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[MERGED] Your Main PC - Pictures, specs and discussion <IMAGE HEAVY>
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I tried it but i found this setup works best:
All three fans on the top as intake, the h50 is on push pull, the rear 140mm fan as exhaust, And the fans on the side of the case hidden by the side panel work as exhaust too throwing air over the 2 hdd cages and behind the motherboard tray and out the back vented panel. I find the 3 fans at the top as intake work best as cool air is pushed over the cpu socket and ram.
My temps arnt going over 52c full load with octt torture test:
Tonight im going to take it back up to 3.5ghz and see what the temps are like.0 -
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That thing OCd yet?
Had it up at 4GHz,but this board has a temper tantrum whenever I want to overclock (it wont save the OC most of the time once it's turned off).It is however,a beast of a yoke for high FSB.I've benched at 4.3GHz
It never goes above 30 degrees under load at stock though
Those P14's (on the IFX) are amazing,I have them spinning at 1300RPM and cant hear a thing.Definity going to get more Noctua products in the future0 -
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ok, here's my new baby...
commandeered my GFs desk and monitor for bench testing mobo with old hard drive and laptop CD drive...
installed in case...
a look in the drive bays...
open...
closed...
the back...
Specs:
Asus rampage II extreme mobo
i7 2.66 GHz OC to 4GHz
6gb Corsair ddr3
nVidia 6200 LE (I'm waiting for GF100 Fermi cards to come out)
1000w corsair psu
Megahealms CPU cooler
2 X Corsair Performance 64gb in RAID 0
LG Blu Ray reader / DVD writer
Thermaltake Level 10 Case0 -
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about time i added something decent myself!
bought myself some new parts over xmas.
800d
5770
p5 deluxe mobo
23" hd monitor
here's my upgrade bundle i got at christmas
here's my new 23" HD monitor. (getting 2 more eventually for eyefinity! just waiting for grant payment
i didnt expect the case to be so big!! the motherboard looks tiny!
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Sorry about the quality, took these snaps from my camera phone.
Processor, RAM, Graphics Card.
Everything installed.
Frontside and "cable management"
Backside.
Set-up.
Desktop.
Specs:
Processor Intel Core i5-750
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
RAM G.Skill RipJaws 1600MHz
Case Antec 300
Power Supply Corsair CX400
HDD Samsung F3 500GB
Optical Samsung SH-223L CD/DVD-R/W (LightScribe)
GFX Sapphire Ultimate Edition HD4670
TV Card Avermedia PCI
Wireless Card TP-Link Wireless-N PCI
Monitor Dell ST2410
Keyboard & Mouse Logitech Pro 2800
OS Windows 7 Profession x64 and Ubuntu 9.10 x64
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I ordered the bulk of this from HWVS and even though the days dragged in, the delivery was great and I had no trouble with anything. Ordered on Thursday 7th January, shipped Tuesday 12th once the bank transfer went through, and delivered on Monday the 18th. I'm sure I would have got this The Friday before if I had ordered it before 4 o'clock on the Thursday! I thought my bank's cut off time for money transfers was 5, so that could have added an extra day for it to be processed. The GFX and TV card I picked up from Komplett. Got the Montior and Keyboard from Dell.
Building it was a dream. Watched some videos on You Tube and it was straighforward enough. It took me about 50mins putting it together plus and extra hour after of "cable management"! The 300 isn't great for this but I am very happy that none of the cables are accross the mobo or hanging in the center of the case. That 8pin CPU cable on the left in the pics is actually cable tied to the side of the case that's removed, so it's not in the way of the fan.
I have the TriCool fans set to low and they are silent to my ears. All I can hear is a low whiney sound from the case which i thought could be from them, but after pulgging them both out and back in, I realise that it's the CPU heatsink fan! It's not too much of a big deal, I might get something quieter or i might not.
Total came to ~ €900 for everything inc. cables for hooking up to stereo and DVI-D cable (shout-out to Dublin Gunner for hooking me up today). I'm very happy with it.
Thanks to all you guys who post here. I read this forum all the time and the advice you guys give to n00bs like myself makes very good reading to anybody considering a self build - I knew everything to look out for and had no hiccups.
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Jock Strap, you'll ruin that nice new PC keeping it on the floor.
I had a friend make up a unit for me, the inside of the PC was getting covered in dust and it was beginning to affect the efficiency of the CPU cooler.
I finally got a fan controller as well (Aerotouch 2000), it's made a huge difference to the noise the fans make, the only thing I can really hear now is the hard drives and they make an awful racket.
I was plesently surprised with the fan controller, I was expecting it to be fairly tacky but it's very well made and has actual aluminium on the front. The touch screen is responsive and the temperatures aren't to far off what the motherboard and graphics card software reports. It automatically speeds up the fans once it goes over the temps you input into it.0 -
Here is my latest i7 rig finished it about a hour ago or so took about three days.
It was housed in a TJ07 case which was getting to small for my needs.
So I bought a Corsair 800d love this case by far one of the best cases I have worked with.
I managed to fit my Quad Feser 480 in the top about 3 CM clearance from the front IO panel... not taking pics of the top as I'm waiting on my new grill to come in
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Here is my latest i7 rig finished it about a hour ago or so took about three days.
It was housed in a TJ07 case which was getting to small for my needs.
So I bought a Corsair 800d love this case by far one of the best cases I have worked with.
I managed to fit my Quad Feser 480 in the top about 3 CM clearance from the front IO panel... not taking pics of the top as I'm waiting on my new grill to come in
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Mac', that's a sweet dual loop you got yourself. what blocks/fittings are you using on your chipset/mosfets?0 -
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... or, why you shouldn't buy Antec300.
The list of what went in (got it from komplett):
Case stripped for the surgery, aheeem, I mean butchery.
Power drill + 20mm auger, jigsaw and mini angle grinder did the damage.
Final product:
Some numbers: (got lucky and unlocked 2 locked cores on the cpu, making it a nice quad:D:D)
It also seems to take the (unnecessary) beating quite well. The cpu temp peaked at 51 degrees during the torture test (using stock cooler).
It overclocks nicely too.:p:p
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Its probably nothing compared to everything else up here.0 -
Darkphenom wrote: »
Its probably nothing compared to everything else up here.
Awesome build man, the video really makes it !0 -
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Class case Spacedog! How much did that set you back?
What are the temps like?
temps are a little high, even when the case is open the CPU runs at 38C idle, closed case only adds 3-4C but i think the cooler needs to be re-set when i have a few hours to spare. I'll have to take care of this once i get some proper hot GFX cards in there.
Also OCCT reports 10C higher temps than the asus lcd thingy. I'll stay on the side of caution and go with OCCT.
it's stable anyway so happy days, check the finished setup. i spray painted some cheap IKEA cable tubing to keep everything tidy...
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my SLR 
I taught my P80 for €300 was too much lol.
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) and case
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