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After what has been a couple of years I decided it was time to let go of the old motherboard, CPU and cooler whaich had served me well, and decided to upgrade and futureproof my machine, well for the next few years at least. I'd been running a pentium i5 750 which had been running a pretty stable overclock of about 3.8-3.9GHz, for playing games and the like, to an unlocked and more popular i5-2500K. The previous Asus P7P55D motherboard had become unstable after an SSD failure Xmas day, so we decided to go for the ASRock Extreme 4 Gen3 motherboard. Now that I have two SSD's in my rig there's no excuses for latency. As with my previous rig 8GB of RAM really wasn't cutting the mustard when it came to 64 bit Photoshop, so I'd decided to upgrade to 16GBs worth of low profile RAM which now serves me fine. And finally the piece-du-resistance Zalman CNPS12X CPU fan is the hardiest piece of PC kit I've bought since upgrading to a Radeon 6950 graphics card last year. That CPU fan looks like a jet engine preparing for take off. Nice and quiet and looks as hard as nails to boot.
Many thanks to my partner in crime and PC extra-ordinaire Reflux for his time and patience in helping me build this mother of an over-clockable PC rig.
Greggertron
Here's a few shots I took this morning, need a tripod really for the detailed shots but these SLR shots do the job:
Many thanks.
Many thanks to my partner in crime and PC extra-ordinaire Reflux for his time and patience in helping me build this mother of an over-clockable PC rig.
Greggertron
Here's a few shots I took this morning, need a tripod really for the detailed shots but these SLR shots do the job:
Many thanks.
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