Build: Pro Old Man Gaming!

LateX'Dog · 31 Jul 2012 at 12:40

The parts:

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz
Noctua NH-D14
Corsair Obsidian 650D
MSI Z77A-GD65
Samsung 128GB SSD 830
Corsair Professional Series AX750w
Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 250ohms
Corsair Vengeance K90
Seagate Barracuda Redline Ridgebacks 1866mhz
Samsung SH-S222BB/RSMS
Asus Xonar Essence ST
Windows 7
MSI Lightning Radeon HD 7970 OC 3072MB

Delivered!

Ordering has begun!

Update 1:

Thanks OCUK and there super fast delivery!

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/9356/p10305041.jpg

Some reason i got a free child with the box....All i wanted was Haribo!

Was inside the box!

Another box arrives! Thankfully no baby, but sadly no sweets!

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6488/p10305081.jpg

And inside the box we have......

Thats the last of the deliveries expected today, will update soon!

Update 2:

Came home from work to find these nicely placed on my desk:

My god the sound quality from these from just a laptop is incredible. I may not have to power to fully drive them, but i can just tell the difference from my old Sennheiser HD 515's.

Just placed a HUGE order:

Corsair Obsidian 650D
Corsair Professional Series AX750w
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
8GB Mushkin Enhanced Redline Ridgeback 1866mhz
Samsung SH-S222BB/RSMS dvd drive
Asus Xonar Essence ST
Windows 7
MSI Lightning Radeon HD 7970 OC 3072MB

Should all be arriving Friday 3rd. Building starts Saturday 4th.

Friday is going to be epic!

Update 3:

So i came home from work and Yodel/HDNL has screwed up the delivery to no surprise, so now i have to wait for my case until Saturday. Not that much of a big issue.

Anyway these arrived today:

Hopefully my case will arrive tomorrow and building can begin!

jeff6475 · 31 Jul 2012 at 12:51

you sure thats a child looks like a bee,hope the sweeties are in the next delivery

Something Else · 31 Jul 2012 at 17:13

ahh ocuk are even sending out a small tech support baby to help you build. now thats customer service!

LateX'Dog · 31 Jul 2012 at 18:30

Jamsames said:
ahh ocuk are even sending out a small tech support baby to help you build. now thats customer service!

Indeed, tech support babies are really handy, worryingly they know more about building computers then i do! :eek:

Something Else · 1 Aug 2012 at 16:13

LateX'Dog said:
Indeed, tech support babies are really handy, worryingly they know more about building computers then i do!

at least they have small hands to get into the tighter corners of the pc, kinda handy i guess

LateX'Dog · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:48

Updated OP with recent happenings!

Nemesis379 · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:56

Looks good, use IMG tags, so it's easier to see the images

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LateX'Dog · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:59

Nemesis379 said:
Looks good, use IMG tags, so it's easier to see the images .

I was told off because they weren't 1024, but i told imageshack to resize...Might enable the image tags and hope i don't get suspended.

Mason- · 1 Aug 2012 at 20:05

Lovely headphones mate, had mine a year now and they are very comfortable and sound great. Selling my HD25-1 ii atm on the MM as it happens because they're too neutral for me.

LateX'Dog · 3 Aug 2012 at 20:27

Updated the OP.

Yodel/HDNL/DHL are a complete and utter joke.

How a company like that can still make profit and keep running.

1 of my deliveries was split into 2 packages, Yodel managed to deliver the 2nd parcel from there Leeds depot, but for some reason my case went to Leeds depot and that wasn't good enough, so they sent it to Goole.......

Needless to say i got a refund on the delivery and have now placed a Saturday guaranteed delivery for another case from another company.

Morons.

Something Else · 4 Aug 2012 at 19:06

be good to see how you do with the seagate 1tb drive, i have the exact same one and im concerned with it tbh, random freezes and it makes some odd noises. maybe i got a duffer

LateX'Dog · 4 Aug 2012 at 21:25

Jamsames said:
be good to see how you do with the seagate 1tb drive, i have the exact same one and im concerned with it tbh, random freezes and it makes some odd noises. maybe i got a duffer

Well i'm not too happy at the moment, it seems to have formatted and lost around 70g in size...... so for a 1TB drive i'm getting 938Gb.

I've made a mistake and got the ST version of the soundcard and not the STX, so i'm sending the ST back and getting it swapped.

Other then that everything is installed and running fine. Going to wait until the soundcard is delivered and installed before i provide my last update.

Something Else · 5 Aug 2012 at 00:34

LateX'Dog said:
Well i'm not too happy at the moment, it seems to have formatted and lost around 70g in size...... so for a 1TB drive i'm getting 938Gb.

thats exactly the same as my mate so dont worry, you still have over 900gb of storage but yea that format is crazy, its like it takes a percentage rather than a fixed amount of space, i dont fully understand why/how the format take space up.

also nice psu, im getting the same one to replace my non modular one, im so green at your parts!

OliverS · 5 Aug 2012 at 10:36

Jamsames said:
thats exactly the same as my mate so dont worry, you still have over 900gb of storage but yea that format is crazy, its like it takes a percentage rather than a fixed amount of space, i dont fully understand why/how the format take space up.

also nice psu, im getting the same one to replace my non modular one, im so green at your parts!

Drives are made with commercial byte/kb/mb/gb allocation.
Formats are done to the techanical specification.

Commercial use 1000 bytes=kb. 1000kb=1mb. 1000mb.=1gb. 1000gb =1tb.
Technical specification (powers of 2) is 1024bytes=1kb. 1024kb =1mb. 1024mb =1gb. 1024 gb= 1tb. So with commercial (marketing) format you only have 97.65625% of actual space. By the time this gets to TB level its ~93%.

You can thank a bunch of ***** in marketing (manufacturers not resellers) who couldn't comprehend maths/wanted to make their product appear bigger than it was. They hid this information at the bottom of the page/in a disclaimer which no one ever reads.

Which is why your annoyed.

LateX'Dog · 7 Aug 2012 at 17:42

Haven't updated yet with the new build. I bought the wrong sound card socket and had to send it back.

Spent the extra and bought it from OCUK as there delivery is the best i've ever experienced.

Will be here tomorrow and installed after work. Then i can post the last update.

buzzlightweight · 7 Aug 2012 at 18:05

LateX'Dog said:
I was told off because they weren't 1024, but i told imageshack to resize...Might enable the image tags and hope i don't get suspended.

if you want to post images lager than 1024 then just use spolier tags, [ SPOILER ][ / SPOILER ] without the spaces

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