BUILD IN PROGRESS: NEW GAMING RIG

[Nayu]

CPU : intel core i7 975

LOL! are you serious? you would buy that $1000 CPU when you could just overclock a 920? save money on CPU and buy a better graphics card, like a gtx 285 or 295 if you have the money?

as for your rig [SD]Twysta, very nice indeed! but i would hate having that tower, my room would look and sound like an airport lol.

well i have heard it makes quite a difference while gaming :/

if its not much diff then i'd just get the 950 w/ a better vid card

[[SD]Twysta]

Thanks guys

I got confirmation today that all my parts are ready for shipping. Should have them by wednesday, tuesday is more likely.

does it sound like an airplane with all those fans?

Nope. In most cases, it is one fan and one fan only that's noisy, the CPU fan. Usually the CPU fan that comes with the CPU purchase is really bad and thus needs to speed up tons and these are usually extremely loud All my other fans in the case don't go over 25dB. Which is just a tiny bit noisy I guess, but far from serious.

love it, i am doing a very similar build in the not so far future. only thing i would change is gpu, with current pricing i would prob select a gtx 275 over those 4890s oc edition ( specially oc edition ).

on another note that is my fav case bar none, pics of the inside wouldnt hurt . btw 4.0 Ghz is overkill lol, no need to punish your cpu that way. tone it down to 3.2-3.6 and you will still have monster performance, just that you'll get better temps and use less energy doing it.

The choice between todays high end video cards (Nvidia and ATI) is something I actually put least amount of time in. My friend has two ATI Radeon HD 4870's (Just a bit older than mine).
And he runs everything amazingly well.

I've personally actually used Nvidia for years and years, and different reviews say that ATI is currently simply ahead of Nvidia (DDR5).

And well I am getting the parts on tuesday/wednesday max. (I plucked these off google).
I will be posting multiple pics of the building process etc

oh god an over clocked i7 @.@

also i hear arctic cooler 7 on newegg.com is really good for a heatsink

The i7 is really well OCable. There shouldn't be any problems
And yea that cooler is quite good btw, but mine cools just as well, maybe even a little bit better. And most importantly it's quiet (although I've ordered a different fan with it for LED).

very nice, something similar to what i would get if i were to get a new one

odd, i just noticed when i bought my pc new 2 years ago it cost 2100 as well.

I don't think prices go UP over the years. They just stay the same, new hardware costs the same as other hardware that was new 2 years ago

Very nice setup. With that GPU setup what games will you be playing? (It will play any game out there, just wondering which ones you fancy)

Watercool it NAO!! With some UV dye in the tubes it would look bangin. You've already spent $2100, go all out.

Got my c2d running 4ghz, but on water.

Well, next month (new paycheck ) I will be ordering up some final things.
Fan controller with a nice little display, 1 more case fan, and some other minor things.

And most importantly, some insanely epic monitor Don't know which one yet.

I'm thinking of a full HD Samsung Syncmaster (27").

what are you temps like?

The temps will be extremely low. The airflow in this case is simply amazing.
See a few posts below for that.

Good job. Nothing better than building your first and watching it run. Hopefully you stick with it, is definitely fun. Personally been building for 6 years...it relaxes me.

Have to agree with you. I'm not even building yet and this stuff - the research, reading forums etc - is really nice. Never would have thought it's so much fun and especially interesting.

Not to mention I followed IT for a year, which was 2.5 years ago. From then until now I haven't really done much with hardware. It's nice to get all this stuff researched etc.

Can't wait to build it

Very nice, though you will have monsterly electrical bills if you use it alot. 750 watts.

Meh, not me paying them

nice case but one problem your gona have unless already addressed is dust with so much ventalation on that, should by some anti-dust mesh to put inside imo

See bottom of post.

sik pc...but mad overpriced, too much for my taste, i usually go for ~1000 when getting a new pc. But hey..if i had mad money, then i would get a system like that. What speed was the processor at prior to oc?

2.66 GHz.



The antec nine hundred

So, fan #1 and 2 are Intake fans. They are attached to the bottom 2 HDD cages.
They blow the air through the HDD's into the bottom and the top of the case.
At the bottom, my PSU will suck it in and blow it out the back, also slightly cooling the Graphics cards in the middle of the case.
At the top, my CPU cooler (pointed to blow towards the rear (#4), will blow into #4 & #5.

To answer MasterWong, see white stripes on the HDD cages on the right side.
They have dustfilters between the case and the fans. The HDD cages can move out the front so it's a really cool system, and easy to remove the filters. (They are just 2 fishnet kind of racks that slide in. Meaning the only 2 intake fans, thus the only ones that will suck in dust, won't

@ Nayu, don't be silly Overclock the I7

[BloodyBlade]

Go for the samsung syncmaster, I have it too and I love it

[[SD]Master_Wong]

nice case but one problem your gona have unless already addressed is dust with so much ventalation on that, should by some anti-dust mesh to put inside imo

See bottom of post.



The antec nine hundred

So, fan #1 and 2 are Intake fans. They are attached to the bottom 2 HDD cages.
They blow the air through the HDD's into the bottom and the top of the case.
At the bottom, my PSU will suck it in and blow it out the back, also slightly cooling the Graphics cards in the middle of the case.
At the top, my CPU cooler (pointed to blow towards the rear (#4), will blow into #4 & #5.

To answer MasterWong, see white stripes on the HDD cages on the right side.
They have dustfilters between the case and the fans. The HDD cages can move out the front so it's a really cool system, and easy to remove the filters. (They are just 2 fishnet kind of racks that slide in. Meaning the only 2 intake fans, thus the only ones that will suck in dust, won't

@ Nayu, don't be silly Overclock the I7

nice very nice, i hate dust kills your system if left unchecked, iv bought a new case myself with some blue cathodes.

next goal is a new graphics card
nVidia Geforce GTX295

currently thats the only thing i need to upgrade from my
nVidia Geforce GT 8800


also got to ask why not an AMD, iv found from personal experiance these fair better on a gaming rig

[Apollion]

i'll trade you :B

[[SD]Twysta]

@ MW

Because intel is currently ahead of AMD

@ above. I actually giggled IRL to pixels. Feels great

[[SD]Master_Wong]

@ MW

Because intel is currently ahead of AMD

@ above. I actually giggled IRL to pixels. Feels great

that may be true but you dont need a top of the line processor imo the gfx card plays a greater role in a gaming rig

[[SD]Twysta]

@ MW

Because intel is currently ahead of AMD

@ above. I actually giggled IRL to pixels. Feels great

that may be true but you dont need a top of the line processor imo the gfx card plays a greater role in a gaming rig

I chose the intel processor simply because it's more powerful. Especially with rendering.
The i7 uses dual threading which means there are 8 logical cores.

Intel is ahead of AMD.

[BlackFox898]

@ MW

Because intel is currently ahead of AMD

@ above. I actually giggled IRL to pixels. Feels great

that may be true but you dont need a top of the line processor imo the gfx card plays a greater role in a gaming rig

I chose the intel processor simply because it's more powerful. Escpecially with rendering.
The i7 uses dual threading which means there are 8 logical cores.

Intel is ahead of AMD.

you mean "Hyper-Threading"?

[CrimsonNuker]

i'll trade you :B

Omg I have that keyboard!

[[SD]Twysta]

Nope.

Simultaneous Multi-Threading.

It uses "dual" multi threading so the i7 has 8 logical cores.

[dom]

Nope.

Simultaneous Multi-Threading.

It uses "dual" multi threading so the i7 has 8 logical cores.

hi

I heard you like cores

I put cores in your cores so you can core while you core

[BlackFox898]

Nope.

Simultaneous Multi-Threading.

It uses "dual" multi threading so the i7 has 8 logical cores.

hi

I heard you like cores

I put cores in your cores so you can core while you core

WIN!

[Reise]

Personally I wish they would spend time developing hardware for the same interfaces rather than coming out with new ones every year. It's expensive to try and keep up these days, it used to be that you could just drop cash on a video card and be set, now you have to nearly overhaul the whole thing if it's older than 2 years.

[[SD]Twysta]

Personally I wish they would spend time developing hardware for the same interfaces rather than coming out with new ones every year. It's expensive to try and keep up these days, it used to be that you could just drop cash on a video card and be set, now you have to nearly overhaul the whole thing if it's older than 2 years.

Yeah I have to agree kind of.

That's the exact reason I'm going for such a high end Pc right now.

Simply so that, in 2 years, a gfx card update and some more ram will get me another 2 years.

[Reise]

So long as they don't decide to put the higher end stuff on a new interface lol.

Take my motherboard for example: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... uctID=2302

3 years ago that was nearly top of the line for AMD's socket AM2. I put a AMD X2 5200+ 2.4ghz dual core on there with a GeForce 7950GT 512mb and 2gb of RAM. Now if I wanted to upgrade to nearly top of the line again, I'd have to go Intel and get a PCI-E 2.0 videocard, and 2 more gigs of RAM. Paid about $900 for it all.

Back when I bought it however, I expected that board to easily upgrade with just a new video card or two in SLI. Then PCI-E 2.0 came out, and AMD more or less abandoned socket AM2.

[[SD]Twysta]

So long as they don't decide to put the higher end stuff on a new interface lol.

Take my motherboard for example: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... uctID=2302

3 years ago that was nearly top of the line for AMD's socket AM2. I put a AMD X2 5200+ 2.4ghz dual core on there with a GeForce 7950GT 512mb and 2gb of RAM. Now if I wanted to upgrade to nearly top of the line again, I'd have to go Intel and get a PCI-E 2.0 videocard, and 2 more gigs of RAM. Paid about $900 for it all.

Back when I bought it however, I expected that board to easily upgrade with just a new video card or two in SLI. Then PCI-E 2.0 came out, and AMD more or less abandoned socket AM2.

Yeah thats what happens.

With my mobo (ddr3 and 2xpci-e 2.0 x16) I will be able to upgrade this once before new hardware hits the daily market.

Updated my OP, decided to make it a bit more detailed and I'm gonna be posting pictures of the progress etc as I build the comp this tuesday/wednesday

[vietxboy911]

my brother has the same fan ( i use his computer ) and its not that loud. I dont sleep in my room, but i have a computer with red LED lights and a led keyobard and it doesnt bother me lol. Idk my brother's specs but it works nicely, along with the case. The case is just nice lol

[maxietheboss]

I'll steal your idea and create my own topic . Got my pc parts in yesterday aswell, im still waiting on 2x gtx295 and an optical drive.

Which site did you order at by the way. I picked up my parts in the Netherlands too yesterday. Build my pc yesterday, cable management FTW. I don't have pics of all the boxes still in the foil anymore. I'll take some pics and upload them in a new topic. Which screen did you buy by the way, I went for an 26" Iiyama which I'm going to wallmount today

[Rainigul]

fuckin' nice, but change it to water cooling and then it'll truly be gangsta

[Midori]

looks like shit, get a cheaper case that doesn't have LOL BLUE LIGHTS EVERYWHERE.

[[SD]Twysta]

I'll steal your idea and create my own topic . Got my pc parts in yesterday aswell, im still waiting on 2x gtx295 and an optical drive.

Which site did you order at by the way. I picked up my parts in the Netherlands too yesterday. Build my pc yesterday, cable management FTW. I don't have pics of all the boxes still in the foil anymore. I'll take some pics and upload them in a new topic. Which screen did you buy by the way, I went for an 26" Iiyama which I'm going to wallmount today

Ordered at Alternate

I didn't get a monitor yet, but I did state that I might go for the Samsung Syncmaster 27" full HD monitor next month

Currently using a cheap 22" widescreen.

fuckin' nice, but change it to water cooling and then it'll truly be gangsta

I've done a shitload of research into this build, and I've not even once thought of watercooling.
I don't like it

[maxietheboss]

I'll steal your idea and create my own topic . Got my pc parts in yesterday aswell, im still waiting on 2x gtx295 and an optical drive.

Which site did you order at by the way. I picked up my parts in the Netherlands too yesterday. Build my pc yesterday, cable management FTW. I don't have pics of all the boxes still in the foil anymore. I'll take some pics and upload them in a new topic. Which screen did you buy by the way, I went for an 26" Iiyama which I'm going to wallmount today

Ordered at Alternate

I didn't get a monitor yet, but I did state that I might go for the Samsung Syncmaster 27" full HD monitor next month

Currently using a cheap 22" widescreen.

I ordered my graphics cards there, I bought the rest at Azerty and picked the parts up myself yesterday

[[SD]Master_Wong]

@ MW

Because intel is currently ahead of AMD

@ above. I actually giggled IRL to pixels. Feels great

that may be true but you dont need a top of the line processor imo the gfx card plays a greater role in a gaming rig

I chose the intel processor simply because it's more powerful. Especially with rendering.
The i7 uses dual threading which means there are 8 logical cores.

Intel is ahead of AMD.

but nower days all gfx cards have an onboard processor and dont rely on the cpu, sound on the other hand is going backwards and can rely more on the cpu from what my studies have told me (take ps3...i know its a console but hardware wise its closer to a pc).

i stil think the gfx card plays a greater role so a top range slightly cheaper amd + a high end gfx card will give you a similar level of proformance ofc thats not totally true but by this point you wont notice this difference unless your gona be running more then once instance of crysis!

[[SD]Twysta]

Anyway alternate is pretty good. i ordered the parts on thursday evening, and had to change a few slightly because of supplies.
I ended up changing my graphics cards to the Asus ones and now the package will be sent on monday

[[SD]Twysta]

Posting from my new comp now

I made a few pictures, but they're crappy quality (phone).
And the problem is, W7 doesn't want to detect my phone with the program

Anyways computer runs like a beast.
Gonna head to bed now I'm absolutely farked. 4 hours of computer building, 8.5 hours of work, and Farking girlfriend wanted to go for a walk as well so I'm farked.

Sorting all this crap out tommorow, cya

[Love]

Posting from my new comp now

I made a few pictures, but they're crappy quality (phone).
And the problem is, W7 doesn't want to detect my phone with the program

Anyways computer runs like a beast.
Gonna head to bed now I'm absolutely farked. 4 hours of computer building, 8.5 hours of work, and Farking girlfriend wanted to go for a walk as well so I'm farked.

Sorting all this crap out tommorow, cya

awesome gratz mate = )

[maxietheboss]

Posting from my new comp now

I made a few pictures, but they're crappy quality (phone).
And the problem is, W7 doesn't want to detect my phone with the program

Anyways computer runs like a beast.
Gonna head to bed now I'm absolutely farked. 4 hours of computer building, 8.5 hours of work, and Farking girlfriend wanted to go for a walk as well so I'm farked.

Sorting all this crap out tommorow, cya

Cool, want to see your rig up and running. Mine runs as a beast aswell

[Ryoko]

If you go with that antec case make sure to buy an aftermarket PSU; the stock antec PSU's suck. I even had one that cold-booted the PC every 30 minutes - straight out of the packaging.

edit - Ic ic you have that listed, good

[[SD]Twysta]

If you go with that antec case make sure to buy an aftermarket PSU; the stock antec PSU's suck. I even had one that cold-booted the PC every 30 minutes - straight out of the packaging.

edit - Ic ic you have that listed, good

Yeah this edition didn't come with a standard PSU



I can't get my damn Samsung PC studio to recognize my phone.
No pictures until it supports W7

That's the first and only "bug" I ran into so far on W7.

One thing in particular though.. has kept me busy for hours.

Windows Speech Recognition.
You can do anything really.

Thing that makes it work is you can add custom commands. Like "trance" and it will open your trance playlist or something. And also you can say "Show numbers" at any time and it will number clickable things.

In IE you can use all commands, you can do aynthing!!

It's so awesome