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New rig has arrived and been completed!

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MaestrO_
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States591 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-19 01:31:19
August 19 2011 01:27 GMT
#1
Super excited today, all the parts i've ordered for my rig have arrived, and i will begin the process of building this hunk of metal. Should be done by the end of tomorrow. My old rig, aka what im using right now, is about 3 years or so old. It was a high end gaming machine at the time, but its beyond out of date now, and i wish to do more things like start streaming my gameplay, and casting. I have some high ambitions of being involved in the starcraft community on a promotional and casting basis. So i figured the first step was to get a computer capable of reaching out to everyone.

My rig is as followed

Chassis: Antec 1200 Full-Tower
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV EXTREME
CPU: Intel i7-2600k Sandy Bridge, gonna try OCing it to 5.2GHz
GPU: nVidia EVGA GTX 590 Classified
RAM: 16GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
PSU: Cooler Master 1200W Silent Pro Gold
Cooling: Corsair H100 Push/Pull
Hard Drive: 128GB Crucial SSD, 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Black
Optical Drive: Some blu-ray player made by Pioneer

i will update this blog with pictures when i finish the rig!

EDIT: i just realized the blog title is incorrect lol, whoops

***
DanceCommander
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1808 Posts
August 19 2011 01:38 GMT
#2
spared no expense, it seems... good luck with your casting endeavors.
dahornnn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United Kingdom395 Posts
August 19 2011 01:38 GMT
#3
thats more than enough for what you need it for.... twice over
:D
Vlare
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
748 Posts
August 19 2011 01:39 GMT
#4
Looks very sexy!

Hope everything runs smooth and no problems!!
Mass zerglings doesnt fail
supaplex
Profile Joined July 2011
United States75 Posts
August 19 2011 01:40 GMT
#5
i wish i could waste this much money without thinking
where
Profile Joined February 2011
144 Posts
August 19 2011 01:48 GMT
#6
16gb ram ahh
SC2Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2814 Posts
August 19 2011 01:54 GMT
#7
I wish I had that kind of money....
Who the fuck has a family of fucking trees? This song is so god damn stupid. Fuck you song, fuck you and your stupid trees. -itmeJP
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
August 19 2011 01:55 GMT
#8
Nice new rig, better put it to good use
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13845 Posts
August 19 2011 01:56 GMT
#9
you should have gotten 3 GTX 560's and SLI'ed them together if you're going high end like that. Just having one video card is like having only one core on your processor. Also going 2 1TB of RAID0 HD's instead of just one HD is smarter. SSD's are flashy I'm thinking of getting one for my rig as well for a bot drive. don't know how much value there is though with it.

whats your monitor/Headset/mouse/keyboard? Looks pretty wicked though.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Torenhire
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States11681 Posts
August 19 2011 01:56 GMT
#10
1200W is so overkill for what you're running, haha. I've got mine running off an 800W and even overclocked it's fine.

And I'm running SLI cards. :p

Otherwise everything else looks like it'll do just finnne :D
SirJolt: Well maybe if you weren't so big and stupid, it wouldn't have hit you.
Zealotdriver
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1557 Posts
August 19 2011 01:57 GMT
#11
Wow imba power supply. Do you plan on adding more video cards?
Turn off the radio
TadH
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1846 Posts
August 19 2011 01:58 GMT
#12
The H100 looks nice, I might get one for my rig, see my sig.
Inkarnate
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada840 Posts
August 19 2011 02:03 GMT
#13
Solid build im a fan
MaestrO_
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States591 Posts
August 19 2011 02:17 GMT
#14
I do plan on adding a 2nd gtx 590, so that's why I have such a large psu, as for the hard drives, I do music production as my means of income so I plan on adding hard drives, as well as externals over time

Thanks for the support everyone, I do appreciate it
AntiLegend
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany247 Posts
August 19 2011 02:39 GMT
#15
pretty overkill. you could run a washing machine with 1200W.

how much did it cost?
tpyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
32 Posts
August 19 2011 02:39 GMT
#16
What voltage are you trying to reach 5.2GHz with?
MaestrO_
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States591 Posts
August 19 2011 02:49 GMT
#17
Likely 1.45v
Freeheals
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States488 Posts
August 19 2011 03:02 GMT
#18
god damn you just made me a lot less excited to get my gtx570 = [[
http://www.last.fm/user/Rahdek
MaestrO_
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States591 Posts
August 19 2011 03:15 GMT
#19
On August 19 2011 12:02 Freeheals wrote:
god damn you just made me a lot less excited to get my gtx570 = [[


Dont be unexcited man, I'm using GTX 260's on my old rig, until i finish building this thing. Be pumped!
Freeheals
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States488 Posts
August 19 2011 03:40 GMT
#20
On August 19 2011 12:15 MaestrO_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2011 12:02 Freeheals wrote:
god damn you just made me a lot less excited to get my gtx570 = [[


Dont be unexcited man, I'm using GTX 260's on my old rig, until i finish building this thing. Be pumped!

haha i'm actually using a 260 in my current (old) comp. but man am i excited
http://www.last.fm/user/Rahdek
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