SamuraiInBlack
Supreme [H]ardness
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I just did some Black Friday shopping for a new rig. Some stuff on actual BF sale, other stuff just regular sale pricing.
MSI Z77A-GD55 - [H] just did a review on this board, as a reference.
Fractal Design Define XL Black Pearl w/ USB 3.0 ATX Full Tower
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
GIGABYTE GV-R785OC-2GD Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16
Going to go to Micro Center this weekend and shop around for a processor, some Arctic Silver, and maybe pull the trigger on a Corsair H-series cooler. I'm thinking a 3770K for the processor. I have some Corsair RAM I purchased about a year or so back, when I thought I was originally going to put a new rig together. This will be my temporary solution for RAM until I decide just how much ram I'd like. (or rather, how much money I intend on blowing on it. )
For my uses in order of usage:
Gaming
Movies
General desktop usage
Salvaging from current rig to new build:
3 other SATA hard drives I currently have. Will replace main drive with an SSD but that's not something I'm doing right now when so many new controllers and new players in the SSD game seem to be cropping up.
Samsung DVD burner drive
Corsair TX-1000 PSU
Questions:
1. Is a 3770K the right fit for my build?
2. How much ram should I really be running?
MSI Z77A-GD55 - [H] just did a review on this board, as a reference.
Fractal Design Define XL Black Pearl w/ USB 3.0 ATX Full Tower
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
GIGABYTE GV-R785OC-2GD Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16
Going to go to Micro Center this weekend and shop around for a processor, some Arctic Silver, and maybe pull the trigger on a Corsair H-series cooler. I'm thinking a 3770K for the processor. I have some Corsair RAM I purchased about a year or so back, when I thought I was originally going to put a new rig together. This will be my temporary solution for RAM until I decide just how much ram I'd like. (or rather, how much money I intend on blowing on it. )
For my uses in order of usage:
Gaming
Movies
General desktop usage
Salvaging from current rig to new build:
3 other SATA hard drives I currently have. Will replace main drive with an SSD but that's not something I'm doing right now when so many new controllers and new players in the SSD game seem to be cropping up.
Samsung DVD burner drive
Corsair TX-1000 PSU
Questions:
1. Is a 3770K the right fit for my build?
2. How much ram should I really be running?