BUILD LOG: £1100 I7 system

chuck990

chuck990

chuck990

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Hi guys, ive been tasked to build this pc for a friend who had a budget of £1100 and today the products arrived! So i thought it would be nice if i showed him what i was doing as i went along and thought i may aswell share the log with anyone else interested rather than sending hundreds of emails. So I hope you enjoy and following are the specs!

Processor: Core I7 920
Motherboard: ASUS P6T SE
GFX: BFG NVidea GeForce 295 (against me suggestion to go for the ATI 4890 which is less than half the price)
Memory: OCZ Reaper DDR3 6Gb
PSU: OCZ ModXStream-Pro 700w modular
Hdd: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1Tb
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P
CD/DVD: Sony DRU-870S (not that anyone cares which CD drive it is)
and finally OS: vista basic


Pics to follow in next post!
 
UNPACKING!!
Apologeies for the somewhat blurry pictures at some points, i cant seem to hold my hands still enough and this camera doesnt have image stabalisation, but most of the time i can use a mini tripod and its all gooood!

Well here are the boxes as they arrived:
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Well packaged by OCUK as always! How they fit a whole system (bar the case) into such a small box i will never know!
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And here we go..
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The BFG beast. Expensive but with a lifetime warranty it's probably worth it
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The NZXT Apollo case.. theyve decided to go "Alienwareish" on their design.. i prefer my Crafted Guardian 291 but this is still more attractive (to me) than the ever popular Antec 300 which is around the same price and size.
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good luck with the build, ill be looking towards how far you can overclock it with that mb, some reason cant get mine past 3.8
 
MOBO and HSF:

Well first things first mobo into case:
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its a really good looking board....
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and then i discovered how to attach the noctua, and... the mobo came back out
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processor in:
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and Hestsink
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and finally the fans
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well, tables a bit of a mess now and i need to be off to bed but i shall continue tomorrow!
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Are you taking with flash off = blurry pics?

But good spec.

I'd return that (unopened) copy of Vista & download Windows 7
 
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