A warrior with no master

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A warrior with no master

The name comes from the case Bitfenix Ronin and i chose it over the Air 540 which hopefully i wont regret it, i just thought i cant justify the £50 difference fpr a casual built and knowing my kids they would be sitting all over it cause of its width!

This is my first real attempt as before i had a premade built and got rid of some parts and kept some and finally had ''permission'' from the wifey to go through with the order, this of course after spending about £1.2k on her and the kids lol for Christmas!

This will be my long term built but its only a casual gamer built and will be used for other things as well.

http://imageshack.us/a/img208/1936/ozmo.jpg

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Case: BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black
CPU: AMD FX 8350 - Overclocked to 5.0ghz
CPU cooler: Corsair H100
GPU: Powercolor R9 270x Devil Edition
Ram: Avexir Core White Series 8GB (2x4GB)
Monitor: BenQ GW2450HM
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 AMD 990X
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro
SSD: Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive
PSU: Corsair Builder Series CX 600W
LEDs: NZXT HUE RGB LED Controller
Fans: 1x Corsair SP 120 PWM Low Noise High pressure fan 4 pin dual pack
2x Corsair AF120 Quiet Edition Low Noise High Airflow - Dual Pack

Keyboard: Roccat Isku Illuminated Gaming Keyboard

Potential Upgrade, Focusing on a red theme
MB to Crosshair V formula z
another r9 270x
256gb ssd and 1tb hdd
WaterCooling CPU
 
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All looks fine, but you'll want to game over DVI not HDMI. HDMI sucks ass apparently. :p

I can't remember why though, so I appreciate that this post is pretty useless... Sorry.

Nice looking build. :)
 
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why does HDMI suck ??? i always thought HDMI > DVI. And whenever ive done some research people say that only real difference is that HDMI carries audio while DVI doesnt, as i cant be bothered to get a speaker and not intend on gaming or playing loud music, inbuilt monitor speakers is more than enough for me. Also if i decide to ever touch my xbox 360 again or get an xbox one i can always use the HDMI slot...
 
As I say, I can't remember. It may only have been the earlier versions of HDMI that were bad, I probably shouldn't have brought it up haha.

Though if you plugged the Xbox in via HDMI, and the PC in via DVI & 3.5mm to 3.5mm (for audio) you wouldnt have to unplug and replug anything. :)
 
DVI has higher bandwidth compared to HDMI (at least, the variants commonly included on graphics card).

Given that the monitor you have listed is 1080p@60Hz, I doubt you'd have an issue with either.
 
As stated above, DVI-D has a higher bandwidth than HDMI and at resolutions higher than 1920x1200 the refresh rate when using HDMI starts to fall off.

So basically for your monitor it's fine as you are only at 1920x1080 so HDMI will support 60Hz refresh rate at that resolution - if you were at, say, 2560x1440 though then your refresh rate would be < 60Hz (probably somewhere around 40).
 
Ahhh i cant wait to get the delivery!

Btw is there any way of testing that your psu is working fine? At my disposal i only have a motherboard, ssd and hdd no gpu, as i sold a lot of my old rigs parts and almost sold my motherboard today.

Im just worried because my daughter was once fiddling with it and its been about 2 months since i touched it and ocuk will only delivery in january after xmas... Should i just play it safe buy one, not open it and if my old one does work, return it?
 
Receoved H100 refurbished:

http://imageshack.us/a/img811/2333/gfmt.jpg[IMG]

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i also bought mx 4 thermal paste, is it advice to add this or just keep it as it right now?

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img547/9062/1v60.jpg[IMG]

More pics:

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img547/7235/n8mb.jpg[IMG]

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img18/674/0jyb.jpg[IMG]


I just orderd this:

[COLOR="Yellow"][b]YOUR BASKET[/b][/COLOR]
1 x [url="http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-042-AR"]Avexir Core White Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIW) - White Light[/url] [b][COLOR="Yellow"]£71.99[/COLOR][/b]
[b]Total : [COLOR="Yellow"]£71.99[/COLOR][/b] (includes shipping : FREE).

[img]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pimg/MY-042-AR_60.jpg


Which should look nice right next to the H100, and ive sold my 16gb for £80 these were used rams.

Iphone pics is best i can do, so hopefully its good quality
 
Some pictures

GPU:

http://imageshack.com/a/img841/3082/ihb1.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://imageshack.com/a/img18/9318/4umx.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://imageshack.com/a/img194/3940/sxvs.jpg[IMG]

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Inside of the case:

[IMG]http://imageshack.com/a/img203/2655/i0zv.jpg[IMG]

More incoming, added another on the first post
 
Cable management:

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1897/bi31.jpg[IMG]

Setting up front fans

[IMG]http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1269/eh78.jpg[IMG]

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Putting it back
[IMG]http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/238/jzcb.jpg

Stealth Cover on - white mode:
buts.jpg


Red
3i4y.jpg


Blue:

yham.jpg
 
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8963/e8ye.jpg[IMG]

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[IMG]http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/130/xs7f.jpg
 
Its a shame the images are such poor quality, but I think if you spent a wee bit more time just cable tidying it would look so much better. Its difficult to tell tbh.
On the positive side, Red is cool in my opinion, the corsair fans are great. Is there any clearance at the bottom for airflow, where will it be sitting in use?
 
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