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Subject: How is this PC build?

This one. I just finished picking the parts but no matter what I pick I get stuck with that incompatibility error. Help?

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The incompatibility error is: "Some Intel H61 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Ivy Bridge CPUs."

[Edited on 12.19.2012 7:03 AM PST]

  • 12.19.2012 6:51 AM PDT

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It didn't show that you'd made any choices?

  • 12.19.2012 6:53 AM PDT

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That's a very nice empty list you have there OP.

  • 12.19.2012 6:54 AM PDT


Posted by: Chris marines
It didn't show that you'd made any choices?

What? I just clicked it and all of the choices I made popped up. You sure?

  • 12.19.2012 6:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: Chris marines
It didn't show that you'd made any choices?

What? I just clicked it and all of the choices I made popped up. You sure?
Yh maybe paste the parts onto here.

  • 12.19.2012 6:56 AM PDT
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Post a screenshot of your choices instead.

  • 12.19.2012 6:56 AM PDT
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I like Cheese

Looks good, thought he GPU is terrible.
Also, get higher PSU.


[Edited on 12.19.2012 6:59 AM PST]

  • 12.19.2012 6:56 AM PDT

Looks good to me. I'd personally do NVIDIA if I were you though. AMD always seems to give me problems. Probably bad luck though.

  • 12.19.2012 6:57 AM PDT
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I'm gonna finish it. Just like Jigga did to the pyramid.

up your power supply to around 700 watts, also make sure that the pins on the processor are compatible with the inputs on the mother boards.

[Edited on 12.19.2012 6:58 AM PST]

  • 12.19.2012 6:58 AM PDT
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Over $1000 for that? No it's bad.

  • 12.19.2012 6:58 AM PDT

Get this instead of the 1x8GB of RAM.

edit: Also, the RAM you picked out is for notebooks, not desktops.

[Edited on 12.19.2012 7:03 AM PST]

  • 12.19.2012 6:58 AM PDT


Posted by: thebig100
Looks good, thought he GPU is terrible.
Also, get higher PSU.

Any suggestions?

  • 12.19.2012 6:59 AM PDT

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Posted by: thebig100
Looks good, thought he GPU is terrible.
Also, get higher PSU.

Any suggestions?

At the least a 500watt. Best go with a 650-700

  • 12.19.2012 7:05 AM PDT

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OP....swap out that motherboard for the Asrock Extreme4 Z77.

  • 12.19.2012 7:06 AM PDT

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OP....i'm also gonna whip up a new....and much better build build for you.

  • 12.19.2012 7:09 AM PDT


Posted by: TopWargamer
OP....i'm also gonna whip up a new....and much better build build for you.

Much appreciated, I'm not exactly great at this.

  • 12.19.2012 7:11 AM PDT
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I like Cheese


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Posted by: thebig100
Looks good, thought he GPU is terrible.
Also, get higher PSU.

Any suggestions?
650W atleast, and get the 660ti, it's a great card!

  • 12.19.2012 7:17 AM PDT

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Here you go OP.

  • 12.19.2012 7:20 AM PDT

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Get a i5-3570K

THE K IS IMPORTANT. K = OC is available to you as an option, which you'll ultimately want down the road even if you think you don't currently.

Also, as someone else said, get a bit of a better PSU for sure.

  • 12.19.2012 7:29 AM PDT

Get the next level up CPU, 2x4Gb RAM would be better than 1x8GB, 500GB of memory is quite low, that GPU is not only a Radeon, but also a fairly average-low spec one, and that PSU will explode.

That monitor looks good, but is quite expensive for a reason I can't see, and over $100 on a mouse and keyboard when you're only spending just over $90 on a GPU is an odd decision.


*EDIT* Also, that Windows 7 is OEM, I would go for one that isn't OEM. Here's some info on OEM

[Edited on 12.19.2012 7:46 AM PST]

  • 12.19.2012 7:44 AM PDT

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I would get a Geforce 680, or a 660. But that's just me.

If you want to play recent games on ultra then you should get anywhere from a 670 to a 690.

  • 12.19.2012 7:48 AM PDT
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Here you go OP.


100x better for the same price.

  • 12.19.2012 7:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: DarkestSeptagon
I would get a Geforce 680, or a 660. But that's just me.

If you want to play recent games on ultra then you should get anywhere from a 670 to a 690.

No....not even.

If you want to play any game maxed out today....you would only need a 660/7850.

  • 12.19.2012 7:50 AM PDT

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