Well peep’s oldphart got his retirement money, sorted the wife and my two sons’ out first and what was left new i7 build for me. The only two component’s I could not get from OCUK was my case and bay adapter, this build has to last a few years before I build another one also my youngest son’s PC is about 8yrs old so he will get the base unit I’m using now(see sig).
Here’s my spec –
CASE - Silverstone SST-FT01B "Fortress" ATX, Mid tower, full Alu. Black Chassis, w/o PSU or Window
The case work’s on positive air pressure, 2x 180mm fan’s air in with 1 fan blowing onto the rad area from the top, other 1 front bottom, 120mm rear air out where rad will go.
ADAPTER - Silverstone SST-CFP51B Aluminium Bay converter, 3x5.25" to 4x3.5" Black/ 120mm Fan
This will allow me to take out the 3.5” bay’s to unblock the flow of the 180mm fan at the front they reckon it’s a good mod from what I have read.
OCUK COMPONENT’S
PSU - Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply
BUNDLE - Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz over clocked to 4.00GHz
1 X Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
1 X Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel
1 X Corsair H50 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1366)
(Chose the H50 – easy to install, do’s not block ram slot off)
1 X Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound
(OCUK kindly let me change a couple of components out of the bundle cheers)
GFX-CARD-----XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 Zalman Cooled 1024MB will wait a while to hear what folk have to say about DX-11 GFX-Card's and if it's worth while to upgrade.
FANS------Akasa AK-FN057 Apache Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWMx2
HARD-DRIVE'S---Crucial M225 128GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive for OS and game's
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache for general purpose photo's, doc's, etc.
DVD-RW’s------Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)x2
MOUSE + MAT---------Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse
SteelSeries 4D Gaming Surface
TIM CLEANER-------------Akasa AK-TC TIM Clean CPU & Heat sink Cleaner
OS----Win 7x64 can't make up my mind weither to get HP or Pro your thought's please.
+ a 22"monitor for my other son.
TOTAL = £1388.68(OS not added)
LOL two component’s are pre-order H50, Crucial SSD, not to worry I’ll get there in the end. Will try to take some pic’s of the build if I can work out how to upload them, a little help there please and will take temp’s with, 1 fan, two fan push/pull config eyc. That's it folk's.
Here’s my spec –
CASE - Silverstone SST-FT01B "Fortress" ATX, Mid tower, full Alu. Black Chassis, w/o PSU or Window
The case work’s on positive air pressure, 2x 180mm fan’s air in with 1 fan blowing onto the rad area from the top, other 1 front bottom, 120mm rear air out where rad will go.
ADAPTER - Silverstone SST-CFP51B Aluminium Bay converter, 3x5.25" to 4x3.5" Black/ 120mm Fan
This will allow me to take out the 3.5” bay’s to unblock the flow of the 180mm fan at the front they reckon it’s a good mod from what I have read.
OCUK COMPONENT’S
PSU - Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply
BUNDLE - Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz over clocked to 4.00GHz
1 X Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
1 X Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel
1 X Corsair H50 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1366)
(Chose the H50 – easy to install, do’s not block ram slot off)
1 X Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound
(OCUK kindly let me change a couple of components out of the bundle cheers)
GFX-CARD-----XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 Zalman Cooled 1024MB will wait a while to hear what folk have to say about DX-11 GFX-Card's and if it's worth while to upgrade.
FANS------Akasa AK-FN057 Apache Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWMx2
HARD-DRIVE'S---Crucial M225 128GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive for OS and game's
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache for general purpose photo's, doc's, etc.
DVD-RW’s------Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)x2
MOUSE + MAT---------Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse
SteelSeries 4D Gaming Surface
TIM CLEANER-------------Akasa AK-TC TIM Clean CPU & Heat sink Cleaner
OS----Win 7x64 can't make up my mind weither to get HP or Pro your thought's please.
+ a 22"monitor for my other son.
TOTAL = £1388.68(OS not added)
LOL two component’s are pre-order H50, Crucial SSD, not to worry I’ll get there in the end. Will try to take some pic’s of the build if I can work out how to upload them, a little help there please and will take temp’s with, 1 fan, two fan push/pull config eyc. That's it folk's.
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