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Too bad you couldnt wait for 3rd generation i3. Intel is really milking it and taking their time....
 
What does it matter? Ivy isn't going to b much diff. You wont see much diff except in benchmarks. Plus you have to pay more. Next year its gonna b haswell but that doesnt mean ivy is bad. So it doesnt matter anyway. Suit yourself.
 
I think it might be worth it to wait for the 3rd gen i-3 processors. Even if you still buy the 2nd gen i-3 procesor it will probably be for less. I would at least wait till the end of August to see if you can get a good sale. Sometimes you can save a little on a combo deal also.

On motherboards depending on the motherboard, often the ATX board comes in cheaper. This is a kind of odd subject. Often smaller is more expensive and you get less. Sometimes if you just watch prices for a couple of weeks a case will go on sale if you like to buy them online. Either that or you will see a similar case with free shipping.
 
There is also the chance that the value of the dollar would drop and you would have to spend even more money for the same or similar item.
 
When you ignore OCing and voltage modification for the Ivy Bridge CPU's, they do run more efficiently and consume less energy than their Sandy Bridge predecessors, whole point of Ivy actually. They also perform slightly better, perhaps its easiest to see the difference in benchmarks but that is what benchmarks are for, to show you the difference in power. Realistically they'll both perform great but an Ivy i3 is probably going to be a nice little purchase. That said the SB i3's are not bad at all either.
 
nickhil111 said:
I have asked the shop and they said I could change my case if I'd like. So wat do u suggesr 311 or 310?
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If you've already put it together, I wouldn't bother tearing it all back apart to make a minor change to the case. Bottom-mount is generally considered to be superior, but we're not talking about a huge difference here.
 
@mfenn The shop has offered me to exchange so I am getting CM elite 311. The guy told me that 311 is bigger and my corsair 430 w will b bottom mounted and have more space for its own.
My seagate 1 tb hdd is having a clicking sound now and then. Now I am worried cause it just have 1 year warranty. Should have gotten wd black or atleast green.

About ivy's well cant wait til that long. I am not living in states so no newegg or micro centre thingy!
 
nickhil111 said:
My seagate 1 tb hdd is having a clicking sound now and then. Now I am worried cause it just have 1 year warranty. Should have gotten wd black or atleast green.
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No, you should not have gotten a WD Green for your system drive. You'd wish it were dead. A "clicking" sound could be normal operation or indicative of a problem, it really depends on what the specific noise is and when it occurs. Most HDDs that will fail within 5 years will fail in their first year, so I wouldn't worry about it.
 
nickhil111 said:
My seagate 1 tb hdd is having a clicking sound now and then. Now I am worried cause it just have 1 year warranty. Should have gotten wd black or atleast green.
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No, you should not have gotten a WD Green for your system drive. You'd wish it were dead.

A "clicking" sound could be normal operation or indicative of a problem, it really depends on what the specific noise is and when it occurs. Most HDDs that will fail within 5 years will fail in their first year, so I wouldn't worry about it. Just make sure to have proper backups of your important data (which you should do anyway).
 
Way to really hammer that point home mfenn 😛

And does the clicking noise occur at the same time all the time, or just randomly when you're doing random things?
 
Yes, I didn't have WD green though. I got seagate st1000dm003. It was cheaper and single platter than wd black. Also some say wd black has noise and bit of more heat than others.
No, the sound comes randomly.
 
Got the Coolermaster elite 311 in blue color. It looks good and is more spacious plus its bottom mounted. Yeah, I guess the HDD will survive!
 
Backing up data means making a copy of it elsewhere, whether on discs, an external hard drive, online storage, etc. Backing up the data allows you to restore it in case something happens (like hard drive failure) so that you will be able to access it later.
 
External hdd would b good. But have to wait as there's a budget issue. Btw wd black and seagate model specified which one would you suggest?
 
I've never owned a WD Caviar, only their older offerings (quite some number of years ago) and all of my modern drives are Seagate with 1-2 others mixed in (one's an Hitachi I believe), until recently none of them has really died on me before they became obsolete, one of my Seagate's is dying. I've had no issues with the WD drives I've owned either, they're both good companies but it seems Seagate has been steadily lowering the length of their warranties while WD hasn't, so if for the same price/capacity I'd get the WD. However I'm fairly certain the Seagate will be cheaper.
 
As mfenn pointed out:

mfenn said:
Most HDDs that will fail within 5 years will fail in their first year, so I wouldn't worry about it.
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So in all likelihood, saving your cash was a good idea. It's not just a tradeoff between cost and warranty either, though - the Seagate drive is a bit faster.
 
Yep, saving cash was important! Was curious regarding my psu which is corsair 430 w. Is it sufficient for my build? I am planning to add a decent graphic card. Will the psu be able to hold everything good?
 
It will be fine with any graphics card that requires one 6-pin power connector. 7770, 6850, 7850 will all work fine
 
krnmastersgt said:
Backing up data means making a copy of it elsewhere, whether on discs, an external hard drive, online storage, etc. Backing up the data allows you to restore it in case something happens (like hard drive failure) so that you will be able to access it later.
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:thumbsup: to this. You can get a 5GB free from Google with Google Drive. That should be enough for your most important (irreplaceable) files.
 
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