Recent content by Cold_War

You have great quality parts in your build and should also have great performance. A SSD would make a difference in boot times for Windows & programs, and disk read/write speeds, but storage comes at a high price! My boot time is actually only 30 seconds though with my hard drive, so personally...

A graphics card will improve your current FPS and make these games playable. The graphic card itself has very few benchmarks, but you can expect to be playing games on low to medium settings with good and highly playable FPS.

The liquid cooler won't go in your case anyway, so there's no point in buying one. Is there any point also in buying cold cathodes and LED fans when your case doesn't have a window, you won't see them?

What brand of power supply do you have? No point upgrading if your power supply is low quality.

Does this occur after a specific period of time or after you load a specific program, or is this issue at random periods?

I would pick up a motherboard speaker anyway just for future troubleshooting purposes, but refer back to your user guide and confirm that all of the cables are plugged in (and into the correct place) for myself my computer did not POST simply because I plugged the CPU fan into the chassis fan...

Sorry to say if you go any cheaper, the power supply simply won't be any good, and will most likely fail! Save up if you have to.

Had a little google, here's the support article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028504 Might help you a little! It is most likely overheating or a power problem that causes the crash. Check all your cables etc

Go with the i5 build. Just as a note! For the R9 280 the minimum power supply limit is 750W. Get the power supply upgraded or your build won't work.

I have the Bitfenix Comrade case myself (same price as the Neos) their cases are very good looking but they have quite a few sharp edges. The dust filters and trays are very useful, although the space for cable management is a little limited. The screws and screw holes are not very good though...

I wanted to get a modular power supply since my case is pretty small and I wanted to keep it tidy, but it isn't a big deal, so that's why I got the CX430M. I'm not planning on overclocking since I will use this computer for quite a while, I don't have any idea how to do so. and even if I do it...

Would upgrading to the 500W Corsair CX be enough? Or should I get 550W or 600?

I have made a new build this week but I ran into a few problems. I have an R9 270X, but when I try join a match in a game, it will begin to connect and then the whole computer will blackscreen, shutdown and restart. I think this might be an issue with my power supply, since at the moment I am...

To be honest you aren't going to manage any good FPS for 1080P/720P on medium-high settings, and you are basically wasting more money by buying a cheap GPU now so what is the point of buying an i5 if you are going to limit your graphics performance by a low end graphics card? Plus the fact that...

Nope.. all the PC parts are complete rubbish for $650..