Recent content by gxsaurav

You get either get a MSI 970A-G43 (not overclock friendly) or Asus M5A97 R2.0.

@darkther yeah, that was me only.

Newegg doesn't ship to India. On Amazon some products have Global shipping available but it seems they are not shipping motherboard to India. I recommend Gigabyte F2A85XN. It has everything you need for a HTPC including "good enough" onboard audio which you can replace with a USB Based sound...

Can you order from Amazon?

Try eBay with discount coupons. These same GPUs will cost much less there. I am using Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 1GB/OC edition myself which I purchased from eBay last month for around ₹ 12.5k with ₹ 750 discount coupon. The prices have increased but now you can still buy my GPU from eBay for ₹...

Please refer Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs and have a look at the enhancements Windows 8 with DirectX 11.1 bring for every day computing. Windows 8 doesn't need a DirectX 11.1 GPU to work but it works best with DirectX 11.1...

I strongly recommend not to go with Intel and to go with AMD APU. You will get DirectX 11.1 which is needed for Windows 8/8.1 and its new 2D rendering engine. If you want to go with Intel then get a 4th generation Core i3/i5 at least as they have DirectX 11.1 support. AMD APUs are more...

So I just added an Asus Xonar DG and Audio Technica AD500 headphone for Dolby headphone based gaming. The album is updated with new pictures.

I suggest you buy a pre-build PC like Sapphire EDGE for these tasks. Or the models from Zotac instead of making your own. If you want to make your own then get AMD A10-6700 APU + 2X4GB DDR3 1866 + any Mini ITX Motherboard with front USB 3.0 header + Cooler Master Stacker as these are available...

Changed link to my Skydrive album

I got cooler Master Hyper 212X for ₹ 2.1k from SMC International, New Delhi. You can check my PC on this thread. *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show-off/176879-efficient-long-term-build-red.html

Let me see if that is available on Steam.

Thanks.

I just upgraded to this new PC from my 1 year old PC with an AMD APU. Before that I had a Core 2 Duo for 5 years. It is highly likely that I won't be buying a PC now any time in the future and will move to laptops for everything. Also, marriage is near so buying stuff of my own choice after that...

In that case, I am in the market to buy a new fan for AMD FX 6300. I saw Cooler Master Hyper T4 at ₹ 1.8k but don't know the maximum TDP it can support or should I go with Cooler Master Hyper 212X for ₹ 2.2k which has 180W TDP support so I can over clock upto 4 GHz on air too for sure. Any idea...