Mudkip

Hello all,

I have just completed the ordering of all my parts, and am waiting anxiously for their arrival. Naturally, pics will be coming soon I just wanted to see what everything thinks of my selection in the interim

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Case: NZXT M59 Gaming Mid-Tower

Mobo: GigaByte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Ultra Durable™3 Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-960 3.20 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366

Cooling: Asetek Liquid (20 dBA) | 120MM fans

HDD: RAID-0+1 | 640GB (320GBx4) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM

RAM: 6GB (2GBx3) Corsair Dominator PC1333 DDR3 PC3 10666 Triple Channel

Optical: LG 22X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW & a standard 16x DVD ROM drive

GPU: EVGA GTX275 896MB 16X PCIe

PSU: 1KW CM Real Power Pro - Quad SLI Ready

Extra: NZXT Sentry-2 Touch Screen Fan Control & Temperature Display

Extra: Custom sound absorbing foam for panels

Extra: Anti-Vibration Fan Mounts

Extra: Blue Cold Cathode Neon Lighting

Extra: Power Supply Gasket (noise reduction)

Extra: CM Thermal Fusion 400 Extreme Thermal Compound

Extra: Going to integrate a custom remote soft button for power, mounted somewhere on my desk.

OS: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Signature Edition (I have an unopened Windows 7 Party Pack)
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Total: right at $2K

EMP7Y

Several videos of my computers are on Youtube, and whenever someone asks how much it costs, rather than giving the 10 year olds flame fuel I just tell them its over 9000....

Half of them get it, half of them thing they're smart and argue with me saying "there's no way that POS is $9000"

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Mudkip

Tell em you have a drawing of a spider on the HDD that you value to be $10K

EMP7Y

Here was another comment and my reply


and they bought it lol

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Mudkip

Nothing like waking up to find a bunch of "your order has shipped!" messages in my mail

FSF-Foxhound

He's got a meme named build, a meme named user, and he's got a meme in his sig. He's probably a 4channer.

also, why did you waste cash on the i7 960 and a Asetek Liquid cooling kit? for that cash you could of bought DDR3-1600MHz ram and a HD 5870/GTX 295 which would of destroyed that setup

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Mudkip

First off, I don't get to build a new rig very often... this is going to be "the rig" for as long as 5 years. Hence, the UltraDurable series mobo and the RAID 0+1 (I wanted performance, but I wanted security too)

Liquid cooling: Silent operation, longer life, and a bundle deal; first time running liquid cooling too, why not?

i7 960: Because I'm not 1337 enough for a 975 extreme and I plan on upgrading in a few years.

GTX 275: Cheap enough to SLi in the future, this is a lot of $ to me + I have a PS3 for gaming (this is just a general purpose build). Top it off with unjustified fanboy hatred of ATi, and there you go.

RAM: Because the particular modules are renowned for durability and it gives me room to grow (going to double the RAM inside of 6 months, then go 24GB of 1600 in 3 years)

ZainyAntics

That's not what he means... You could have bought a i7 920 and EASILY overclocked it to 3.3ghz yourself, seeing as it's the EXACT SAME CHIP, intel just trys to lure in stupids who actually think it's a better chip when really it's not.

Just this alone could have saved you a hundred or something.

Mudkip

C0 stepping versus D0 is not the same thing, which is all they had in stock (SLBCH); if anything, the i7-960 it is the same as the i7-950 except the higher base speed (3.2 v 3.06) and Turbo Boost speed (3.46 v 3.33)... otherwise, everything else is the same (including the 130W thermal envelope and 4.8 GT/s QP). The only real difference between these two and the i7-870 is the socket (LGA1366 v LGA1156).

ZainyAntics

what? I'm only comparing the 920 and 960, am I missing something from your posts?