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Building my own PC and was wondering if i could get some advice, I’m trying not to go over board but I do want something that is solid and reliable for a few years.

http://amzn.com/w/1GR6HW3URXTJS

i recommend going micro ATX. the cases and motherboards are cheaper then ITX.
Then I would spend the difference on a 760 or R7 270x to get a better video card.

but the rest of the hardware looks pretty good.

Unless you want a Shuttle like system due to space issues, a micro ATX platform is a bit more affordable.

Do you have a suggestion for a decent micro ATX mother board?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K2R6EGA/?tag=pcpapi-20

But you need to define “decent” but you rarely go wrong with Asus. Oh and your original link doesn’t work so I have no idea what you were looking at.

This is a microATX build im giving my dad for xmas. I just need to pick up the CPU and its complete.

the H97-G432 is a GOOD motherboard for the cost. But you can go cheaper and get something different. But that would be a good place to start looking for features and such.

edit forgot to add the link http://pcpartpicker.com/user/sirsquishy/saved/6tjqqs

During assembly, wear an anti-static wristband. Also, handle the circuit boards by the edges – don’t touch the edge contacts and don’t touch the components on the boards.

Ikaros.5730:

Building my own PC and was wondering if i could get some advice, I’m trying not to go over board but I do want something that is solid and reliable for a few years.

http://amzn.com/w/1GR6HW3URXTJS

Good starting resource = http://www.logicalincrements.com/

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cXcVCJ

How’s does that look to you guys, I’m trying to stay under 1200.

Bit of an overkill on CPU cooler IMO and please don’t tell me you are configuring that pair of SSDs as RAID 0.

Also for Video Card is a tad weak. The GTX 750 Ti is great if you don’t have a PSU with a PCIe power connector but unless you always bat GREEN over RED, the R9 270x is a lot faster for a similar price. Downside is you are going to need a bit more power PSU wise for an R9 270x and one with two PCIe power connectors.

Ikaros.5730:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cXcVCJ

How’s does that look to you guys, I’m trying to stay under 1200.

Honestly I would go with this build

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LfXdgs

Shave costs on the Overkill water cooling unit for a Hyper 212 evo, and dropped down a tiny bit on the i5 (3.2ghz base clock, weaker iGPU – Your not going to use the iGPU so it doesn’t matter), and picked a R9 280x instead of the 750.

Also not sure what your purpose on two 120G SSD’s was, but its far cheaper to get a m500 240G SSD then two 120G SSDs.

Well if it’s practical I wanted one hard drive for the os and all my programs and I wanted the second hard drive as a back up and also a place to store music and pictures. But would it be better to put that on a single hard drive? Also I have no clue what RAID 0 is.

Ikaros.5730:

Well if it’s practical I wanted one hard drive for the os and all my programs and I wanted the second hard drive as a back up and also a place to store music and pictures. But would it be better to put that on a single hard drive? Also I have no clue what RAID 0 is.

RAID0 is where you take many Drives and span them into one giant drive. the issue with this, if you lose one drive the entire RAID group is done.

Since you were thinking one drive for the OS and one for backup/music, I would suggest a single 240G SSD (840evo or Mx100 or M500), and then a cheaper 2TB HDD for your bigger data. To me that makes the most sense.

sirsquishy.8531:

Ikaros.5730:

Well if it’s practical I wanted one hard drive for the os and all my programs and I wanted the second hard drive as a back up and also a place to store music and pictures. But would it be better to put that on a single hard drive? Also I have no clue what RAID 0 is.

RAID0 is where you take many Drives and span them into one giant drive. the issue with this, if you lose one drive the entire RAID group is done.

Since you were thinking one drive for the OS and one for backup/music, I would suggest a single 240G SSD (840evo or Mx100 or M500), and then a cheaper 2TB HDD for your bigger data. To me that makes the most sense.