I was thinking about buying a laptop for my room at the military base. While looking at some high end laptops like Alienware, I thought why not build a cheaper and way faster mini-itx gaming system
I got an e-mail that my order was complete, hurray!
I picked up the parts and assembled the system.
The parts:
The Intel DH67CF board with ram and cooler installed:
The board installed in the SG07 chassis:
Wow, the HD6950 is huge and heavy, I had some trouble installing this beast. The power connectors are on top of the card and press against the top of the chassis. This puts a lot of pressure on the PCI slot and motherboard making it bend downwards, not good. I solved this problem by putting a piece of hard foam between the card and the bottom of the chassis to support it and relieve pressure from the motherboard:
And here is the case fully assembled:
Specs:
Intel DH67CF
Intel Sandy bridge I7-2600
Corsair XMS3 8GB
Corsair Force 120GB SSD
Sapphire HD6950 2GB
Sony optical drive
Silverstone SG07
Everyting stock atm, maybe I will flash the 6950 to 6970 later.
I installed Windows7 ultimate on the SSD, boot time is superfast, around 5 seconds. My other system with an intel postville SSD boots in 11 seconds. This suprised me a lot.
Windows rating:
3DMark:
Idle temps around 30 and under load around 60 degrees with fan speed on low: