So, my current system has lasted it's five year expected life span and usefulness as a front line desktop. I am proud to say that this has been by far one of the most stable builds I've ever done, and the quality of the products being made by the large name manufactures has never been better.
To give you an idea of what I am upgrading from:
EVGA 780i SLI Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 4GB Ram
Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz Quad Core Chip
EVGA GTX260 Video Card
I've been tinkering with computers for 15+ years and needless to say, times are so exciting. I decided back in November that I wanted to rebuild my PC and bring my rig up with the current times so I am not lagging behind.
So with that, I am starting my first build log. Several parts are going to be recycled like my case, power supply, APC unit, etc however all of the important parts are going to be replaced.
With that said, let the log begin! I hope you like it, and you enjoy the excitement I'm going to get from rebuilding my black beauty.
12/29/2011
Today marks an exciting day for the PC build. The heart of my machine has arrived from the PC Parts Gods. They delivered it in this beautiful box:
After bowing and worshiping the PC Parts Gods for the excitement it has thou delivered to me, I find this nestled inside of above mentioned box:
As I am unworthy of such magnificant power that is contained in this small little package, I felt I should photograph it in all it's beauty before opening it's package:
01/04/2012
Well, today was a productive day if I do say so myself! Originally went to Costco to look at one of the chairs that's so popular with so many OCN"ers and ended up coming home with a Cool Master ATCS 840 and a new laser printer, all for under 160$. The laser printer, while older, is a workhorse known to work for YEARS. It's an HP LaserJet 4050 with dual paper tray's and a new Jet Direct module. It was also filled with a new toner drum and low page count.
So I go into a local computer store here to both browse and compare prices. As I'm browsing around the store, this wonderful looking beauty caught my eye:
Intrigued by its beauty, I felt I must check it out a little more closely. What little treats did this gem hold? Given her size, she must be pretty roomy, and judging from the fans on top it must have a mean cooling system.
Alas after checking her inside and out for any major defects, I approached the shop keeper and asked how much he would like for the case. It was marked for 80$, he offered to let me have it for 50$ flat. Well I couldn't resist. I just HAD to have this beautiful case for my new Core i5-2500k build.
So after removing some unwanted stickers on the stop, she was carefully seat belted into the car for the trip home. The car ride home was terrible. All I could think about was how I was going to mod this case and what evil... er I mean WONDERFUL things I could do with a case of this size.
Here she is in all of her beauty before a good cleaning/scrubbing:
It even has the grommet's for water cooling tubes:
1/11/2012
So today I went through and I think I have settled on exactly what parts I will be placing inside this beast. Check out my shopping list:
Motherboard: EVGA Z68 FTW
Memory: G Skill Ripjawz X series 16gb
Video Card: EVGA GTX 570
Boot Drive: Samsung 830 64gb After reading an article on tom's hardware, this one rated one of the best overall and got picked as it's suggested buy.
Games Drive: Samsung 830 128gb
Price of parts above: 1109.95$ plus a 20$ rebate off the motherboard.
The only thing left out of the build yet to pick up is the UV Paint, UV Lights, window kit for the side panel, and I'm thinking of sleeving all of the cords, but I'm not so sure in my skill level to do it properly without something burning down.
That's it for now! Hopefully will be ordering the parts on Friday for delivery early next week. I believe this calls for a partial vacation day from work!
1/16/2012
Today the part's god's had delivered to me a Samsung 830 64gb SSD drive just before I had to leave for work.
So after 8 hours of dying to tear into the box, I finally get home to tear open the package to find this wonderful looking item:
However, the package wasn't delivered flawlessly
The outside box has a good sized gash in it that went all the way through:
as well as the box with the drive inside:
As the pictures show, it comes with a power cord, a SATA connector (both of which are approx 6-8" in length, screws, a drive tray, Norton Ghost, Samsung dvd with tools and programs, and the standard users manual.
The drive itself is held in its plastic tray pretty well. It doesn't just tip over and fall out which is great! It is extremely light weight, the entire package weighs less than 1lb. Overall the drive feels good, doesn't feel "cheap". Tomorrow is going to be an even better day. The rest of the parts from the part's god's show up.
Expect some more pictures!!
1/18/2012
Once again the part's god's have delivered into my presence a box filled with awesomeness. However, UPS in their infinite wisdom decided to leave a large box stamped with tons of STEAL ME I CONTAIN EXPENSIVE ITEMS banners all over it outside my door while I was not home.
Needless to say, less than pleased. Thankfully it wasn't tampered with.
Soo, after raging at UPS for a minute, the happiness of new parts took over.
So, this is what was left for me:
Newegg has moved away from using packing peanuts in their boxes, and moved to this kraft paper stuff. This is a single strand of the paper:
And here is the final pile after removing it all.. I guess it's more "Green" than packing peanuts, however it didn't really secure the items inside of the main shipping box very well. The parts moved around alot.
Once getting through the MILES of kraft paper, I find this in the bottom.
This was located on the bottom of the stack. It did not provide much, if any, protection to the bottom of the box/products:
And here is the entire purchase/build thus far:
However, as typical of my luck, the box arrived damaged as well:
1/27/2012
Today a few more items were purchased for the build. The first is ModRight's Mod Mat v2. I have to say this thing is HUGE, with plenty of room to set your case on and your parts. It feels as if it's made from quality materials and won't break down easy on you. Some mats out there are cheap, and feel cheap, ModMat on the other hand, is neither. Purchased from MicroCenter's website for 39.99 + 8.99$ for 2 day air shipping (ground was $5.99). Make note that the ModMat DOES come rolled in a storage box, so I suggest you lay it out and put a few heavy objects on the ends until it flattens out.
ModMat:
The ModMat does come with this handy dandy fan guide to assist with fan sizes and hole locations:
It also comes with a wrist strap grounding point for you, and a lead from the mat to an external grounding point away from the mat. Quality seems to be ok on these, but we shall see.
Backside view of the ground snap points:
Nice and shiny!!
It also has a nice built in measuring guide both in centimeters and inches located along the bottom and right side respectfully:
Also picked up some Plexi-glass, some screws, rubber washers, and a plexi-cutter:
Feb 3rd & Feb 4th, 2012... The day the beast came alive!
So the last two days were eventful to say the least. After running around for half the day on Friday trying to track down parts for a Craftsman all in one cutting tool, I eventually just said to heck with putting a side window in the case. So to burn off some stress I started to work on my case. After a quick trip to Fry's to pick up some motherboard stand off's, I was ready to begin! I apologize that I was unable to film the build, I couldn't get my web cam to take quality video, and it took over 9.5 hours to put the system together, mainly because I didn't like how some of the wires ran.
So, after installing the motherboard and I/O panel & fan, it was time to start installing the CPU. The way that EVGA has set up the board, the CPU Fan connector was along the very top edge of the board. The included heatsink and fan's cable was either too short or too long no matter which way I installed the heatsink on the chip. So after trying a few different methods, I opted to go with this:
But I didn't like how it looked, and it left too much extra wire to lay against the heat sink on the edge of the motherboard. So after looking at it and doing a few more mock up's this is what I ultimately ended with:
This helped eliminate the extra wire laying against the heat sink, and keeps things nice and neat.
Next thing I started to work on was installing all of the cooling fans. Anyone who has worked with an ATCS 840 case knows there are a TON of fans on this case, and the wires are not always the longest, or the other extreme, too darn long! So I had to get creative with keeping the wires out of the way. One thing I wanted to ensure with this build was that the inside of the case be as clear of clutter as possible to permit maximum airflow.
So, we will start with the first fan challenge. This fan is installed on the I/O panel itself. Cute idea, but not sure how practical it is, but I figured, eh, what the heck might as well. This proved to be a slightly difficult to get plugged in once everything is inside the case. I would strongly encourage you deal with this fan BEFORE you slide the tray back into the case.
As you can see, with the arm of the motherboard tray in the way, it can prove to be very difficult to move around inside the case.
The next fan is the exhaust fan on the back of the motherboard tray. For some odd reason, the manufacturer decided to include a billion feet of wire for this fan. So after some pondering how I wanted to do this, the best I came up with was just to wrap the wires around two of my fingers and zip tie the bundle to the case.
It is attacked to one of the holes of the exhaust port at the bottom of the fan. Bout the best I could do given the constraints.
This next item was a little perk/knic-knac item from EVGA. However, I think it would look better on the front of the case, it is currently designed to be installed on the back of the case. It is an analog gauge showing what speed your CPU is working. It lights up a nice bright white and while nice looking, doesn't serve much purpose other than to look good. The wire lead on this item is VERY short so I had no other choice but to run the wire the way I did. Note the red wire that comes in from the backside of the case and runs to the board. That is the control wire for this device.
The next set of fans to be dealt with were the two large fans on top. These two fans are no laughing matter at their size. They move a really decent amount of air and I was torn on how I wanted to install these two fans. Both intake, both exhaust, or one of each? After arguing with myself for a little bit I decided to make both fans exhaust. Given that I plan on overclocking this machine, I wanted to ensure that as much heat as possible is being exhausted from the machine. So here is a view of the wiring route for those fans:
Pretty standard route given that there is the hole in the motherboard tray.
So here is a picture showing the general locations of all of the front panel connections:
Starting from left to right we have:
Audio
Firewire
USB
USB
Front Fan
Power/Reset switches
Power/HDD LED's
Note that the route of the audio cable. I am not a fan of letting wires touch the motherboard or other parts, well because let's face it, I'm slightly paranoid something will get fried. So the only route that I had for this wire, is the route that you see. I could have zip tied it to the top of the motherboard try arm, however I wanted to try and keep it as clean as possible. I may go back through and do that, but for the time being it is as you see.
Here is a closer shot of the header's section. Take note of the USB 3.0 header. While I do not have anything 3.0 compatible it is nice that they have included the header. At this time, I opted not to use it, however I do have the USB 3.0 I/O panel expansion card gadget.
And so now we are up to the big fun bunch of wires to plug in. The front panel ECP device, 24pin motherboard supply cable, SATA data and power, etc. So I will start with the pictures:
So, starting with the first picture you will see to large bundles of red and black wires. These run to the ECP device in the front of the case to handle voltages and the disabling of PCI-E slots on the fly. Also included in that bundle is one of the top fan wires. These were ran through the opening in the motherboard tray but after adding the 24 pin connector, this idea proved slightly cumbersome. The second picture shows how they are now currently ran, straight out of the tray to the backside of the case. This proved to be the best way to run both the 24 pin and this bundle of wires. Choosing to run the 24pin through the opening would have caused a very sharp bend in the wires, and made it to the point the back panel would not secure to the case without it bulging out a good ways.
The third picture shows how I opted to run the Front Panel wires down down HDD/CDRom stack. This proved to be pretty nice and since the case came with a wire bundle thing, it was most helpful. So I just zip tied them to an open hole on the stack. This was also helpful as I chose not to use the SATA port on the Front Panel.
You can see how I ran the 24 pin connector to prevent the big kink in the wire. Note that I did use a zip tie to secure it in that position to also help remove any strain that may be placed on the wire. Also note that all of the extra wires have been bundled together and I have tried to remove as much slack/excess in the wires before securing them.
The final picture is not one of my favorites. With the way my power supply is, it's hard to get the power connectors to attach properly. I will probably work on these again on soon, as I do not like how they look, and I have to install 4 more SATA platter drives.
In this next picture, it shows how the SATA SSD's look when properly installed on the included bracket. Sorry for the flashback One thing I am not, is a professional photographer :
Also a pro-tip to those who have the Coolermaster ATCS840 case. If you plan on using SSD's you will need to remove the small pin's that are in the rubber grommets. These will prevent the metal tray from lining up properly so you may secure it to the hard drive trays. Please reference the below picture.
And since I am getting up there in my senior years *cough 27 cough*, I tend to forget which drive is which. So I used a silver marker and marked the sizes on the front. I will do this with my platter SATA's as well, but figured it might be helpful if you tend to forget which drive is which.
That's what I have so far. I hope you have enjoyed my first attempt at a build log, and I hope you find the information helpful or useful in your pursuit of awesomeness. This project is not done by any stretch of the imagination as I will continue to fiddle with the wires to run things better or neater. One suggestion though for anyone looking to use the Corsair TX750W version 1 power supply, the wires are NOT long enough to reach the 8pin connection at the top of the motherboard, WITHOUT running them kinda half hazardously through the case to reach the connector. This motherboard does have 2 8pin connectors and EVGA suggests you use both if you plan on overclocking. The TX750w does NOT have 2 8pin connectors on it.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to PM me or leave a comment here.
I thank you for bearing with me through this long build thread, and again, I hope you find it useful.
Warmest Regards,
e911
MORE TO COME I ASSURE YOU!!
Edited by e911 - 2/17/12 at 7:29pm
To give you an idea of what I am upgrading from:
EVGA 780i SLI Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 4GB Ram
Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz Quad Core Chip
EVGA GTX260 Video Card
I've been tinkering with computers for 15+ years and needless to say, times are so exciting. I decided back in November that I wanted to rebuild my PC and bring my rig up with the current times so I am not lagging behind.
So with that, I am starting my first build log. Several parts are going to be recycled like my case, power supply, APC unit, etc however all of the important parts are going to be replaced.
With that said, let the log begin! I hope you like it, and you enjoy the excitement I'm going to get from rebuilding my black beauty.
12/29/2011
Today marks an exciting day for the PC build. The heart of my machine has arrived from the PC Parts Gods. They delivered it in this beautiful box:
After bowing and worshiping the PC Parts Gods for the excitement it has thou delivered to me, I find this nestled inside of above mentioned box:
As I am unworthy of such magnificant power that is contained in this small little package, I felt I should photograph it in all it's beauty before opening it's package:
01/04/2012
Well, today was a productive day if I do say so myself! Originally went to Costco to look at one of the chairs that's so popular with so many OCN"ers and ended up coming home with a Cool Master ATCS 840 and a new laser printer, all for under 160$. The laser printer, while older, is a workhorse known to work for YEARS. It's an HP LaserJet 4050 with dual paper tray's and a new Jet Direct module. It was also filled with a new toner drum and low page count.
So I go into a local computer store here to both browse and compare prices. As I'm browsing around the store, this wonderful looking beauty caught my eye:
Intrigued by its beauty, I felt I must check it out a little more closely. What little treats did this gem hold? Given her size, she must be pretty roomy, and judging from the fans on top it must have a mean cooling system.
Alas after checking her inside and out for any major defects, I approached the shop keeper and asked how much he would like for the case. It was marked for 80$, he offered to let me have it for 50$ flat. Well I couldn't resist. I just HAD to have this beautiful case for my new Core i5-2500k build.
So after removing some unwanted stickers on the stop, she was carefully seat belted into the car for the trip home. The car ride home was terrible. All I could think about was how I was going to mod this case and what evil... er I mean WONDERFUL things I could do with a case of this size.
Here she is in all of her beauty before a good cleaning/scrubbing:
It even has the grommet's for water cooling tubes:
1/11/2012
So today I went through and I think I have settled on exactly what parts I will be placing inside this beast. Check out my shopping list:
Motherboard: EVGA Z68 FTW
Memory: G Skill Ripjawz X series 16gb
Video Card: EVGA GTX 570
Boot Drive: Samsung 830 64gb After reading an article on tom's hardware, this one rated one of the best overall and got picked as it's suggested buy.
Games Drive: Samsung 830 128gb
Price of parts above: 1109.95$ plus a 20$ rebate off the motherboard.
The only thing left out of the build yet to pick up is the UV Paint, UV Lights, window kit for the side panel, and I'm thinking of sleeving all of the cords, but I'm not so sure in my skill level to do it properly without something burning down.
That's it for now! Hopefully will be ordering the parts on Friday for delivery early next week. I believe this calls for a partial vacation day from work!
1/16/2012
Today the part's god's had delivered to me a Samsung 830 64gb SSD drive just before I had to leave for work.
So after 8 hours of dying to tear into the box, I finally get home to tear open the package to find this wonderful looking item:
However, the package wasn't delivered flawlessly
The outside box has a good sized gash in it that went all the way through:
as well as the box with the drive inside:
As the pictures show, it comes with a power cord, a SATA connector (both of which are approx 6-8" in length, screws, a drive tray, Norton Ghost, Samsung dvd with tools and programs, and the standard users manual.
The drive itself is held in its plastic tray pretty well. It doesn't just tip over and fall out which is great! It is extremely light weight, the entire package weighs less than 1lb. Overall the drive feels good, doesn't feel "cheap". Tomorrow is going to be an even better day. The rest of the parts from the part's god's show up.
Expect some more pictures!!
1/18/2012
Once again the part's god's have delivered into my presence a box filled with awesomeness. However, UPS in their infinite wisdom decided to leave a large box stamped with tons of STEAL ME I CONTAIN EXPENSIVE ITEMS banners all over it outside my door while I was not home.
Needless to say, less than pleased. Thankfully it wasn't tampered with.
Soo, after raging at UPS for a minute, the happiness of new parts took over.
So, this is what was left for me:
Newegg has moved away from using packing peanuts in their boxes, and moved to this kraft paper stuff. This is a single strand of the paper:
And here is the final pile after removing it all.. I guess it's more "Green" than packing peanuts, however it didn't really secure the items inside of the main shipping box very well. The parts moved around alot.
Once getting through the MILES of kraft paper, I find this in the bottom.
This was located on the bottom of the stack. It did not provide much, if any, protection to the bottom of the box/products:
And here is the entire purchase/build thus far:
However, as typical of my luck, the box arrived damaged as well:
1/27/2012
Today a few more items were purchased for the build. The first is ModRight's Mod Mat v2. I have to say this thing is HUGE, with plenty of room to set your case on and your parts. It feels as if it's made from quality materials and won't break down easy on you. Some mats out there are cheap, and feel cheap, ModMat on the other hand, is neither. Purchased from MicroCenter's website for 39.99 + 8.99$ for 2 day air shipping (ground was $5.99). Make note that the ModMat DOES come rolled in a storage box, so I suggest you lay it out and put a few heavy objects on the ends until it flattens out.
ModMat:
The ModMat does come with this handy dandy fan guide to assist with fan sizes and hole locations:
It also comes with a wrist strap grounding point for you, and a lead from the mat to an external grounding point away from the mat. Quality seems to be ok on these, but we shall see.
Backside view of the ground snap points:
Nice and shiny!!
It also has a nice built in measuring guide both in centimeters and inches located along the bottom and right side respectfully:
Also picked up some Plexi-glass, some screws, rubber washers, and a plexi-cutter:
Feb 3rd & Feb 4th, 2012... The day the beast came alive!
So the last two days were eventful to say the least. After running around for half the day on Friday trying to track down parts for a Craftsman all in one cutting tool, I eventually just said to heck with putting a side window in the case. So to burn off some stress I started to work on my case. After a quick trip to Fry's to pick up some motherboard stand off's, I was ready to begin! I apologize that I was unable to film the build, I couldn't get my web cam to take quality video, and it took over 9.5 hours to put the system together, mainly because I didn't like how some of the wires ran.
So, after installing the motherboard and I/O panel & fan, it was time to start installing the CPU. The way that EVGA has set up the board, the CPU Fan connector was along the very top edge of the board. The included heatsink and fan's cable was either too short or too long no matter which way I installed the heatsink on the chip. So after trying a few different methods, I opted to go with this:
But I didn't like how it looked, and it left too much extra wire to lay against the heat sink on the edge of the motherboard. So after looking at it and doing a few more mock up's this is what I ultimately ended with:
This helped eliminate the extra wire laying against the heat sink, and keeps things nice and neat.
Next thing I started to work on was installing all of the cooling fans. Anyone who has worked with an ATCS 840 case knows there are a TON of fans on this case, and the wires are not always the longest, or the other extreme, too darn long! So I had to get creative with keeping the wires out of the way. One thing I wanted to ensure with this build was that the inside of the case be as clear of clutter as possible to permit maximum airflow.
So, we will start with the first fan challenge. This fan is installed on the I/O panel itself. Cute idea, but not sure how practical it is, but I figured, eh, what the heck might as well. This proved to be a slightly difficult to get plugged in once everything is inside the case. I would strongly encourage you deal with this fan BEFORE you slide the tray back into the case.
As you can see, with the arm of the motherboard tray in the way, it can prove to be very difficult to move around inside the case.
The next fan is the exhaust fan on the back of the motherboard tray. For some odd reason, the manufacturer decided to include a billion feet of wire for this fan. So after some pondering how I wanted to do this, the best I came up with was just to wrap the wires around two of my fingers and zip tie the bundle to the case.
It is attacked to one of the holes of the exhaust port at the bottom of the fan. Bout the best I could do given the constraints.
This next item was a little perk/knic-knac item from EVGA. However, I think it would look better on the front of the case, it is currently designed to be installed on the back of the case. It is an analog gauge showing what speed your CPU is working. It lights up a nice bright white and while nice looking, doesn't serve much purpose other than to look good. The wire lead on this item is VERY short so I had no other choice but to run the wire the way I did. Note the red wire that comes in from the backside of the case and runs to the board. That is the control wire for this device.
The next set of fans to be dealt with were the two large fans on top. These two fans are no laughing matter at their size. They move a really decent amount of air and I was torn on how I wanted to install these two fans. Both intake, both exhaust, or one of each? After arguing with myself for a little bit I decided to make both fans exhaust. Given that I plan on overclocking this machine, I wanted to ensure that as much heat as possible is being exhausted from the machine. So here is a view of the wiring route for those fans:
Pretty standard route given that there is the hole in the motherboard tray.
So here is a picture showing the general locations of all of the front panel connections:
Starting from left to right we have:
Audio
Firewire
USB
USB
Front Fan
Power/Reset switches
Power/HDD LED's
Note that the route of the audio cable. I am not a fan of letting wires touch the motherboard or other parts, well because let's face it, I'm slightly paranoid something will get fried. So the only route that I had for this wire, is the route that you see. I could have zip tied it to the top of the motherboard try arm, however I wanted to try and keep it as clean as possible. I may go back through and do that, but for the time being it is as you see.
Here is a closer shot of the header's section. Take note of the USB 3.0 header. While I do not have anything 3.0 compatible it is nice that they have included the header. At this time, I opted not to use it, however I do have the USB 3.0 I/O panel expansion card gadget.
And so now we are up to the big fun bunch of wires to plug in. The front panel ECP device, 24pin motherboard supply cable, SATA data and power, etc. So I will start with the pictures:
So, starting with the first picture you will see to large bundles of red and black wires. These run to the ECP device in the front of the case to handle voltages and the disabling of PCI-E slots on the fly. Also included in that bundle is one of the top fan wires. These were ran through the opening in the motherboard tray but after adding the 24 pin connector, this idea proved slightly cumbersome. The second picture shows how they are now currently ran, straight out of the tray to the backside of the case. This proved to be the best way to run both the 24 pin and this bundle of wires. Choosing to run the 24pin through the opening would have caused a very sharp bend in the wires, and made it to the point the back panel would not secure to the case without it bulging out a good ways.
The third picture shows how I opted to run the Front Panel wires down down HDD/CDRom stack. This proved to be pretty nice and since the case came with a wire bundle thing, it was most helpful. So I just zip tied them to an open hole on the stack. This was also helpful as I chose not to use the SATA port on the Front Panel.
You can see how I ran the 24 pin connector to prevent the big kink in the wire. Note that I did use a zip tie to secure it in that position to also help remove any strain that may be placed on the wire. Also note that all of the extra wires have been bundled together and I have tried to remove as much slack/excess in the wires before securing them.
The final picture is not one of my favorites. With the way my power supply is, it's hard to get the power connectors to attach properly. I will probably work on these again on soon, as I do not like how they look, and I have to install 4 more SATA platter drives.
In this next picture, it shows how the SATA SSD's look when properly installed on the included bracket. Sorry for the flashback
One thing I am not, is a professional photographer :
Also a pro-tip to those who have the Coolermaster ATCS840 case. If you plan on using SSD's you will need to remove the small pin's that are in the rubber grommets. These will prevent the metal tray from lining up properly so you may secure it to the hard drive trays. Please reference the below picture.
And since I am getting up there in my senior years *cough 27 cough*, I tend to forget which drive is which. So I used a silver marker and marked the sizes on the front. I will do this with my platter SATA's as well, but figured it might be helpful if you tend to forget which drive is which.
That's what I have so far. I hope you have enjoyed my first attempt at a build log, and I hope you find the information helpful or useful in your pursuit of awesomeness. This project is not done by any stretch of the imagination as I will continue to fiddle with the wires to run things better or neater. One suggestion though for anyone looking to use the Corsair TX750W version 1 power supply, the wires are NOT long enough to reach the 8pin connection at the top of the motherboard, WITHOUT running them kinda half hazardously through the case to reach the connector. This motherboard does have 2 8pin connectors and EVGA suggests you use both if you plan on overclocking. The TX750w does NOT have 2 8pin connectors on it.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to PM me or leave a comment here.
I thank you for bearing with me through this long build thread, and again, I hope you find it useful.
Warmest Regards,
e911
MORE TO COME I ASSURE YOU!!
Edited by e911 - 2/17/12 at 7:29pm
My black beauty...
(26 items) |
Intel Core i5-2500k Build 2012
(27 items) |
| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | Graphics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-2500k | EVGA Z68 FTW 160-SB-E689-K2 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 ... | EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1573-AR GeForce GTX 57... | EVGA GTX260 for Physx |
| RAM | Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Hard Drive |
| G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin... | SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC128D/AM 2.5" 128GB SAT... | SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC064D/AM 2.5" 64GB SATA... | Western Digital Caviar Green WD6400AAC |
| Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling |
| Western Digital Caviar Black 500Gb | Samsung External DVD drive | Asus Slim USB Powered DVD Burner Drive | *cough* STOCK *cough* |
| OS | Monitor | Monitor | Keyboard |
| Windows 7 Pro | Dell 2208WFP 22" Widescreen | Dell 2208WFP 22" Widescreen | Microsoft Wireless |
| Power | Case | Mouse | Mouse Pad |
| Corsair Enthusiast 750watt v1 | Coolmaster ATCS 840 *sexy beast* | Microsoft Wireless 5000 Laser | Rocketfish Speed |
| Audio | Audio | Other | Other |
| Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality 5.1 Soundcard | Logitech 5.1 Surround sound system (forget whic... | Kingston 7 Port Powered USB Hub | Gear Head 7 Port Powered USB Hub |
| Other | Other | Other | |
| HP LaserJet 4050 with Jet Direct Black/White La... | HP Officejet Pro K550 Color Inkjet | Arctic Silver Thermal Grease | |
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Intel Core i5-2500k Build 2012
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | Graphics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-2500k | EVGA Z68 FTW 160-SB-E689-K2 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 ... | EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1573-AR GeForce GTX 57... | EVGA GTX260 for Physx |
| RAM | Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Hard Drive |
| G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin... | SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC128D/AM 2.5" 128GB SAT... | SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC064D/AM 2.5" 64GB SATA... | Western Digital Caviar Green WD6400AAC |
| Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling |
| Western Digital Caviar Black 500Gb | Samsung External DVD drive | Asus Slim USB Powered DVD Burner Drive | *cough* STOCK *cough* |
| OS | Monitor | Monitor | Keyboard |
| Windows 7 Pro | Dell 2208WFP 22" Widescreen | Dell 2208WFP 22" Widescreen | Microsoft Wireless |
| Power | Case | Mouse | Mouse Pad |
| Corsair Enthusiast 750watt v1 | Coolmaster ATCS 840 *sexy beast* | Microsoft Wireless 5000 Laser | Rocketfish Speed |
| Audio | Audio | Other | Other |
| Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality 5.1 Soundcard | Logitech 5.1 Surround sound system (forget whic... | Kingston 7 Port Powered USB Hub | Gear Head 7 Port Powered USB Hub |
| Other | Other | Other | |
| HP LaserJet 4050 with Jet Direct Black/White La... | HP Officejet Pro K550 Color Inkjet | Arctic Silver Thermal Grease | |
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Was going to get an XSPC Rasa kit but wasn't quite ready to take on legit WCing..
