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So I decided to get rid of my laptop and build myself a nice rig..

 

 

Here's a little list of what I have..

 

Case: Corsair Vengeance C70 "Military Black"

Power supply: Enermax Galaxy S 1000w

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 6

Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866MHZ 

Processor: Intel Quad Core i5 3570k OC'd to 4.6  daily stable

Graphics Cards: (2) MSI GTX570OC's in SLI

Cooling: (3) Corsair AF120's, (4) AF140's

CPU cooling: Corsair H110 AIO watercooler
CD Drive: Random Cheapo Asus Drive

Monitors: ASUS VH232H Glossy Black 23" HD Monitor.. hoping to order another one soon.

Storage: Samsung 840 128GB SSD for OS, 2 TB WD Barracuda for media/Games

Mouse/Keyboard: Razer Lycosa and Razer Lachesis 

On to the pics..

 

The Start of cable management
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Ziptied and all pretty

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Close up shot..

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Ram going in..

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both GPU's in Minus the Link

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A shot of the radiator

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Awesome snap in mounts for the HDD's

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Pasted and screwed down.

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A shot of the pretty logo

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I added some accent LED strips that I had left over.. Glows real pretty

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Random external fan controller/front with the AF120's looking sexy

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The top

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the desktop

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With my current setup it landed me in on 68th place on the Allbenchmark results list. with a score of 3540 on Catzilla at 1440p, lol.

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Looks cool man!

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very cool

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Gorgeous, the only things I would change is the CPU to a  AMD FX-9590 with a stock clock of 4.7 GHz and a turbo clock of 5 GHz and the motherboard to ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z.  

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No amd for me. My build has changed. It now has a 4770k, gtx 780 ti, Asus sabertooth mobo. I will never run amd personally, too much power, heat, and performance is no where near the Intel and nvidia counterparts.

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Here is the new setup

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WD barracuda? What is this magic? :P

 

I have the same CPU. Haven't OC it at all, is there any noticeable difference from the stock 3.4 up to 4.6?

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Heres the parts list.

 

Asus Sabertooth Z87 Mobo

Intel 4770k Oc'ed to 4.3

Corsair H110 Dual 140 AIO cooler

8 Gigs of Corsair Vengance ram

EVGA GTX 780 Ti Superclocked 3GB model

1 Samsung 128GB SSD for OS, Samsung Evo 240 for games, 2 TB WD green drive.

Corsair K90 keyboard and M90 mouse

Corsair MM600 aluminium mouse pad.

LG w2600h 19200x1200 monitor

All corsair AF fans 120-140's

Corsair 860i with custom sleeved white cables

Deadened all the loud stuff and the side panels with SecondSkin dampener (WD drive and Optical)

Windows 8

 

 

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I have the same CPU. Haven't OC it at all, is there any noticeable difference from the stock 3.4 up to 4.6?

 

 

Its a WD 2tb green drive which I used damplifier on it to quiet the thing down. Its literally silent now.

On some benchmarks it can make a bit of a difference but since the 4770k's have a ton of computing non overclocked I tend not to. Plus how they are designed you wont gain huge overclocks from them, but you still get a shit ton of performance out of them.

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Would be killer if these beasts could do some BOINC crunching when not being used. ;)

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You need to get on the boinc team!

My back has been hurting from carrying some of these loads.

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Mad jelly of the 780ti

I think my main problems are all dealing with being capped out at VRAM. Running more than 4k resolution is a bitch.

I don't want to buy a Titan to get the headroom I want either. Hopefully the 790 or the 800 series will have a crap ton of VRAM.

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You need to get on the boinc team!

My back has been hurting from carrying some of these loads.

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Mad jelly of the 780ti

I think my main problems are all dealing with being capped out at VRAM. Running more than 4k resolution is a bitch.

I don't want to buy a Titan to get the headroom I want either. Hopefully the 790 or the 800 series will have a crap ton of VRAM.

 

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I really rarely leave my computer running

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You made me upgrade my system......

 

Kept my existing psu seasonic modular 650w and gtx 560ti (awesome card, but horrible driver issues......after finding out there are really zero stable drivers, i could have kept my existing setup)

 

New corsair 400r case which is awesome!

i5 3570K

8gb corsair vengeance

asrock z77 extreme 4

 

I am super happy with this ~$500 upgrade!

 

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You made me upgrade my system......

Kept my existing psu seasonic modular 650w and gtx 560ti (awesome card, but horrible driver issues......after finding out there are really zero stable drivers, i could have kept my existing setup)

New corsair 400r case which is awesome!

i5 3570K

8gb corsair vengeance

asrock z77 extreme 4

I am super happy with this ~$500 upgrade!

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You could have gone with the Haskell 4730k for not Much more. The seasonic psus are great iirc that's who builds corsairs. I had the extreme 4 but had countless issues with the onboard fan controller either running at 100 or 0. You should look into the new 750ti it's pretty beastly

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ahhhh, my fan is very noisy for some reason, but it never gets over 35c i have it set to 70% iirc, I may check out the 7 series soon and put the 560 in my old gigabyte and e8400 system.

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