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Posted January 25, 2012
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Nroug7: Im probably looking at the HAF 922, I will probably be doing a bit of air overclocking on the processor. (Maybe.)

the parts im looking at purchasing are

Gainward phantom GTX 560 TI 2GB
Intel i5-2500k 3.3GHZ
G.Skill Ripjaws F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 (1600 MHz)
Seagate barracuda 1TB Hard drive.
Coolermaster HAF 922
Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 Motherboard
The cost of those parts is $942, and im yet to decide on a power supply

Also, ive heard the i5 is stable with overclocks of 4.5 GHZ On air cooling.
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cjrgreen: HAF 932 Advanced is even better, but the HAF 912 and 922 are probably better bargains.

For overclocking, you'll want something better than the stock cooler. Intel stock coolers suck, I can't put it any more bluntly. The best bargain on LGA 1155-compatible coolers is probably the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus; you can spend a lot more without doing a lot better.

I am not fond of Gigabyte's recent motherboards, or Seagate's recent Barracudas. Gigabyte still has a half-ass "Hybrid EFI" BIOS that they claim is partly UEFI compatible but isn't UEFI at all. Gigabyte won't have UEFI until the X79-chipset motherboards. ASUS and MSI have UEFI now. Seagate's quality went to hell in a dragline bucket after they bought Maxtor and hasn't come back.

I prefer ASUS or MSI for motherboards in most cases (watch it with MSI; they have known compatibility issues with G.Skill-branded memory; I use Corsair or Kingston with them), Western Digital over all others for disk drives, and any of Corsair, Antec, or Seasonic (except Antec Basiq) for power supplies.
yeah, im trying not to go to over the top on prices though, thats why i chose the barracuda if you know a better deal it would be nice of you to reccomend something.
Posted January 25, 2012
Western Digital are the only hard drives I've ever owned that have failed. I've had 3 fail on me, luckily 2 of them were in warranty... the 3rd one I bought as a backup for my netbook and never used it or opened it (It's been sitting in a box in a cupboard for over 2 years)... It's been in my parents PC for 3 months and has died already. I can only presume that WD have poor quality control.
Posted January 25, 2012
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cjrgreen: HAF 932 Advanced is even better, but the HAF 912 and 922 are probably better bargains.

For overclocking, you'll want something better than the stock cooler. Intel stock coolers suck, I can't put it any more bluntly. The best bargain on LGA 1155-compatible coolers is probably the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus; you can spend a lot more without doing a lot better.

I am not fond of Gigabyte's recent motherboards, or Seagate's recent Barracudas. Gigabyte still has a half-ass "Hybrid EFI" BIOS that they claim is partly UEFI compatible but isn't UEFI at all. Gigabyte won't have UEFI until the X79-chipset motherboards. ASUS and MSI have UEFI now. Seagate's quality went to hell in a dragline bucket after they bought Maxtor and hasn't come back.

I prefer ASUS or MSI for motherboards in most cases (watch it with MSI; they have known compatibility issues with G.Skill-branded memory; I use Corsair or Kingston with them), Western Digital over all others for disk drives, and any of Corsair, Antec, or Seasonic (except Antec Basiq) for power supplies.
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Nroug7: yeah, im trying not to go to over the top on prices though, thats why i chose the barracuda if you know a better deal it would be nice of you to reccomend something.
I don't have much knowledge of Australian vendors, beyond the fact that their prices are high. WD "Caviar Black" or "RE" are the best widely available disks. Generally, any disk with a 5-year warranty is well made; 3-year warranty, less so; and 1-year warranty, you can guess :)

WD Caviar Black and Scorpio Black are among the few consumer disk drives that still carry a 5-year warranty. Seagate warrants "Barracuda XT" drives for 3 years and "Barracuda" drives for just 1 year. Before the Maxtor clusterfuck, they warranted these for 5 years.

Anecdotal evidence means nothing when it comes to hard drive quality. Warranty, how long the company that knows how well the drive was manufactured is willing to stand behind it, is a much better measure. And Western Digital does honor their warranties.

Before going cheap on a disk drive, consider how valuable your data are and how valuable your time to restore a hosed system is.
Post edited January 25, 2012 by cjrgreen
Posted January 26, 2012
Just the opposite for me. Hell I've even got 4 refurbished WD drives that are in their 4th computer of mine that I use to store media.

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serpantino: Western Digital are the only hard drives I've ever owned that have failed. I've had 3 fail on me, luckily 2 of them were in warranty... the 3rd one I bought as a backup for my netbook and never used it or opened it (It's been sitting in a box in a cupboard for over 2 years)... It's been in my parents PC for 3 months and has died already. I can only presume that WD have poor quality control.
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