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perithimus

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Just finished it up today. Installing windows now. I'm pretty excited.

Corsair carbide spec 02 case
Intel i5 4690k
MSI z97-g45 gaming mobo
8gb corsair vengeance ram
Evga gtx 970 sc
1tb western digital hdd
Corsair cx750 power supply
 
perithimus said:
Just finished it up today. Installing windows now. I'm pretty excited.

Corsair carbide spec 02 case
Intel i5 4690k
MSI z97-g45 gaming mobo
8gb corsair vengeance ram
Evga gtx 970 sc
1tb western digital hdd
Corsair cx750 power supply
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Well, first, how much did you pay for the PSU? You see, based on the [H] tests, that PSU cannot handle anywhere near its advertised 750W rating at anywhere close to realistic operating temperatures. In fact, you bought a "750W" PSU that is really only a 550W PSU. Thus, if you paid more than about $40 without any discounts or rebates for it, you've wasted money big time.

Second, if you're going with a reasonably high-end GPU in your build, why choose a budget PSU to begin with? Especially one that can't handle it's advertised wattage rating to begin with?

Third, is your Corsair Vengeance RAM the low profile version or the regular version? I'm asking this because the regular Vengeance RAM has heat sinks that are extremely tall - so tall that it would completely interfere with the installation of an upgraded CPU air cooler. Thus, you might have gotten RAM that effectively limits you to using the stock Intel CPU cooler or a liquid/water cooler for your CPU.

Finally, your build does not have an SSD at all. SSDs are far faster than spinning HDDs at smaller-block random reads and writes, which makes SSDs far better suited than HDDs as your OS boot drive. With most HDDs, you might have to wait several minutes just to even get onto the Windows desktop at all – whereas a good SSD will shave that boot time to much less than a minute. In addition, applications will launch much quicker when installed on an SSD versus an HDD. And despite decent sequential transfer speeds, HDDs have extremely poor small-block random read and write performance (typically no faster than 1 MB/second for 4kB random writes, and an abysmal 500 kB/second for 4kB random reads).
 
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E4g1e said:
Well, first, how much did you pay for the PSU? You see, based on the [H] tests, that PSU cannot handle anywhere near its advertised 750W rating at anywhere close to realistic operating temperatures. In fact, you bought a "750W" PSU that is really only a 550W PSU. Thus, if you paid more than about $40 without any discounts or rebates for it, you've wasted money big time.

Second, if you're going with a reasonably high-end GPU in your build, why choose a budget PSU to begin with? Especially one that can't handle it's advertised wattage rating to begin with?

Third, is your Corsair Vengeance RAM the low profile version or the regular version? I'm asking this because the regular Vengeance RAM has heat sinks that are extremely tall - so tall that it would completely interfere with the installation of an upgraded CPU air cooler. Thus, you might have gotten RAM that effectively limits you to using the stock Intel CPU cooler or a liquid/water cooler for your CPU.

Finally, your build does not have an SSD at all. SSDs are far faster than spinning HDDs at smaller-block random reads and writes, which makes SSDs far better suited than HDDs as your OS boot drive. With most HDDs, you might have to wait several minutes just to even get onto the Windows desktop at all – whereas a good SSD will shave that boot time to much less than a minute. In addition, applications will launch much quicker when installed on an SSD versus an HDD. And despite decent sequential transfer speeds, HDDs have extremely poor small-block random read and write performance (typically no faster than 1 MB/second for 4kB random writes, and an abysmal 500 kB/second for 4kB random reads).
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Wow... way to be a Debbie Downer.

Though I will agree with you on the power supply. I always cringe when I see a glorious new build and a Corsair CX power supply powering it. For a little more money you could have gotten a Seasonic OEM PSU in the XFX 650G-TS3X that actually operates at its rated power above ATX thermal specifications.
 
If it's not a great power supply, I can always return it. Have any suggestions?
 
Armenius said:
Here is the power supply I mentioned in my post. It costs just $10 more than the retail price of the CX750. The OEM supplier for this unit is Seasonic, one of the most well-reviewed and highly respected manufacturers in the market. Only knock on it is it isn't modular at all.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207034
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Yeah I was actually thinking about going modular as the cable management in this case isn't the best. i have had great luck with the evga power supplies. I was thinking about getting one of those.

How about this one? Would it power 2 970's in sli?

http://www.amazon.com/XFX-Modular-E...ergy+Star+Certified+Power+Supply+P1-650B-BEFX
 
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msata is for laptops, get a standard 2.5" sata ssd. The 850 evo seems to be a popular drive, but there are many other great drives. Look at [H]'s recent ssd roundup for some of today's best options.
 
msata is not only for laptops; many modern desktop boards and SFF PC's have msata slots. The biggest concern with msata is that a most pre-haswell boards only had 3Gbps msata which can be a bottleneck for recent generation SSDs.

The OP's motherboard has a 6Gbps msata slot, so it will perform identical to a standard 6Gbps sata port (assuming same model of SSDs). I personally have a msata 1TB 850 Evo in my setup and it runs great.

The only other red flag I can see with msata is if you upgrade or move the unit to another system - the interface is obviously less common in a desktop environment.
 
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