Time to get this thread back on topic haha

This is basically a cheap desktop from the retail store XD

Windows 7 64-bit home premium
4GB ddr2 ram 666mhz
Pentium dual core E5300 2.66ghz
Xfx geforce gt 240 1 gb ddr5 (upgrade)
Stock 275w psu (fail I know)
750gb 5400rpm sata hdd (full)
Harmon kardon speakers from years ago
Logitech g27 tonpair nicely with it

After only a year and a half of owning it, I am adding a second hard drive, new processor and new psu. Any recommendations?

Bt sorryfor odd spelling, iPod touch at the moment

Why would you want more than 275W PSU with 65W CPU and 70W GPU? That together makes just 135 watts, leaving 140W for HDDs and stuff.

when it comes to power, i'd rather have too much than not enough.

Quote from dadge :

when it comes to power, i'd rather have too much than not enough.

But he has >2x times more powerful power supply than his system needs.
Corsair 850HX here, so I myself am not ideal either

i call that future proofed.

I just built this last month.

AZZA Hurrican 2000
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Overclocked @ 4.0ghz
ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890FX
CORSAIR CWCH50-1 High Performance Water Cooler
G.Skill Ripjaws 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3 1600
2X SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 in XFire
SEAGATE Barracuda 7200 RPM 1TB
OCZ Vertex2 60GB SSD
ASUS DRW 24B1ST SATA 24X DVD Burner
XFX Black Edition XPS-850W 80 Plus Silver
MICROSOFT Windows 7, 64 Bit
ASUS VH238H 24" 1080P 2MS HDMI LCD

Quote from Flame CZE :

When I turn vsync on, there's quite a big wheel input lag.

i get this too, but i just run my Graphics on lower specs ( pretty much medium everything ) and it solves itself

the werid yet wonderful coding of lfs i guess ?

Quote from BowHunt3r :

2X SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 in XFire

Flashed to 6970 BIOS I hope?

Also, why you'd need an optical drive in.. 2011? :S

blue ray, dvd durning, cd burning. why cut off your nose to spite your face. people used to say the same about floppy drives. but from experience, i've always built machines without floppy drives and i've always found myself needing a floppy drive.

as my great grandpappy would say, "it's better to have something and not need it than need something and not have it."

Quote from theirishnoob :

i get this too, but i just run my Graphics on lower specs ( pretty much medium everything ) and it solves itself

the werid yet wonderful coding of lfs i guess ?

I've never seen a sim what doesn't have input lag with vsync on. It's a shame since movement just looks so much smoother and natural with vsync but you can't use it while driving...

Quote from E.Reiljans :

Why would you want more than 275W PSU with 65W CPU and 70W GPU? That together makes just 135 watts, leaving 140W for HDDs and stuff.

It's a 350w gpu.

Upgraded my CPU, motherboard and memory yesterday, I now have an Intel i7 2600K, an Asus P8P67 Deluxe and 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3. As well as that I got a WD Velociraptor 600GB HDD.

Specs are:

Processor: Intel Core i7 2600K
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C12P SE14
Memory: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 (PC3-12800)
HDDs: Seagate 500GB (single platter), 2x Seagate 1TB, WD Elements 1TB, WD Velociraptor 600GB
Video Card: 2x EVGA GTX 470 SLI
Monitor: Dell U2711
Sound Card: X-FI Titanium HD
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech Z-5500D, Sennheiser PC 350
Keyboard: Logitech G510
Mouse: Logitech G9
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Deluxe
Computer Case: Antec Nine Hundred Two
Power Supply: Antec TPQ 1000W PSU
Wheel: Logitech G25

Quote from c00kie :

Upgraded my CPU, motherboard and memory yesterday, I now have an Intel i7 2600K, an Asus P8P67 Deluxe and 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3. As well as that I got a WD Velociraptor 600GB HDD.

Specs are:

Processor: Intel Core i7 2600K
CPU Cooler: Stock for now, trying to figure out how to get my Noctua NH-C12p SE14 back on.
Memory: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 (PC3-12800)
HDDs: Seagate 500GB (single platter), 2x Seagate 1TB, WD Elements 1TB, WD Velociraptor 600GB
Video Card: 2x EVGA GTX 470 SLI
Monitor: Dell U2711
Sound Card: X-FI Titanium HD
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech Z-5500D, Sennheiser PC 350
Keyboard: Logitech G510
Mouse: Logitech G9
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Deluxe
Computer Case: Antec Nine Hundred Two
Power Supply: Antec TPQ 1000W PSU
Wheel: Logitech G25

*faints* Nice setup!

My LFS rig :

• Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
  
• ATI Radeon 9000 64MB
  
• Memory : 1.28 GB
  
• HD : 20 GB
  

Quote from pfpdoodlez2009 :

It's a 350w gpu.

Even a GTX 580 needs only 250 watts.

Quote from c00kie :

Sound Card: X-FI Titanium HD
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech Z-5500D

Eww, what a waste of a great TI PCM1794 DAC. Seriously, there's no difference between onboard card and a $200 PCIe card if you're using optical output. :|
+ Z5500 is crappiest speaker set I've ever heard in my whole life.

[QUOTE=E.Reiljans;1588295]Even a GTX 580 needs only 250 wattsQUOTE]
In your dreams! All benchies I read tell me it's ~350W!

Quote from Bose321 :

In your dreams! All benchies I read tell me it's ~350W!

And of course they're using proper lab-level tools, and not $15 kill-a-watt from local Walmart.

</sarcasm>

Quote from E.Reiljans :

And of course they're using proper lab-level tools, and not $15 kill-a-watt from local Walmart.

</sarcasm>

Oh please. You're telling me all the big sites like tomshardware, techspot, tweakers.net, anandtech, etc are some idiots using cheap stuff to test products, and they all get around the same numbers?

Quote from Bose321 :

You're telling me all the big sites like tomshardware, techspot, tweakers.net, anandtech, etc are some idiots using cheap stuff to test products

Yep that's a well known fact. They're using consumer-grade hardware (and software) in all of their tests.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

Yep that's a well known fact. They're using consumer-grade hardware (and software) in all of their tests.

Care to show some 'professional'-hardware tested benches then?

Quote from Bose321 :

Care to show some 'professional'-hardware tested benches then?

People who own professional hardware don't play around with customer-grade videocards etc.

But you can become a good reviewer, by spending just a bit over €10k.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

People who own professional hardware don't play around with customer-grade videocards etc.

But you can become a good reviewer, by spending just a bit over €10k.

What the hell are you on about? That makes no sense at all...

Quote from Bose321 :

What the hell are you on about? That makes no sense at all...

What makes no sense at all is for laboratory with expensive hardware to review a cheap ($500 GTX 580 is cheap for them in this case) hardware. It'd look like if Tom's hardware would be reviewing um.. light bulbs.

Take to PM, jeez.