Built friends PC this weekend

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Built in on saturday this weekend.

Here are the pics, sorry, they are on a mobile phone.

PSU in case. How many cables!?!?!? lol
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Hard drive bay. Pretty neat :D
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CPU and cooler going on
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Mobo in, g/card in, DVD drive, well basically all of it. Note the super cable management, LOL :p
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In the side of the case with the evil eyes of the ram :p
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Case shot
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Screen and speakers setup. This isnt its final resting place, just where we were working on it.
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Setup comprises of:

Asus P5Q pro mobo

GeIL 8GB (4x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GB28GB6400C4QC)

4870x2

E8600 CPU

2x velociraptors in RAID 0

1x storage HDD

22" monitor

New speakers, keyboard, mouse and all that. It was a complete system.

Went for a 22" monitor and more ram rather than the 24" monitor as my mate wasnt sure on the size of the larger monitor.

I really like the Hiper case. I can highly recommend this case for ease of putting parts in and looks. I want one now!!.

Run a benchmark on the velociraptor hard drives and got 199mb/s transfer and 7.2ms ave seek time. Faster than my older raptors.

Run COD4 on 16x AA and 16x anistropic filtering and everything else on max on the g/card settings. Everything in the game on MAX and was getting over 200fps down to around 50fps on the detailed bits.

***Oh and before anyone says, "you wasted money on this", "you didnt need to spend that much on that" blah blah blah, we dont care cause if he didnt have the money he wouldnt have bought it, simple.***
 
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Was going to get SSD's but read up and seems like they dont always reach their fast speeds and crash etc...

The wd v/raptors are running pretty fast anyway.
 
Strife212 said:
10,000RPM hard drives for the win as well.
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Best thing ever! (i got one recently and cant get enough of it!)

Anyway nice build, im half guessing vista 64 was the os of choice (im a convert to it too)

Just out of interest but what made you go for the non modular version os the psu? (could ahve helped cable management) but other than that nice one!:D
 
Running vista 64 bit.

No problems in building or installing o/s. All swent surprisingly well.

When I took the PSU out I thought, hmmm my corsair has plug in cables (modular) didnt relise they did both, oops. Though you cant really see in the case, so not a major problem.
I acutally prefer the sleeved cables he has over the modular PSU cables I have.

All I have to do now is get my hands on that E8600 and clock it to 4gigs and beyond!! lol
 
Nice build, looked at the 3rd picture and thought the fan was a plate of chocolate biscuits :o
 
Just a quick point - something that I only learnt myself recently - the outside of anti-static bags do not have any anti-static properties, only the inside of the bag. I notice that you had the mobo resting on one when installing the cpu & cooler (pic 3).

I HOPE YOU WERE GROUNDED YOUNG MAN?!?
 
Just a quick point - something that I only learnt myself recently - the outside of anti-static bags do not have any anti-static properties, only the inside of the bag. I notice that you had the mobo resting on one when installing the cpu & cooler (pic 3).
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:O

I did not know that either, done that a few times as well!

On topic, looks a very nice build, modular would have been better but when you can't see the cables :D
 
rodders said:
PSU in case. How many cables!?!?!? lol
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Hi

There do seem to be lots of cables! I think this is a non-modular PSU, so do you know how many cables there are and how many you actually used or didn't use?

Thanks
 
They dont do the 750W in modular. Only used 5 of the cables but even some of them (molex's/sata power) have 3-4 plugs on and didnt use all of those. There is a lot of cables, but as you cant see inside, it doesnt really matter.

As for earthing myself, I touch the radiators frequently.

Thanh55 said:
very quick wit hal your hard wares dude, any result of o.c the rig? Temp of PCU, GPU?
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I dont understand the fisrt part?
as for o.c'ing my mate wont let me at it, lol. I said 4ghz would be a safe o.c but he said its fast enough as it is, which it is really.

as for non o.c'd temps, had CPU at 51-53 loaded (no lapping of cpu) G/card was around 80-85 loaded. I guess the CPU could come down a degree or so when the arctic silver has cured?
 
looks goo - only thing i would have done is gone modular on the psu

and perhaps gone for a better mobo with 4gb ram

but either way its good spec

just warning you now that this is a bad place to post pics of messy cables ;)
 
rjkoneill said:
looks goo - only thing i would have done is gone modular on the psu

and perhaps gone for a better mobo with 4gb ram

but either way its good spec

just warning you now that this is a bad place to post pics of messy cables ;)
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LOL, thats why I mentioned it in my first post. 750W didnt come modular?
I as recommended the mobo and ram. But hey, it runs good.
 
sorry - my bad

i guess modular psu's are personal preference

its a good rig nevertheless
got any benchies?

have you overclocked it?
 
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