LittleDevil
hey guys well its been a long 2 months of waiting and looking for the best deals and im finally here! well i spent half the day yesterday building testing and wire managment on the system and of course taking loads of pics!... well to start heres a list of steps im taking till the product is full and finished.
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Steps of the Build
1.
Buying Phase
2. Building Phase
Part 1 |
Part 2 |
Part 3
3. installing and testing Phase
4. In normal use pics and setup pics
part 1 |
Part 2
5. enjoy the system!
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System Specs
CPU: intel i7 930 - $199 from microcenter -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
Mobo: Asus x58 Rampage III Gene mATX - $0 -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
RAM: Corsair Dominator 3 x 2GB - $0 -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
Case: NZXT Vulcan mATX Game case - $0 - BOUGHT & ARRIVED
PSU: Corsair 750WHX modular - $0 -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
GFX: EVGA GTX 470 - $200 - BOUGHT & ARRIVED[/URL]
OS HDD: OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD - $139.99 (after rebate) -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
HDD: WD 1TB SATAIII Black - $76.49 -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
Optical: LiteON burner - $25.99 - BOUGHT & ARRIVED
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - $99.99 -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
CPU Cooler: Corsair H70 - $110 -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
Wireless adapter: Asus USB-N13 - $18 -
BOUGHT & ARRIVED
Fans: Xigmatek 120mm - $9.99 - BOUGHT & ARRIVED
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A little bit of the story
I was initially going with a Sapphire HD5850 which i got on a great deal but i sold that ahead for a decent chunk of change and picked up a GTX 470 on another great deal
this process really helped me appreciate taking my time to build a system being over zealous never helps the cost of your system.
well anyways i have all the pics downloaded and resized will be uploading as i get home and should have those up soon after. The reason for this build was to run FFXIV at a minimal cost and minimal size. With the vulcan i really got the chance to make the minimal size come true
... well anyways i was a huge fan of FFXI and me and a bunch of my buddies played alot! well the name of my character was LittleDevil but that seems a bit too childish for my character in FFXIV so im gonna be naming my system LittleDevil
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Pics are posted below!