What about for 1600MHz?
Not entirely sure, most 1600 MHz kits are rated at 8-8-8-24 but you could try to push at least one of them to 7, or maybe all, but I’m not sure I’ve never tried.
Mid towers are generally OK too, they’re a little bit more manageable than full towers, but either one is fine. Obviously it’ll be easier to fit your stuff into a full tower, which may help with the GPU. Modern high-end gpus are absolutely fucking massive.
Also, mATX is micro-atx, which is smaller. You might have better luck with a full-size atx board, but it doesn’t matter that much unless you’re using a lot of PCI cards.
For a mid-tower I’d recommend something like the Antec 300 Illusion. Comes with 3x120mm fans and 1x140mm fan, pretty decent cable management, and is only $60 on NewEgg (during promos, which are often, currently it’s $70).
However, it doesn’t have a CPU backplane cutout, isn’t tool-less (if you like that kind of setup), and isn’t painted on the interior (minor detail). You may also consider the NZXT Vulcan - same price as the Antec 300, has a carrying handle (good for hefting it around, i.e. LAN parties or tough-to-reach desk corners), and has some nicer details the Antec 300 lacks (painted interior, CPU backplane cutout, grometed water cooling holes).
As for the RAM timings, I have a 1600 DDR3 kit and I’m running at 8-8-8-24. From what I’ve read, though, RAM timings and mHz (i.e. 1333 vs 1600) in general don’t have that much of an impact on performance. And I haven’t overclocked and crunched the numbers enough to give you an educated opinion of my own.
Well, after looking through the employee discount thing I only get a discount on the power supply, CPU fan, disc drive, and case. I’ll most likely get the case on Newegg, however, though the rest I’ll probably get at the store. They have crappy motherboards and RAM.
Edit: Looking through it, some manufacturers of the Radeon HD 5870 sell it for hundreds of dollars cheaper than others. Do the cards really have that much of a difference depending on the manufacturer?
Not really, some come with custom cooling or factory overclocks ensuring a performance increase without voiding warranty. It’s not worth the money though, just buy the stock model and overclock it yourself. XFX and EVGA are probably the most popular, but there are plenty of others with good warranty.
Sapphire is generally pretty good as well.
Guys if its any reconciliation, I own Viper Raptor 1600Mhz (7-7-7-20) XMP Tri-channel DDR3, those timings are stock.
Also, what tempratures are you lot expecting nvidia cards to run at. i got a gtx 480 and my temps are fine.
so, what temps do you get if your GFX card is 100% in use and what power consumption does it have?
If you want 100% tests, look it up on internet, cause in real time, that pretty much doesn’t exist.
Its only ever peaked once at 86 Degrees Celcius
its average for real time use is about 60-75 Degress Celcius.
(example, Crysis Maxed, Metro etc.)
Not worried about power consumption, im using a Corsair HX-750 atm, and plan to go silverstone 1500 later. so its not a problem.
holy shit are you powering your house with that thing? your system, including the nuclear reactor you call a gpu, probably only draws 600W MAX. If you’re determined to throw away your money, why don’t you just donate it to the build shrike a new machine fund?
nvm, a little misunderstanding
Well, im planning on buying another gtx 480 again sometime soon, just makes for an easier load.
but like so, im going to be upgrading my system.
This guy called Trubritar on YouTube did some Quad-SLI GTX480 extreme overclocking tests, he had to use two 1500 watt powersupplies. :retard:
Motherboards are so fucking confusing. Could someone suggest some good ones?
Just look for a few things like:
- size (mATX / ATX etc)
- CPU socket(s) number
- how many PCI-e slots
- maximum amount of memory / what memory is supported
- onboard sound?
- how many HDD’s can I install
- support for SLI/Tri-SLI/Quad-SLI/Crossfire/CrossfireX
And so on… Really not that difficult.
Asus p6x58d-e (cheaper model of mine, but its Asus, so itll still be good)
1366 socket type. so a nice i7 in there. and its relatively cheap.
He’s getting an i5, so he needs 1156, not 1366.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130291
MSI and Asus are my favorite mobo manufacturers. If you want future proofing, this board is good - two SATA6 connectors, two USB3.0 ports, so in the event you upgrade down the line (without replacing the CPU/RAM/Mobo) you can at least get better drives and external devices.
However, the 1156 platform is pretty much done already - from what I’ve read, Intel doesn’t plan to do much with it. So for the future, 1366 is a “better” investment. Also consider - i7-930 ($199) + 6GB DDR3 kit ($140) + 1366 Mobo (~$200) = $540. i5-750 ($160) + Mobo (~$160) + 8GB DDR3 kit ($180) = $500. It’s worth getting the 8GB of RAM for the 1156 platform, since 4GB really isn’t enough for Win7 + newer games. So $40 gets you a LOT more performance, plus a more future-proof platform with room to upgrade to a 6-core proc, SATA6, USB3, etc.
Final choice is up to you though 
This video card says the interface is PCI Express 2.1 x16 while the motherboard says it has PCI 2.0 x16. Will the video card be compatible with the mobo or do I have to use one with the 2.0 one?
Edit: How stupid of me. I forgot to link to the card :retard: .