Comments on: Jimmy PC Build

By: FM-Fr4gm4n

FM-Fr4gm4n — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:26:31 +0000

Cool build. Pics sometime soon?

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:16:41 +0000

Build Complete! I'm going to make a video of my building it asap! ($945 Total) $905 if the rebates come back but I'm not holding my breath, always weary of those.

RAM – ($40) - Corsair Vengance 8GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233180

Case – ($80 with $20 Rebate Pending) - HAF 922 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119197

PSU – ($90) – Rosewill Capstone 650W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182071

Motherboard – ($175) - Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3 LGA 1155 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131792

CPU – ($205) Intel Core i5-2500K http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072

GPU – ($250 with $20 Rebate Pending)) EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Superclocked 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express 2.0 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130604

Hard Drive – ($85) Seagate Barracuda 500 GB 7200RPM 6Gb/s http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148767

DVD Drive – ($20) Asus 24xDVD+-RW http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

By: patrick

patrick — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:21:16 +0000

thats a fine psu but price seems high get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020&cm_sp=Cat_Power_Supplies-_-Spotlight-_-17-139-020 i bought http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182173 for $29 it was a nice psu for the price if you get a DOA.

By: wooly4

wooly4 — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:30:05 +0000

GigaBuster.exe said:
the only reason I've had to upgrade a PSU was lack or cable length or not enough Juice

buy new cables lol

and Vortex rosewill PSUs are just fine from my experience, I've owned quite a few and put alot of them in other builds and none of them have ever died that I know of

By: Vortex

Vortex — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:47:38 +0000

Jimmy said:

Vortex: Meh, I’d never buy a rosewill.

Any reason why? just read a review on the series. Capstone is brand new. And they gave it a 9.1 out of ten.

I just personally like to go with brand names that already have a good reputation. Ever since my biostar motherboard died on me in my first build, I only buy brand name components.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:34:43 +0000

Vortex: Meh, I’d never buy a rosewill.

Any reason why? just read a review on the series. Capstone is brand new. And they gave it a 9.1 out of ten.

By: Vortex

Vortex — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:29:19 +0000

Meh, I’d never buy a rosewill.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:13:46 +0000

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182071 for 89.99 what do you think?

By: GigaBuster.exe

GigaBuster.exe — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:38:53 +0000

I only use 80 plus certified PSUs and the rosewell PSUs that I’ve used have fit that discription, would you rather have a 650w with 90% efficiency or would you rather have a 850w with 83% for the same price, they also have a dented (like a golf ball) fans to be move air more quietly and effectively, only PSUs I know that have that are rosewell their single rails are actually pretty decent, their most notable features are the ones they don’t advertise, or at least not on newegg, not trying to say they are like master race of PSUs but they get a bad name since they aren’t “name brand” if one of their PSUs is bad its a bad company but if one of Cosair’s goes bad its just a defective fluke, I geuss that kind of stuff gets to me since I mostly do scalable best bang for your buck kind of builds. oh so this isn’t just a rant and acttually pretains to the thread (somewhat) don’t underestimate “cheaper” hardware, research ALL brands and products, not just expensive, name brand “quality” ones, you’ll either save money or get better hardware for the same ammount, sounds good to me
also as for a long term investment, in the hardware that I’ve owned, most of which is like a decade or older, the only things that have died are hard drives, the only reason I’ve had to upgrade a PSU was lack or cable length or not enough Juice, and only one of each so far

By: Hopkiller

Hopkiller — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:43:39 +0000

GigaBuster.exe said:
I've used rosewell for all my builds for customers, haven't had a problem yet out of like 10

They are okay, I have worked with them, but when doing my own personal builds I always go for a power supply with better efficiency and features, as I will transfer it from build to build.

I think of my PSU as long term investments as they don't change very much so I keep them for awhile.