The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

I think he was having some kind of issue. Either networking or Printers...Which epson has now released drivers for

 

thought realy hard about that. i want to but im curious to see how W7acts within the next couple months, plus im not sure how it will act with my mob now not haven a SP yet???

 

Networking on win 7 is pretty awful along with printer support. I have no idea what went wrong but win 7 can no longer find my printer even if I give it the ip, yet every other OS including the win 7 RC can.

 

Just wait, a long time. It gets there eventually, I had the same issue

 

hmm I waited till it quit with an error about 4 times and tried every other trick I knew of. Eventually just shared the printer on another system which it was able to find to get it working. What I find really odd is that what worked in the RC doesn't work anymore lol.

 

Mmm, I used my XP PC to host it in the end as it was easier.

 

First time builder. Need some help on parts. I visit a gaming forum and they put together a build thats suppose to be good. Im in need of a new pc since im using a old compaq 800mhz with 128mb of ram running WIN ME. Im interested in gaming but I don't want the thing to be too loud since I dont have alot of room where imma put it. More than anything I need it for media purposes and school. Well heres the build:
[Motherboard (MSI 770 DDR3) + Processor (Phenom ii X3 720) Combo]:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.272066
[GPU (Sapphire 5770 1GB DX11 GPU) ]
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102858
[HDD (Samsung F3 500GB)]:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152181
[DVD (Samsung 22X DVDRW)]:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827151187
[Case (Gigabyte Luxo X140)]:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811233058
[PSU (OCZ 500W Modular 80+)]:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341016
[RAM (OCZ 4GB DDR3 1333)]:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227495

Any opinions would be of great help to me. Case is not avaliable either so maybe a recommendation on that too please. Thanks in advance for any help in getting me out the stone age

 

erkow: You haven't copied the URLs properly, so I can't see the prices directly, but overall the build isn't bad for a low-midrange game system. I would ditch the OCZ RAM and PSU for a better brand like Corsair:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145260
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008
The rest is alright. As for a quiet low-end case, probably something like:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146055
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835426016

 

erkrow22,
I'm not trying to ignore your questions, nor is anyone else, but none of the links you provided work. They are either off sale, or somehow your links got messed up, since I have no trouble making my Newegg links work. It would also help if we know if you plan to overclock or not!

That being said, I would like to comment on a few of your choices, as I think they are not the best choice for your money! There are much better cases available for about the same amount of money than those made by Gigabyte, that are more modern in design, and offer much better cooling potential, tool-less drive mounting, all modular plug-in front panel wiring, 5 5.25" bays instead of 4, and sideways mounted hard drive bay for 3 HDDs, which keep the hard drives much cooler than a conventional case with front/rear drive mounting. I also happen to own one, so I have my own experience with it going for me. This is what I have!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119106

I would also recommend a 790/750 chipset over the 770/710. Something like this, without the on-board graphics.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128378
A far better value for the $30 price difference (after $15 MIR), over the MSI. I have the same motherboard in DDR2. I understand your gaming forum wanting to build as cheap as possible, but the difference is worth way more than $30 in the features it offers. It's a much better value for your dollar, that's easily expandable to the latest Phenom II Quad cores. The biggest plus for you, is no on-board graphics, so you aren't wasting money on something you'll never use. It's got more than enough bells and whistles and the quality is outstanding.

Please give us some working links for the rest of the parts, and we'll see what we can recommend there too!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm assuming Id overclock the thing(gotta learn how) Sorry about the links
Motherboard MSI 770-C45 AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130228&Tpk=MSI 770 DDR3
Processor AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 95W Triple
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103649&Tpk=Phenom ii X3 720
Those were on a combo. Deals not in place anymore
GPU SAPPHIRE 100283L Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102858
HDD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181
DVD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151187
PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341016
RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227495

Yeah those are just the original items I meant to post. Any suggestions to improve whatever are much appreciated. Thanks again guys.

 

if it was me i would pick the WD over the Sam More Cache same price and free shipping...but I don't put my OS on Nothing higher than 250gb anyway or less than 16 cache anything higher than 250 is strickly a Slave drive for me that's just me everybody else is different. i do alot of torrents and I need the space

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...mpareItemList=N82E16822152181,N82E16822136358

if you a fan of OCZ...I would jump up to atlease a 700w with that video card the one below..I had once and sold it

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341018

but if you want some Quality,Sam would say this Corsair will do!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005


Sam or anybody please tell me the different between these 3 beside the cost,product model number and look, it looks like ,I'm looking at GM product not Greensman ,LOL but General Motors = Chev,Buick,Pontiac take away Oldsmobile don't make anymore,lol

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16814150447,N82E16814102858,N82E16814161306

I brought the (HIS) but if.I had alittle more cash.I would have bought the cadillac (XFX)

my bad got carryed away and Dude Good Luck with that memory..mmm
not a likely choice in a gaming Rig....Russ made good choice in a case ,But we all know Video Cards Get Hot While playing and need Good ventilation and.I believe Cooler Master holds the Best ventilation record for the most part on what it has the offer in fan ports...


Good Luck with your first Build hope everything works out we are here to help but it's up to you to listen we all here are Pro's
in some field we know about on these systems and how to put them together in Quality of parts me.I'm just a Customizer...lol naw...I know somethings....

 

Now this is a thing of beauty. Under 2.5Hours and looking LOADS better than it did. Lets just say there were A LOT of red fragmented sectors on this poor drive LOL!

 

Got my Athlon II x4 Quad this morning. Man it's fast! 46,000+ MIPS and almost 8000 on the memory bandwidth, running at stock speed! WOW! I'm going to leave it set this way for a little while, and then begins the OC! LOL!! CPU temp is 29-30C. Everything is on auto except the memory which is set to EPP control! I'm going to encode a DVD and see how that works with 4 cores!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Which software did you use to reach that conclusion? Sandra?

 

Oman7,
Yes, but not the 2009. I just don't much like the 2009 as it doesn't seem to be relevant to anything. You can only compare to others that have it. Everything is different and that damn flipping the screens around. I wouldn't mind it as much if they would give you a manual mode for the individual screens. I'm going to put it in and see what it does with it. The CPU temp never even got to 40C while encoding. Runs sweet!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Good for you Russ. Good luck with it and don't break a leg stretching her out!!!

 

I know you will OC that chip Russ so happy clocking

Be sure to post up some results and benchies to compare. I'm curious to see them in action outside of a potentially biased testing site. You have a good 790 board with good RAM, though I think you could use a bump up to a Corsair/Seasonic on the PSU personally.

Good luck and godspeed!

*sound of rocket launching*

@Omega, Smart Defrag is actually one of the slowest ones. Try Auslogics as it's way more powerful and has more options for optimizing the drive. If you don't want the complicated interface try Defraggler. Both have proven much faster than Smart Defrag on my systems and I have 2 1TBs and several 500GBs.

 

ok guys. ive put this to alot of thought. continue with what im doing right now buying a part here and there until i get what i want or wait and build a I5 rig.. well after talking with the wife im going to wait and build a I5 rig in febuary. here is a list of what im going for. some of the stuff i know will be outdated come febuary so it might change a little but the main parts will stay the same, mobo,cpu,mem,hdd,PSU. i doubt will change for me.

so here goes.
Mobo= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138159
CPU= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215
Mem= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231193
Hdd= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
Psu= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171037
GPU= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102858
burners= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16827249051,N82E16827106335,N82E16827118032
Case= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160

the little lady is ok with this so come febuary ill have some building to do.

gonna use a couple of my other hdd with this build along with my OCZ vendetta 2 cooler. i allready have the bracket to mount to 1156

 

So those of you on win7 how's it all working out? Mine went in to a BSOD fit after 6 days of uptime just like the RC so it's been replaced till I can figure out what the cause is. Guessing it might be bad RAM (again) but all of them passed memtest a few months ago, plus and this problem is only present with win7 and the win7 RC which makes me think it's a software failure.