This one faster, better and stronger.

May be you may take and sell it separately to those who had their netcards in lappy spoilt.

I bought mine (7260 ac) through taobao over RM100, LOL...

I bet foreign build will be filled with the following brands
- Corsair
- Asus
- Gigabyte

That's all.

OK, I left out their "godbrands" EVGA and NZXT...

Leadtek GTX 960 is recommended cause it is cheapest GTX960 around.

Any price higher than that make GTX960 not viable to be recommended, as AMD R9 280x is around the same price range with marginally better performance and extra 1GB of VRAM.

I just saw some recent thread which people bought MSI GTX960 Tiger version for RM800, that is probably the most I will pay for a GTX960.

Since still have spare balance, I will push for a H97, more modern, extra features, 4 ram slots and support Broadwell (just incase there's a need for upgrade in near future).

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 23 2015, 11:11 PM

Hmm, actually they provide the option to upsize the SSD with topup?

Definitely fit my need (if I didn't had my GTX970 and Transcend 370 in hands...).

So effectively, it is RM140 for extra 128GB, pretty good deal.

BTW, always prepare some over provisioning space for it.

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 24 2015, 12:24 AM

Nope. AFAIK, higher tier mobo don't really have any cons apart from the higher price tags.

Higher tier mobo usually have more features, better components (they claim) and more power phases.

Mobo don't affect power consumption much, it is the components connected to it (mainly CPU and GPU) did.

The extra power phases don't really mean it draw more power, but mean the power delivering task is more divided, hence each phases is less loaded and theoretically able to deliver "purer" power.

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 24 2015, 09:06 PM

But the problem is mobo's "performance" don't really reflecting PC's performance.

What I mean is a RM1k mobo will still give the same performance a RM200 one will do.

So it is bout own preference and budget on whether to spend extra for some high end stuffs.

Do note not all Z97 board is SLI-able.

Usually it will have 2 PCIE X8 then only it will be SLI-able.

For some great overclocking, people always try to get good PSU and good MOBO.

The task of PSU is to turn AC to DC, and the closer it is to the desired 12V/5V/3.3V with little ripple, we call it better.

Next is how well the mobo turn those 3 voltage supplied into the 1.xx voltage used by the CPU, and power phase and VRM are to make the effects here.

However, Intel's Haswell is said to integrate voltage regulator into the processor itself, so it is unclear how much will the power phase and VRM affect in overclocking for Haswell.
http://hothardware.com/news/Haswell-Takes-...ltage-Regulator

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 24 2015, 10:16 PM

Sounds good enough on paper, details you better go google yourself, we non-owner can't really comment much.

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 24 2015, 10:31 PM

LOL, brah, read again what he said.

He is complaining on overbudget even hadn't include monitor and OS...

Requote this build. Though personally I will suggest opt for Asrock H97(m) Pro4 instead for more features. Hadn't include OS, if want with OS but can't overbudget, dump the SSD.

That should do but I will suggest a H97 instead for which
Another thing is that he also need an OS, so may need to ditch the SSD.

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 25 2015, 12:36 AM

i5 4690k is unlocked CPU, which is mean to overclock.

Your current budget can't sustain an overclocking built.

If compare stock unoverclocked speed, the Xeon (3.4-3.8Ghz) is pretty similar to i5 4690 (3.5-3.9Ghz), so performance should be pretty similar too. But Xeon is having hyperthread support, so it is having 4 cores 8 threads instead of 4 cores 4 threads on i5. So when the program support multi-thread (particularly video rendering and similar task), the Xeon will likely have an edge than i5.

As for performance laptop, why not?

Mobile or desktop, it always back down to whether you prioritize performance or mobility, though on performance it is generally tolerable (lower down settings, reducing multitasking) but mobility is fixed and you require mobility then it is meaningless to talk about something practically 0 mobility (desktop).

So ask yourself again, do you need mobility or performance?

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 25 2015, 01:26 AM

SSD is a luxury, but also a drug. Once you fall for it, there's no way back.

For rig over 4k, we generally suggest it as a mandatory component (you already spend 4k on rig, what's more to spend another RM200 what?).

For rig under it (your rig I will effectively call it 3.3k budget, cause another RM700 pretty much reserved for OS and monitor), we will try to include it if it doesn't come at the expense of compromising performance (weaker CPU/GPU).

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 25 2015, 01:25 AM

Cut budget on the RAM.

Also, PSU?

Generally, for budget and general home/office use PC, I will suggest getting prebuild, particularly from Dell.
http://www.dell.com/my/p/desktops.aspx?c=m...53~0~239845&p=1
http://www.dell.com/my/p/inspiron-3647-sma...7-small-desktop

A similar custom build will likely cost more. Particularly due to the Win8 license.

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 26 2015, 08:25 PM

Corsair PSU is only better if you are getting their high end (e.g. AX series), else those budget VS series is nothing more impressive than other brand.

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 27 2015, 03:52 PM

1. Xeon win hands down in term of performance/price.
2. How much their clockspeed is, how much will the different be then. But generally, it don't really matter to consumers. Also you can always do your own overclock.

Since you running ITX build, reference blower cooler is recommended, and Zotac/Gainward should offer cheapest price for it.

Z-series mobo is generally for overclocking build, quite defeat the purpose if pair with locked Xeon.

The cooler having subpar performance, not exactly much more impressive than stock cooler.

If I am to build an ITX build, I will opt for Prolimatech Samuel 17, much more superior performance and flexible fan configuration.

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 28 2015, 05:56 PM

Get this thing and use with the flat profile fan.
http://www.prolimatech.com/en/products/det...bid=421#showtab

In fact this thing alone without fan is already pretty powerful.
http://www.tech-critter.com/2014/05/unboxi...-samuel-17.html

This post has been edited by Human10: Mar 28 2015, 10:20 PM