Component recommendations for your gaming PC

sasikanth8

sasikanth8

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I just thought that making a thread to help select the components for themselves.

I need help from TE experts to complete this thread.

Cpu coolers:

CM Hyper 212+ (1850)

CM Hyper N520 (Rs.2,514)

Scythe Mugen

Really good for any build but big

Monitors:

Samsung P2350 (10800)

colors will be good 2ms

ASUS VH236H (Rs. 9071)

great movie and game performance

Acer H235H 8,600

good overall performance

Dell ST2210 (8457)

Cheap price and with HDMI port

There are good LG monitors but unfortunately not found in India.

Hard drives:

Seagate 1TB(2700)

ssd:

Corsair CSSD V32GB2 BRKT32GB SSD Nova Series (4,500)

Crucial RealSSD C300

Optical drives

Samsung,lg,lite on DVD burner

Video cards

Low budget:

PowerColor 4830

decent performance at 1600x900

Sapphire 5770

DX11

mid range:

ATI HD6850

best card at 10,000

Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Xtreme(close to the Radeon HD 6870,dual-heatpipe cooler

play well at 1680x1050

above mid range:

MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II OC Radeon HD 6950 2GB EVO/ Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX Edition(connect three DVI monitors,dual BIOS switch,dual-heatpipe cooler)

good at resolution of 1920x1080

560 Ti

good choice for 1680x1050

Power Supplies:

Budget PSU Recommendations (Basic computer use or budget gaming PC's)

520W Antec Neo ECO 520C – Prices/Stores 40A 1x 6pin, 1x 6+2 (Review) **No power cable** 80+ Standard 83.85%

500W Silverstone ST50F-ES – Prices/Stores 34A 1x 6pin, 1x 6+2 (Review) 80+ Standard 85.46%

450W Antec Neo ECO 450C – Prices/Stores 34A 1x 6pin **No power cable** 80+ Standard 85.15%

380W Antec Green EarthWatts – Prices/Stores 27A 1x 6pin 80+ Bronze 85.76%

500W Corsair CX-500 – Prices/Stores 34A 2x 6+2pin (Review (430W model))

<500W PSU Recommendations (Budget-Midrange gaming PC's)

450W Corsair VX-450 – Prices/Stores 33A 1x 6pin (Review1, 2, 3) 80+ Standard83.77%

430W Seasonic S12II – Prices/Stores 30A 2x 6pin Review (380W model) 80+ Bronze 85.33%

430W Antec Green EarthWatts – Prices/Stores 30A 1x 6pin (Review) 80+ Bronze 86.65%

460W Zalman ZM460B-APS – Prices/Stores 34A 2x 6pin (Review)

500-600W Recommendations (Performance PC's, SLI/Crossfire of budget-midrange cards or high powered graphics cards)

520W Seasonic M12II – Prices/Stores Modular 40A 1x 6pin, 1x 6+2 80+ Bronze 85.61%

520W Seasonic S12II – Prices/Stores 40A 1x 6pin, 1x 6+2 Review 80+ Bronze 85.69%

520W Antec HCG-520 – Prices/Stores 40A 2x 6+2 80+ Bronze 85.76%

550W Antec TruePower New – Prices/Stores Modular 45A 1x 6pin, 1x 6+2 80+ Bronze 85.25%

500W Silverstone Element ST50EFP – Prices/Stores 36A 2x 6pin (Review 1, 2)

500W Zalman ZM500-HP – Prices/Stores Modular 36A 2x 6pin

500W Antec EarthWatts – Prices/Stores 34A 2x 6pin (Review) 80+ Bronze 82.44%

600-700W Recommendations (SLI/Crossfire of mainstream cards, overclocked quad cores, etc)

650W Seasonic X-650 – Prices/Stores Modular 54A 4x 6+2pin (Review 1, 2) 80+ Gold 90.32%

650W Antec TruePower New – Prices/Stores Modular 54A 2x 6pin, 2x 6+2 80+ Bronze 86.47%

650W XFX Core Edition Pro – Prices/Stores 53A 2x 6pin, 2x 6+2pin (Review) 80+ Bronze 85.71%

650W Antec Signature – Prices/Stores Modular 43A 1x 6pin, 1x 6+2 (Review) 80+ Bronze 85.80%

650W Corsair HX-650 – Prices/Stores Modular 53A 4x 6+2pin 80+ Bronze 85.51%

650W Corsair TX-650 – Prices/Stores 52A 2x 6+2pin (Review) 80+ Standard 85.13%

600W Corsair GS-600 – Prices/Stores 48A 2x 6pin 80+ Standard 83.93%

600W Silverstone Strider Plus ST60F-P – Prices/Stores Modular 42A 1x 6+2pin, 3x6pin (Review ) 80+ Bronze 87.45%

700W-800W Recommendations (SLI/Crossfire or enthusiast graphics card and ultra high end systems.)

750W Seasonic X-750 – Prices/Stores Modular 62A 4x 6+2 (Review) 80+ Gold 90.25%

750W Corsair AX-750 – Prices/Stores Modular 62A 4x 6+2 (Review) 80+ Gold 90.80%

750W XFX Black Edition – Prices/Stores 62A 4x 6+2pin (Review1, 2, 3) 80+ Silver 88.91%

750W Antec TruePower New – Prices/Stores Modular 62A 2x 6pin, 2x 6+2 (Review 2, 3) 80+ Bronze 86.31%

750W Antec High Current Gamer – Prices/Stores 62A 4x 6+2pin (Review) 80+ Bronze 87.01%

750W Corsair TX-750 – Prices/Stores 60A 4x 6+2pin (Review 1, 2) 80+ Standard 86.31%

750W Silverstone Strider Plus ST75F-P – Prices/Stores Modular 60A 2x 6pin, 2x 6+2 (Review ) 80+ Silver 89.08%

850W+ Recommendations (Tri/Quad SLI/Crossfire of performance GFX cards and CPU's, very rarely needed.)

850W Seasonic X-850 – Prices/Stores Modular 70A 4x 6+2 (Review ) 80+ Gold 90.56%

850W Corsair AX-850 – Prices/Stores Modular 70A 4x 6+2 (Review 1, 2) 80+ Gold 91.02%

850W Corsair HX-850 – Prices/Stores Modular 70A 4x 8pin (Review) 80+ Gold 90.38%

850W XFX Black Edition – Prices/Stores 70A 4x 6+2pin (Review1, 2) 80+ Silver 88.81%

850W Silverstone Strider ST85F-P – Prices/Stores Modular 67A 2x 6pin, 2x 6+2pin (Review (850W roundup)) 80+ Silver 89.36%

850W Antec CP-850 – Prices/Stores Modular 64A 2x 6pin, 2x 6+2 (Review) 80+ Standard 85.56% To be used in Antec's P183, P193 & 1200 only
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Processors:

Budget:

i3 2100

AMD Athlon II X3

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb

mid range:

i5 2500

i5 2500K

Motherboards:



Intel LGA1155:

P67:

Gigabyte P67-UD5-B3

feature-filled motherboard

Asus Sabertooth P67

TUF Thermal Radar sensors can automatically calculate and set system fan speed

MSI P67A-GD80

stable power with extreme overclocks

Intel DP67BG

10-channel audio,SLI and CrossFireX

MSI P67A-G45

affordable

Biostar TP67B+

affordable motherboard that offers several features

H67:

Gigabyte H67MA-UD2H-B3

lot of intelligent features,creating a RAID 0 when two new 3Gbps SATA drives are detected.

Biostar TH67+

Intel DH67BL

AMD AM3:

MSI 890FXA-GD70

support for AMD’s AM3+ multicore processors,can also unlock Phenom II X2

Biostar TA870U3+

affordable motherboard

AMD Hudson-M1:

Gigabyte E350N-USB3

Thermal paste:

Tuniq TX-3/TX-4

Best

ARCTIC COOLING MX-2/MX-3

Better

Arctic Silver 5

Better

Thermalright TG-1

Noctua HT-1

RAM:

G-Skill[ Ripjaws-X ] F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM 5,750

Corsair 2*4GB DDR3 1333 MHz C9 Desktop Memory(4400)

CMX4GX3M2A1600C9( Rs.2,850)

G-SKILL[ Trident ] PC3-12800 / DDR3 1600 Mhz/cl-8-8-8-24 (2Gx2)3000

I know this is incomplete.I want to call this a beta version because there is a lot more work to do.

I will change the format so that everyone can easily navigate through this to make their decisions.

I collected much of the information from internet and i'm not an expert.

Please correct my mistakes

more to come...

spent 5 hours on it.
 
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Nice initiative there. But you need to be a little more concerned about the formatting/layout part. Format properly so that all can utilize the thread at its full potential. Also, the fellow members can add to your contribution.
 
first of all nice initiative...
I too feel that tabular format will be better. Also, I will say add one thing at a time;for ex: start with pc cabinet , add what ever you want in the list and when you feel that almost everything is covered. Move to next thing like CPU cooler and so on.
IMHO full tower cabinets are not at all covered and many good cases are missing. HAF-X is a must have in the list. Apart from that corsair obsidian/Lian Li/Lancool and others needs to be added.
 
Thanks for your valuable suggestions.

yes i have not covered full towers and some costly things because they are costly.

I want to keep this for low and mid range pc builds for now.

Need more help TE members common.

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Also, I will say add one thing at a time
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I was going for it.
 
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Yup, I also would like the tabular format. Make different budget ranges and add a table for each range. That will be nice and easy for look ups.
 
In the graphic card section, what do you think about ATI HD6850?
And if someone has a budget of about 12-15K for CPU+Mobo, which combo would be the recommended one. Isn't AMD a better choice in that price range?
 
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