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post #1 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:21pm
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came across this site looking for a bracket to fit a water cooler to a gpu
and thought i'd get tour thoughts on my build

case: corsair graphite ltd ed in white
mobo: crossfire v formulae
cpu: phenom II 1090t
gpu: palit gtx 560 ti 448
ram: 8GB corsair vengance
hdd: samsung f3 1Tb x2 in raid
psu: corsair tx 550w
cooling: 2x antec 620 (1 for the cpu, 1 for the gpu)

I might eventually put in a water cooling kit
some of the bits i'm getting new, the gpu i already have, mobo and gpu are from ebay
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post #2 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:24pm
What is your budget for your system? Let's start off from there.

I would definitely invest into a 128GB SSD... they're relatively cheap as of late. You should definitely get one.
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post #3 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:25pm
What will you primarily use the system for?
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Swiftech Helix 120mm x7 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 LG W2361V CM Storm Quickfire Rapid [CMX Blacks] 
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post #4 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:26pm
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What will you primarily use the system for?
OP post says for "gaming and looks"... so basically he wants a system for gaming with components with a "base" color so they match.
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post #5 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:26pm
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all parts are already paid for, courtesy of selling my beat up econoline smile.gif
didn't find this site untill i was looking to water cool my gpu
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post #6 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:32pm
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all parts are already paid for, courtesy of selling my beat up econoline smile.gif
didn't find this site untill i was looking to water cool my gpu
Well you did ask for thoughts about your setup. The conflicting points for me (personally) would be,

1) Definitely you need to get a SSD. A lot of good deals for SSDs have been around ~$80 price, definitely buy one!!
Motherboard is fine, CPU is ok... definitely needs to be overclocked (although I think you could of done better with a Intel build).
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790GB Total LITE-ON Corsair H50 Windows 8 
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Acer GD235HZ BenQ 2420T DAS Keyboard CORSAIR 650W 
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post #7 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:33pm
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OP post says for "gaming and looks"... so basically he wants a system for gaming with components with a "base" color so they match.

Haha I definitely was not paying attention. Oops....
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This one is for my wife....
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3570K [4.6Ghz, 1.3v] Z77 Extreme4 670 FTW [H80 mod] [1254, 7348] GEIL Evo Corsa 4x4Gb [1866Mhz,9-10-9-28] 
Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
Samsung 830 128Gb [x2 in Raid 0] WD Black 1Tb DVD-RW Multi Drive Antec Kuhler 620 
CoolingOSMonitorKeyboard
Swiftech Helix 120mm x7 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 LG W2361V CM Storm Quickfire Rapid [CMX Blacks] 
PowerCaseMouseMouse Pad
Thermaltake Smart M850 Omniflowtent [My Custom Creation] Mad Catz RAT 3 Steel Series QcK+ 
Audio
Turtle Beach X12 
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CPUGraphicsRAMHard Drive
i3 2330m 2.2Ghz Intel HD 3000 2x4Gb G Skill DDR3 1333Mhz 128Gb Sandisk Sata III SSD 
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Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
Samsung 830 128Gb [x2 in Raid 0] WD Black 1Tb DVD-RW Multi Drive Antec Kuhler 620 
CoolingOSMonitorKeyboard
Swiftech Helix 120mm x7 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 LG W2361V CM Storm Quickfire Rapid [CMX Blacks] 
PowerCaseMouseMouse Pad
Thermaltake Smart M850 Omniflowtent [My Custom Creation] Mad Catz RAT 3 Steel Series QcK+ 
Audio
Turtle Beach X12 
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CPUGraphicsRAMHard Drive
i3 2330m 2.2Ghz Intel HD 3000 2x4Gb G Skill DDR3 1333Mhz 128Gb Sandisk Sata III SSD 
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post #8 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:35pm
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Haha I definitely was not paying attention. Oops....
It's okay smile.gif we all overlook words in the most obvious places at some point hehe
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MonitorMonitorKeyboardPower
Acer GD235HZ BenQ 2420T DAS Keyboard CORSAIR 650W 
CaseMouseMouse Pad
Cooler Master HAF-X 942 Razer Deathadder 2013 Steelseries QcK+ 
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Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
790GB Total LITE-ON Corsair H50 Windows 8 
MonitorMonitorKeyboardPower
Acer GD235HZ BenQ 2420T DAS Keyboard CORSAIR 650W 
CaseMouseMouse Pad
Cooler Master HAF-X 942 Razer Deathadder 2013 Steelseries QcK+ 
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post #9 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:37pm
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I wanted to get an ssd but the more i read about them the more unsure i became, seems like some last for ages and others fail in days, plus with win7 even my athlon II 245 boots up quicker than my mobile phone smile.gif
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post #10 of 13
8/9/12 at 3:38pm
not a bad start at all.....now if you had a beefier psu you could do SLI with the twin 560 448 cores and have an amazing rig. i do concur about adding an ssd and overclocking the 1090t. I rock that same chip myself and twin 570s and can tell you that your system would probably beat down on crysis 2 maxed. the 560 448 ftw core is more like a 570 anyway and i can pound on crysis 2 maxed on even one 570. overclock and proceed to enjoy games!
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Hard DriveHard DriveHard DriveOptical Drive
Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 3.0gbps terabyte Crucial M4 64 GB western digital caviar se  Asus DVD-RW 
Optical DriveCoolingCoolingCooling
LG GGC-H20L Coolermaster 120mm coolermaster seidon 240m Coolermaster 200mm 
CoolingOSMonitorKeyboard
aerocool f6xt Win 7 Pro 64 bit asus vw246h Microsoft Reclusa 
PowerCaseMouseMouse Pad
Cooler Master Silent Pro M850 HAF 922 Razer Lachesis 4000DPI razer vespula 
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Altec Lansing Octane 7 creative x-fi extreme music asus wireless n pci-e 1.0 
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samsung 500gb sata 3.0gbps western digital caviar blue 500gb sata 3.0gbps crucial c300 64gb hp dvd-rw ide 
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lite-on dvd-rw coolermaster hyper-n520 coolermaster 200mm fan bitfenix spectre 200mm 
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HAF 912 inland realtek onboard 
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