First PC build- advice

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Originally Posted by harsh60

Your Bulid is good but your GPU is not good
I recommend MSI R7850 Power Edition 2GD5 and the link is here: http://www.msi.com/product/vga/R7850...n-2GD5-OC.html

If ordered what was suggested by lehtv he has a 7870

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Originally Posted by harsh60

Your Bulid is good but your GPU is not good
I recommend MSI R7850 Power Edition 2GD5 and the link is here: http://www.msi.com/product/vga/R7850...n-2GD5-OC.html

I got the 7870 that lehtv recommended, but thanks regardless.

Originally Posted by lehtv

OK, nice. Make sure to monitor your temperatures, fan speeds and such so you know your cooling is working as intended. Some handy tools: CPU-Z, HWMonitor, MSI Afterburner. I would also recommend stability testing even if you haven't overclocked

Hi

Thank you for all your help, even providing answers to questions before I even posted them!

I have e-mailed myself a photo of the system in the case, but between the GPU and cooler which both can only be measured in solar masses and the PSU at the bottom meaning that the full length of cables had to be used with little or no room to manoeuvre, the best I could do was lunk what I could behind the motherboard compartment and under/ amongst the HDD drive bays. Cables were nicely wrapped up, but the main power cable to the mobo (official name?) was very difficult to handle and made it a mission to put the back/ right side panel back on.



But otherwise I need not be told twice that it is a mess!

[lehtv]

It looks like you have a small opening above the CPU cooler, try to route the CPU power cable behind the tray.

I'd also like to see the view behind the tray. I'd try to pull as much of the loose cabling hanging around the hdd-gpu area back there and fasten with the numerous basic cable ties you undoubtedly received as part of all the product packaging.

I don't think modularity would really help here, while a case better designed for cable management would do.

Also here's an idea how you could try to route the main ATX 24-pin cable behind the tray: http://i.imgur.com/su9Pl.jpg

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Originally Posted by lehtv

It looks like you have a small opening above the CPU cooler, try to route the CPU power cable behind the tray.

I'd also like to see the view behind the tray. I'd try to pull as much of the loose cabling hanging around the hdd-gpu area back there and fasten with the numerous basic cable ties you undoubtedly received as part of all the product packaging.

I don't think modularity would really help here, while a case better designed for cable management would do.

Aye aye, think I will play around with cables solidly tomorrow, in the mean time I will performing the wonderful assortment of tests you have linked me to.

Followed by a dabble or two in some games. (although the most demanding games I have at the moment are The Old Republic and Shogun: Total War 2, not exactly awe inspiring)

This is the start of me taking computers seriously, will give Linux a go to.