Budget Gaming PC in a Shinobi!

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Complete! Final Photos in Post #31

The Idea of this was to build a mid-range gaming PC for a friend of mine to get into PC gaming. He was on a fairly tight budget (around £600) and wanted a decent gaming PC that can play all games on medium-high settings.

The build is currently finished, but I am still yet to go a take some pictures of the complete build.

A few weeks after building the initial PC, he replaced the golf fans (with spectre's), added a window panel, a braided 24-Pin and a Led strip. Pictures of this will come soon :p

Here is the spec:

Bitfenix Shinobi (Black)
Asus P8Z77-LX2
Intel i5 3330
8Gb Teamgroup elite 1600Mhz
Corsair CX600M Power Supply
KFA2 GTX 660 EX OC Graphics card
Western digital 500Gb (Kindly donated by a friend).
Windows 8-Pro 64 Bit (modified to make it less 'sucky').

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Power supply out of the box! (With modular cables attached).
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Nice GPU (our only complaint was that it was a little 'plasticy')
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That's it for now. As I said, ill try and get some nicer pictures of the completely finished build. Another thing he got was an OcUK XXL gaming surface which we're pleased to report is awesome!

Thanks for viewing :)
 
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Mini Update thing.

Just dug up a (over exposed) photo just before the first boot. There is still a lot of cable management that needs doing and the ghetto fan placement needs to be sorted, but it turned out fine! :D

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Another Mini Update Thing

I keep on finding pictures on my camera that I haven't copied over to my PC, so here's some more pictures for you. The ghetto-fan has been sorted in the second picture, but not the cable mess.

Motherboard built up and put in case.

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Nice shot of the front of the Shinobi when we were booted into the Bios :)

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Thanks :p

E: Just noticed the 'Obcelete' in front of the PS3 :D
 
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CPU Cooler

After adding the Bitfenix fans (will show pictures soon) the stock Intel cooler seemed really loud, so he decided to add an Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU cooler. This will not only be a lot quieter, but it will look nicer and be able to cool any CPU upgrades.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £34.99
Total : £39.98 (includes shipping : £4.16).



Its not installed yet.

In the mean time, here are some pictures.

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Big pile of mounting hardware.

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Some nice copper heatpipes.

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LED Fan.

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Thanks for viewing :p
 
Final Photos

EscapePlan said:
It IS a pain! The Rubber anti-vibration grommets were particularly amusing, especially with the lack of room next to my ram slots.

All done now though, hope yours went OK!
Need to sort out better cable management for my Shinobi now.
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Yes they were an almighty pain.
(We had to take it off after we realized we couldn't get the mounting nuts on with the fan on the heatsink). We installed the rubber fan mounts when the cooler was outside the case.

As for everything else, it all went well!
It looks awesome.

The cooler in. We took out the RAM and the Graphics Card so we could get to the mounting system.

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GPU and RAM back in.

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And the it was turned on...

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Load temperatures under Prime 95.

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The camera doesn't seem to do that great in low light (it's great for £110 though).

Thanks for viewing :D
 
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