Building a PC

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Hello, I'm new to this forum and just wanted some help or maybe feedbacks about building a desktop for myself.

Here's the thing, I'm keeping the Compaq Presario SR1720NX case and the 120GB HD while the rest I'll be replacing with new specs. The old PC has Windows XP and it's still good but I feel that I want to upgrade it into a gaming PC where I can play games and a good PC for at least 10 years.

Here's what I have in mind so far
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128558

RAM - I plan to get four 8GB for a total of 32GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148540

CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103942

I'm not sure about the graphic card that can be compatible with the motherboard for gaming so here I am to hear from you guys. If these specs that I listed don't seem good enough, please feel free to guide me. I also have two hard drives of 1TB that I will put into this desktop and consider buying an solid state drive hard drive. The CPU stated that there's an heatsink and fan included but I'm not sure if it's good enough or I'll have to buy a good heatsink and fan for my gaming PC. Any help will be appreciated, thank you.

 

[tiraides]

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Without knowing anything else, I should warn you that the processor and motherboard are incompatible with each other. You chose an AMD Socket FM1 processor to go with an Intel Socket 1155 motherboard.

I also suggest that you reconsider reusing your case. It's very small -- the board that you chose is a full ATX board whereas the case seems to support micro-ATX boards -- and it doesn't have enough cooling for many of today's hotter-running components.

 

[larrymoencurly]

Here's what I have in mind so far
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128558

RAM - I plan to get four 8GB for a total of 32GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148540

CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103942

The CPU stated that there's an heatsink and fan included but I'm not sure if it's good enough or I'll have to buy a good heatsink and fan for my gaming PC. Any help will be appreciated, thank you.

I used to think that the heatsink/fans included with retail boxed CPUs were always good enough, if perhaps noisy, but a year or two ago somebody demonstrated that one particular AMD CPU (probably some Socket AM3+) could get too hot with its factory cooler. OTOH there's a YouTube video of an AMD FX-8120 overclocked to 4.6 GHz with the factory cooler, and apparently the CPU stayed below 40C during benching (reported by software, so I don't know if it's accurate, and the case was open). There's no benefit to keeping the CPU super cool, especially when the capacitors around the CPU are the solid polymer type, and that motherboard uses such capacitors.

Is at least one of those links to NewEgg wrong? Because an AMD CPU won't work with an Intel motherboard like that Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP4 TH. The Gigabyte looks nice and, like Asus, doesn't seem to burn out easily from high power CPUs. I'm sure it's much better than the ECS Socket 775 I recently ordered that's supposed to cost a penny after rebate.

I'd rather get a different type of memory, something with name brand RAM chips marked with part numbers that can easily read (i.e. no heatsinks) and Googled for their 35-page data sheets and that are not overclocked. Crucial formerly used only such chips, such as Micron (their parent company) and Samsung, but I have doubts now, and not just for their heatsinked modules, because I recently saw some Crucial with chips marked just "Crucial". So it now seems the only 100% safe bet is Samsung modules, but I can't find any Samsung bigger than 4GB.