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Help with computer build...
Roven:
Thx for help, I'll try to squeeze all this in my budget not that i'm gonna find all this in the market, not by usual means anyway ;D
Roven:
Ok I've been looking around for three days now, here's what I got:
Motherboard (i'm not sure if it's the exact same model but pretty close)
Graphic Card (same one mentioned before)
CPU
2 x 2 GB DDR3
This is srsly what all I could squeeze in my budget right now if I want to get a monitor too.
But still, I can make some modification if necessary.
Hope I got this one right :-\
kyzhucha n:
looks like a pretty decent build for that one, can't comment on GPU though, not an nvidia fan
Freedom Kira:
That's a pretty intense-looking mobo. It's not every day you see an LGA1156 mobo with 6 RAM slots. I'd be careful though, the reviews on Newegg (click "Feedback") don't look pretty. It's also discontinued... I recommend you try another. Out of curiosity, were you gonna get this at a local retailer? How much were you going to pay for it?
That i3 model looks pretty damn good for its price. So this is definitely a keeper. Hope you're not paying much more than $125 for it if you're not buying from Newegg.
I can't comment on the video card either, not because I don't like NVidia, but because I'm not enough of an expert in that field.
Be sure to look up reviews on Newegg for everything you plan to get. It can really help you save time and money. Be cautious of RAM too.
Are you not buying a hard drive?
datora:
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Serious concern about the CPU/mobo compatibility: the board specifically says it is for the i5/i7, but says nothing about the i3.
!! LOOK INT0 THAT IMMEDIATELY !!
I'm not an Intel guy, but I'm pretty certain the i3 takes one socket type and the i5/i7 take a different one ... that was the fundamental dividing line between the performance break on these chips.
The six RAM slots got me excited .. thought the board might handle triple channel (meaning, 3 x 2GB = 6GB, 3 x 4 GB =12 GB, 6 x 4 GB = 24 GB possibilities). However, it states specifically that its dual channel. Not really a bad thing, just that six slots is kinda wasted. If you've got the manual, check & see if it can run triple channel mode ... you can get a nice performance tweak out of the board if it's supported triple channel NOT supported.
Problem is, though, I'm afraid you need to consider swapping the CPU for an i5, or swapping the mobo to support i3.
I hope I'm wrong ....
[ Edit: max supported memory is 16 GB. So, that'd be (4 x 2 GB) plus (2 x 4 GB) = seems you either use 4 slots or two slots, not all six holy fuck it quite a bit more complicated than that. Lots of other features on the mobo look excellent: audio, USB 3/SATA III, lots of PCIe and PCI slots, on-mobo RAID (you can put a SATA 6 GB/sec main drive for boot and RAID 4 SATA 3 GB/sec drives for storage, for example) ... looking at reviews. Not many to go by, but looks like RAM compatibility is a nightmare (RESEARCH your RAM carefully; you'll need to get comfortable with your BIOS settings fast) & seems you can't can use all six slots simultaneously IF you area memory god ... well, definitely read the feedback reviews at newegg. There's a lot of information there that will help you understand the board and try to trouble-shoot it.
Looks like if you get a good board, it is some serious win ... but, you may not have a very smooth plug-and-play configuration and, clearly, some boards have issues and you'll need to do most of the troubleshooting yourself.
Hmmm. If the i3/mobo combination is incompatible and you must replace one or the other, it seems looking for a better mobo would be a wise choice. ]
[ EDIT^2: This is not a mobo for n00bz. I'm looking at a number of tweaks required (you need to flash the BIOS to version F6 (at least) for full Win7 64-bit compatibility before you even start) and limitations on USB 3 & SATA III bandwidth ... you'll need to be technically literate on mobos and read the user manual and be prepared to Figure It Out. Looking at some of the responses from Gigabyte "support," arrogance appears to be part of their job description. Complete lack of sympathy for customers ... seriously: how can you berate a customer for not reading the ENTIRE user manual on the board before deciding to purchase it because there's all sorts of hidden tech info and explanations in it that Gigabyte doesn't post with their product description?
This product was not ready for distribution and should never have been marketed to the general public. It's for l337 933ks 0nly. ]
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