Hi there!
I decided to go for a new pc and I have less than 10 days to decide everything about it.
I'm going to US (I'm from Brazil) and I can save a lot of money buying it there.
So I decided to call for help to make things right.
I want a quiet PC for general use, some intense computing, and some gaming (Starcraft 2 mostly).
Probably will make some OC but nothing extreme.
Don't want to expend too much on that (will save some money for cooling).
Considering noise is a major concern, I decided to go for a custom water colling system. I'm not going into this subject here.
CPU: Intel I7 2600K.
RAM: probably Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8Gb (2 x 4Gb) Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (CML8GX3M2A1600C9B).
PSU: probably Corsair Professional Series HX750 (CMPSU-750HX)
Video Card: probably EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5
Storate: 128Gb SSD to be defined + Raid 2 x 1Tb Seagate (or other) for data safety (redundancy).
I'm having a lot of trouble to decide which motherboard to chose. I believe Z68 chipset is the best choice.
First option was Asus, but it is a little expensive IMHO.
Second choice was Gigabyte... but some people are complaining about most of their models (in newegg and others).
I'm not a big fan of Asrock.
Can anyone help me with motherboards and general advice?
Thanks very much.
I decided to go for a new pc and I have less than 10 days to decide everything about it.
I'm going to US (I'm from Brazil) and I can save a lot of money buying it there.
So I decided to call for help to make things right.
I want a quiet PC for general use, some intense computing, and some gaming (Starcraft 2 mostly).
Probably will make some OC but nothing extreme.
Don't want to expend too much on that (will save some money for cooling).
Considering noise is a major concern, I decided to go for a custom water colling system. I'm not going into this subject here.
CPU: Intel I7 2600K.
RAM: probably Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8Gb (2 x 4Gb) Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (CML8GX3M2A1600C9B).
PSU: probably Corsair Professional Series HX750 (CMPSU-750HX)
Video Card: probably EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5
Storate: 128Gb SSD to be defined + Raid 2 x 1Tb Seagate (or other) for data safety (redundancy).
I'm having a lot of trouble to decide which motherboard to chose. I believe Z68 chipset is the best choice.
First option was Asus, but it is a little expensive IMHO.
Second choice was Gigabyte... but some people are complaining about most of their models (in newegg and others).
I'm not a big fan of Asrock.
Can anyone help me with motherboards and general advice?
Thanks very much.