stkshooter
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Hey, this is my first post so I would like to say hello everyone and ask for a little feedback on my first build. Wish I would have found this forum sooner.
I am replacing a 8 yr. old ASUS /AMD PC running win. 7 ultimate that works fine but is lagging behind and can't be upgraded any more. I decided to build a family HTPC Win. 7 Ultimate/ Media Center type set up that would be used for everything except heavy gaming and drop my cable T.V. for internet, etc. Not saying it would never be used for gaming but playstation/xbox etc. keeps the kid busy in his room. So I'm not interested in building a full out power house gamer for T.V. / internet. I plan to use Hulu and other streaming services along with mulitiple software together so I may be running many programs at once but nothing more graphic intensive than HDTV movies.
I was concerned about building a system that uses more elec. than needed but also didn't want to have the delay issues as my old PC. Guess you have to find that balance and hope it's right. MSI boards had some good reviews and offered all the new tech I wanted for less. Some might say G or Asus is better and maybe next time I'll try G but this time I went with MSI. Based on that board showing up in some of the HTPC reviews. I prob. could have went with other boards and added graphics card but figured I didn't need it for HDTV and on board would do the job. I paid $119 for the board from Tiger and then see New Egg reduced their price from $129 to $109 a few days later but I already installed the components. Oh well! New Egg will be getting more of my buss. I'm looking for feed back from people who have used a PC like this, wondering if you see any thing I should have done diff.
750W PSU might be more than I needed but I can grow into it. AMD 955 might be overkill too but my current CPU is always at 100% so I wanted to make sure that's not a problem for awhile and if I"m running Vuze, HDTV DVR etc. all at the same time I might need the Quad. I'm not planning on OC so went with 4 GB/ 1333 memory in CL7 and can always add more if needed. I can always add more storage HDD. I have $727.93 in PC parts inside case with case. Any ideas on what I could have done diff. ? Thanks and sorry for such a long post...
Cooler Master Centurion 534 Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB and Audio 120mm fan $39.99
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply $109.99
MSI 890GXM-G65 Motherboard - AMD 890GX, Socket AM3, ATX, DDR3, RAID, SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0 $119.99
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model KHX1333C7D3K2/4G CL 7 $137.99
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor $159.99
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive $109.99
Seagate 7200.12 ST3750528AS Barracuda Hard Drive - 750GB, 7200rpm, 32MB, Serial ATA-300 $49.99
DVD lightscribe (already owned )
Total Price $727.93
Win. 7 Ultimate 64 bit OS
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 226bw
Logitech 5.1 speakers
Buying 46" HDTV next if you have any suggestions ?
I am replacing a 8 yr. old ASUS /AMD PC running win. 7 ultimate that works fine but is lagging behind and can't be upgraded any more. I decided to build a family HTPC Win. 7 Ultimate/ Media Center type set up that would be used for everything except heavy gaming and drop my cable T.V. for internet, etc. Not saying it would never be used for gaming but playstation/xbox etc. keeps the kid busy in his room. So I'm not interested in building a full out power house gamer for T.V. / internet. I plan to use Hulu and other streaming services along with mulitiple software together so I may be running many programs at once but nothing more graphic intensive than HDTV movies.
I was concerned about building a system that uses more elec. than needed but also didn't want to have the delay issues as my old PC. Guess you have to find that balance and hope it's right. MSI boards had some good reviews and offered all the new tech I wanted for less. Some might say G or Asus is better and maybe next time I'll try G but this time I went with MSI. Based on that board showing up in some of the HTPC reviews. I prob. could have went with other boards and added graphics card but figured I didn't need it for HDTV and on board would do the job. I paid $119 for the board from Tiger and then see New Egg reduced their price from $129 to $109 a few days later but I already installed the components. Oh well! New Egg will be getting more of my buss. I'm looking for feed back from people who have used a PC like this, wondering if you see any thing I should have done diff.
750W PSU might be more than I needed but I can grow into it. AMD 955 might be overkill too but my current CPU is always at 100% so I wanted to make sure that's not a problem for awhile and if I"m running Vuze, HDTV DVR etc. all at the same time I might need the Quad. I'm not planning on OC so went with 4 GB/ 1333 memory in CL7 and can always add more if needed. I can always add more storage HDD. I have $727.93 in PC parts inside case with case. Any ideas on what I could have done diff. ? Thanks and sorry for such a long post...
Cooler Master Centurion 534 Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB and Audio 120mm fan $39.99
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply $109.99
MSI 890GXM-G65 Motherboard - AMD 890GX, Socket AM3, ATX, DDR3, RAID, SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0 $119.99
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model KHX1333C7D3K2/4G CL 7 $137.99
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor $159.99
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive $109.99
Seagate 7200.12 ST3750528AS Barracuda Hard Drive - 750GB, 7200rpm, 32MB, Serial ATA-300 $49.99
DVD lightscribe (already owned )
Total Price $727.93
Win. 7 Ultimate 64 bit OS
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 226bw
Logitech 5.1 speakers
Buying 46" HDTV next if you have any suggestions ?