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Tried my RAM 1 by 1, on my ASrock board, nothing, but it worked before I moved the build upstairs, I've left the CMOS Battery out for the night and see what happens in the morning.
Original post by The Assassin
Seeing as not many on Yahoo answers are answering, I suppose I should ask the opinions of TSR! Mainly going by what PC-Specialist suggested. Mainly for gaming, movies, etc.


Intel Core i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3930k (3.2GHz) 12 MB Cache
8gb Kingston Hyper-x genesis dual-ddr 1600 MHZ, X.M.P (2 x 4GB Kit)
2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 670
1TB Memory - 7200 RPM - 6GB/s - 32MB Cache
Asus P9X79
22" 1920x1080 Monitor (HD)
InWIN Dragon Rider Black Gaming Case
Keyboard + Mouse

Would this be a good build? Overall, this is £1575. Should I change anything to reduce the price? For example, I can get an i7-3820 which will reduce the price to £1,344.00 (if it makes a huge difference in quality?) Or the RAM which reduces it by ~£40.

Thanks for any help guys!


I'm pretty sure that is hex core (12 core with hyperthreading)!
Original post by Killjoy-
I'm pretty sure that is hex core (12 core with hyperthreading)!


http://ark.intel.com/products/63697
yeah ur right :/
Original post by DannyR2811
Tried my RAM 1 by 1, on my ASrock board, nothing, but it worked before I moved the build upstairs, I've left the CMOS Battery out for the night and see what happens in the morning.


Have you tried to reset the bios? Or update it to the latest one?
Also have you got a little reset thing button on your board near the ram?
Original post by Killjoy-
I'm pretty sure that is hex core (12 core with hyperthreading)!


You're right haha. I accidentally put quad core instead of six (hex) core :tongue:
Hey all! Needing a new PC for going back to uni, and two of my friends have offered to teach me how to build my own (eek.) However, neither of them are so great at choosing spec so I thought I'd ask here for a little advice.

My max budget is £800, including a average-to-good 1080p monitor and a new case but excluding Windows.

Will need to run Photoshop, Flash etc. CS5, as well as creating and rendering 3D from Maya and Max. Will be using my graphics tablet also, but I already have this bought.

I'm not a PC gamer, but with the sort of spec I need to easily render my own 3D I'm not sure if this is relevant.

Yes, I am a total nub. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Original post by Iqbal007
What's the power supply?
Seems like they are adding quite a bit to your price, have you thought about building it yourself?
Because you seem to know quite a bit.


Well, to be honest, I went through their custom-built ones designed for specific games, *looked up info regarding different components myself, and then decided to build the PC I wanted for the games I'll be buying lol. I'm certain that's a good build, with the 3930k being more suitable for gaming from what I've heard, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra sum of money. I've heard a lot of good things from Kingston, and 8GB of RAM would be pretty good... although 4GB should be enough. Can't quite decide :tongue:

The power supply is the standard 450W Quiet 80 Plus. I don't want to keep adding components, because right now £1575 is already stretching it!
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Original post by caiitlinz
Hey all! Needing a new PC for going back to uni, and two of my friends have offered to teach me how to build my own (eek.) However, neither of them are so great at choosing spec so I thought I'd ask here for a little advice.

My max budget is £800, including a average-to-good 1080p monitor and a new case but excluding Windows.

Will need to run Photoshop, Flash etc. CS5, as well as creating and rendering 3D from Maya and Max. Will be using my graphics tablet also, but I already have this bought.

I'm not a PC gamer, but with the sort of spec I need to easily render my own 3D I'm not sure if this is relevant.

Yes, I am a total nub. Any help is greatly appreciated!


Well you'll want a 2600k or 3770k - £200-250 (looking at the budget - you might need to lower this to a 2500k/3570k)
Motherboard + CPU Cooler: http://www.ebuyer.com/351598-gigabyte-ga-z77-d3h-socket-1155-vga-dvi-hdmi-8-channel-audio-atx-motherboard-ga-z77-d3h - £80
a GTX 560Ti - preferable MSI or Gigabyte for the warranty (oh, and definitely don't get an AMD graphics card - supposedly Maya doesn't play nicely with them) - £150ish (this card is made for gaming but it'll do fine, a multimedia graphics card like a quadro is out of budget).
Case + PSU ~ £80-100 - find one you like and get a 600W or higher PSU that is at least Bronze Certified from Coolermaster/Corsair/XFX
RAM: 16GB - 2 of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0058J1Q7O/ref=asc_df_B0058J1Q7O8273528?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B0058J1Q7O - £80
HDD - 2TB - http://www.ebuyer.com/319641-seagate-2tb-barracuda-hard-drive-st2000dm001 - £85
Monitor - http://www.ebuyer.com/284103-lg-ips235v-ips-lcd-led-23-hdmi-monitor-ips235v-bn-aek - £135
Original post by Iqbal007
Have you tried to reset the bios? Or update it to the latest one?
Also have you got a little reset thing button on your board near the ram?


I've not tried to update it, I've got the reset jumper, so I've done that a few times, going to leave it till tomorrow
Original post by The Assassin
Well, to be honest, I went through their custom-built ones designed for specific games, *looked up info regarding different components myself, and then decided to build the PC I wanted for the games I'll be buying lol. I'm certain that's a good build, with the 3930k being more suitable for gaming from what I've heard, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra sum of money. I've heard a lot of good things from Kingston, and 8GB of RAM would be pretty good... although 4GB should be enough. Can't quite decide :tongue:

The power supply is the standard 450W Quiet 80 Plus. I don't want to keep adding components, because right now £1575 is already stretching it!


450watt is not gonna be enough, especially as your running a 670 gtx and a i7-3930k........it should have change your psu automatically or warn you about it on that website. You should ideal move up to a minimum of 550watt.

In all honesty an i5 is more than enough, an i7's hyperthreading can cause problems with performance and an i5 isn't that far off.

8gb is more than enough, though would be required more in the much heavier games, so it's always good and doesn't cost too much.

If you know your pc stuff, you can shave off a hundred or 2 by building it yourself and getting a student windows disc :smile:
Original post by DannyR2811
I've not tried to update it, I've got the reset jumper, so I've done that a few times, going to leave it till tomorrow


You should try, cos I heard that about my Asus motherboard when I got it, but than realised its already been updated so I was lucky.
And their should be a memok buttom, not sure if yours has one.
Original post by Iqbal007
450watt is not gonna be enough, especially as your running a 670 gtx and a i7-3930k........it should have change your psu automatically or warn you about it on that website. You should ideal move up to a minimum of 550watt.

In all honesty an i5 is more than enough, an i7's hyperthreading can cause problems with performance and an i5 isn't that far off.

8gb is more than enough, though would be required more in the much heavier games, so it's always good and doesn't cost too much.

If you know your pc stuff, you can shave off a hundred or 2 by building it yourself and getting a student windows disc :smile:


I think 550W is still too low for a 670 + 3930k so I'd recommend getting at least 600W but preferable 650W+. I think 550W minimum is recommended for the GTX 670 but they don't expect hexacore i7s.
Original post by The Assassin
Well, to be honest, I went through their custom-built ones designed for specific games, *looked up info regarding different components myself, and then decided to build the PC I wanted for the games I'll be buying lol. I'm certain that's a good build, with the 3930k being more suitable for gaming from what I've heard, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra sum of money. I've heard a lot of good things from Kingston, and 8GB of RAM would be pretty good... although 4GB should be enough. Can't quite decide :tongue:

The power supply is the standard 450W Quiet 80 Plus. I don't want to keep adding components, because right now £1575 is already stretching it!


Don't get 4GB RAM. It'll bottleneck your system - get 8GB or 16GB if you're feeling a little frivolous.
Original post by The Assassin
Well, to be honest, I went through their custom-built ones designed for specific games, *looked up info regarding different components myself, and then decided to build the PC I wanted for the games I'll be buying lol. I'm certain that's a good build, with the 3930k being more suitable for gaming from what I've heard, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra sum of money. I've heard a lot of good things from Kingston, and 8GB of RAM would be pretty good... although 4GB should be enough. Can't quite decide :tongue:

The power supply is the standard 450W Quiet 80 Plus. I don't want to keep adding components, because right now £1575 is already stretching it!



Original post by hassi94
I think 550W is still too low for a 670 + 3930k so I'd recommend getting at least 600W but preferable 650W+. I think 550W minimum is recommended for the GTX 670 but they don't expect hexacore i7s.


Look at getting 650 watts then ideally :smile:
You could pick up a decent cm case with psu at 650 for around a £100 from ebuyer :smile:
Original post by hassi94
Don't get 4GB RAM. It'll bottleneck your system - get 8GB or 16GB if you're feeling a little frivolous.


Thanks a lot! I was originally going to go for the 8GB... I'll see about the 16GB. And I've added 650W already :tongue:


Original post by Iqbal007
Look at getting 650 watts then ideally :smile:
You could pick up a decent cm case with psu at 650 for around a £100 from ebuyer :smile:


Appreciate the advice!


I don't know much about motherboards so I'd appreciate if you guys could help :biggrin: . There's the P9X79 & the P8Z77 - both with additional features. How much of a difference would that make? I know it's important, but PC-Specialist is a bit limited on configuring the PCs - (maybe the i7 isn't totally 3930k isn't really worth it would the i5-3570k / i7-3770k be good enough? Games such as Skyrim, Battlefield 3, etc.) Thanks!
Original post by The Assassin
Thanks a lot! I was originally going to go for the 8GB... I'll see about the 16GB. And I've added 650W already :tongue:




Appreciate the advice!


I don't know much about motherboards so I'd appreciate if you guys could help :biggrin: . There's the P9X79 & the P8Z77 - both with additional features. How much of a difference would that make? I know it's important, but PC-Specialist is a bit limited on configuring the PCs - (maybe the i7 isn't totally 3930k isn't really worth it would the i5-3570k / i7-3770k be good enough? Games such as Skyrim, Battlefield 3, etc.) Thanks!


From the reviews, the P9X79 is highly rated, the only con is the price.
The other one is also highly rated. So either way you would be fine.

That i7 with a hexcore that would be more for some serious programs in particular graphical ones. An i5/i7 would be more than enough, there gaming performance is quite similar.
Original post by The Assassin
Thanks a lot! I was originally going to go for the 8GB... I'll see about the 16GB. And I've added 650W already :tongue:




Appreciate the advice!


I don't know much about motherboards so I'd appreciate if you guys could help :biggrin: . There's the P9X79 & the P8Z77 - both with additional features. How much of a difference would that make? I know it's important, but PC-Specialist is a bit limited on configuring the PCs - (maybe the i7 isn't totally 3930k isn't really worth it would the i5-3570k / i7-3770k be good enough? Games such as Skyrim, Battlefield 3, etc.) Thanks!


If its just games (not frequent heavy 3d modelling etc) then the 3570k is probably not only cheaper but better for the job! (Games don't take advantage of the i7s' hyper threading and some are negatively effected by it!)

On my phone so can't really check the mobos - sorry.
Original post by hassi94
If its just games (not frequent heavy 3d modelling etc) then the 3570k is probably not only cheaper but better for the job! (Games don't take advantage of the i7s' hyper threading and some are negatively effected by it!)

On my phone so can't really check the mobos - sorry.



Original post by Iqbal007
From the reviews, the P9X79 is highly rated, the only con is the price.
The other one is also highly rated. So either way you would be fine.

That i7 with a hexcore that would be more for some serious programs in particular graphical ones. An i5/i7 would be more than enough, there gaming performance is quite similar.



Awesome. I'll be getting it for cheaper then. Thanks guys!
Original post by hassi94
Well you'll want a 2600k or 3770k - £200-250 (looking at the budget - you might need to lower this to a 2500k/3570k)
Motherboard + CPU Cooler: http://www.ebuyer.com/351598-gigabyte-ga-z77-d3h-socket-1155-vga-dvi-hdmi-8-channel-audio-atx-motherboard-ga-z77-d3h - £80
a GTX 560Ti - preferable MSI or Gigabyte for the warranty (oh, and definitely don't get an AMD graphics card - supposedly Maya doesn't play nicely with them) - £150ish (this card is made for gaming but it'll do fine, a multimedia graphics card like a quadro is out of budget).
Case + PSU ~ £80-100 - find one you like and get a 600W or higher PSU that is at least Bronze Certified from Coolermaster/Corsair/XFX
RAM: 16GB - 2 of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0058J1Q7O/ref=asc_df_B0058J1Q7O8273528?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B0058J1Q7O - £80
HDD - 2TB - http://www.ebuyer.com/319641-seagate-2tb-barracuda-hard-drive-st2000dm001 - £85
Monitor - http://www.ebuyer.com/284103-lg-ips235v-ips-lcd-led-23-hdmi-monitor-ips235v-bn-aek - £135


Thanks for the help. How much difference would not using a quatro make? I ask because I have a usable monitor here, and could put some more money towards it if it was really important. Or is it such a huge jump in price that I shouldn't consider it?
Original post by caiitlinz
Thanks for the help. How much difference would not using a quatro make? I ask because I have a usable monitor here, and could put some more money towards it if it was really important. Or is it such a huge jump in price that I shouldn't consider it?


The old ones are under £200...........the latest kind of ones start around £400