wildbill72 Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 1624 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 22 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 669 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 558 Achievement Points: 5061 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2020 Birthday: 04/01/1972 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Well today i put the finishing touches to my first ever pc build,It all started from getting pissed off with my old pc being very tempremental so i thought f**k it i,m gonna build myself one which was a big ask from someone who up to 12 months or so ago had never owned a pc.Anyway that was the target so i set myself a budget of £1000 and so the quest began,trawling sites for parts reading countless reviews,watching endless amounts of installation videos which paid off enormously because by the time i was ready for putting it all together it were as though i knew where everything should go..........So for you folks thats thinking of building your own thats never done one before....DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!. My original ideas were to build around the AMD Phenom 1100T 6 core and use SSD's but when i saw the price of the drives i soon changed my mind......lot of money small capacity,so i decided to go the RAID 0 route and get 2 500 Gb WD Blues plus a 1Tb WD Black.I also lowered the spec on cpu to the 1090T which saved me a few quid and im not losing that much performance compared to the 1100T.Mobo,i chose the Asus crosshair IV formula,nice board looks the biz only thing is you cant sli nvidia cards which is a shame cos i got the EVGA GTX570 and would of loved to have two of those rigged up,fantastic card.Add to that a Cooler Master Storm Scout case and XFX 750W black edition power supply and some GSkill Sniper ram,Cooler Master V8 cpu cooler and a couple of extra fans and i was good to go.Total cost,not much change from £900 /$1400US and overall quite easy to assemble,so i am a very Happy Chappy.....Some pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TangmereXI Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 248 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 10 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 41 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 304 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 8, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted June 25, 2011 Looks great Wildbill,i,m building a pc for myself right now,also based on an AM3 setup but i,m choosing the quad core phenom 980who,s running on 3,7 GHZ,for cooling i,m waiting on the corsair H100 fluid cooling series,my PSU is a corsair TX750 and the case is an Thermaltake Element V,the first HDD is an SSD (OCZ agility 2 from 90 GB) only to install windows 7 and COD (lol) graphic card i,m not sure of if i will take an nvidia or a radeon. My motherboard is an Asus with a graphics card on board ,which i,m gonna do with within the first months ,because of the money,but it,s gonna be replaced,well keep me informed please about the specs and give my regards to Mrs Bill. Greetz Tangmere>XI< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NightmareXI Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Share Posted June 25, 2011 well done ... post some scores of some benches and maybe some temps as well but looks good to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
CobraBites Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 1.03 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Share Posted June 25, 2011 lol nice case i love that cooler master case its awesome same one i use i paid 80 u s dollars for but u went to extreme with sniper i think tho lol i usin basic processor fan i runnin phenom 2 black quad core great performance im not even over clocked either i can ran anti virus reg mechanic spybot defrag and Cod at same time with cpu usage at 42% 38 % ram usage not reach temp over 102. just how i roll. and this was my first build too. but i do have pc background considerin im A+ certified pc tech. looks like u did an awesome job. let me know how it runs tho....oh how long did it take u to put it together btw..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobraBites Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 1.03 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Share Posted June 25, 2011 oh i also usin a biostar motherboard amd socket 3 which i can upgrade to the 6 core which im considerin to do n the near future so i interested in how the 6 core performs let us know plz..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdCdnInfty Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 1444 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 39 Topic Count: 412 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3808 Content Per Day: 0.75 Reputation: 1509 Achievement Points: 25299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 9 Joined: 05/24/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 28, 2023 Birthday: 05/01/1988 Device: Android Share Posted June 25, 2011 damn, fine looking computer there, good job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1074 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8438 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7297 Achievement Points: 74951 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 6 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Share Posted June 25, 2011 Well done wildbill. Looks very nice and the cable management looks pretty clean as not to restrict air flow and that's a big frigg'in CPU cooler too. Should have no worries of your processor over heating. All in all, nice investment. Should keep you going for a while and looks like you got room for another vid card if you choose to later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Boomer Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted June 25, 2011 sweet wildbill, isn't that Cooler Master V8 a fucking monster, I LOVE MINE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomer Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdevil Posted June 25, 2011 Member ID: 1756 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 158 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 27 Achievement Points: 990 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 15 Birthday: 06/18/1980 Device: Android Share Posted June 25, 2011 Damn. Looks great I have to think about jumping back 4 PC from laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
wildbill72 Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 1624 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 22 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 669 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 558 Achievement Points: 5061 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2020 Birthday: 04/01/1972 Author Share Posted June 26, 2011 Well its been running all day at 3.8Ghz without a hiccup,ive only upped the multiplier to 19 x 200 bus so far....dont know a great deal about overclocking so thats my next task......More learning!!!lol,The build itself took around 2/3 hours which wasnt too bad,what took the most time was the cable sleeving i did,having to remove all the connectors....very fiddly but worth it in the end,thats probably why i chose the case i did because i could manage the cables quite well.Only regret is the mobo,i could of waited and got the Crosshair V which will support the new 8 cores from AMD and is crossfire and sli compatable.Overall im very pleased with it and glad i decided to build one myself,so if ya thinking of building one.......DO IT!!!Ive only run a test with performance test7.0 and im not up to speed with what it all means so i dunno if its good or mediocre, i'll let you guys tell me........ Boomer love the rig man is there any more gremlins hiding in there lol..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Pharticus Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 1320 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 611 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 357 Achievement Points: 4498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2020 Birthday: 01/14/1976 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Donkey diggers, Bill!!! That's not a cpu cooler, that's the radiator from a Peterbilt! Sweet man, looks good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Noears711XI Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 189 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2162 Content Per Day: 0.40 Reputation: 1940 Achievement Points: 19609 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 8, 2022 Birthday: 07/09/1957 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Good Work nicely done for a first try enjoy it and have fun again well done mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
RogueKill Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 1588 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 84 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 904 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 139 Achievement Points: 5532 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 07/19/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2023 Birthday: 08/25/1966 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Kudos Bill, very, very nice. Looks like u put a lot of time in homework and deciding what you wanted--sweet sweet.Cant upload my pics anymore because our website sucks---thats why I don't get on much anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
RogueKill Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 1588 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 84 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 904 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 139 Achievement Points: 5532 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 07/19/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2023 Birthday: 08/25/1966 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Everybody keeps it a secret how to download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8267 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5978 Achievement Points: 53630 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 7 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted June 26, 2011 Not sure but I would run that setup past a Structural engineer looks like the CPU cooler mass might disconstruct the CPU structure And after the total build you might notice the right hand corner of his gaming rig support system needs to have a screw recessed a corner sanded and at least 5 coats of lacquer on it. So after an in depth look at the system I would have to say he runs a great risk of his CPU fan fudging his CPU causing his support system to fail causing at the very minimum cable stress. All in all for a first timer not bad. Be careful out there if that were to fail on an inside corner you might get purple penis symdrome and only wierd girls like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NightmareXI Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Share Posted June 26, 2011 even the temps look pretty cool to me... not sure about the Vcore though...1.415 V maybe you dont need this much to run it stable at 3.8 GHZ 24/7 could lower the temps even more..the Vcore suggested by the MOBO while OCing are too much most of the time but I am not this much an AMD guy if you need some help with this ask Dread of our Crysis Adminteam he is the man with this AMD OC stuff...just look at his PC LOL and he will be happy to help you with this...I am sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Boomer Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted June 26, 2011 wildbill72 Boomer love the rig man is there any more gremlins hiding in there lol..... well I kinda got a little bored last weekend, 3rd and toothpick were talking about my brother Bubba..... Oh yeah fu toothpick! LMAO just having a blast and fucking off as usual, it was something about, you know its a rednecks computer...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomer Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted June 26, 2011 heres a little cleaner shot for you lol, my tower is about 7 maybe 8 years old now, Raidmax Full size, 6 fans yadda yadda, but as you can see by the dino power connectors its not as hip as the rest of my computer, but it works for me and I like Blue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Mouse Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 10 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 35 Topic Count: 80 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1071 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 7 Achievement Points: 6264 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 3, 2013 Birthday: 09/03/1993 Share Posted June 26, 2011 The CoolerMaster V8 looks so godly xD Edit: Also, nice mousepad Bill, I have that one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill72 Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 1624 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 22 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 669 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 558 Achievement Points: 5061 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2020 Birthday: 04/01/1972 Author Share Posted June 26, 2011 Labob ya crack me up...roflmao....Took special delivery last week.lol. Cheers Nightmare might have to hit dread up if hes the amd man....ive seen his pc, man thats a piece of work..... Is that the new card then Boomer?i saw you were selling 1 any way nice man..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bama Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 19 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4444 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 2763 Achievement Points: 29399 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 11 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: iPhone Share Posted June 26, 2011 Great Job Wildbill!!! I built a very similar rig a few months back with the 1100T. Same mobo though, AND you may be happy to know that you CAN sLi Nvidia cards.. or crossfire Radeon cards on the Asus crosshair IV formula. I run two Radeon 5870's in crossfire myself, but I have a buddy with the same mobo and the 1090T that runs two Nvidia GeForce GTX 470's in sLi just fine. Here is his CPU-Z : http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1571309 It is a bit of a process, cause the chipset isn't 'set up' for it.. but it can be done. The following link is a good read on it if you are interested: http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/670810-howto-sli-non-sli-motherboard-gtx5xx.html I did a LOT of reading and research too, and have had a blast playing with this rig. That particular forum has a lot of good info on the 1090T and the Crosshair formula IV board. Have FUN!!!! PS.. this is a link to the thread with my rig. A pic and final specs on page 2. http://www.xtremeidiots.com/fora_topic.asp?tid=15125 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Boomer Posted June 26, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted June 26, 2011 yeah wildbill, thats my new card and sometime around the end of July or mid August I'm gonna upgrade it again MUAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! edit: and BTW my tower is aluminum not steel....it stays cooler and is easy to cool if it does get hot, but it never has lol.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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