Help on AMD 890GX based PC

[praxone]

Help me in configuration

PC is for server/client programming/application development
Location : bangalore

Phenom II 1055T is chosen

1) Price difference between GA-890GPA-UD3H and M4A89GTD PRO/USB3. Which one is reliable and value for money?
2) I am not planning to buy dedicated GPU but going to use inbuilt 4290, which psu is power saver and reliable?
3) Is there any SATA III Hard disks(Not SSD) out there in india ? or Which would be ideal SATA II Harddisk (1TB or 2TB)
4) Which would be the cheap and best case?
5) Recommend value for money RAM:- DDR3 1333 or 1600? which brand ( 8GB total)
6) Recommend any power saver (LED backlit preferred) 23-24" monitor (Is LG W2486L Available here? vs Acer S243HL vs Asus MS238H(Available?))

[Jaskanwar Singh]

your total budget?

[praxone]

<50K looking for value for money

[Sam]

Originally Posted by praxone

Help me in configuration

PC is for server/client programming/application development
Location : bangalore

Phenom II 1055T is chosen

1) Price difference between GA-890GPA-UD3H and M4A89GTD PRO/USB3. Which one is reliable and value for money?
2) I am not planning to buy dedicated GPU but going to use inbuilt 4290, which psu is power saver and reliable?
3) Is there any SATA III Hard disks(Not SSD) out there in india ? or Which would be ideal SATA II Harddisk (1TB or 2TB)
4) Which would be the cheap and best case?
5) Recommend value for money RAM:- DDR3 1333 or 1600? which brand ( 8GB total)
6) Recommend any power saver (LED backlit preferred) 23-24" monitor (Is LG W2486L Available here? vs Acer S243HL vs Asus MS238H(Available?))

Originally Posted by praxone

<50K looking for value for money

Proccy: AMD Phenom II 1055T.
Mobo: MSI 880G (model no not sure) or get Gigabyte. don't get Asus board. they have memory issues. can go for 890GX but won't get a huge increase in performance.
Ram: Corsair 4X2Gb Value or get Kingston if Corsair price too high/unavailable.
HDD: WD Green 1Tb (can get 1.5Tb also) X1. 500Gb blue X1 (OS drive)
PSU: Corsair VX450W (robust PSU)
Cabinet: your choice. my choice is CM 690 (old one). cause its server. good cooling is necessary.
Monitor: Benq's LED series. Acer have a few. but availability will give you big headache. or get Dell IPS panel monitors.

[praxone]

I am still reconfiguring
please help providing availability and price info



Mobo

M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 or GA-890GPA-UD3H

HDD : WD1002FAEX(black) and WD20EARS(green)
Monitor : Acer S243HL or LG E2240T
RAM :Kingston DDR3 1333MHz 4 x 2GB RAM

Cases

NZXT Gamma
Coolermaster Elite 333
Zebronics Bijli
Coolmaster 690 II Advanced

PSU

FPC Saga II 400 or Corsair VX450

[Jaskanwar Singh]

AVOID ASUS.

Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz @ 9.6k
Biostar TA890GXE @ 6.6k
DDR3 1333MHz 4 x 2GB RAM @ 10k
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB @ 2k
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB @ 4.5k
Corsair CX400W @ 2.8k
Cooler Master 690 @ 4.2k


Total - 39.2k

[praxone]

Finally Brought Asrock 890GX Extreme 3 Phenom II 1055T OCZ DDR3 1333 Gold RAM 4x2GB NZXT Gamma Corsair CX400 Acer S243HL LED Monitor NZXT Gamma's fan is making noise. is this normal? I want to overclock to 4GHz Which cooling solution is cheap and best(and safe)? What about HyperTX3? or anything better?

[aditya86]

Any particular reason for avoiding Asus ?

[Sam]

^^ try a poll here why peoples avoid Asus. you'll get more than 50% who avoid Asus. reason is all kinds of faulty & buggy peripherals in their mobos (not graphics card). ram slots, heatsink, sound (VIA Audio sucks), video (AMD IGP are bad in a few boards from Asus), USB, etc. the list just goes on & on. and yes if you using Asus & not facing any fault, just consider yourself lucky. try one of their 5k+ boards for AMD/Intel. and theres every chance you'll find yourself in a pothole. also Rashi is best distributor/service center. they offer NO help.

---------- Post added at 03:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:06 PM ----------

Gamma's fan maybe loose. take it off & refit it.

for cooling, TX3 is basic cooling. not for OC. get something good. like 2.5-3k cpu cooler. also to hit 4Ghz, you may have to raise Vcore (proccy voltage) to 1.6V. this is very high. so limit yourself to stock voltage & try your best shot. i saying this cause at high voltage suddenly your proccy may die. no need run benchmark. Intel proccy usually lies at 1.45V only.

[praxone]

"Any particular reason for avoiding Asus ? " For me : Just 2500 Rupee difference.... But few others were pointing out on memory related issues. Blaming entire asus brand motherboards is stupid ... Any particular reason for that? How much cm hyper 212 plus will cost? Is it very much advanced than TX3?

---------- Post added at 03:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:12 PM ----------

@Sam Shab Is Hyper 212+ a good choice? If so how much i can overclock stock voltage? prime95 was giving some hardware error when i did overclock without any cooling.. What is the right way to find out safe and best way oc clock speed? At stock volts what could be best bet? its Phenom II 1055T.