New PC

[Mr.Patrick]

Get a 750 Watt Corsair PSU, 350 watt wont handle that :v

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[Ephialtes]

Get a 750 Watt Corsair PSU, 350 watt wont handle that :v

Well, OK. Still comfortably under £1700 so it's cool. What about liquid cooling? It's only like £50.

[Madmitten]

Well, OK. Still comfortably under £1700 so it's cool. What about liquid cooling? It's only like £50.

does liquid cooling=forever stationary computer?

[CC]

Yeah, liquid cooling is good because you'll be able to overclock and still run at a good temperature, giving overall much better performance.

[Ephialtes]

does liquid cooling=forever stationary computer?

I have no idea.

Yeah, liquid cooling is good because you'll be able to overclock and still run at a good temperature, giving overall much better performance.

I don't really intend to overclock or anything.

[Inv3rted]

wow wtf

I just realized what Psygo said.

How can they sell you a 350w PSU for those components? Sounds like an attempted scam.

[tay104]

Yeah, a 350W psu is definitely not enough.  You'll need AT LEAST 750W, though I'd feel safer with 850W.  That's just me, I tend to overkill a little.

[Duckmeister]

Ok so I've decided to check out some custom built options. I'm looking at this site at the moment:

Dude, buy the freakin' PC.  The one you were going to buy, the alienware one.  That's perfect.  It's great.  Nothing is wrong with it.  You will love it.  Stop worrying about it.

They don't. The main thing I'm worried about is motherboard/power/cooling/fans because I have no idea about any of those.

Everything in that alienware PC is taken care of.  The CPU comes with it's own heatsink, and alienware will have already installed that, since that's part of the "prebuilt".  All fans are already in the case, everything is done for you, you don't have to worry about it.

Well, OK. Still comfortably under £1700 so it's cool. What about liquid cooling? It's only like £50.

Liquid cooling is not necessary unless you are looking for some really, really unnecessarily hardcore overclocking.  I overclock quite liberally, and I'm running on pure air cooling, with great temperatures and performance.

I don't really intend to overclock or anything.

If you are going for the i7 920 (which you should, it's the best CPU on the market excluding the new i9 procs, and it's value is unmatched), you will want to overclock it eventually.  But, it is so easy to do so, and you don't have to even increase the voltage.

Go with the alienware computer.  I highly recommend you don't use these other sites you're looking at.  Seriously.

[Kalphiter]

I'm a big dell fan

I'll give it 6 months before it breaks.

[Inv3rted]

I'll give it 6 months before it breaks.

Dell's computers last quite a while. I still have a working Inspiron laptop from 2003.

[Kalphiter]

Dell's computers last quite a while. I still have a working Inspiron laptop from 2003.

I have found Dells to break often; but I like them.
I'm on a Dell now, haha.

[Duckmeister]

I'll give it 6 months before it breaks.

Remember that piece of crap computer I had before this new one?  The one that was really, really awesome 7 years ago but now can't run a flash game?  The one that still works to this very day?

That was a Dell prebuilt.

[Zaran]

Liquid cooling is not necessary unless you are looking for some really, really unnecessarily hardcore overclocking.  I overclock quite liberally, and I'm running on pure air cooling, with great temperatures and performance.

If you are going for the i7 920 (which you should, it's the best CPU on the market excluding the new i9 procs, and it's value is unmatched), you will want to overclock it eventually.  But, it is so easy to do so, and you don't have to even increase the voltage.

1)  Your clock speed is only 3.2 GHz, that's not a lot.  What are your temps?

2)  There is no such thing as an i9.

[Inv3rted]

Well the i9 has been renamed to the i7 980x.

[Duckmeister]

1)  Your clock speed is only 3.2 GHz, that's not a lot.  What are your temps?

2)  There is no such thing as an i9.

3.5 actually, I bring it down a bit when I'm not doing anything particularly CPU-intensive.

No such thing as an i9?  Have you heard of Intel's newly released six core processor on the x58 platform?  That used to be called the i9 and is now the i7 980?

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,688273/Core-i7-980X-aka-Core-i9-First-CPU-said-to-be-6-core-Gulftown-Update-New-details-leaked/News/