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Case – COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
CPU – Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
Motherboard – GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD5-B3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
RAM – Kingston HyperX 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Video Card – 2x EVGA 01G-P3-1373-AR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) Superclocked EE 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Hard Drive – Kingston SSDNow V100 SV100S2D/128GZ 2.5″ 128GB SATA II Internal / External Solid State Drive (SSD)
PSU – CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V v2.2 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply
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Questions:
1) was OCing the 2500K as easy as they advertise, mainly did you have to do ANY firmware updates on your mobo?
2) do you like the HAF case? I think it looks awesome but I heard the front panels break because they are plastic? Also, how noisy are the front fans at full blast?
3) SSdnow - with windows installed what was your available disk space? I cant decide to get one 100+ GB drive or two 60's. I have a suspicion one large drive provides a better user experience but after reading the reviews on (mainly OCZ) ssd's I have a mortal fear of BSOD and kinda want two in raid for the safety.
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Nice, hope you got a very good deal on the 460's though as there are certainly more attractive options available at stock retail prices.
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Whoah 16gb of ram.
Going to do some heavy duty stuff on that machine?
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I believe my brother has the HAF case, or did at one time. He seemed to like it a lot, do you?
Nice specs, you picked out some good stuff.
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Nice shit! The Podcast will have some extra 'umpf' now 
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How much did everything cost?
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nice build you got there...
Care to list the temperature of those gpu(s) under furmark ?
Also the evga super clocked ee is know for being one of the louder ones...
Why exactly did you pic that card? Care to elaborate?
I mean money is obviously not that of a problem..
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On April 10 2011 05:53 Mattes wrote:
nice build you got there...
Care to list the temperature of those gpu(s) under furmark ?
Also the evga super clocked ee is know for being one of the louder ones...
Why exactly did you pic that card? Care to elaborate?
I mean money is obviously not that of a problem..
I am confused about this as well. It's a new build but you bought two previous generation video card instead of a more powerful current generation video card.
Also, you ruined your perfectly good case with the stickers...
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Yea i don't really understand too. 2 x 460 is amazing but when you are willing to spend money for 16gb of Ram you should have bought 2 x 570, 580 or 6970.
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The cost, the cost?!?! How much did it actually cost for everything (with taxes and sales) and how much time did it took? I'm thinking of getting a new PC as well so things like this will help me much... Congrats!
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I'm also curious about the noise levels, does the case dampen the fan from the video card and cpu heatsink at all? Also is it possible to turn off the leds on the front fan or at least replace it easily?
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Very nice, however I am curious what you are going to be doing with all that RAM.
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Those parts would cost roughly $1500 on newegg. Front LED on the fan can be turned off on HAF X, I'm pretty sure. No bios updates or strange things needed to overclock a i5-2500k. You'd want an aftermarket cooler to keep temperatures low and push a little higher overclocks though.
On April 10 2011 04:30 felizuno wrote:
3) SSdnow - with windows installed what was your available disk space? I cant decide to get one 100+ GB drive or two 60's. I have a suspicion one large drive provides a better user experience but after reading the reviews on (mainly OCZ) ssd's I have a mortal fear of BSOD and kinda want two in raid for the safety.
RAID 1? You're better off just doing an automatic backup to a mechanical drive every day or something like that. Also, if you're that worried about the failure rate, you should try an Intel 320 or 510 series drive.
I tried hard not to make a comment about the Corsair TX750, but I failed. It's still decent (very reliable, at least), but the TX750 V2 is a lot better:
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=230
But obviously I'm not the OP, and I don't have all the answers! I'm also curious what 16GB of 1600 MHz RAM is for. Also, what CPU cooler? 
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