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Personally i would never buy a ASRock motherboard or a corsair PSU ever again. Had a 990FX extreme 4 board and a corsair CX 600 PSU. board components got corroded and had to replace the PSU 3 times in 2 years.

ASUS for my next build.
 

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Personally i would never buy a ASRock motherboard or a corsair PSU ever again.

All of my motherboards the last several years have been ASRock. All are excellent boards with tons of features, quality components, and have been super-reliable.
 
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I see no reason to drop the SSD as earlier suggested. Even a budget SSD will provide better over all performance over the fastest HDs (even hybrids). Plus they consume less power and generate less heat, and no noise. And they can be expected to have a significantly longer lifespan as well.

The vast majority of users do not "need" mass storage devices (1Tb and larger) drives for their OS and programs and user created data files. A secondary HD will be fine for space hogging tunes and videos.
 
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I see no reason to drop the SSD as earlier suggested. Even a budget SSD will provide better over all performance over the fastest HDs (even hybrids). Plus they consume less power and generate less heat, and no noise. And they can be expected to have a significantly longer lifespan as well.

The vast majority of users do not "need" mass storage devices (1Tb and larger) drives for their OS and programs and user created data files. A secondary HD will be fine for space hogging tunes and videos.
Yeah! Gotta have an SSD for system and HDD for data!
Gotta have at 8gb RAM @ 1600Mhz at least.
ASUS mobos do the job! ASUS website is easy to navigate for updates and overclocking utility is also a walk in the park.
 
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i dont quite understand do the 2 rails combine ?? Becuase 35A * 12 = 434W

It's probably moot to discuss two 970s in SLI because I doubt that is something you are interested in anyway but yes you could do it. 35 amps on the +12V rail provides 420 watts. Here are three examples of how many watts an overclocked 970 uses. You can double that to see that each falls below 420 watts.



https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_970_STRIX_OC/23.html



In addition to that from the review on the Antec TP 750

"That said, we believe the OCP triggering point to be higher since none of our overload tests triggered the unit's overcurrent protection."

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Antec/TP-750C/2.html

The PSU has a reserve that provides more amps than it's rated at. This is not unusual for quality PSUs.
 
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Your graphic shows that the r9 280x is 39% slower...
....than the GTX 970. This thread started with the GTX 960 and that is what I thought you were talking about.:oops:
 

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is the cs650m good enough for a gtx 970 ?

that power supply is not bad according to many reviews, with solid performance: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Corsair/CS650M/11.html , http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/60...-80-plus-gold-power-supply-review/index5.html . The test results put it a mid-lower range position, and it seems that he's build with Chinese capacitator and not Japanese (http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/psus/2014/06/20/550w-650w-psu-roundup/18)

So, a recommendation would depend on the price you can get it.

Dont worry about power supply wattage, if you get the GTX 970 and the i5 4460 you will have no problem with a good 550w, and even at extreme constant usage you will not need more then 550w, you can do the mats your self here: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

....than the GTX 970. This thread started with the GTX 960 and that is what I thought you were talking about.:oops:

I noticed :)

Personally i would never buy a ASRock motherboard or a corsair PSU ever again. Had a 990FX extreme 4 board and a corsair CX 600 PSU. board components got corroded and had to replace the PSU 3 times in 2 years.

ASUS for my next build.

You had to change the PSU 3 times and you think it was the motherboard's fault, strange logic.
 
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that power supply is not bad according to many reviews, with solid performance: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Corsair/CS650M/11.html , http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/60...-80-plus-gold-power-supply-review/index5.html . The test results put it a mid-lower range position, and it seems that he's build with Chinese capacitator and not Japanese (http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/psus/2014/06/20/550w-650w-psu-roundup/18)

So, a recommendation would depend on the price you can get it.

Dont worry about power supply wattage, if you get the GTX 970 and the i5 4460 you will have no problem with a good 550w, and even at extreme constant usage you will not need more then 550w, you can do the mats your self here: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine



I noticed :)



You had to change the PSU 3 times and you think it was the motherboard's fault, strange logic.
Motherboard components got corroded after a year or so. it worked properly for 3+ years and just died one day.

PSU is still to be submitted for replacement.

All of my motherboards the last several years have been ASRock. All are excellent boards with tons of features, quality components, and have been super-reliable.
Good for you. I know they are of good quality and are feature packed that's why i bought one; must have gotten a bad piece.
 
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Ok New Pc coming tomorrow :D :D :D :D :D :D (Maybe :rolleyes:)

Here's the spec's I've chosen :pimp:

CPU : Intel Haswell Core i5-4460 (BX80646I54460), 3.20GHz
MEM : AD3U1600W8G11-B ADATA 8GB DDR3 1600MHz, 240-Pin
GPU : Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 WF
MOBO : Gigabyte GA-B85M-HD3, LGA1150, Intel B85 Chipset
PSU : Antec TruePower Classic (TP-750C), 750w (R50 / 4$ difference between 650 and 750) (Can buy a bigger Gpu in the future :D)
HDD : Seagate Barracuda (ST1000DM003), 1TB, 3.5", SATA6G, 7200rpm
Case : Zalman ZM-T4

:peace:
 

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Excellent, good luck with it, thread closed.
 
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