Custom PC guys out their?

[Lewis8297]

Right so I'm building my first PC.

I've done some research on what I'm getting and here is the list.

NZXT S340 case.
AMD FX8350 8 Core CPU
8GB HYPERX FURY 186mhz
Sapphire r9280x 3gb
Evga 500w bronze psu
Msi M5a78l motherboard
Samsung 120gb evo 850 ssd.
Corsair h60 water cooler

£450 inc vat and shipping

Around 650-700 USD

Let me know what you guys think,

Peace

 

[KTMRider]

I've been building and upgrading my pc for over 20 yrs. I would recommend a minimum of 600w for a power supply. Also, look at the 250gb Evo ssd. The Sandisk is a slightly cheaper option and only a bit slower. At the time, Sandisk was about $20 cheaper and I needed 2 for a Raid0 (446gb). I had 2 120gb in Raid0 (230gb) and was running out of space for apps. I keep my OS and apps on the SSDs and have a 1tb and 2tb for data.

My current build:
Corsair 300R case
Intel i5 4670K
Asus Z87-A motherboard
16gb Kingston HyperX
Asus 290 4gb
2x 240gb Sandisk Ultra II
Corsair 700w psu
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo hsf
1tb, 2tb hdd's

 

[APF]

Looks good, however if it were me, I would swap out the motherboard with either a Gigabyte or an Asus, from a dependability point of view.

 

[KTMRider]

MSI is a solid company with great products and they provide a ton of accessories.

 

[WattWick]

I hope you got some more storage planned. 120gb can be annoyingly little. If you plan to play games you probably want at least your favorites running off the SSD.

While the corsair one-unit water coolers are decent, I see no reason to pick them over any decently sized air cooling setup. You'll run a fan on the radiator anyways. Chances are, the exact same fan you would use on an ordinary metal/air cooler.

Thing with the one-unit water coolers is that you (more or less) have to suck air through the radiator - from the outside of the cabinet. Which defeats the purpose. You suck cold air from the outside, heating it up and dumping it in your cabinet - cooling your CPU at the expense of everything else that need cooling. You could reverse the air flow and run air from the cabinet through it - dumping it on the outside. But then your CPU will be heated by any hot air in the cabinet.

 

[Zurd]

I never bought a liquid CPU cooler. It says the Corsair H60 is quieter however all my builds never made any annoying noise, just a low hum. I never did overclocking so never needed something to cool the CPU. And I aalways had air conditioner so less of a problem with overheating. That liquid CPU cooler doesn't seem to be worth it.

I'd get 16 GB of RAM instead of 8 GB to make sure video/photo editing runs as fast as possible. But 8 GB is still quite fine for everything.

The Sapphire video card is Radeon, I only get Nvidia because they're the only ones who makes good drivers for Linux.

Like KTMRider said, 500W of power supply is a bit risky, 600W would be better.

SSD is fun because it's so fast but you really do need more data space. I like stuff like Drobo or ReadyNAS where you put the HD in RAID5, it's quite costly though but you can sleep safely and don't worry about losing your data if an HD die

 

[WattWick]

Ye you certainly don't need water cooling to get a silent PC. However the Corsair one-unit thingies are quite decent, albeit the flaws I pointed out above. While they are liquid cooled, they have none of the fuss that tend accompany it. It's just like working with another CPU cooler, just with some tubes and a radiator attached. I have installed a couple. No complaints. I prefer a chunky air cooler that blows directly onto a cabinet outtake, tho.

This is (or used to be?) a rather well-regarded, cheap air cooler for CPUs. Certainly not the most flashy or expensive, but the heatsink does suck heat out of your CPU. IF the fan can't keep up or you want it even quieter, just get a different fan - or two.
Cooler Master: Hyper 212 EVO

If I'm not entirely mistaken, one of those reside in the computer this is typed on.

Edit: Nice and sleek cabinet, by the way

 

[Lewis8297]

Ye you certainly don't need water cooling to get a silent PC. However the Corsair one-unit thingies are quite decent, albeit the flaws I pointed out above. While they are liquid cooled, they have none of the fuss that tend accompany it. It's just like working with another CPU cooler, just with some tubes and a radiator attached. I have installed a couple. No complaints. I prefer a chunky air cooler that blows directly onto a cabinet outtake, tho.

This is (or used to be?) a rather well-regarded, cheap air cooler for CPUs. Certainly not the most flashy or expensive, but the heatsink does suck heat out of your CPU. IF the fan can't keep up or you want it even quieter, just get a different fan - or two.
Cooler Master: Hyper 212 EVO

If I'm not entirely mistaken, one of those reside in the computer this is typed on.

Edit: Nice and sleek cabinet, by the way

In regards to this, it would have been a 212 Evo, but I intend to do some serious over clocking, considering that the 8320 is a great over locker. Looking to push it to around 4.5-4.7ghz. Which is no problem for this chip.

I'm looking for something rather good, and good looking as I don't find regular heatsinks unattractive, where as the h60 or h80i gt is a great looking cooler.

As for the airflow, I intend to put 2 fans on the rad and have it exhaust through the back/top, with 2 fans in the front so that their is little resistance.

 

[WattWick]

I wouldn't get a H60 to do overclocking with. They're mainly catering to the part of the market wanting a silent PC. However odd that is considering a 120mm fan will sound like a 120mm fan no matter what it's attached to.

Keep in mind that - with the CPU fan running the fastest - the outlet you hook up your radiator to will become the main air outlet. All heat generated in your cabinet will also pass directly through your CPU cooler.

Which is to some extent also true with a usual heatsink/fan. Except with the latter you don't focus all the hot air from your cabinet directly through your CPU cooler. And your CPU cooler is more likely to get (relatively) cooler air from the front cabinet intakes when the cooling takes place more in the center of the motherboard.

Can't deny it looks cooler, tho. Too bad you don't live next door as I have a H60 just sitting around atm.

 

[Completely Average]

Ye you certainly don't need water cooling to get a silent PC. However the Corsair one-unit thingies are quite decent, albeit the flaws I pointed out above. While they are liquid cooled, they have none of the fuss that tend accompany it. It's just like working with another CPU cooler, just with some tubes and a radiator attached. I have installed a couple. No complaints. I prefer a chunky air cooler that blows directly onto a cabinet outtake, tho.

This is (or used to be?) a rather well-regarded, cheap air cooler for CPUs. Certainly not the most flashy or expensive, but the heatsink does suck heat out of your CPU. IF the fan can't keep up or you want it even quieter, just get a different fan - or two.
Cooler Master: Hyper 212 EVO

If I'm not entirely mistaken, one of those reside in the computer this is typed on.

Edit: Nice and sleek cabinet, by the way

I'm a water cooling sort of guy myself.

Intel i7 4790k @ 4.6GHZ
Asus Z97-A
16GB Gskill Trident X PC2400 DDR3
Two MSI Twin Frozer GTX 770 4GB Gaming Edition in SLI
500GB Crucial MX550 SSD
1TB Seagate HHD
2TB Seagate HHD
LG 14X BluRay Burner
EVGA SuperNova 850 G2 Power Supply
NZXT Phantom 630 case
Corsair H110 AIO for the CPU
Two NZXT Kraken X41 AIOs for the GPUs

The nice part about water coolers is they're much more efficient in higher ambient temperature situations than air cooling, which is important in the 100+F Texas summers. Even with ambient room temperatures of 80F I can keep my CPU and GPUs below 122F (50C) FAR below their safe limits, and do it without sounding like I have an industrial fan in the room. In fact it's so quiet I usually can't hear the fans spinning at all, especially when gaming.

 

[WattWick]

Looks like you won't have a lot of heat problems with that setup

Lots more cooling power than the H60, and it won't have to deal with the heat off of the graphics cards.

 

[sonicbomb]

 

[Completely Average]

Looks like you won't have a lot of heat problems with that setup

Lots more cooling power than the H60, and it won't have to deal with the heat off of the graphics cards.

No chance of that.

The case itself has a 200mm fan in the front, a 200mm fan on the side blowing directly across the graphics cards, and a 140mm fan in the back. The two NZXT X41s on the bottom are 140mm rads and fans running as intake and the Corsair H110 has dual 140mm fans running as exhaust.

I've never seen the GPUs nor CPU go above 50C no matter how hard I've pushed the system.