Knalpotje
Enthusiast
After 3 years of saving money and thinking about different setups, I'm finally (kinda) done, Here it goes!
The case: A Corsair Carbide SPEC-01; I chose this case as it looked good and had everything i needed, It was big enough to fit all my components and do some cablemanagement. Untill this point (having it for 1 year) i'm still happy with the case, And provides enough future-proofnes to use it for atleast another 2-3 years
The motherboard: (Will probably be replaced in the near future) MSI 760GA-P43 (FX), This was one off the first components i chose, and it turned out to be not so good, As i was just into computers and haven't really checked anything back then, I just chose the cheapest motherboard i could find that would fit an AM3+ chip. I would never recommend this to anyone as i've had many problems with getting hard drives installed and not having them in raid, And some plastic things that go over the USB 3.0 header and fan headers just simply fall off.
The CPU: The CPU is an AMD FX-6300 6-core processor, Hold on! Don't start hating, I've got a reson for this, So as i've heard alot of AMD getting hot, I've never had any problems with mine. In a full CPU 100% load it NEVER goes over 51 degrees celsius, As of performance, It does what it needs to do. It handles everything i do very well.
GPU: An MSI GTX 960, I was looking for a mid-range card and i've been looking into this for about 4-5 months before actually buying it, it needed to be able to handle GTA V and other games on a reasonable framerate, The GTX 960 did exactly that. As having it just from today i cannot really say anything about how it does, But after doing some stress-test it wouldn't go very hot and handled everything pretty well.
Power supply: A 600W Cooler Master power supply, This was also a really quick choise, I needed it to be able to handle my GPU and CPU. And it could do that so i bought it for not really that much money.
Hard drives: WD Blue 1TB x2, This is a very good hard drive, But pretty slow. I will add an SSD later for the OS and make it run faster.
Memory: Kingston HyperX (something) I have 2 sticks of 4 GB into this thing, It is exactly what i needed as with 4GB of RAM i did not have enough, The only draw-back on this RAM is that it only runs on 800Mhz for some random reason it won't go to it's normal 1600Mhz.
Let me know what you think about it and what you would change to it, (Sorry for any spelling mistakes) And thanks for reading!
The case: A Corsair Carbide SPEC-01; I chose this case as it looked good and had everything i needed, It was big enough to fit all my components and do some cablemanagement. Untill this point (having it for 1 year) i'm still happy with the case, And provides enough future-proofnes to use it for atleast another 2-3 years
The motherboard: (Will probably be replaced in the near future) MSI 760GA-P43 (FX), This was one off the first components i chose, and it turned out to be not so good, As i was just into computers and haven't really checked anything back then, I just chose the cheapest motherboard i could find that would fit an AM3+ chip. I would never recommend this to anyone as i've had many problems with getting hard drives installed and not having them in raid, And some plastic things that go over the USB 3.0 header and fan headers just simply fall off.
The CPU: The CPU is an AMD FX-6300 6-core processor, Hold on! Don't start hating, I've got a reson for this, So as i've heard alot of AMD getting hot, I've never had any problems with mine. In a full CPU 100% load it NEVER goes over 51 degrees celsius, As of performance, It does what it needs to do. It handles everything i do very well.
GPU: An MSI GTX 960, I was looking for a mid-range card and i've been looking into this for about 4-5 months before actually buying it, it needed to be able to handle GTA V and other games on a reasonable framerate, The GTX 960 did exactly that. As having it just from today i cannot really say anything about how it does, But after doing some stress-test it wouldn't go very hot and handled everything pretty well.
Power supply: A 600W Cooler Master power supply, This was also a really quick choise, I needed it to be able to handle my GPU and CPU. And it could do that so i bought it for not really that much money.
Hard drives: WD Blue 1TB x2, This is a very good hard drive, But pretty slow. I will add an SSD later for the OS and make it run faster.
Memory: Kingston HyperX (something) I have 2 sticks of 4 GB into this thing, It is exactly what i needed as with 4GB of RAM i did not have enough, The only draw-back on this RAM is that it only runs on 800Mhz for some random reason it won't go to it's normal 1600Mhz.
Let me know what you think about it and what you would change to it, (Sorry for any spelling mistakes) And thanks for reading!
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