So excited NEW Build !!!

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  1. #1 tabou21, Jan 30, 2011
    man im so excited...i get my new parts in a few days. ordered these last night.

    this is all i could afford atm....so price was involved....im saving up for a new video card....anyone know of some good cards?

    ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

    Antec EarthWatts EA750 750W Continuous Power ATX12V version 2.3 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified

    G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBSR

    Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

    AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
     
  2. #2 FalconFour, Jan 30, 2011
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    - USB3: great idea, my new laptop (May 2010, Asus N61Jv-x2) has a USB3 port and I use it every day with my external 2.5" data drive (working together with my laptop's 90gb SSD). It's as fast as the drive you connect... it's FAST.
    - Antec EarthWatts: great choice, Antec will probably outlast the computer's usable life. Many power supplies are cheap shit Chinese junk, so it's good you got a proper PSU.
    - G.Skill: Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, but G.Skill is a fine brand. 8gb is a little overkill, but hey, it means you can run anything. Just be sure to turn off your Windows page file to get the best performance out of it (otherwise Windows will swap whatever it considers "swappable" even if you're not out of memory).
    - WD Black HDD: another great choice, the Black series is about as high as you can reasonably expect a hard drive performance to get without going SSD. It's a capacity/speed tradeoff that, on a 1tb drive (higher capacity = slightly better performance as a result of the higher bit density), works pretty well.
    - Can't comment on the AMD (I'm an Intel guy myself after all my experiences with AMD), but it looks pretty good.

    But where's the case? Optical drive?
     
  3. #3 YoSmokinMan, Jan 30, 2011
    That will be a great computer man. Mine is nearly identical. Though I bought the 555BE and the other cores unlocked and turned it into a 955BE (stable after ~20 hours of prime95). These shits oc over 4ghz no problem just make sure you have good cooling.
     
  4. #4 thatdudeukno, Jan 31, 2011
    That is a nice AMD setup friend. Enjoy that!
    What's your budget for the video card?
     
  5. #5 Hydroriffic, Feb 1, 2011
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    yea i got a phenom II x4@3.8ghz(unlocked x3 740 3ghz), it maxxed out at 3.8ghz(stable)with a zalman 9700 heatsink. With some good cooling you should see around the same results.

    I have a evga gtx 460 2gb sli setup, its pretty kickass, was best bang for the buck too. Check out nvidia, they have the best cards. The 460gtx 1gb is probably the best budget card that will play most or all games maxxed. Plus they overclock like Beasts. If you wanna fork over a couple of more bucks check out the gtx 480 also.
     
  6. #6 mimomontalvo, Feb 1, 2011
    i have a 955 be, which i guess is nearlly the same as the 965 i guess, just 200mhz lower stock...

    great processor....though i switched over from a single core amd athlon 3200. :D
     
  7. #7 Jimmy Carter, Feb 1, 2011
    Aw man thats the mobo i wanted when i originally planned out my build! i hate you now!




    well, not really :)
     
  8. #8 Buddy Dink, Feb 3, 2011
    I've always been torn between nVidia and ATI/AMD on graphics... My most recent decision went to AMD because AMD doesn't have STUPID FORCED EDID SHIT ON THEIR CARDS! While nVidia does. If you plan on running this card off of any monitor that may not be ready for it, go with AMD. Their CCC allows you to bypass the EDID (monitors firmware, delegates resolutions and refresh rates and the like). The only reason this would ever really matter is if you are like me and your parents bought you a shitty TV that was never meant to be used as a computer monitor. It is a 1080p monitor that doesn't have 1920x1080 in the EDID!!! GAHH! With my current nVidia 260 I am stuck... I would have to modify my own drivers for it and that is too long of a learning process for me.

    nVidia makes better cards generally, but don't let that drive you away from ATI/AMD. The 5970, the old dual gpu flagship of AMD is still the best card on the market. Better than a single 580 or a single 6970, both of which are single gpu cards. Crossfire generally scales much better than SLI, but again it depends on what you are going to do with your rig. I never use dual cards, even though sometimes it can be more cost effective. I have a quality 550w PSU and don't feel like upgrading. I also built with a mATX mobo that only has one pci-e slot on it, so...

    Good processor choice, though, that is what I bought a year or so ago. I would have been tempted to buy the hexa core processor but it really isn't worth it. Most games (if this is a gaming rig) don't even use 4 let alone 6. If you use other programs it may be different, like video encoding software or something...
     

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