Otherwise known as Project: I've lost my mind
As some of you will know from my recent posts around various sections I'm half-way through planning a new system for myself.
I'll be going from my Q6600 & HD5770 to an FX6100 & HD6950/70.
Do I realise the i5 2500k is better? Yes.
Why am I going AMD when I know there's better out there? I fancy doing something different, I want to test out some tech that not many people have before (for whatever reason
) and I wanted to spend my budget on shiney things rather than outright performance (I got my FX on a TWO + AMD cashback and it's cost me £92.99).
Given that I game at 1980x1200 / 1080p on high settings the processor's going to make next to no difference to the framerates and the other work I do is all in multi-threaded apps where the bulldozer can just about hold it's own.
Now that I've finished my justification on my poor processor choice we can start!
Here's what I've got at the moment -
Cable management fail
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And one of the many benchmarks I've done to compare before and after -
So... the plan...
I've already been out and purchased a Corsair 500R, 8Gb of Kingston RAM and the FX6100. I'm going to add to this a Gigabyte 990FX, XFX 6950, soundcard, headphones and cooling loop. My Corsair HX620 and Crucial C300 are being re-used from my current system.
I've also ordered a special present for the build from Germany (any guesses?
)
I'm still not completely decided on what water stuff I'm getting and where it'll go but it's going to be a 240mm rad in 1 of 2 possible locations -
And that's it for now! Hopefully I'll be able to update within the next week, everything should be finished and I can start benchmarking the Bulldozer by my birthday at the end of next month
As some of you will know from my recent posts around various sections I'm half-way through planning a new system for myself.
I'll be going from my Q6600 & HD5770 to an FX6100 & HD6950/70.
Do I realise the i5 2500k is better? Yes.
Why am I going AMD when I know there's better out there? I fancy doing something different, I want to test out some tech that not many people have before (for whatever reason
) and I wanted to spend my budget on shiney things rather than outright performance (I got my FX on a TWO + AMD cashback and it's cost me £92.99).Given that I game at 1980x1200 / 1080p on high settings the processor's going to make next to no difference to the framerates and the other work I do is all in multi-threaded apps where the bulldozer can just about hold it's own.
Now that I've finished my justification on my poor processor choice we can start!
Here's what I've got at the moment -
Cable management fail
-
And one of the many benchmarks I've done to compare before and after -
So... the plan...
I've already been out and purchased a Corsair 500R, 8Gb of Kingston RAM and the FX6100. I'm going to add to this a Gigabyte 990FX, XFX 6950, soundcard, headphones and cooling loop. My Corsair HX620 and Crucial C300 are being re-used from my current system.
I've also ordered a special present for the build from Germany (any guesses?
)I'm still not completely decided on what water stuff I'm getting and where it'll go but it's going to be a 240mm rad in 1 of 2 possible locations -
And that's it for now! Hopefully I'll be able to update within the next week, everything should be finished and I can start benchmarking the Bulldozer by my birthday at the end of next month
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