Hi Guys. Thanks for your help so far.
Due to the free-fall of rupees vs dollars and some suggested upgrades my 40K budget has crossed 60K.
1. Should I buy as planned this Saturday or wait for a month? With the US job market showing good results, I fear Rupee may fall further.
2. As both the CPU (8500K) and GPU (HD 7950) are good with overclocking, please suggest a better motherboard. I found many articles with problem with ASUS M5A97 R2.0 during overclocking.
3. HD 7950 or 4 GB GTX 760?
@harshilsharma63 - 10-11K for motherboard. I am already over-budget.
In this configuration, I think Motherboard may become a bottleneck.
I just want to overclock a little. Not going to test the limits with liquid cooling and stuff.
Never heard of bitfenix.
Is Bitfenix Shinobi as good as 300R or HAF 912 Combat?
BITFENIX CABINET SHINOBI
Which would be best for my build? (HD 7950 + CM Hyper 212 Evo + Moderate Overclocking)
1. FX 8350 + Asrock 990FX Extreme 4 (12800 + 11025 = 23825)
2. FX 8350 + Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 (12800 + 11232 = 24032)
3. Intel Core i5 3570k + Asrock Z77 Pro 4 (15300 + 8925 = 24225)
gta4 uses upto 4 cores and 50+ threads
but i3-3240 and fx-8320 perfoms same in gta4
Why, the Seasonic PSU is just fine for your purpose. You'll get a 8 Pin converter with the GPU itself and use to get another 8 pin connector. Regarding overclocking of the GPU, the PSU can easily handle it.So it is Corsair TX650 V2 then. Going to shop on Saturday. Any last minute advice?
But too much OC won't be possible (IMO) even without overvolting (totally impossible). Just my 2cents
It does have only one 8 Pic PCI-E connector does not mean it can't handle GPU which needs two 8 pin PCI-E connectors DO you have any idea about how a PSU work and how it quality is to determine? Don't just throw some words here and there.
Based on your suggestions, I have shortlisted the following components -
1. PSU - Seasonic S12II 620 Watts - 5500 (Second Choice - Corsair TX 650 V2 - 6400)
2. Cabinet - Corsair 300R - 4900 (Second Choice - Cooler Master HAF 912 Combat - 5100)
3. CPU Cooler - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - 2500 (Will get after 2 months)
4. GPU - Sapphire HD 7950 VAPOR-X 3GB DDR5 OC - 24500 (Second Choice - Zotac GTX 760 2GB DDR5 AMP Edition - 24000)
5. RAM - Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600FSB - 3800 (Will get another 2 GB later)
6. DVD RW - ASUS DVD RW 24X - 1100
9. HDD - Seagate or Western 1 TB - 4300
Still unsure about the processor and motherboard - FX 8350 (12800) or i5 3570K (15300) ?
Considering 3570k costs 2500 more and has better performance in single core/thread games. But the next-gen consoles have 8 core processor and future games may be better optimized for multiple cores/threads. My speculation is that multi-threaded optimized games will start appearing next year. What should I do? - doing flip-flops over them.