My Build Log

KARIM1

KARIM1

KARIM1

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So i was bored and my old rig is hitting 4 years old, although its a quad core with top spes for its time, its old now and i need a new toy.

so i have purchased my bits and will log my build here ill add pictures etc as i go along

new box specs:

Intel Core i7 970 3.20GHz (Gulftown) (Socket LGA1366) -

Asus Rampage Extreme III Black Edition Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Limited Edition Motherboard

Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FarCry 2 Game

NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full Tower Case - Black

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK)

OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G)

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9)

Forgot to add...

Corsair H80 CPU cooler

Samsung Blue ray / DvD re writer

Now keep in mind i hardly game(unless a new NFS game is out )


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sorry about the size not use to sites that dont resize pics auto:P
 
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Moothead2 I'm guessing he didn't game because his computer couldn't handle it. It might be a situation like mine, I love to game but just can't play anything smootly on my laptop except for games for spider solitaire.



Does anyone know why MSI Afterburner only says 6 or 20 fps most of the time.
 
well the 480 is really because the pc is hooked to a 50" on the wall to watch movies etc i know its a bit of overkill , as u can probably see from my sig my current toy is very capable of playing the lates games, i have a PS3 which also doesnt get much daylight unless im testing out some cfw xD

oh btw this is my first build log should i bother with unboxing pics etc? or am i being extra xD
 
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OP by any chance do you any video encoding and stuff as I've noticed you've picked the 970 over the sandybridge system.
 
yuh i do a bit of encoding on the odd occasion , i also run sql db etc for irc "bots" the machine is never switched off i also run apache etc for local testing

i dont think i have a good reason for going for the 970 other then future proofing oh and the 6 cores xD
 
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yuh i do a bit of encoding on the odd occasion , i also run sql db etc for irc "bots" the machine is never switched off i also run apache etc for local testing
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ewwwww nasty leccy bills will be coming your way.

I used to run several servers at home ... Now I run everything including LAMP, sabnzbplus, torrentflux, sickbeard and development j2ee stacks off the HTPC in my sig.
 
Damn ur HTPC looks verynice,(id be interested in buildingone for the front room)

but yuh bills are already high running this machine and server in another room but iv got used to it over the years haha :)
 
so a litle update everything installed yesterday but ...... the H80 is dead spins up the fans for a second or 2 and dies, have been informed by Corsair to RMA it back to where i bought it or back to them, as i cant be around to wait for the post man i will need to head back to a shop in totenham court road to RMA it next satuurday, i will add some pics later of the build but keep iin mind its not up and running due to this (i have got the stoc cooler but im not going to bother installing that ill just have to wait)
 
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