Last Check before i buy!

zxxtonyxxz

I am going to start buying my parts for my pc build and i said ill put it up here for one last time just to make sure i have everything and that everything is compatible.

Motherboard: Asrock H97 Anniversary s.o LGA1150
CPU: Intel i3 4160 s.o LGA1150
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport (two 4GB Sticks)
GPU: GTX 950
SSD: Kingston 120GB
HDD: WD 1TB
PSU: 430Watt Corsair CX Series.
Case: CiT Vengance Red
Optical Drive:ASUS DRW-24F1ST Internal SATA DVD Writer
Extra Case Fan: Coolermaster sickelflow red 120mm case fan
OS: Windows 8.1

Ant695

All looks ok to me. Only thing I'd say is if you're gonna go windows 10 anyways then windows 7 will be cheaper and still free upgrade.

zxxtonyxxz

See the i want to just go to a shop and buy the operating system to make it easier on me and 8.1 was the lowest i could possibly find but thanks for the suggestion

zxxtonyxxz

One thing aswell the monitor i am temporarily usibg has no hdmi port is that an issue?

SterlingArcher

zxxtonyxxz wrote: »

See the i want to just go to a shop and buy the operating system to make it easier on me and 8.1 was the lowest i could possibly find but thanks for the suggestion

Maybe adverts. Might get a cd of windows for cheaper.

Whats up with the h97 board. The asrock b85 pro has another pci express slot. might be a reason you selected

Antec gx 300 case is around same price maybe do some comparisons, antec make some good cooling performance cases.

grindle

zxxtonyxxz wrote: »

SSD: Kingston 120GB

If it's the V300, avoid it. They sold a good version for a short while, piled up the 5-star reviews, then put slower components into it to make money off of fooling consumers.

zxxtonyxxz wrote: »

One thing aswell the monitor i am temporarily usibg has no hdmi port is that an issue?

What input does it have? If it's VGA you'll need a DVI-I to VGA adapter.

Digital Solitude

grindle wrote: »

If it's the V300, avoid it. They sold a good version for a short while, piled up the 5-star reviews, then put slower components into it to make money off of fooling consumers.

I've a v300, do you know a way of checking if I've the old model or new one?

zxxtonyxxz

My monitor has a blue port dno what that is if u want a pic i can do for you and also could you extend on the board ur on about?

zxxtonyxxz

Also swapped out ssd to an intel one

grindle

Digital Solitude wrote: »

I've a v300, do you know a way of checking if I've the old model or new one?

Use Anvil's Utility to test the read/write speeds and IO performance and see how your results match up with the ones on this page.
It's a great SSD for laptops stuck with SATA2, but pretty sh!tty of them when some professionals were trusting the benchmarks in the first wave of reviews only to find their new drive was 20-60% slower depending on task.
Still much better than HDD though.

zxxtonyxxz wrote: »

My monitor has a blue port dno what that is if u want a pic i can do for you and also could you extend on the board ur on about?

If it looks like

then you'll need

A friend bought one from here recently, delivery was slow but it works.
If you want it from somewhere else you're looking for a DVI-A Female to VGA Male Adapter.

zxxtonyxxz

Cabling4Less DVI to VGA (HD15) Adaptor (M-F)
What about this from amazon?

grindle

zxxtonyxxz wrote: »

Cabling4Less DVI to VGA (HD15) Adaptor (M-F)
What about this from amazon?

That's much better. The one I showed would plug into the monitor and you'd need a DVI cable already, this one you plug into the card and can use the VGA cable I presume you already have.
Stupid on my part, sorry. My dumb brain imagines everybody else has thousands of random yet specific cables laying around.

SterlingArcher

zxxtonyxxz wrote: »

Also swapped out ssd to an intel one

A crucial bx 120gb ssd is cheaper and runs pretty much the same.

Digital Solitude

Yeah I've the ****ter one :pac: Thanks for the links grindle

zxxtonyxxz

Thanks guys adapter and ssd im pretty sure im sorted now

zxxtonyxxz

also can this pc run solid works? and i would prefer some asus motherboard so could anyone recommend me one?

Digital Solitude

It won't be a pro grade Solidworks machine but it'll do for tipping about

grindle

zxxtonyxxz wrote: »

and i would prefer some asus motherboard so could anyone recommend me one?

Could you show us the case on a shop's webpage? I have no idea what size it is and searching for it brings up something called the Vantage and nothing else.

zxxtonyxxz

Its on amazon its calles the CiT Vengeance in red

zxxtonyxxz

Sorry its the CiT Vengeance

zxxtonyxxz

Vanquish sorry im tired

grindle

zxxtonyxxz wrote: »

Vanquish sorry im tired

Just search ASUS H97 ATX on whatever site you're buying from