Help the noob PC question

[tranceporter]

Isn't a more modern one a better bet? GTX 760 or something?

I still have a superclocked Gigabyte GTX 470, and rocking it. Last game i played was Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, and the card just took it fine. The only games probably taxing it would be Crysis 3 etc. I have played Diablo 2 in MMO mode, and the car doesn't even flinch. ON the CPU side, I have a 4 year old Intel C2D 8600 overclocked to 3+ Ghz. 4GB DDR2 Corsair Extreme RAM. Normal 640GB WD Sata HDD. Coolmaster CM 690 Nvidia case with 5 fans to cool the machine. And it still rocks. Maybe in a year or so, I might overhaul the complete thing with a quad core i7, a decent mobo, and another Nvidia GTX 670 or the likes. I just wait for prices to drop.

[tranceporter]

Just checked on HotUkDeals. 2GB Sapphire HD 7850 OC edition with Bioshock, Tomb Raider and farcry: blood dragon for £139. not a bad deal. The graphics card looks alright though

[doodab]

I actually make do with Intel on board graphics these days. Civ 5 runs fine. Haven't tried fsx but I have a card somewhere I can use if need be.

[Halo Jones]

OK well I have decided to go with on-board sound, & ordered an extra 4GB of RAM, I had to order a new optical drive as it seems they went & changed the connection fitting anyhow.

I think in a few months I will go for a single GPU & most likely the Asus Titan

Case has been stripped & dusted, mobo, chip, 4 fans & kraken installed.

Tonight is chores night, so tomorrow I will strip the HD carry cages to replace the noisy fans with nice quiet Noctua ones (why do they have to be beige?)

Doing social stuff Saturday so hopefully finish off on Sunday

The only irksome thing so far is that my case has 3 x USB3 ports on the front, with the internal cables having a double & single (20pin?) plug on them, but the mobo only has 1 USB3 plug (which the double will go into) so I have 1 port that I can’t connect

Thanks to those with sensible comments

[Halo Jones]

Well, the new rig is all built & shiney, minor hiccup when the power supply fried the new CD & one of the SSD’s – I had no idea that you had to get a Haswell compliant power supply..

& last night I ordered 2 x 3GB EVGA GTX 780 Classified graphics cards should get them sometime next week.

And that should do me for a few years.

[Ticktock]

Well, the new rig is all built & shiney, minor hiccup when the power supply fried the new CD & one of the SSD’s – I had no idea that you had to get a Haswell compliant power supply..

My understanding is that you only need a new PSU if you want to use the new low power states. For my PC, it's either on and I'm using it, or it's off, so I have no need of this. Using an older PSU shouldn't be frying your components, unless there's a fault somewhere.

[tranceporter]

Well, the new rig is all built & shiney, minor hiccup when the power supply fried the new CD & one of the SSD’s – I had no idea that you had to get a Haswell compliant power supply..

& last night I ordered 2 x 3GB EVGA GTX 780 Classified graphics cards should get them sometime next week.

And that should do me for a few years.

I trust very few PSU companies. Seasonic being one of them. Usually buy the gold standard version PSU's which has have 80% ish efficiency. Don't trust the cheap ones which say 88% efficiency etc. Load of tosh. A good PSU with 700W and 80% efficiency will last longer than a tulipty PSU with 1000W and tulip efficiency. And get a modular PSU if you can. Less tangle of wires.

[Halo Jones]

I trust very few PSU companies. Seasonic being one of them. Usually buy the gold standard version PSU's which has have 80% ish efficiency. Don't trust the cheap ones which say 88% efficiency etc. Load of tosh. A good PSU with 700W and 80% efficiency will last longer than a tulipty PSU with 1000W and tulip efficiency. And a get a modular PSU if you can. Less tangle of wires.

Pretty much what I thought so I got one of these Corsair 1200i, I could not get the link thing to work but that did not bother me as any overclocking I do will be minimal & overtly safe

[tranceporter]

Pretty much what I thought so I got one of these Corsair 1200i, I could not get the link thing to work but that did not bother me as any overclocking I do will be minimal & overtly safe

Out of curiosity, what MB have you got? Usually Gigabyte ones have onboard overclocking features via their BIOS. very nifty

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That's one hell of PSU I like!

[Halo Jones]

Out of curiosity, what MB have you got? Usually Gigabyte ones have onboard overclocking features via their BIOS. very nifty

Edit--

That's one hell of PSU I like!

BGG got one of the gigabyte ones but I preferred the look of the Asus sabertooth : linky, which also has both novice & advanced OC settings in bios