My Silverstone Fortress Build

magicroundabout · 9 Apr 2009 at 20:33

Couldn't wait till Tuesday :cool:

I wont be making it as fancy as Diggsy's build as he has decided NOT to braid my wires

. But i'll do my best to make it look as neat as possible.

But heres a couple of snaps of what i'm using:

i7 920 D0 stepping CPU
Patriot Viper 1600mhz 6gb ram
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Silverstone Fortress
TRUE Black 120
Kama Bay
Zalman controller
Xigmatek Fans
Sapphire 4870
Corsair TX650

New Parts

D0 Stepping i7 920 CPU :cool:

New v Old

Zalman Added

Now where have i seen this before

magicroundabout · 9 Apr 2009 at 20:34

updated

Before D0

With D0

Stock fan . booooooooooo

Blackhawk47 · 9 Apr 2009 at 21:16

What a tease

, did you get the black or silver fortress may i ask?

magicroundabout · 9 Apr 2009 at 21:26

i got the black one.

thing is my TRUE Black hasn't arrived yet so can't build it. I'm gutted i've got to wait till Tuesday.

paulh · 9 Apr 2009 at 21:34

there's no way i'd be goin away this weekend if i knew i had that sittin at home. use the stock HSF to get you goin!

looks like it'll be sweeeet!!

willy · 9 Apr 2009 at 21:37

Yeah, use stock HSF first, that's what i did when i built mine.

magicroundabout · 9 Apr 2009 at 22:13

i could do i suppose. don't like the idea of having the stock fan on the setup though. Suppose it's only for 4 days.

Maybe whilst the GF goes to work in the morning i'll set it up.

magicroundabout · 9 Apr 2009 at 22:28

just having a read on Asus site and it seems i will need a bios update to be able to run the new D0 stepping chip.

If my board has the old bios should i flash it straight away before booting into windows?

what is recomended in this instance

rjk · 9 Apr 2009 at 23:02

it should work out of the box if you flash straight away

i would reccomend the 1303 bios

but it may be different for the v2 board

looking forward to another fortress build!

EdGey · 10 Apr 2009 at 13:51

nice hardware, will look forward to it

is that another Zalman ZM-MFC1 Plus i see rjkoneill?

Azza · 10 Apr 2009 at 14:06

Nice hardware.

I really like that case looking forward to another build in one.

smogsy · 10 Apr 2009 at 18:07

me want more pictures!!!

PaulyD · 10 Apr 2009 at 19:35

Looking forward to the results on this too, very nice spec there and i'm liking the fortress cases more and more now

rjk · 11 Apr 2009 at 19:31

EdGey said:
nice hardware, will look forward to it

is that another Zalman ZM-MFC1 Plus i see rjkoneill?

I think it might be. It's a great choice

magicroundabout · 13 Apr 2009 at 17:04

back from easter guys. got some rough pics to show you as soon as photobucket loads them up.

i've not played with cable management as i've a new cooler and fans arriving tuesday.

magicroundabout · 13 Apr 2009 at 17:25

updated

gazfocus · 13 Apr 2009 at 17:29

Looks good. Post pics of the finished product when it's finished

magicroundabout · 13 Apr 2009 at 17:36

tbh i'm not totally happy with it because i've not sorted anything out properly.

Got two Xigmatek fans arriving and a TRUE Black on Tuesday so will get them fitted and everything looking better hopefully.

Diggsy · 13 Apr 2009 at 19:24

Looking pretty good. Look forward to the finished article. Nice job on the floppy drive. I am impressed that you managed to get it installed without losing the little door.

But without wanting to burst your bubble, you have tried inserting/removing a disk haven't you? IIRC I had to remove the door for that very reason.

magicroundabout · 13 Apr 2009 at 19:43

i've removed and installed a floppy no trouble. the door actually opens fully (with gental force) when it's required.

My camera doesn't do it justice so will take better pics tomorrow when new TRUE arrives.