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didnt take any pictures whilst building, but this is it finished.

having recieved the replacement fans from NZXT, (i also got some more from ocuk) :D its pretty much finished.

spec's

Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX Dual Channel

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4730 512MB GDDR5

AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 240 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
(OVERCLOCKED, to 3.24ghz with STOCK cooler :cool::cool: )

Asus M4A78L-M LE AMD 760G (Socket AM3/AM2+) DDR2 microATX Motherboard

NZXT M59 Mid-Tower Windowed Case - Black

OcUK 650W Dual Rail High Efficiency Modular Power Supply

Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache

fujitzu 180gig HDD, (6 years old, currently holding my entire music / picture collection.) spends most of its time switched off, so dosnt get a lot of use :P

Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter

also a pair of Coolink SWiF2-12P 120mm PWM Quiet Cooling Fan. pushes a lot of air, and best of all they were free. have one in the front infront of the HDD's and one at the rear as an exhaust.

2 nzxt 120mm fans as exhaust at the top.

1 nzxt 120mm (replacement) in the side window.

cpu is overclocked to 3.2ghz
idle temp is 26c and full load with prime 95 is 45c still using standard cpu cooler. so yea, im very pleased (and my house is pretty warm anyway)

cable managment isnt the greatest but its very good for the ammount of cable there :x

was my first ever pc build so be nice xD



pictures are pretty poor, but w/e my camera is playing up :(

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top HDD is the 180gig, bottom is the 500gig
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sweeeeet :P
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YES the wall is purple, still need to decorate :P
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both exhausting out the top, very quiet :)
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intake, with a "custom" dust insert, (made out of a pair of girls tights :D )
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Nice build. i'm sure you can get more than 3.2 out of that chip though mines happily sat at 3.6 on stock cooling.

they key is to drop down the HT link and NB multi once you hit around 240 fsb and possibly a little extra voltage on the cpu-nb
 
i will admit the cable in the pics looks a lot worse than in person xD, its pretty much pushed against the back, so it isnt restricting any airflow from the front (just looks abit messy :P )
 
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