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Hierofan
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 Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2009 22:35 Post subject: finally upgrading my desktop |
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so , my spec is at my current sig , and as soon as my employers send me my money i'm gonna waste all of it on this
HDD Western Digital WD1001FALS, 1TB
Intel Core i7-920, 2660MHz
Antec Tower Three Hundred Case
Corsair 6GB (3 x 2GB), DDR3, 1600MHZ
MSI X58 PRO-E
Galaxy GeForce GTX275, 896MB DDR3 448bit, HDTV, Dual DVI, PCI-E
Corsair CMPSU-650TX 650W, ATX2.2
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev. 2 or Spire TherMax II or Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME rev. 2 , i don't really know which one yet .. i'll have to check them out properly .
i'll probably have the rig for like 5 years like i had this one , but since the laptop isn't really upgradeable i'm looking forward to properly play some games without feeling heat from the keyboard.
don't wanna waste 1050 euros (that's what everything up there costs here).
it's time for a not so necesarry upgrade since i'll be gone to college most of the time .
i'm not looking to OC or anything i want it to run as smooth as possible without much interference since surprises are always bound to happen .. like power shortages , much dust in the air and fuck knows what else.
any complaints or suggestions ?
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2009 22:44 Post subject: |
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swap the PSU for a PC Power & Cooling, 5-7 year warranty, only company that rates their PSU after it's heated up.
20 bucks that corsair you chose, is rated for wattage while it's either turned off or some un realistic heat "guess"
read through the page and they don't admit to how they rated it.
PC power & cooling will heat em up to about 50C + then give you the wattage it gets. You'll never see the peak.
I've had my 510watt turbo cool through 3 builds bought it used and is still running strong
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2009 22:54 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | swap the PSU for a PC Power & Cooling, 5-7 year warranty, only company that rates their PSU after it's heated up.
20 bucks that corsair you chose, is rated for wattage while it's either turned off or some un realistic heat "guess"
read through the page and they don't admit to how they rated it.
PC power & cooling will heat em up to about 50C + then give you the wattage it gets. You'll never see the peak.
I've had my 510watt turbo cool through 3 builds bought it used and is still running strong |
well ,the corsair has 5 years from where i'm buying it from and the pcp&c has 4 + the corsair 650w is cheaper than the pcp&c 610w (and from your info i'm guessing it's more expensive for a reason..) |
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2009 23:02 Post subject: |
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Corsair is great, you don't need to switch it. The only thing that interests me is it modular PSU? Because you really don't want any unnecessary cables cramping up space or blocking air flow...
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2009 23:10 Post subject: |
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| dingo_d wrote: | | Corsair is great, you don't need to switch it. The only thing that interests me is it modular PSU? Because you really don't want any unnecessary cables cramping up space or blocking air flow... |
nope , it's not modular .. the reason i'm looking to buy something as expensive .. (expensive cause most people buy some half ass spec from like .. anywhere for half the price of what i want) is cause
1 components need power
2 some power surges over here fucked my psu and it fried itself after a while and i don't want to fuck with that cpu
in short i'd rather spend the extra buck for quality than regret it later cause it aint gonna run on luck forever |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2009 23:32 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2009 23:33 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | | OCZ PSUs are the best. |
OCZ owns pc power & cooling as of like..last year but lets them operate on their own  |
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2009 23:57 Post subject: |
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OCZ PSUs have the worst fans in it , voided my warrenty to put in a zalman one
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Nov 2009 13:42 Post subject: |
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question :
i7 920 work better with win7 x86 or 64??
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Nov 2009 14:35 Post subject: |
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| Hierofan wrote: | question :
i7 920 work better with win7 x86 or 64?? |
Only difference between x86 and 64 is the amount of RAM the OS can see/use. 86 is about 3.5 gigs (if i remember correctly)..64 can handle more. So if you're putting 6 gigs in your system, you HAVE to use 64.
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Nov 2009 14:42 Post subject: |
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That's not true. Depending on what software you use, 64-bit versions of applications can see big improvements over their 32bit (x86) counterparts (for example, WinRAR, video encoding, audio encoding, etc). This "64-bit is only for more than 3.75GB of RAM) is bullshit. 64-bit version of Windows 7 is recommended under any scenario, really.
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Nov 2009 15:19 Post subject: |
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They can..but the reality is that most of today's programs are still 32 bit applications. Software companies for the most part have been slow to write 64 bit programs. As time goes on, hopefully more and more software companies will adopt 64 bit programming, and thus phase out 32 bit applications. I do agree that 64 bit windows is the way to go for just about any upgrade scenario.
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Nov 2009 16:41 Post subject: |
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To put it differently Hierofan, there's no disadvantage to using a 64-bit O/S other than old hardware. There's some old hardware for which you won't be able to find a 64-bit driver, but that's the only issue really.
If software takes advantage of the extra space a 64-bit environment brings, that's fine, if not, you won't notice. Hence, using a 64-bit environment is the way to go unless you got some old hardware without 64-bit driver you _really really REALLY_ need and can't replace 
You want 64-bit anyway though, to get your 6 GB of RAM working
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 01:26 Post subject: |
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thanks for the replies
alright i'm baffled like hell , i see the core i5 750 has about the same performance as the i7 920 , since i'm not planning to use crossfire or sli , ever , what should i get ?
like i said , i planned to buy the 920 from the start , but since the difference is so small in performance i have no idea what to do ..
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Nov 2009 02:43 Post subject: |
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get the cheapest solution, you will notice the difference in cost, but not in performance
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