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So, just over two years ago now, I decided to ditch my creaking, branded Athlon 6000+ system (and its wobbly, erratic SATA ports)- known at the time as EvilEdna- and plunge into the realms of a decent rig- mainly from browsing these very forums, and getting rather envious of all the lovely shiny things.
I set myself up with a 2500K, SSD and a second-hand 5870 graphics card. Clocked it up to 4.5GHz, and there it stayed. That was EvilEdnaII, and has served me well until very recently. Halfway through its life, I bought an Antec 1100 case. Not the tidiest build ever, but as my first effort, I think I did OK...
My finances have improved a little since then, so just before Christmas, I decided to construct EvilEdnaIII.
Having spent a year clearing the credit card off, I decided to fill it up again...
4770K (currently @4.5GHz)
Gigabyte Z87x-UD4H
8GB G-Skill Ripjaws X 1600 (from last system)
Sapphire 7950 Vapor-X (£140 on ebay- get in!)
Samsung 128GB Evo SSD
Prolimatech Black Genesis cooler/2x Bitfenix Spectre Pro PWM 140mm
Lamptron FC6 fan controller, with 4 Xigmatek Blackline and an Akasa Venom 120mm
DGM IPS 24" monitor
plus 2 1TB Samsung HDDs carried over.
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So now the time has come to needlessly change something: Corsair Carbide 540 on the way, should be here Monday!
I set myself up with a 2500K, SSD and a second-hand 5870 graphics card. Clocked it up to 4.5GHz, and there it stayed. That was EvilEdnaII, and has served me well until very recently. Halfway through its life, I bought an Antec 1100 case. Not the tidiest build ever, but as my first effort, I think I did OK...
My finances have improved a little since then, so just before Christmas, I decided to construct EvilEdnaIII.
Having spent a year clearing the credit card off, I decided to fill it up again...
4770K (currently @4.5GHz)
Gigabyte Z87x-UD4H
8GB G-Skill Ripjaws X 1600 (from last system)
Sapphire 7950 Vapor-X (£140 on ebay- get in!)
Samsung 128GB Evo SSD
Prolimatech Black Genesis cooler/2x Bitfenix Spectre Pro PWM 140mm
Lamptron FC6 fan controller, with 4 Xigmatek Blackline and an Akasa Venom 120mm
DGM IPS 24" monitor
plus 2 1TB Samsung HDDs carried over.
So now the time has come to needlessly change something: Corsair Carbide 540 on the way, should be here Monday!
