New Build

#1

Just complete my new build I’ve been tempted to buy for about 6 months, finally got round to it. NAS next!

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Amazed at SSD performance (never used one before), will be stress testing and benchmarking tonight as I plan to start some OCing.

EDIT: Lol forgot specs.

Asus Z77 Sabertooth
i7-3770K (H100 Cooler)
16gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
GTX 680 4GB FTW+ Edition
OCZ Vertex4 SSD
HX750w PSU

Case is a Corsair 550D, which I’m very happy with, sound proofing makes this case almost silent and the Dell U2711 is absolutely stunning, can’t believe I’ve been sat on a 17" monitor since 2005 :smiley:

All in all very happy so far, rather expensive but I usually upgrade 5+ years apart so this should last me quite a while.

I did look for the post your build thread but its last few pages were derailed, so seems like its a new topic :expressionless:

#2

Nice, I love the Corsair cases.
Got the Carbide 400r myself and it was ridiculously easy to neatly hide away all cables and stuff, and it is extremely silent as well!

#3

Why is your motherboard covered up by shitty looking plates? :frowning: is your motherboard that ugly that you have to hide it?

#4

It’s the “Thermal Armour” Asus include with some of their Sabertooth boards, supposedly allows better cooling and dust protection. Wasn’t a big plus point of the board but a nice addition.

#5

I love how clean and neat it looks.

#6

Total cost?

#7

Case - 140
Board - 240
RAM - 100
CPU - 350
SSD - 220
Graphics - 630
Total - around 1680

Some parts could have been bought cheaper or more expensive, all these prices were taken from newegg and tigerdirect.

#8

Yeah I have been buying parts over a few weeks with a lot of other stuff, so I haven’t sat down and worked out a total price of the PC (I just budgeted for everything I need and kept within that) but using PCPartPicker I can give you a damn good estimate:

http://pcpartpicker.com/uk/p/bOdI

Note that isn’t the 4gb version of the 680, but some of those prices can definitely be beaten if you shop around.

For anyone interested in hardware reviews, I currently have my i7-3770K OCed to 4.5ghz at 1.6v, thats running up temps in the region of 50-60C under high load, which isn’t too bad at all. I reckon I could push for 4.7 or even 5.0 at higher (1.3+) voltage but I’m staying put for now. Stability tests ran for 3 hours with no problems.

I’ll get some benchmark results tonight.

#9

About the same price as my build but twice as fast and much better cooling. Oh upgrades, you’re killing me.

#10

upgrades are quite costly, but if you can manage the budget for them; it will work out quite nicely. like this chef d’oeuvre here.

#11

on pcpartpicker you choose the 2gb version…

http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.asp?family=GeForce+600+Series+Family

#12

Wow

Eh the 600 series is still a bit too high priced for a graphics card for me. Looking to upgrade from my GTX 560 ti thought and im not sure what will give me the best bang for my buck

#13

[quote=“Frell, post:12, topic:449076”]Wow

Eh the 600 series is still a bit too high priced for a graphics card for me. Looking to upgrade from my GTX 560 ti thought and im not sure what will give me the best bang for my buck[/quote]
I’m planning on picking a GTX 560 ti up soon, would you recommend at all?
(coming from a gt 520 at the moment)

#14

[quote=“Jmood, post:11, topic:449076”]on pcpartpicker you choose the 2gb version…

http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.asp?family=GeForce+600+Series+Family[/quote]

I’m aware, there was no 4gb version on PCpartpicker at the time i put that together :stuck_out_tongue:

[quote=“Frell, post:12, topic:449076”]Wow

Eh the 600 series is still a bit too high priced for a graphics card for me. Looking to upgrade from my GTX 560 ti thought and im not sure what will give me the best bang for my buck[/quote]

The 670 is pretty nice and will probably drop a bit when the 685 comes out later this year.

#15

[quote=“Frell, post:12, topic:449076”]Wow

Eh the 600 series is still a bit too high priced for a graphics card for me. Looking to upgrade from my GTX 560 ti thought and im not sure what will give me the best bang for my buck[/quote]
Probably another 560 in SLI? Slightly more powerful than a 580/670 only a lot less $$$.

Sick build, would be exactly what I’d build if I had the cash, PSU wattage is a little small though for a 680 system surely?

#16

Nah, 750W is far above what is needed for a single 680 card, as the minimum requirement Evga specify is 550W (which is probably playing it safe).

#17

[quote=“ox random xi, post:13, topic:449076”][quote author=Frell link=topic=551973.msg4046781#msg4046781 date=1342148870]
Wow

Eh the 600 series is still a bit too high priced for a graphics card for me. Looking to upgrade from my GTX 560 ti thought and im not sure what will give me the best bang for my buck
[/quote]
I’m planning on picking a GTX 560 ti up soon, would you recommend at all?
(coming from a gt 520 at the moment)[/quote]
I mean yea its a great card everything is playable, but im addicted to having a solid 60 fps on every game I play, and that was fine back when I have my 1600x900 monitor, I upgraded to a 1900x1080 and it took about 10-12 frames with it. I can still max out games but BF3 is getting to the point where I can’t have HBAO or 4x AA. Skyrim is playable on Ultra but even on Ultra the game looks terrible for its distance LOD. So I wanted to crank up ini files and use mods to improve visible view distance.

[quote=“SilentCJ, post:15, topic:449076”][quote author=Frell link=topic=551973.msg4046781#msg4046781 date=1342148870]
Wow

Eh the 600 series is still a bit too high priced for a graphics card for me. Looking to upgrade from my GTX 560 ti thought and im not sure what will give me the best bang for my buck
[/quote]
Probably another 560 in SLI? Slightly more powerful than a 580/670 only a lot less $$$.

Sick build, would be exactly what I’d build if I had the cash, PSU wattage is a little small though for a 680 system surely?[/quote]
Id have to get a new mobo though, and the 560 ti price has only dropped $60 since the 600s came out, Id rather that $240 go towards a new card

#18

They allow you to make shit look so fucking clean now! I love it.

#19

damn i don’t have any add-ons to my computer. i try to save, but end up blowing money on weed/weed-tools.

#20

I went into the Novatech STORE the other day. Jealous?

p.s. sick pc mmmmmmmm