[build log] Green Fiend

Welcome to the Green Fiend build log. Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoy.

Background of the build is I was a console gamer with little to no PC gaming experience up until Spring of 2012. After a few months of playing BF3 on xbox and developing an incredible passion to enhance my gaming experience. I researched into gaming PC's, learned about the enthusiast side of things which lead me to overclocking... which is when I found OCN. Originally I got handed down an athlon dual core system which I upgraded with 4gb of 1333 ddr3 ram and an asus gtx 550ti which played me BF3 on low settings at playable fps for a few months. Then after obtaining my tax return I blew every last cent I had to spend building the original rig. I recycled my hard drives, video card and ram from the old system and bought myself the updated AMD platform and the NZXT phantom 410 along with all the fans needed to fill all the slots (I couldn't dare have an empty fan slot lol) It ended up costing around $750 CND and I had built the computer I'd been dying for. I blame OCN for making me care so much what my computer looks like A couple build showcase threads around here really got me focused on the aesthetics of computer building. As you can see along the rough timeline of photos below, the build only grew from then on.

SPECS
Case: NZXT Phantom 410
Mobo: Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 rev 3
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 960T Black Edition
CPU Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo push pull
RAM: Patriot Viper Extreme Performance 4GB
GPU: AMD branded Radeon HD 7970
PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer MK III 500W
Storage: 500GB main storage, 640GB video game footage storage
Disk drives: Single read/write dvd drive
Monitor: LG 20" LED backlit Flatron E2060 main display, Acer 19" lcd secondary monitoring display
Fans/Accessories: NZXT 2M Green LED kit, Cooler Master Sickle Flow 120mm Green led x5, Bitfenix Spectre 140mm green led x2
Peripherals: Rosewill RK9000-BRI MX brown mechanical keyboard, Mionix Naos 3200, Corsair HS1 Gaming headset, Steelseries QCK mini mouse pad
Mods: Extra windows mod, OCN flame bracket, Fully sleeved PSU, replaced power/hdd indicator led's from blue to green
Timeline of photos from beginning to current (Click to show)
Hope to hear some good feedback and advice for future changes

Thanks guys,
InsideJob
Edited by InsideJob - 4/11/13 at 6:02pm

Practice run on sleeving with my existing PSU.

Just placed the order on one of these Sleeving will begin as soon as I get it

Pic I found that I hadn't uploaded



Tool box I put together today for doing work on the rig

You sir will have some nice pictures to look at in the near future

MOVED
Edited by InsideJob - 11/4/12 at 8:18am

Kuhler is on the 960 since I got the cooler. Has been performing adequate at best, the smaller rad must have a huge performance hit on the cooler considering I got the 620 for $45 CND and the 920 was and still is around $110. That price difference is a bit nuts if you ask me, but my budget didn't allow me to get the 920 as would have been the better purchase. I would say the 620 performs equal to a high end air cooler.