Soldato
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It's been about 6 years since I last built a full system or did a major upgrade/overhaul but this year I managed to get the wife to let me spend my work bonus on a new PC. I keep calling it an upgrade but to be honest it's a new PC really as the only thing left over from the old PC is the SSD.
Any way yesterday a few new toys turned up on my doorstep
That little lot consists of:
850W XFX Pro Black Edition 80PLUS Gold Modular Power Supply
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
MSI Z77 MPower Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Silver
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache (ST2000DM001)
Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual
Cooler Master Seidon 120M Watercooling System
XFX Double D Radeon HD 7950 3072MB
Please excuse the excessive amount of pictures of the motherboard, it just looks so awesome. Especially compared to my old Gigabyte 965P-DS3.
Trying it on for size.
Screwed in and RAM fitted, I think the Crucial Ballistic Tracer's look great in this board.
I was originally going to get a slightly cheaper XFX semi-modular PSU but decided I had to have this when I first saw it, meant I had to just spend that little bit more.
After looking on the forums at other peoples builds using the Corsair 600t I noticed a lot of people had removed most of the HDD bays and kept half in the secondary position. Decided to do the same to help airflow to the graphics card.
The Cooler Master Seidon 120M came well packaged, I was surprised at the size of the box. I had a Antec Kuhler 620 in my previous build and have to say this is a much better design apart from the hose type they have used. It has enough screws included so that you can mount it with two fans e.i. the supplied fan and the exhaust fan already in the case. I had to remove the rubber anti vibration gromits that Corsair had fitted if not the screws couldn't reach the radiator when screwing it in. The method used for attaching it to the CPU is far better also, it works very simply and feels very solid and secure.
Almost got everything fitted.
Got it nice and tidy inside but just couldn't get it that good round the back. Theres so many extra wires that come with the case that makes it difficult.
Just some pictures of everything fitted and running.
Sitting in it's home where it will stay from now on. I wasn't happy with it sitting on the rug so made a little trip to B&Q. I bought one of their value shelves cut it in half and screwed some little castor wheels to the bottom. Now I can easily wheel it around instead of trying to squat under the desk and pick it up.
Well thats my build, sorry there's no amazing watercooling setup or custom built/modified case. I know there are more powerful PC's out there that deserve the BEAST name more but to me it is a beast coming from a Q6600 on a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 with 4gb RAM and 560ti 2gb.
Any way yesterday a few new toys turned up on my doorstep
That little lot consists of:
850W XFX Pro Black Edition 80PLUS Gold Modular Power Supply
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
MSI Z77 MPower Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Silver
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache (ST2000DM001)
Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual
Cooler Master Seidon 120M Watercooling System
XFX Double D Radeon HD 7950 3072MB
Please excuse the excessive amount of pictures of the motherboard, it just looks so awesome. Especially compared to my old Gigabyte 965P-DS3.
Trying it on for size.
Screwed in and RAM fitted, I think the Crucial Ballistic Tracer's look great in this board.
I was originally going to get a slightly cheaper XFX semi-modular PSU but decided I had to have this when I first saw it, meant I had to just spend that little bit more.
After looking on the forums at other peoples builds using the Corsair 600t I noticed a lot of people had removed most of the HDD bays and kept half in the secondary position. Decided to do the same to help airflow to the graphics card.
The Cooler Master Seidon 120M came well packaged, I was surprised at the size of the box. I had a Antec Kuhler 620 in my previous build and have to say this is a much better design apart from the hose type they have used. It has enough screws included so that you can mount it with two fans e.i. the supplied fan and the exhaust fan already in the case. I had to remove the rubber anti vibration gromits that Corsair had fitted if not the screws couldn't reach the radiator when screwing it in. The method used for attaching it to the CPU is far better also, it works very simply and feels very solid and secure.
Almost got everything fitted.
Got it nice and tidy inside but just couldn't get it that good round the back. Theres so many extra wires that come with the case that makes it difficult.
Just some pictures of everything fitted and running.
Sitting in it's home where it will stay from now on. I wasn't happy with it sitting on the rug so made a little trip to B&Q. I bought one of their value shelves cut it in half and screwed some little castor wheels to the bottom. Now I can easily wheel it around instead of trying to squat under the desk and pick it up.
Well thats my build, sorry there's no amazing watercooling setup or custom built/modified case. I know there are more powerful PC's out there that deserve the BEAST name more but to me it is a beast coming from a Q6600 on a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 with 4gb RAM and 560ti 2gb.
