Budget 2500K First Time Build

That's the one thing I do need desparately and that's a decent chair to sit on!! I think I might get back ache from sitting to long with my current chair :( Where did you pick up yours too?

It sounds like your very impressed with your setup now :D
 
I got mine from Ikea. It's not perfect, but it was cheap enough for me. It doesn't have a headrest but it tilts/swivels and a massive step above my previous piece of **** swivel/stool chair.

I'm waiting for arrival of a Coolermaster Silent Pro M 600watt modular PSU. And I've got a NesteQ MaxZero fan controller.
 
I got the Ikea Torkel swivel chair. Was only £36. To get a better chair, the price increase seemed disproportionate. I liked the arm rests because of how low they are toward the front, meaning the chair still goes nicely under my desk when I'm sitting in it.

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For me, I couldn't feel a big enough improvement in chairs until they were around £200 ish. And I just don't have the money for that right now.
 
Finally got some much needed office furniture. Got a small chest of drawers for under the desk where I can finally throw in all my stationary and nerd junk. Also put up that bookcase today to get rid of the stacks of books and piles of stuff sitting on the floor in the corner.

Got the Virgin V+ HD box on top of the drawers under the desk to the right, connected to the monitor, with audio running through the PC's sound card.

It's mostly done now.

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Thanks Phill! Yeah, I love it too. I think I'm done for a while now. I'll try to get through the next year without upgrading anything. lol

I got a fan controller too. I can basically get away with having all the case fans off completely and the CPU still idles around 35-37 degrees. And I can only now here a very slight hum from either the GPU, CPU or PSU fans. It's very slight though. I'm quite happy with that.
 
I'd love to get my rigs sorted but thats just not going to happen any time soon!! :lol:

I'm looking forward to getting my 2600k up and running. What did you upgrade from again?? I'm toying with the idea of just running a 2600k and two GPU's but I'm not sure just yet.. I'm giving both of my i7's away so I hope our boys will love the rigs :)

I think what you have done with the rig is nothing short of amazing. The layout of the room is awesome!! I'm dead jealous of the chair too!! :lol: ;)

Personally I'd always have a bit of an air flow taking the hot air out of the case, I'm a little lucky in that sense that at the moment mine don't have their sides on at all! :) That'll change I'm sure :)

I do like the matt as well on your desk. Where did you get that from? I can't even see the tower now!! :lol:
 
phill9800 said:
I'd love to get my rigs sorted but thats just not going to happen any time soon!! :lol:

I'm looking forward to getting my 2600k up and running. What did you upgrade from again?? I'm toying with the idea of just running a 2600k and two GPU's but I'm not sure just yet.. I'm giving both of my i7's away so I hope our boys will love the rigs :)
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This is my first built PC. I upgraded from an old 1.6GHz laptop. lol

I think what you have done with the rig is nothing short of amazing. The layout of the room is awesome!! I'm dead jealous of the chair too!! :lol: ;)

Personally I'd always have a bit of an air flow taking the hot air out of the case, I'm a little lucky in that sense that at the moment mine don't have their sides on at all! :) That'll change I'm sure :)
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Yeah, I guess I should put the back exhaust fans on low, still pretty quiet even with those on.

I do like the matt as well on your desk. Where did you get that from? I can't even see the tower now!! :lol:
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Overclockers sell it, it was less than a tenner I think. They're great.

This is the one I have, the XL, is 900mm wide: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-000-BB&groupid=702&catid=32&subcat=

They do a bigger XXL one that is 1200mm wide: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GS-000-BB&groupid=702&catid=32&subcat=
 
Well then you'll have noticed a massive load of differences then! :)

It'll just keep the hot air out the case a little more. Since you have a fan controller you'll be able to keep the noise as low as you want :)

I do like the matt, it must be much nicer than having your arms resting on the desk all the time :) Did you get the Boogie Bug matt?
 
phill9800 said:
Well then you'll have noticed a massive load of differences then! :)

It'll just keep the hot air out the case a little more. Since you have a fan controller you'll be able to keep the noise as low as you want :)

I do like the matt, it must be much nicer than having your arms resting on the desk all the time :) Did you get the Boogie Bug matt?
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Yep, the 900mm XL one. When I got it, it was on offer for like £7 so it was rude not to. :D
 
Well of course it would be rude not to :D

Well I hope to be putting up my for sale thread sometime today, so I hope I can get some money together to get myself one :D
 
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