OK, Just bought my Hardware (should be here Wed.), and ready to build a mod for my first time. I’m really just needing to talk this out, and get advice on something that might have slipped my mind or just not aware of. Advice/second opinion would be greatly appreciated.
So here’s what I got:
Case: Personel taste here and I liked what I’ve seen from some other people’s mods.
—UV Clear Blue, Logisys CS888UVBL Acrylic Mid-tower Computer ATX Case w/ 4 UV Fans, Two Front USB and; Audio, Pre-Assembled!
RAM: OK, I admit, overkill, but dude, for $100…
—Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz (PC3-12800) 240-Pin Dual Channel Kits Memory, 9-9-9-24, P/N: CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9.
MOBO:
—Asus P8Z77-V PRO Intel Socket 1155 ATX Motherboard, Intel Z77 Chipset, Support Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs, Dual Channel DDR3, SATA RAID, PCI-E 3.0, USB 3.0, Gigabit LAN, Wi-Fi, 8ch Audio
CPU: Already checked and confirmed that yes it does come with a fan, but being an acrylic case I would like to go with a UV fan. But, being an Ivy Bridge I can’t find a fan and I’m not sure if Sandy Bridge fans are compatible. Kinda’ looking for some help here.
—Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz DMI 5GT/s LGA1155 Quad-Core 22nm Processor, Model: BX80637I73770, Retail
PSU: I’m concerned about this one. Once again, being an acrylic case, of course I’m wanting to do some lighting inside. I couldn’t find
anything over 680W that I liked. I know 500W is fine and I don’t really plan on overclocking or anything (right now!). It’s just I’ve never done any LED lighting so I’m not really sure of what my power limitations are going to be.
—Apevia / Aspire 680W Iceberg Power ATX12V and EPS12V Computer Power Supply ATX-IB680W-BL, SLI Ready, Supports PCI-E and SATA.
HDD: Good enough. I wont have anything but OpenSUSE on this thing. Advice needed: Is there really any difference in SUSE (Enterprise) and OpenSUSE. I’m going to get the box set of one of the two (just to give some love back to my favorite distro). I really don’t do anything major; some graphics, LAMP Server (dev only), and basic user stuff. Any lessons learned? But all-n-all I’m cool, I’ll figure out which way I want.
—Western Digital Caviar Blue 3.5in 320GB SATA 3Gb/s Internal Hard Drive, 7200 RPM, 8MB Cache, Model: WD3200AAJS. OEM
JUST SOME PRETTY STUFF:
—Blue Link Depot 1.5 ft. SATA II Cable with Locking (90 Degree), UV Blue, RoHS Compliant, Model: SATA2L-1.5-UVB
—Logisys Lazer LED for Computer Case, Color: UV, Model: LL-UV, Retail box
The only thing I think I might have goofed on is the PSU. As far as a UV CPU Fan, the only difference between the Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge is 32mn verse 22mn. Right? The 22nm would use less energy, but does that mean, its going to get hotter? I don’t know enough to know enough to decide. I really don’t want to burn up a CPU, just because I cut corners on a fan. I could use some feedback on those two things.
So what do you thank? What should I look out for? I have yanked parts out of computers and parts back in to get a little practice,
but this is the first time to build a complete system so thanks in advance for any feedback.
TTFN
JohnP