Can anyone please help me make my own desktop.

lunatic9009 · 22 Apr 2010 at 23:32

Fallen god ummm if i do change to that would i be able to run everything? I mean the PSU.

E.g. the GPU not blowing up or something heh'

Also if you don't mind can you design a Desktop for me please? Ranging £600-£800.

Fallen god · 22 Apr 2010 at 23:53

Here what i came up with, it comes with 1tb HDD and the asus 5870 which i think has volt tweak which means you Oc it abit more, if you want to reduce price you can switch the HDD, PSU to your OCZ one and it should be under 800£

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Lemin · 22 Apr 2010 at 23:59

Looks good but id get Samsung F3 500GB hard drive as advised, & a DVD-RW,,

Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
£15.99 inc VAT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-038-OT&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

lunatic9009 · 22 Apr 2010 at 23:59

Thank you very much Fallen god.

That looks nice but since i am new to this.

I don't know how to overclock.

And the one you made the PCU is not overclocked is it? not sure.

Also what do you mean by, the asus 5870 which i think has volt tweak which means you Oc it abit more.

Did you mean i can OC the GPU? for better performance?
Would i need bigger watts PSU?

Fallen god · 23 Apr 2010 at 00:23

lunatic9009 said:
Thank you very much Fallen god.

That looks nice but since i am new to this.

I don't know how to overclock.

And the one you made the PCU is not overclocked is it? not sure.

Also what do you mean by, the asus 5870 which i think has volt tweak which means you Oc it abit more.

Did you mean i can OC the GPU? for better performance?
Would i need bigger watts PSU?

The PSU is quite fine, the yeah you can overclock the GPU and with the asus one it also you to increase the volts so you can OC it more than others. Also Overclocking isnt to hard to learn, theres quite a few guides around and there should be a lot of people with the same mobo+CPU, most poeple get to 4ghz without much problems.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18099580

arc@css · 23 Apr 2010 at 00:34

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The case is massive but is cheap as chips considering what you get, it'll last you for builds to come. I think I'm right in saying the motherboard supports xfire so you could always add another graphics later if you needed it. I don't know about the cheaper psu's but I'd imagine they are adequate.

lunatic9009 · 23 Apr 2010 at 00:36

Very tempting fallen.
Thanks a lot for the help.
Would i need a good heatsink and cooler for the OCed i3? or the one you suggested would be fine?

Marine-RX179 · 23 Apr 2010 at 00:58

Hate to say this, but both the Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H and the Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 can't run Crossfire/SLI properly, as they of those 16x/4x board, not 16x/8x.

lunatic9009 · 23 Apr 2010 at 01:03

Thanks marine.

how bout this Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Intel H55?

lunatic9009 · 23 Apr 2010 at 01:22

How about this one?

Marine-RX179 · 23 Apr 2010 at 01:28

lunatic9009 said:
how bout this Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Intel H55?

No it doesn't. I have through checking the spec of both the P55 and H55 1156 boards lists from lowest price going upward, and I'm afraid the cheapest board iwith 16x/8x Crossfire/SLI is Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4...costing nearly £140:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-208-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495

I'm starting to think may be going AMD would be a better option for you, since you can get a 16x/8x Crossfire motherboard at £90, and you can grab a AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz right now at £126.

You have to bare it mind that the Phenom II X4 955 is a Quad-core, while the i3 530 is only a Dual-Core.

lunatic9009 · 23 Apr 2010 at 01:37

That's too bad because i want intel.

Guess im back to step one.

Thanks a lot Marine.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 23 Apr 2010 at 01:38

lunatic9009 · 23 Apr 2010 at 01:59

Argh now i am more confused hahaha.

How about if i go for the i3 and just use single GPU until i feel like the need of upgrading?

Fallen god · 23 Apr 2010 at 02:21

If you want to get another somewhere down the line then i would go with the AMD 955BE with a 5850.

lunatic9009 · 23 Apr 2010 at 02:40

What does this mean sorry?

"Does symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X,has a split 8+2 phase VRM with cooling and all solid capacitors."

Does it mean i can have Full Crossfire?

Fallen god · 23 Apr 2010 at 03:05

lunatic9009 said:
What does this mean sorry?

"Does symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X,has a split 8+2 phase VRM with cooling and all solid capacitors."

Does it mean i can have Full Crossfire?

It means that when if you have 2 gpu in it runs both at 8x, some Mobos well run 1 at 4x criple the performace of it.

lunatic9009 · 23 Apr 2010 at 03:13

Ohhh thank you, then this is becoming harder and harder for me.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-233-GI

If you look at this it says: "Expasion slots: 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 Slot & 2x PCI Slot (Supports ATI CrossFireX Technology)"

What does that mean?

arc@css · 23 Apr 2010 at 03:20

Both gpu's will run at x16 speed, which is really what you want. Nothing lower than x8 x8 anyway.

lunatic9009 · 23 Apr 2010 at 03:29

arc@css so i can run two 5870 on these if i want to?