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Monarch.StarCrack
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States169 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-21 15:47:30
April 09 2011 19:24 GMT
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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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felizuno
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States164 Posts
April 09 2011 19:30 GMT
#2
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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Thrill
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
2599 Posts
April 09 2011 19:37 GMT
#3
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.
frogmelter
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States971 Posts
April 09 2011 19:52 GMT
#4
Whoah 16gb of ram.

Going to do some heavy duty stuff on that machine?
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0mgVitaminE
Profile Joined February 2009
United States1278 Posts
April 09 2011 19:57 GMT
#5
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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GreatFall
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1061 Posts
April 09 2011 19:59 GMT
#6
Nice shit! The Podcast will have some extra 'umpf' now
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OutlaW-
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Czech Republic5053 Posts
April 09 2011 20:38 GMT
#7
How much did everything cost?
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Mattes
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany1116 Posts
April 09 2011 20:53 GMT
#8
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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prototype.
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada4200 Posts
April 09 2011 21:14 GMT
#9
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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Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
April 09 2011 21:20 GMT
#10
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.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
QuickStriker
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3694 Posts
April 09 2011 21:34 GMT
#11
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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GarlicPepper
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States563 Posts
April 09 2011 21:35 GMT
#12
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?
Phant
Profile Joined August 2010
United States737 Posts
April 09 2011 21:39 GMT
#13
Very nice, however I am curious what you are going to be doing with all that RAM.
puppykiller
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States3126 Posts
April 09 2011 22:52 GMT
#14
total cost?
Why would I play sctoo when I can play BW?
Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
April 10 2011 00:58 GMT
#15
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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