Shroud

Well, this will be my first OCN build log...so I'll just ease into it nice and slow.

The idea of building a new rig started with me being away from my current sigrig for quite some time. So with that i started checking into the i7, after being yelled at enough times by my fiance , I decided to put a budget on the build, and have since been leaning to an i5 build and limiting myself to 900shipped, excluding PSU and CD/DVD drive(s). I'm a pretty diehard nvidia fan as well, so I stuck with what I know. The antec 1200 was a personal choice, a friend of mine runs a 1200 and I absolutely love it, so, I had to get my own.

This rig won't see much stress, a little OCing (temps willing) and some gaming (COD4 MW2 TF2) nothing too strenuous. Not to mention the basic web browsing and photoshop...perhaps some folding

Here go the parts ordered:

CPU:Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz

Motherboard:ECS P55H-A(1.0) LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard

RAM:OCZ Obsidian 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

Video Card:Galaxy 26XIF9HM1QUH GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit DDR3

Hard Drive:Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3160813AS 160GB 7200 RPM

Case:Antec Twelve Hundred

OS:Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

I also picked up the basics, AS5, some extensions, and a few other small things. Waiting on the S1283 i5 1156 brackets to come back in stock as well. I cut a few corners, especially with the RAM and HD, I have another HD I'll install once its up and running, and the RAM will be the first to be upgraded once I have the extra cash. I have some drives and PSUs lying around I'll use, most likely look into a new PSU sometime down the road as well. the total came to 856 and some change thanks to some combos and specials also comes along with $40 in MIBs.

I hope to have the parts start coming in around friday...hopefully be able to start the build on monday night, so wonderful having Newegg split up where stuff ships from (TN, NJ and CA). Other than that I have a few blue cathodes and a few other LED fans lying around I'll try to work into the build.

I'll try to give a small update daily and I'll start with the pictures once parts start arriving! Thanks for checking this post out and be sure to stay tuned!

Speedma11229

Go with this mobo, ecs is known to be not completely reliable, this hdd, 7 bucks more for twice the size, and this 4870, cheaper and same performance.

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Proposed wooden tower build

AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.6

AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.8
Hitting 3.8 was easy, getting a stable 4.0 ghz, that will be a challenge!

-iceblade^

i hate to push the build blues bubble

but... an ECS mobo, and an Antec 1200? surely you could have gotten a better mobo, and an antec 900 2...

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