Posted April 18, 201312 yr 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 1000wMotherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 6Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866MHZ Processor: Intel Quad Core i5 3570k OC'd to 4.6 daily stableGraphics Cards: (2) MSI GTX570OC's in SLICooling: (3) Corsair AF120's, (4) AF140'sCPU cooling: Corsair H110 AIO watercoolerCD Drive: Random Cheapo Asus DriveMonitors: 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/GamesMouse/Keyboard: Razer Lycosa and Razer Lachesis On to the pics.. The Start of cable managementZiptied and all prettyClose up shot..Ram going in..both GPU's in Minus the LinkA shot of the radiatorAwesome snap in mounts for the HDD'sPasted and screwed down.A shot of the pretty logoI added some accent LED strips that I had left over.. Glows real prettyRandom external fan controller/front with the AF120's looking sexyThe topthe desktop[ Edited April 18, 201312 yr by Julian
April 18, 201312 yr Author 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.
January 30, 201411 yr 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.
January 30, 201411 yr Author 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.
January 31, 201411 yr WD barracuda? What is this magic? 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?
January 31, 201411 yr Author Heres the parts list. Asus Sabertooth Z87 MoboIntel 4770k Oc'ed to 4.3Corsair H110 Dual 140 AIO cooler8 Gigs of Corsair Vengance ramEVGA GTX 780 Ti Superclocked 3GB model1 Samsung 128GB SSD for OS, Samsung Evo 240 for games, 2 TB WD green drive.Corsair K90 keyboard and M90 mouseCorsair MM600 aluminium mouse pad.LG w2600h 19200x1200 monitorAll corsair AF fans 120-140'sCorsair 860i with custom sleeved white cablesDeadened all the loud stuff and the side panels with SecondSkin dampener (WD drive and Optical)Windows 8 WD barracuda? What is this magic? 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. Edited January 31, 201411 yr by Julian
February 17, 201411 yr Admin Would be killer if these beasts could do some BOINC crunching when not being used.
February 26, 201411 yr You need to get on the boinc team!My back has been hurting from carrying some of these loads.Mad jelly of the 780tiI 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.
February 26, 201411 yr Admin You need to get on the boinc team!My back has been hurting from carrying some of these loads.Mad jelly of the 780tiI 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.
February 26, 201411 yr 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 3570K8gb corsair vengeanceasrock z77 extreme 4 I am super happy with this ~$500 upgrade!
February 26, 201411 yr Author 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 3570K8gb corsair vengeanceasrock z77 extreme 4I am super happy with this ~$500 upgrade!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
February 26, 201411 yr 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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