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[MERGED] Your Main PC - Pictures, specs and discussion <IMAGE HEAVY>
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Genghiz Cohen wrote: »Now do some artsy ones with the side on.
im no shutter bug mate:o. the camera is not the best. but here goes anyway:cool:
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I need to do it a night when theres no light pouring in the window..too many reflections on the perspex
I gotta look in to getting a bigger window for it..0 -
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Can I just make a small suggestion to people posting large pictures here.
1. Upload the images to imgur
2. Choose the 'Large Thumbnail' option under sizes.
3. Copy the 'Linked BBCode' box and paste it here.
This will give you a reasonably sized preview picture that won't break the layout, and you can click it to be linked to the fullsized version:
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Apologies for the crappy quality, I've been at this PC all night. Case has been a nightmare to set up and then I had boot issues. Just took some quick ones as I was going along.
So I got the Thermaltake GT10 Snow edition.
My old PC on the right (CM690 Nvidia Edition). Time for surgery.
This is a look at the top of the inside of the CM690 as I'm about to say goodbye to the air cooler :P
Replaced by the ever-so-troublesome Corsair H60.
Everything installed and a lot of cable tidying done.
Exterior of the case. Note the hot-swappable bays which are in my opinion terribly designed compared to other hot swappable drives. What's the point of hot swappable drives when you have to screw all the drives in? On a positive note the back of the bays have built in SATA power cables for all 5 bays (you need only 1 SATA power cable to power the 5 hard drives)
Closing the case. The door and the hard drive bay have locks on it so people can't go removing your HDs/opening the door.
Another view with the door swung open. Really like the door. If you lie it on its side you can switch how it opens so it sits on the case frame instead of flapping open. Also note the flaps on the door fan so you can change airflow. To top that off its wireless (there's a circuit built into the door and case frame so when you close the door a connection is made to the fan).
Another crappy photo of the interior. The H60 refused to boot and looking online most people had reported faulty motherboards as a result. Turns out the locking screws on it put too much pressure on the CPU. I loosened them up and the PC posted. Temps are 27 on idle and about 45 on load, i7 OC'd to 3.6ghz at the moment from 2.8
Finally a terrible picture of it running with the LEDs on. The LED colours can be changed via control panel on the top, as well as alternating 'disco' lights'. There's also a fan control and proper native USB 3.0 support.
Evil Red
Overall despite some design flaws its a really good case. There's room for double radiators at the top and I think that's where I'll go next. Cable management is awesome at the back as the back panel sticks out a bit.
EDIT: My full specs:
Core i7 860 @ 3.6ghz
Gigabyte P55 UD3
Corsair H60
8GB Corsair RAM
MSI GTX 570
Corsair TX850 PSU
OCZ Summit 60GB SSD
3 x 1TB WD Caviar Green
1 x 750GB Samsung F10 -
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Love that case so much! The only thing is i think a drive takes the look away from them,I would reccomend you do this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzqpn2160o He has a tutorial up too
Also i would like to add,Your Build is Great very nice work some great parts in there0 -
Recently got a few new bits of equipment. Latest spec is as follows:
Asus P5Q-E
Intel E7300 @ 3.7GHz
Hyper 212 EVO
4 GB PC6400 OCZ Reaper (435 MHz @ 5-5-5-15)
2 x Sapphire Raedon 5770
250 GB Hard Drive
750 GB RAID 1 Drive
Corsair 500R
600W OCZ Stealth Xtreme
Windows Vista Business (64 bit)
CPU-Z Validation of Overclock:
A Closeup
Full Size: (It's a bit blurry so I'll try to get a better one)
I have started tidying the cables and I have bought two braided cables so far (the 24 pin and CPU cable). The next plan is to braid the rest of the cables myself, starting with the Graphics card cables and going on from there. I also have two DVD drives, so I think if I get rid of the larger one (the silver one you see sticking out of the top) that will help everything look a little better as well.
I think there should be a little more headroom left in the CPU as well and I would hope to get it up to about 3.8GHz and that is the reason the timings are so loose on the RAM and the voltages are a little high. It is staying cool though and only reached 58°C after 4 hours of Prime 95, so I don't think it's the temperature that is holding me back.0 -
Thanks for the help all.
Here's some (poor) pics of the finished product, bits arrived a week ago.
Corsair R650D case
i5-3570k
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC 950M, 3GB
ASRock Z77 Extreme4
16GB-Kit Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz CL9
Corsair Hydro Series H100
Samsung SSD 830 256GB
3 x Be Quiet Silentwings2 120 x 120
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 650W
Booted up - read the error code - powered down - inserted the RAM... promised myself to do a better job of cabling, installed the OS I bought (fek) - downloaded Win 7 (English) reinstalled the OS (German key worked yah! ).
Installed a few games - hugely impressed - low noise - herself not complaining - win
Gently OC'ed CPU to 4.4 MHz, GPU to 1050 / 1525 all nice and stable.
Decided to get a wee bit nerdy then and ........
PC idle, room temp 18c - CPU package temp 26c - GPU 35c
Prime 95 - 30 mins
All good, CPU 60c - heat source on the right is the stock corsair 200mm fan ramping up.
Corsair H100 & the 3 Be Quite Silentwings2 doing their job.
Started up FurMark. 15 min burn in test 1920 x 1080
GPU fans ramped up at 50c maxed at 85c, not going there again.
The Heaven test is kinder.
External: with panel back on.
Of course this test is not even close to accurate since the front panal was off for the internal pics and I had to change the camera temp range for the last couple, but I figured the pics were nice and they give some idea where hot spots are.
Note to me: NZXT FS-200 Enthusiast Silent Case Fan - 200mm: don't fit in any case but NZXT ones.0 -
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Case NZXT Switch 810 (FANTASTIC! case, couldnt praise it enough)
ASUS Maximus V FORMULA Z77
i5 2550k CPU (from previous build, might upgrade soon)
MSI 670GTX Power Edition (cannot wait to push this card as hard as I can)
Two 128gb ssd's setup in RAID (I think)
2TB Seagate Baracuda
Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875W (from previous build)
8GB Mushkin Enhanced Silverline (from previous build may upgrade, advice/req's needed)
Coolermaster V8 CPU cooler
4x140mm (3 fans are pushing air out from the top of the case and one pushing air in from the front) These are stock fans that came with the case but christ they shift a massive amount of air. Had planned to upgrade these in the future but will more than likely stick with them as the are doing a great job cooling the room.
3x120mm Zalman "Golf Fans" The Golf Fans are basically means that the blades of the fans have little dimples on them like you would on a golf ball. They are meant to be quieter than standard fans and I think they are.
^^^^^ Not much to note here but the top tray cover folds out to revel 2x USB 2.0 and 2x USB 3.0 ports as well as headphone/mic, LED button for rear lights and a reset switch. Also the bottem try cover pulls off so and you can put in a hotswappable drive. Cover can go back on while drive is in so as to keep everything looking nice and neat. There are two vents on the cover to provide a wee little bit extra cooling for the hotswappable drive.
^^^^^ Will have to do some cable tidyin here with the hotswappable drive.
^^^^^ I LOVE the look of this cooler. Im not 100% convinced of the performance as the cooler is already 3 years old but I guess I'll have to wait till I benchmark. I have the fan to the left of the cooler blowing air into the case directly onto the cooler. The cooler pulls air from its left hand side, so its getting "clean" air blown directly onto so I think things work well in that regard.
^^^^^ Picture of the 2x120mm fans. They are meant to be blowing air in the direction of the CPU and Graphics card but they are leaning more towards the Graphics card. May have something to do with having a large card in the case though. There is also a horribly unfriendly USB 3.0 cable that refuses to be told what to do. Will have to look into hiding this cable in the future.
^^^^^ One great feature of the MB that I didnt know about until I powered it up was that there is red lighting on the MB itself that is designed to look like circuitry. Looks great in person. This is definately something ASUS should be expanding on in the future. Kinda reminds me when you get augmented in Deus Ex or maybe it doesnt I dunno its late. *edit* Nope, it reminds me of Tron
^^^^^ This is the total lighting in the case during the boot and when motoring along. Not much to note here. May add some discreet LED lighting stripes to add some colour.
^^^^^Picture of when everything is tidied away.
Nice, easy and simple seems to sum up the build up.
Im very happy with the final result. The case is very easy to work with and its soft on the eye. It stands out but at the same time isn't to "blingin" either. Its my first white case and I wouldnt have a problem going with white again. I was toying with the idea of making this build watercooled (well more than toying with the idea I bought a 360mm radator plus some accessories) but ultimately I decided that I wanted a less busy look so I scaled things down.
I haven't done any performance tests yet so I will post those when completed.
Any advice/comments/critisisms/notable faults are welcome, so please dont be shy...........not that any of ye are
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