First time taking a shot at building a PC and I'm hoping to get some recommendations for components and general suggestions for doing this.
So far I think I've decided on the nMEDIAPC 6000B case, Intel i7-2600K, this Lite-On DVD drive, this Samsung HDD, and either the GeForce GTX 570 HD or the Radeon HD 6970 2GB (I've been looking through the Dolphin wiki trying to figure out whether games are more likely to run smoothly on Nvidia cards or AMD cards... it's hard to say but I might be leaning towards an AMD card?) I think I'll probably go for 8 gb of Kingston or Corsair ram.
Mainly I'm looking for advice on motherboard, power supply, and cpu cooling. I did notice this thread from December about building an HTPC with the nMEDIAPC 6000B and I saw recommendations for the P67 or Z68, are these motherboards good choices to use with the processor and video cards I'm interested in?
I definitely want to overclock to at least 4.5GHz so I need a cooler that will fit in a 6.6" high case. One newegg customer confirms that the Noctua NH-C14 will fit so I'm leaning towards that one, but it seems like the less expensive Coolermaster GeminII S would do the job as well.
I haven't had a chance to look into power supplies much yet so any recommendations are welcome.
Thanks
So far I think I've decided on the nMEDIAPC 6000B case, Intel i7-2600K, this Lite-On DVD drive, this Samsung HDD, and either the GeForce GTX 570 HD or the Radeon HD 6970 2GB (I've been looking through the Dolphin wiki trying to figure out whether games are more likely to run smoothly on Nvidia cards or AMD cards... it's hard to say but I might be leaning towards an AMD card?) I think I'll probably go for 8 gb of Kingston or Corsair ram.
Mainly I'm looking for advice on motherboard, power supply, and cpu cooling. I did notice this thread from December about building an HTPC with the nMEDIAPC 6000B and I saw recommendations for the P67 or Z68, are these motherboards good choices to use with the processor and video cards I'm interested in?
I definitely want to overclock to at least 4.5GHz so I need a cooler that will fit in a 6.6" high case. One newegg customer confirms that the Noctua NH-C14 will fit so I'm leaning towards that one, but it seems like the less expensive Coolermaster GeminII S would do the job as well.
I haven't had a chance to look into power supplies much yet so any recommendations are welcome.
Thanks