My New PC (with pics)

[sk82jack]

Specs:

Intel® Core™ i5-2500K Processor

ASRock Z68 Extreme4

Corsair XMS3 8GB

XFX AMD Radeon™ HD 6870

Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB

Pioneer DVR-S19LBK

Antec KÜHLER H₂O 620

TP-LINK TL-WN951N

NZXT Lexa S

Thermaltake Toughpower XT 675W



So lets see the first pic....the box shot!


Couple of the empty case.



All the little goodies with the case all clearly labelled, nice touch.


Here's the motherboard with all the bits and bobs you get with it


The PSU.


Also got some cable ties and a metal sticker with the PSU


Got the motherboard and PSU installed


Time for the RAM, CPU and CPU cooler to go in





Get the 6870, HDD and DVD drive in next (and all the rest)



Right so everything's in now but not very tidily, look at that snake pit in the bottom




Chucked the windowed side on to see what it's like and check everything is working



So everything was working, I installed Windows, drivers, etc....

Time for some cable management with the Thermaltake cable ties!




And the end result


Where the snake pit used to be





Front view with door open - with the Thermaltake sticker lol



Then sitting in it's home (under a messy desk!)




So that's all done now, just gotta transfer all my files from my old laptop over and then I'm gonna be overclocking, so we'll see how that goes.

 

[Method]

Holy resize Batman!

Post the link to the gallery

 

[RJC]

Holy huge pics!!

 

[sk82jack]

Are they too big? They look OK on mine... I'll try sort something out, may taker a while though

 

[stulid]

LOL they are massive.

 

[RJC]

They are huge, I have to scroll left / right on each picture a fair way, also they are in your face, I almost to need to put the laptop the other side of the room!

 

[sk82jack]

OK edited the OP and put a link to the album, will resize them and come back lol

 

[sk82jack]

Is that better?

 

[PrChaos]

Very nice build! Not too sure I like the case though

I'll stick with my Antec 902

 

[hbk123]

Great build, good job on the cable management too!

 

[RJC]

That's a lot better

Nice build

 

[sk82jack]

Very nice build! Not too sure I like the case though

I'll stick with my Antec 902

Lol fair enough mate

Great build, good job on the cable management too!

Cheers dude

That's a lot better

Nice build

Thank god, failed horribly the first time round lol thanks

 

[storm45]

nice build man, nice neat cable management.

one question... the antec kuhler, how is it performing? reasonable temps? i'm sure mine is broken as i can hear a rattling sound from it, is yours quiet?

 

[sk82jack]

Yeah it's pretty quiet but I'm used to a laptop that sounds like a concord lol

At stock after 10 mins of prime 95 my max temp was like 42C I think.

Gonna overclock it after dinner I think and I'll let you know what my temps are like.

 

[storm45]

lol i know what you mean, my old pc had broken psu which sounded like a lawnmower...

that temp sounds good..

this is how mine sounds:

 

[sk82jack]

Oh dear that doesn't sound good

Mine doesn't make a noise like that at all fortunately, thought about RMA?

What temps are you getting?

 

[Schizo]

the build was going great until you put that sticker on

nice build

 

[CyberCrow]

nice build m8 i got worried until i saw the bit about cable tidy up

 

[storm45]

ye, i think its broken lol, RMA'ing on monday... i got an i7 2600k and get max temps with prime95 running for 8 hours of 51C on each core using CoreTemp.

thanks for letting me know that yours does'nt sound like that though. Will definitely RMA

EDIT: temps are at stock speed

 

[olivier renault]

lol i know what you mean, my old pc had broken psu which sounded like a lawnmower...

that temp sounds good..

this is how mine sounds:

It's boring its way into the CPU Omnomnomnomomnomnom

Sounds like a broken pump.