New Build Guidance

**WileECyte** · 02-07-13, 10:34 AM

Intel is getting out of the motherboard business after Haswell. They are strictly going to provide chipsets to third parties going forward.

**HeavyG** · 02-07-13, 08:58 PM

Intel boards are all made by Foxconn.

**rock_lobster** · 02-08-13, 03:29 PM

The board I have now is gigabyte and I have had zero issues with it. I will probably stick with them for the mobo

**rock_lobster** · 02-08-13, 04:45 PM

Heavy, for that 7850 gpu you listed a few posts back, is there any reason not to get the 2 gig card instead of the 1? It's only a few bucks more.

I was reading reviews and the 1 gig card got raving reviews while the 2 gig card seemed to have many complaints about crashing issues. What would be causing an issue for the same card just with different memory specs?

**WileECyte** · 02-08-13, 09:38 PM

If you can afford it, it's always better to get the card with the largest amount of VRAM. Things like Anti-Aliasing use a lot of memory and if you run out of VRAM, it then sends it to the much slower system RAM.

**a weakling spaz** · 02-08-13, 10:49 PM

What resolution are you running?

**HeavyG** · 02-09-13, 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by rock_lobster

Heavy, for that 7850 gpu you listed a few posts back, is there any reason not to get the 2 gig card instead of the 1? It's only a few bucks more.

I was reading reviews and the 1 gig card got raving reviews while the 2 gig card seemed to have many complaints about crashing issues. What would be causing an issue for the same card just with different memory specs?

Yea, I would go with a 2GB. The GTX 660 I purchased for my HTPC is 2GB, which might be a bit overkill for some games. But for games that I crank the detail on, I am glad to have the extra bandwidth.

**rock_lobster** · 02-11-13, 06:51 PM

Just need a last bit of opinion and I think I'm on my way.

I'm not too up to date on who the best manufacturers are for vid cards. Can anyone tell me, of these three, who is the preferred brand:

GIGABYTE GV-R785OC-2GD Radeon HD 7850 Video Card - Newegg.com

ASUS HD7850-DC2-2GD5-V2 Radeon HD 7850 Video Card - Newegg.com

XFX FX-785A-CDFC Double D Radeon HD 7850 Video Card - Newegg.com

Mobos:

Newegg.com - ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-D3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com

GIGABYTE GA-Z77-HD4 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS - Newegg.com

I think I'm sold on this processor:

Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I53570K - Newegg.com

As for a Power Supply, my currecnt PSU is 630w. That should be able to run the above mentioned hardware no? (I will not be running dual vid cards at any point in the near future)

ETA: After rebates and shipping, I'm looking at about $535 (Not including RAM). Sucks, because they had a special with one of the mobo's I was looking at and it came with 8 gigs of pretty bad ass ram for free.

**WileECyte** · 02-11-13, 08:38 PM

XFX graphics cards have a lifetime guaranty. Providing you register them online.
I'm personally using the ASRock board in my upcoming build (already have the board & proc).

**rock_lobster** · 02-11-13, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

XFX graphics cards have a lifetime guaranty. Providing you register them online.
I'm personally using the ASRock board in my upcoming build (already have the board & proc).

That lifetime guarantee sounds like a winner to me.

That mobo in my list is the one you listed earlier in this thread. I'll have to read some reviews on it myself. I'm kinda of partial to gigabyte as it is the board I currently have. 6-7 years of heavy use and not one single problem with it.

You think 630w is enough power to take on the components I'm looking at? If so I can save myself roughly $80 (or put it towards the GPU)