Thinking about building a new rig...

Discussion in 'Computer Building and Components' started by Solis Obscuri, Jun 1, 2012.

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  1. Taake

    Taake New Guy Thrall

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    Looks good! ;)
     
    Taake, Jun 2, 2012
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  2. Solis Obscuri

    Solis Obscuri Well Liked Hirdman

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    Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77
    CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Processor
    SSD: Plextor M3 128GB SATA 6GB/s 256MB Cache
    Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA 7200rpm 3GB/s 32MB Cache
    RAM: 16GB GeiL Black Dragon DDR3 SDRAM
    Video Card: Asus Radeon HD7850 DirectCU II 1210MHz 2GB GDDR5
    Case: Antec Three Hundred ATX Mid Tower
    Power Supply: Rosewill HIVE-750 (750W)
    OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
     
    Solis Obscuri, Jun 7, 2012
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  3. CoolHandBeo

    CoolHandBeo New Guy Thrall

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    SSDs are extremely awesome, now if you are looking at a new rig and you have to spend... you may want to check out falcon-northwest their rigs are mindblowing and put alienware's rigs to shame. If you are looking at simply upgrading your rig, I would recommend starting with a motherboard and a CPU and going up from there, when you do upgrade to a i7 you will notice less machine lag that way. Also, consider going to a liquid cooled cooling system. What causes alot of machine lag is as your system gets hotter your performance degrades so going liquid cooled will stop that almost entirely
     
    CoolHandBeo, Jun 7, 2012
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  4. Solis Obscuri

    Solis Obscuri Well Liked Hirdman

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    I've got the parts, I'll have to think about the liquid cooler.

    For now, I've got a CPU fan, two fans and an oversized heatsink on the GPU, two assist fans built into the mobo, and 5 120mm case fans, so... well...
     
    Solis Obscuri, Jun 16, 2012
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  5. Skoll

    Skoll Swine Fornicator Banned

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    You should be pretty well off. Pics of rig?
     
    Skoll, Jun 16, 2012
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    I regret not getting the SSD right away and mounting my OEM OS to it instead of my HDD, but lesson learned :disturbed:
     
    Feral Tiger, Jun 23, 2012
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  7. Solis Obscuri

    Solis Obscuri Well Liked Hirdman

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    Jesus H. Christ this thing is fast... I'll post some pics soon.
     
    Solis Obscuri, Jun 24, 2012
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