Building today

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...... that is all

 

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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Corsair Professional Series AX850 High Performance 850W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK) £159.98
1 x Fractal Design Arc Midi Tower Case - Black £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £69.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EFRX - OEM £65.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1156/1155/775/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £32.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £896.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).



I'll post some pics at some point, its a bit of a murky day here, so lighting isn't that great.
Bit of an mixed bag of components, the buying process was erratic. Went from a budget/mid range build, followed by my girlfriends redundancy and nearly cancelling the whole thing, then a shiny new job with an large increase in budget.
Overall i'm happy with the parts going in.
Graphics card is coming next payday, i've got a 9800gtx going in for now.
I will probably buy a faster SSD soon.

 

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Case is ready and the motherboard is all set to go in, but I need to pick up the missus from work.
I've left a few pics uploading, will post on my return.

 

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Got some pictures for you.

I need to spend some "quality time" then its a quick test, and into the case it goes.

 

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Dont you think mobo is a bit of an overkill?? Costs more than CPU -.- Could`ve got one for 80 quid and bought a decent video card for the change....

I push my 2700k to 5.0 ghz on a 70 quid giga mobo...

I agree, but that's just me I guess. I enjoy the finer things in life, lol.
I had a touch of buyers remorse, but it didn't last long.
I'm getting a 680 I think, so my GPU isn't going to suffer from the mobo purchase.

 

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BEEP!

And she lives

 

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I'm so glad I've got the week off work. Some serious tinkering going to be happening.

 

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Just out of interest; Did you remove the top case fan for any reason a reason?

Looks good man, I have the same case and love how easy it is to work with.

I moved it to the front to create positive pressure. Thought it would be a good place to start. Will have a proper play around at some point, was planning on getting different fans but they're pretty quite.

 

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I can tinker with anything, lol.
I still need to overclock, do some windows optimisation and the such like.
Installing loads of junk.
Will probably spend a whole day getting my desktop looking sexy.