Just built a new PC

[yukmouth094]

850 watt powersupply

8x Gigs of DDR3 Ram

Geforce 560 GTX Ti 1 gig DDR5

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W CPU

1 TB HDD

Thermaltake Armor A60 Gaming Mid-Tower < Case

GIGABYTE AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

How do you guys like my new rig??

[SnOwBunZz]

8.5/10 (8/10 if you look at my personal preference)

The case, it's not bad, but the downside of the case can also let in quite the bit of dust.

850 watt supply isn't really needed yet unless you SLI, even than it'd be around 750w if I'm not mistaken. Also, which PSU brand is it?

In the end, it's not that bad and the PSU, looking at the watts, can last you for a while regarding upgrades.

[yukmouth094]

I cant remember the brand, but it was a good power supply maker, not one of those cheapo ones.

Don't plan on SLI atm, the card I have really has no issues with any games, and it looks really good lol.

[IronyTaken]

7/10.

A Phenom II x6 is not really worth it when it comes to games.

You should have spent that money on an i5 2500k or waited for AMD's new CPUs to come out.

850w power supply is over kill, you would have been fine with a 500w PSU.

The case is alright but you may want to purchase some dust filters.

8 gigs is overkill right now unless you are doing some serious rendering work.
I would have gone with 6 gigs in triple channel using an i5 2500k.

[yukmouth094]

7/10.

A Phenom II x6 is not really worth it when it comes to games.

You should have spent that money on an i5 2500k or waited for AMD's new CPUs to come out.

850w power supply is over kill, you would have been fine with a 500w PSU.

The case is alright but you may want to purchase some dust filters.

8 gigs is overkill right now unless you are doing some serious rendering work.
I would have gone with 6 gigs in triple channel using an i5 2500k.

Its worth it. I had the money to spend on everything so, yeah some things are bit overkill I knew that when I was putting it together lol. A PSU is definitely not something you want to go cheap on, my Video cards psu minimum was 500 watts so... And I got the 8 gigs of ram simply because there was a really good deal going on with them

I prefer AMD cpu's, and honestly man you can always say you should of waited for the newer computer part, but PC parts are constantly getting outdated. When I went to the store a guy I was talking to was actually talking about AMD's new cpu.

[IronyTaken]

500w is plenty they use that as a minimum but really it's quite enough unless you are packing 12 fans.


Also having higher wattage doesn't mean the PSU is better quality.
I could purchase a 500w PSU that is much better than an 800W one.


And the CPU you purchased is not worth it if you only use it for regular tasks and games.

You don't really get much performance gain compared to the 4 core Phenom II CPUs.

It would have been better for you to buy a similar priced i5 2500k which will perform better in games and have great overclocking potential.


8 gigs of RAM is overkill.
No game needs it.
by the time a game needs 8 gigs the RAM you purchased will be obsolete by years.

It would have been better to purchase 3 sticks of 2gig ddr3 RAM and set them up in triple channel using the i5 2500k.

Also I would purchase two separate hard drives and put them in RAID 0 configuration.

This would have been my advice.
I am not ignorant when it comes to this so don't pass it off like that.

[yukmouth094]

500w is plenty they use that as a minimum but really it's quite enough unless you are packing 12 fans.


Also having higher wattage doesn't mean the PSU is better quality.
I could purchase a 500w PSU that is much better than an 800W one.


And the CPU you purchased is not worth it if you only use it for regular tasks and games.

You don't really get much performance gain compared to the 4 core Phenom II CPUs.

It would have been better for you to buy a similar priced i5 2500k which will perform better in games and have great overclocking potential.


8 gigs of RAM is overkill.
No game needs it.
by the time a game needs 8 gigs the RAM you purchased will be obsolete by years.

It would have been better to purchase 3 sticks of 2gig ddr3 RAM and set them up in triple channel using the i5 2500k.

Also I would purchase two separate hard drives and put them in RAID 0 configuration.

This would have been my advice.
I am not ignorant when it comes to this so don't pass it off like that.

I don't have 12 fans, but I do have 2 extra ones.

It might be minimum performance gain between the cpu's you stated, but regardless its performance gain. And I do more than just gaming on my computer.

I don't like intel cpu's heh. And my motherboard isn't intel compatible so.

Damnit irony , the ram was good and it had a great deal going!! couldn't of said no hahaa

[IronyTaken]

I don't have 12 fans, but I do have 2 extra ones.

It might be minimum performance gain between the cpu's you stated, but regardless its performance gain. And I do more than just gaming on my computer.

I don't like intel cpu's heh. And my motherboard isn't intel compatible so.

Damnit irony , the ram was good and it had a great deal going!! couldn't of said no hahaa

Well I am just giving advice.

You won't really see any fps gain from the 6 core compared to the 4 core Phenom II.

But with the i5 2500k you would smoke those AMD cpus and the price is about the same.

AMD is really bottom barrel CPUs until they come out with something else.
They aren't bad CPUs but for the amount you spent on the 6 core cpu you could of gotten something much better.

And whether you got a good deal on 8 gigs of RAM you probably will never use that more than 5 gigs with that set up.

The triple channel set up would have been better and cheaper.

And like I mentioned running 2 hard drives in RAID 0 would be best.


It's better to build a PC that has parts which compliment each other for the best bang of the buck and performance.

[TreyTrey12]

snip.

Yeah, im going with I.T with this. When i built my PC, i had a choice between the HEXACORE/I7/ and i5.

I went with the i5, best price, 4 cores, and really awesome performance.



At the time, a bunch of benchmarks put Intel in head of AMDs processors, i dunno if things have changed as of late.

8 gigs of ram is really over doing it, remember, even though you can afford it, you should take things into consideration.

Im sitting on 4 gigs of DDR3/2000 and I Rarely max that out in any game i play, will i really need 8 gigs?

The only things that should be gone all out for in PCS is the PSU, Case, and Mobo in my opinion Because these choices effect your future proofing.


OVerall, good PC.