Feerlyss
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First I would like to say hi to you all. I'm gonna build my first mITX PC and I ordered the Z77 Stinger, I've seen a lot of good and bad press on it but for $119 I'm giving it a shot. So just wanted to know how many of you guys either love it/hate it or have had issues/no issues. I'm aware of no front audio and that some people have memory compatibility issues. I'm okay with the lack of front aux audio bc i'll be 5.1 out. Has anyone had any trouble gaming or overclocking is more what i'm concerned about. How stable has it been for you? Thanks guys I'll post my build as I gather the parts, I'm on a budget that will take me a few months to complete but here are my initial specs as of today. things may change if prices drop or new items appear during my process.
z87 stinger
core i5 3570k
750 ti FTW
8gb ram
Prodigy case (black)
...and all the other goodies for cooling and such
I will be overclocking.
Feerlyss
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Re: New to the forum...Just ordered the Z77 Stinger
2014/03/07 04:37:20
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Welcome to EVGA man!! Are the parts you listed what you own already?! What psu, that's probably the number 1 most important item, are you using?!? Have you been building pc's for awhile and are decent at troubleshooting? Finally, take what you read and see on the internet as 10% of the total amount of people that own it. Most who are trouble free wont bother to comment about there build with it.
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Feerlyss
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Re: New to the forum...Just ordered the Z77 Stinger
2014/03/07 07:53:20
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Welcome to EVGA man!! Are the parts you listed what you own already?! What psu, that's probably the number 1 most important item, are you using?!? Have you been building pc's for awhile and are decent at troubleshooting? Finally, take what you read and see on the internet as 10% of the total amount of people that own it. Most who are trouble free wont bother to comment about there build with it.
Hey thanks for the reply. I'm gonna use the Corsair CX600. It's been a little while since I built a PC bc I've been using Mac for years in the studio, but I'm all about technology. I grew up in a family of electronics gurus you could say, haha. Right now I'm gaming on a MacBook Pro that is BootCamped with Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. Gets the job done but is by no means a "gaming rig". Still I'm able to play BF3 at 27fps avg, Tomb Raider 29 fps avg, and so on. Don't wanna burn my laptop up though so and I need a real gaming rig that can be powerful yet affordable and the setup I went with seems to work well for many people. Gonna start with the 750 ti FTW bc of the price to performance, and I can always grab a better card without having to worry about upgrading other components in my system and double my power. :)
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Feerlyss
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Re: New to the forum...Just ordered the Z77 Stinger
2014/03/07 07:54:49
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also, no I do not own the other parts yet, I am purchasing them piece by piece bc I can't really afford one big smash and I only use cash not credit. so the mobo is my first piece.
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Re: New to the forum...Just ordered the Z77 Stinger
2014/03/07 13:54:01
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Feerlyss
also, no I do not own the other parts yet, I am purchasing them piece by piece bc I can't really afford one big smash and I only use cash not credit. so the mobo is my first piece.
You know what, this may be a bad time to offer this suggestion to you cause I don't know how long its going to take you to amass the parts/money, but you may want to buy the mobo/cpu/ram at the end of the build and get the other parts first like psu, case, fans, coolers,gcard, soundcard etc... just in case you spend a lot of time trying to get all the parts and a new socket/cpu drops with ddr4. At least the other parts can go in any rig you build for the most part, whether now or 2 years from now.
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Feerlyss
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Re: New to the forum...Just ordered the Z77 Stinger
2014/03/07 15:29:19
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Feerlyss
also, no I do not own the other parts yet, I am purchasing them piece by piece bc I can't really afford one big smash and I only use cash not credit. so the mobo is my first piece.
You know what, this may be a bad time to offer this suggestion to you cause I don't know how long its going to take you to amass the parts/money, but you may want to buy the mobo/cpu/ram at the end of the build and get the other parts first like psu, case, fans, coolers,gcard, soundcard etc... just in case you spend a lot of time trying to get all the parts and a new socket/cpu drops with ddr4. At least the other parts can go in any rig you build for the most part, whether now or 2 years from now.
Well I did already order the z77 and I am okay with that for my first gaming rig. But I do agree with you on waiting the year out because I know new chipsets are dropping fourth quarter and Haswell refresh chips are dropping mid year so the prices of the Ivy Bridge chips are gonna fall so I'll hold off on the chip and the GPU for a while and gather the other parts. I'm pretty set on my build though, I'm just now jumping ship from a lifetime PlayStation devotee. I've always known PC gaming is better but I preferred my console until recently. I decided I didn't want a new console I wanted a PC. So this is really just my first rig that will stand the test of modern games for a few more years while I save for a more elaborate ultimate build. You gotta take into account that I've been playing PS3 and that's the best I've ever had so even the games I'm playing on my bootcamped MacBook Pro are blowing my mind on graphics alone. Not gonna take much to impress me on this first round. :)
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