNA RACE

Knowing you have a 780? No thanks. You win.

My build could have been even cheaper if I was not doing emulators. (That is what the 2TB Green drive is for) Also if I stuck with the supplied thermal compound (Apparently, that can cost you 3 degrees of cooling under load.) and a cheaper motherboard. (I wanted headroom for overclocking, plus this is my 3rd build with Asrock and I love them.)

Hell, I might of been able to get it under $800 if done right. lol

**hometeam** · 01-09-2014, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

Knowing you have a 780? No thanks. You win.

My build could have been even cheaper if I was not doing emulators. (That is what the 2TB Green drive is for) Also if I stuck with the supplied thermal compound (Apparently, that can cost you 3 degrees of cooling under load.) and a cheaper motherboard. (I wanted headroom for overclocking, plus this is my 3rd build with Asrock and I love them.)

Hell, I might of been able to get it under $800 if done right. lol

Are you going to delid the CPU? If not, look into it, THAT is where your big gains are going to be with thermal compound.

I also love my Asrock board and any others I have used in builds over the years.

TBH I am a little jealous of these 'budget' builds, because they come so close to matching my big budget machine in many ways. I did also build my machine at the very release of the x79 chipset and 3930k, so I payed the price.

Still, kudos, you built a machine along the lines of 2.5-3x as powerful as an xbox one for a little more than 1.5x the price. (had to get my console dig in there)

ragedogg69 · 01-09-2014, 02:19 PM

Delid sounds so scary. If I ever have temperature or noise issues, I will probably do it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

Still, kudos, you built a machine along the lines of 2.5-3x as powerful as an xbox one for a little more than 1.5x the price. (had to get my console dig in there)

I am also hoping quieter. As of right now, my rig is slightly louder watching a movie (idle) than my previous HTPC, but that is to be expected. If I can find my decibel meter, I will post the results.

TheUte · 01-10-2014, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

Are you going to delid the CPU? If not, look into it, THAT is where your big gains are going to be with thermal compound.

I also love my Asrock board and any others I have used in builds over the years.

TBH I am a little jealous of these 'budget' builds, because they come so close to matching my big budget machine in many ways. I did also build my machine at the very release of the x79 chipset and 3930k, so I payed the price.

Still, kudos, you built a machine along the lines of 2.5-3x as powerful as an xbox one for a little more than 1.5x the price. (had to get my console dig in there)

Have you delided? Yeah its not right but.

If so did you use a the Knife method or the Vise?

One of my 3770k might got back under water so I'm thinking of deliding at the same time.

**notorious** · 01-10-2014, 05:24 PM

Alright, I am ready to get a card.

An Asus GTX 660 is now $179 at Newegg, with a $20 gift card.

The Asus GTX 760 is $239 at Microcenter.

We are looking at an 80 dollar difference in price for a 20% increase in performance. It is going in an Inspiron, so overclocking is probably not going to happen.

Is the extra cash worth it? I have an I5 3000 series processor with 16 gb of ram. I will probably play games like Dayz a lot in the future.

Oh, and any budget power supply suggestions are welcome.

12-26-2013, 08:42 AM	#3
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12-26-2013, 02:35 PM	#4
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12-26-2013, 02:44 PM	#5
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01-07-2014, 11:15 AM	#7
ragedogg69 Oh yeah..... you like that Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ Casino cash: $10014832	Got my rig finally going last night. Seriously ground shipping from tigerdirect takes forever. Couple of issues: --The (Free) Raygo case I got has a rolled metal bar right next to PCIE 3.0 socket. It blocked my HDMI cable from going in all the way... ugh. Had to take pliers to bend it out of the way. --XBMC does not play nice with my GTX 770 when setting to "Match refresh rate to match video" is enabled. IE Watching 24fps video causes stuttering on video when XBMC changes the refresh rate. Yet if I manually change the refresh rate myself in the Geforce Control Panel it plays just fine. A minor annoyance. Playing all content at 24 or 60 plays fine. It is only when the video player tries to change it will it stutter. --Went to register my GPU online at PNY (lifetime warranty), the serial number is only on the video card itself rather than on the box or anything. That is crazy and now I have to take apart my rig tonight to get to it. --I heard a minor coil whine after a while. It was sporadic and not too annoying. A few bumps in the road. Ran the Bio Shock Infinite Benchmark and the slowest segment was 55 fps. Avg was 120 fps. I am happy. __________________ “You think Denver has the greatest fans? Well, they aren’t.” -- Jake Plummer Don't believe me? http://deadspin.com/sports/nfl/plummer-asks-the-world-who-wants-some-131609.php
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01-07-2014, 01:09 PM	#8
hometeam Supporter Join Date: Jul 2011 Casino cash: $3931956	same reason i havent registered my 780
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01-09-2014, 11:32 AM	#9
ragedogg69 Oh yeah..... you like that Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ Casino cash: $10014832	Simply for me to brag. I just hope all my rebates come in. Some things I have already. (The SSD was free with a net top PC I built previously) I have 360 Controllers from my two RROD Xboxes. Mouse and keyboard from my previous computer. etc. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $222.00) CPU Cooler: Thermalright TS-120M(BW) 56.2 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For $42.90) Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste (Purchased For $7.49) Motherboard: ASRock Z77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (Purchased For $84.99) Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $59.99) Storage: A-Data S510 Series 60GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For $0.00) Storage: Western Digital 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $69.00) Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $74.99) Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (Purchased For $279.99) Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99) Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99) Power Supply: SeaSonic 660W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $79.99) Other: Raygo Computer Case (Purchased For $0.00) Other: Microsoft 360 Wireless Receiver (Purchased For $16.99) Total: $948.31 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-09 12:31 EST-0500) The other nice thing is all I have to upgrade is the motherboard and I can get some SLI to fit under the Power supply. Not bad. __________________ “You think Denver has the greatest fans? Well, they aren’t.” -- Jake Plummer Don't believe me? http://deadspin.com/sports/nfl/plummer-asks-the-world-who-wants-some-131609.php Last edited by ragedogg69; 01-09-2014 at 12:12 PM..
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01-10-2014, 05:24 PM	#15
notorious Supporter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Who knows? Casino cash: $2665884	Alright, I am ready to get a card. An Asus GTX 660 is now $179 at Newegg, with a $20 gift card. The Asus GTX 760 is $239 at Microcenter. We are looking at an 80 dollar difference in price for a 20% increase in performance. It is going in an Inspiron, so overclocking is probably not going to happen. Is the extra cash worth it? I have an I5 3000 series processor with 16 gb of ram. I will probably play games like Dayz a lot in the future. Oh, and any budget power supply suggestions are welcome.
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