New build specs...thoughts?

[Dalemac]

It has been 4 and a half years since I last built a pc, my current one isn't exactly terrible, but struggles with the latest games.

I have been a good boy at work and will be getting a £500 amazon voucher in a couple of weeks, so may as well use that to bankroll the build, to an extent...

Currently leaning towards this setup:

CPU: AMD FX-9590 (£160)
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 Motherboard (£127)
GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GTX 970 (£260)
Case: NZXT Phantom 820 - Love it, but £160... (ebuyer) Anything full tower size that is cheaper but will suit me just as well?

I'll also need a new PSU, my current one is only 650watts and it won't power the above. Any recommendations for a decent, modular PSU? preferably around the 850 watt and £100 price tag.

Liquid cooling - Not done this before, no idea what is decent, if anyone can point me in the direction of a suitable setup that would be great.

So, Have I missed anything here? Anything similarly spec'd but cheaper, or slightly more expensive but superior?

Also, do amazon usually have sales on computer parts as part of their black Friday sales? If so, it might be worth holding fire for a while.

Dale
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[temeluchus]

Unless you are doing something that needs loads of threads, I'd ditch the FX and go intel, the i5 4670K or 4690K is a better proposition for gaming, along with a suitable motherboard. The intel chips also consume a hell of a lot less power. A good 600w power supply will be fine, with the graphics card assuming you dont have 12 hard drives.

As for watercooling, I have a Coolermaster Seidon 120V setup in my mini ITX gaming PC, which keeps my Intel Core i7 4790K nice and cool.
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[Dalemac]

[merquis00]

[CaNsA]

It's called "stepping". Most, if not all, modern processors do it.

Another power saving feature is Parking.
Intel will park unused cores until a threshold is reached on Core #0, then it will un-park Core #1 and so on.

[dydey90]

[merquis00]

[Dalemac]

How about this intel setup?

CPU: Intel Core i5 i5-4690K (£168)
MOBO: Mod 1150 ASUS Z97-A (£115)

Any other thoughts on PSU? current 650 one isn't modular so getting replaced either way.

Also nice full tower cases?

Cheers.
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[merquis00]

[covent.gardens]

A used PSU, and a 1000W one (way, way more than he needs?)

I just bought a SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black from Overclockers after a lot of research, it's a very good PSU. ~£100

Re: your ASRock mobo, back in the days when a P4 3Ghz was top of the range, I build a system with an ASRock mobo. The Windows startup jingle was juttery (via onboard sound) and benchmarks e.g. 3D Mark showed my system scoring about 10% less than it should. Turns out their mobo's were cheap for a reason and bottlenecked the CPU, crappy onboard sound... I changed the mobo to an Asus and no more juttery start-up jingle; benchmarks were up. It was a long time ago though and I've heard they have changed, people actually rate them now... but once bit and all that, I'd never buy another. Just bear in mind the motherboard can affect everything so don't skimp. I'd stick with your initial choice of Asus all day long.

[Dalemac]

[merquis00]

[dydey90]

[Dalemac]

This turned out to be the final spec:

https://s21.postimg.org/uofo02gpj/finalbuild.jpg

Case should arrive today, then parts should start to trickle in. Will test what I can as it arrives in the current computer to make sure it isn't DOA.
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[merquis00]

[Dalemac]

[merquis00]

[Dalemac]

[Dalemac]

Well, the build has been completed for a couple of days now. Windows 8.1 is installed, and getting round to putting a few games on.

I do have one issue - if i run Burnintest and then open up the cputemp, it will lock up. I don't mean like a 'this process is not responding' lock up, i mean an entire system lockup. no access to task manager, and all the HDD's stop working. It's as if the CPU just stops responding entirely.

I can replicate the above - it happens every time.


It has also crashed out of games every now and then.

All firmware and drivers are up to date.

Nothing in the event logs except from the improper shutdown events.

I have ran memtest for 4 passes and it didn't pick up any issues.

I have lifted and reseated the CPU and ram.

None f the abover has had an effect, but if overclock the cpu to 4.6ghz, the problem goes away. (1.008v to 1.024v).

I'd rather not overclock at this stage tbh. Anything else to try other than contacting intel/asus and seeing what they say?
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[CaNsA]

Grab OCCT from here
https://www.ocbase.com/download.php?fileext=zip

Unzip to desktop

CPU:OCCT tab

Large Data set for detecting errors.

Let it run for 10mins and see what happens.
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Small data set testing temperature management

Let it run for 10mins.

[Dalemac]

[CaNsA]

What settings do you have in the BIOS?

Disable "turbo" or the equivalent and try again.

Reset the BIOS and try again.

[Dalemac]

Turbo is disabled, completely reset bios settings back to normal.

It now throws this error. (see image).

Had enough - will try again tomorrow.
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[CaNsA]

[Dalemac]

Agreed, everything I try always brings be back round to ram.

Tonight i'll test all 4 of the 2gb sticks from my old pc individually in the new one with occt and see if it gets the same error each time

I'll then test the new 8gb stick in the old pc and test it with occt.

That should give me a good idea of what is going on...
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