New Computer - With Pictures

Soldato
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The main use of the computer is for gaming and having had my old set up for just over 3 years, I was due an upgrade.
With Battlefield 3 coming out and only being able to play it on low settings with no aa, it was time to buy.
Safe to say, I can now play BF3 how I want to!

Old ---> New:

CPU: E8400 3.0ghz ---> i5 2500k 3.3ghz
M/board: Asus P5Q-E ---> Asus P8P67 Pro
RAM: 4gb Corsair XMS2 800mhz ---> 8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
Graphics: XFX 8800GTX ---> Gigabyte GTX570 Windforce

Everything:

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CPU, Graphics card, Thermal paste and Batman Arkham City:

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Motherboard and Memory:

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Motherboard:

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Memory:

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Graphics card:

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Graphics card side on:

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About to start building:

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Everything put together:

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The only thing I have changed is the CPU cooler to a Freezer 7 Pro as the stock Intel one was emitting an annoying high pitched sound, but apart from that,
everything is great.

Thanks for looking.
 
@fowler002
I haven't got a picture, but the Freezer 7 Pro does block the first ram slot making it un-usable.

@ZcolloquialZ
I'm using the hard drive I had from before. The next thing I'll be getting is an ssd, but not until next year some time.

@kmetek
It's an Antec p182 mate and as schizo said, just take the fan off the bracket and then slide the bracket off the metal divider.

Cheers for the replies to everyone else too :)
 
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