PC upgrades or overclocking? - help with suggestions.

**korialstraz** · 09-08-2012, 21:47

Turbo is a really nice feature for sure, and decent coolers are imo quite cheap for the perfomance gain you can get out of it. Especially on anything above dual core. And no worries on insane mobos, I won't have a tripple 680 system in the foreseeable future.

That is a smexy board indeed! *drools*

Can't wait for the next paycheck, so I can evaluate if I can order the parts yet or not. First paycheck from the new job. ^_^

**korialstraz** · 13-08-2012, 10:46

Parts have been ordered. I went with Asus Sabertooth Z77 motherboard, the i5 3570k, 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz, Noctua NH-U9B SE2 for CPU cooling and some thermal paste.

With these new parts, I'll have a Asus P5Q3 motherboard, Intel C2D 3.16 GHz CPU and 4 GB RAM as spare parts. Which means I only need a decent case, a decent 500w PSU and a cheap as hell GPU (unless the MB has on-board graphics chip), and more harddrives=new file server. Already have 2x 2TB WD green discs, and 2 more which I will buy from a friend as soon as his file server is up and running, and then 2 more 2 TB discs from the store. All in all a file server running RAID 5 ending up at 10TB storage.

A little uncertain about using RAID 5 though, but from what me and my friend (who will run RAID 5), it can handle streaming of 1080p movies. Which is the most essential part about it.

**Tilitoon** · 13-08-2012, 14:13

The return of the thermal armor ! Great board.
What thermal paste are you using ? My personal favorite is the MX-4.

**korialstraz** · 13-08-2012, 21:57

I went with a Noctua type. It had gotten only good reviews, and tbh I've not experimented much with different kinds of thermal paste. And a recognized brand with only good reviews gotta be better than the stock paste that's on CPU's... right? :P

**Tilitoon** · 14-08-2012, 00:34

The Noctua NT-H1 that comes with the NH-U9B SE2 is apparently very good. I've only used it twice and couldn't measure the temps on these CPUs, but it did the job. I'd say it's not worth buying another one if you already have the Noctua.

I build a lot of computers so I have a few kinds of TIM laying around :

**korialstraz** · 14-08-2012, 06:29

Originally Posted by Tilitoon

The Noctua NT-H1 that comes with the NH-U9B SE2 is apparently very good. I've only used it twice and couldn't measure the temps on these CPUs, but it did the job. I'd say it's not worth buying another one if you already have the Noctua.

I build a lot of computers so I have a few kinds of TIM laying around :

Well I did get an extra one I guess. The cooler didn't specify that it would include the extra paste, but a guy posting a review said there was one. So just to be sage, I added another one, but also because I got a file server build planned so need a bit for that. And my brother just got a new computer, so I should probably check his CPU, clean it and apply some proper paste.

**korialstraz** · 04-09-2012, 06:08

I've not had time to play around in the BIOS too much yet. Most likely I won't need to overclock yet, but whenever the time comes, I'll start with overclocking the boost function.

Oh yea I got all the stuff assembled on sunday, yesterday I just finnished installing some of the need to have programs, but there's still stuff that needs to be set up, and settings to fiddle with. One thing that sucks is since I'm using Windows 8, I can't always find proper drivers, so the keyboard for instance don't have all the functionality it used to. But that's just a minor thing so far.

**BobCox2** · 28-09-2012, 04:50

So it looks like my loyalty to lower price processors is about to payoff.

Got an AMD chip in your Windows PC? Then you just gained access to more than half a million Google Android apps thanks to an AMD partnership with Bluestacks. A virtualization app and website filled with Android titles can help bridge your mobile and desktop world.

**korialstraz** · 28-09-2012, 06:39

Ahh cool! My first thought was "Damnit now I want to try AMD chip" until I realized... I'm not a heavy app user. >_>

Still pretty cool though, considering so much is being bridged across different platforms. Very excited to test out some of these things, most notably the new Xbox Live stuff with Windows 8. Might have to get a tablet just for this. ^_^

**Tilitoon** · 01-10-2012, 19:13

Originally Posted by BobCox2

So it looks like my loyalty to lower price processors is about to payoff.

Got an AMD chip in your Windows PC? Then you just gained access to more than half a million Google Android apps thanks to an AMD partnership with Bluestacks. A virtualization app and website filled with Android titles can help bridge your mobile and desktop world.

Not sure how many people would actually have a use for this, I surely don't. The apps have been optimized for tablets and phones so most of them won't be easy to use on a PC (I'm talking about the controls and the UI). I feel the same for the "Modern UI" of W8 and using touch screens with a desktop, I don't see how convenient it could be for a regular desktop user. The only practical use I can think of is for expos, kiosks, things like that.