Building a Gaming PC

alex_theman said:
Remember when Antec had shitty capacitors in their power supplies that when they failed, made the power supply feed awful voltages to your parts?
Click to expand...
No but I remember when my silver rated 700w that's nearly a decade old still outputs proper voltages.
 
  • Like
Reactions: c-no
Take high-res pictures of your mainboard in good light from a couple of angles, as well as the drives and their connections. Take pictures of the labels on your hard drives. Take pictures of your CPU before you install the heatsink/fan. Take pictures of your graphics card especially. Basically, if it has printing on it take a picture of it. Thank me later when you don't have to get down to open up your case and peer into it with a flashlight just to read some part number, chip production code or revision number, or to remember how something is connected/jumpered.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: alex_theman
Corypheus said:
Yes. Was that good choice? I was going to use a corsair cx750m, but alot of the recent review say it's loud and has a tendency to make your case smell of burnt plastic.
Click to expand...
Yeah, The later CX750ms are better (those ones have a black label). What wattage, may I add?
 
alex_theman said:
Yeah, The later CX750ms are better (those ones have a black label). What wattage, may I add?
Click to expand...
750. I know it's overkill for a 6600k and a single gpu, but I'm overcautious about this kind of thing and evga's stuff seemed to be of good quility for my first build.
 
I have a goal of wanting to build a PC someday. I think it will make me feel extremely masculine and smart. Plus PC gaming seems superior to consoles in almost every way.
 
alex_theman said:
It always is.

See here for a worst case scenario.
Click to expand...
Considering Jonnyguru, one can find better PSU's based off the reviews. The one from that worst case scenario though, that makes one wonder if any of the regulatory approvals were just slapped on without any notice.

Corypheus said:
750. I know it's overkill for a 6600k and a single gpu, but I'm overcautious about this kind of thing and evga's stuff seemed to be of good quility for my first build.
Click to expand...
Speaking of power and GPU, what GPU are you running? As for the watt's, as long as you run 60% of power or so for the PSU, it should be fine. Going overkill won't hurt your computer unless the PSU was defective that it delivered dirty power and messed up the motherboard.
 
c-no said:
Considering Jonnyguru, one can find better PSU's based off the reviews. The one from that worst case scenario though, that makes one wonder if any of the regulatory approvals were just slapped on without any notice.


Speaking of power and GPU, what GPU are you running? As for the watt's, as long as run 60% or so for the PSU, it should be fine. Going overkill won't hurt your computer unless the PSU was defective that it delivered dirty power and messed up the motherboard.
Click to expand...
1070
 
  • Agree
Reactions: DuskEngine
If you build anything involving a side-window, lights, components/peripherals have the word "gaming" in it, or your case has a robot face, I'm going to find you and stick my dick into your ear.

May god help the rest of your existing orifices if you choose to do a multi-monitor setup and your monitors are not the exact, same models.

May the ninth portal to hell open inwards through your asshole if you so callously decide to use 80mm fans, the stock CPU cooler (with the pre-applied thermal pad), or a large 5400rpm hard drive as your main boot-drive.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back