New Build - Happy so far :)

phatboy · 2 Jul 2010 at 12:47

AT LAST! I have moved on to the land of Quad

Friend was doing an upgrade so I got myself a G0 stepping Q6600 and a pair of boxed XFX HD4890 XXX edition cards for £200

......which was nice!

Added to that a Corsair TX750, and next week a Lian Li V1000+ and that makes for one rather excited me!

Been playing this morning and finally got the quad up to a OC of 3.33ghz stable @ 1.4v so happy with that.

Performance over my old E2160 at the same speed is just phenominal, completely new level of power for me tbh. GTA IV no ploughs along maxxed out at 35+ fps where 25 on low/mid on the old system was the norm, and I have gained a healthy 5000 points in vantage too

HAPPY DAYS!

snaggster · 2 Jul 2010 at 12:53

Nice deal phatboy. You will notice one hell of an impovement. Be sure to post some pics once you get the v1000 sorted.

phatboy · 2 Jul 2010 at 13:03

will do mate, things are how can i put it.....a bit "cramped" in the old Aurora 3D at the moment lol

phatboy · 12 Jul 2010 at 08:13

OK as requested, here are pics of the new build inside the Lian Li V1000+

BRILLIANT! case space and flexibility wise, previous owner added a few extra cable feed holes around the case that make things even easier.

Need to do som more cable tidying and get the front panel and fan controller sprayed up black, but otherwise there

As it was originally a Koolance WC'd case, I have made use of the 2x 120mm fan ports on the top and connected up 2 fans to the fan controller as an active cooling solution over the 4890's, seems to have worked, on full load the temps dropped a good 8-10 degrees