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After 6 years, I finally built a new computer

Posted by melee-master on Feb. 24, 2013, 10:35 a.m.

…well, mostly new. I bought a new CPU, motherboard, RAM, network card and optical drive. The last three high priority parts I need to replace for it to be 100% new computer are: graphics card, power supply and sound card.

Anyways, I made the switch from AMD to Intel and I'm damn happy about it, even if it was harder on my wallet. Specs:

[new] Intel i7 3770K @ 3.5Ghz

[new] 2*8GB Corsair Vengeance Blue

[new] ASUS Sabertooth Z77

[new] Intel PRO/1000 CT (network adapter)

[new] Zalman Z9 Plus (case)

[old] OCZ Vertex 2 60GB (SSD)

[old] 2*500GB (Hitachi Deskstar, Seagate Barracuda)

[old] Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme

[old] ATI Radeon HD 4600

[old] Cooler Master 500W

The Sabertooth motherboard is fucking awesome. Three big reasons I picked it: it's just damn nice overall, it supports 32GB RAM and has 8 (internal) SATA ports.

Other stuff:

Samsung SyncMaster 2343BWX 23" @ 2048*1152

Sennheiser HD558

250Mb down/15Mb up

Parts I intend to get:

ASUS Xonar Essence STX

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670

2*8GB Corsair Vengeance Blue

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX850M 850W

2*3TB Toshiba HDKPC08 or Western Digital Red

128GB Crucial M4

Cooler Master HAF X EATX

Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H60

Comments

Eva unit-01 11 years, 1 month ago

Here come the img tags!

So have you ran any benchmarks with this thing yet? I'm interested how it performs. You should give Uniengine (or Heaven, whatever it's called) a try and just turn up -everything-.

flashback 11 years, 1 month ago

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2*500GB (Hitachi Deskstar, Seagate Barracuda)

Also Sabertooth boards are wonderful, I've got the 990FX R2.0 here.

melee-master 11 years, 1 month ago

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Why does everyone have magical alien space computers? My case looks like a rusty briefcase.

Because they're awesome!

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I built one too but I'm too lazy to put it up.

What did you build?

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So I guess you can officially say….

:take off shades:

Your Pc is just chilling right now.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Not yet, I haven't bought it. I just intend to.

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That looks epic btw. Red and blue LEDs?

4 blue LED fans and 1 red LED attached the top of case.

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So have you ran any benchmarks with this thing yet? I'm interested how it performs. You should give Uniengine (or Heaven, whatever it's called) a try and just turn up -everything-.

Not yet, unless you count speedtests. I should though.

And I guess this kinda counts…

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Also Sabertooth boards are wonderful, I've got the 990FX R2.0 here.

I can't afford new drives yet lol. They're good enough for now anyways - I'm getting that sound card next.

And yes ASUS makes great stuff. The Sabertooth Z77 is pretty crazy looking:

For some reason the onboard HDMI and DisplayPort are not labeled there.

firestormx 11 years, 1 month ago

Congratulations, and I approve of everything. =D

Acid 11 years, 1 month ago

Nerd boner.

melee-master 11 years, 1 month ago

I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to the graphics card or sound card more. Graphics card I'll be able to run modern games on good settings but that sound card is really good and has a built in amp… I listen to music all the time and have decent headphones so it'll be awesome.

LAR Games 11 years, 1 month ago

I kinda want to get a good sound card to be able to buy and use a set of headphones with ful 3d surround sound. That'd be awesome.

Although, better headphones would only make the buzzing at the end of the wood sounds in Minecraft more unbearable.

(Does that bother anyone else? Or is it just me)

I can honestly say, I hate that buzzing.

Mega 11 years, 1 month ago

That's a nice build. I approve.

And this just reminds me of the plans I have for my PC. And that I need to reconnect my front panel correctly, so I can use my front-side USB ports.

melee-master 11 years, 1 month ago

omg

Gamecube emulation is amazing. My old computer ran GCN games at like… 2 FPS. This can run them at 60.

All I need is a wired 360 controller (and new graphics card so I can max out the quality settings).

http://puu.sh/288L9

http://puu.sh/288NL

I recommend clicking to make bigger.

Acid 11 years, 1 month ago

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DEC7

I had a tight budget, managed to get everything for about $630.

Going to upgrade some stuff eventually, since I made some serious sacrifices.

Edit: Wanted to note that I can play every game that I've tried max settings/resolution with no lag though - pretty happy about that. (Skyrim w/ like 30 visual mods, Deus Ex: HR, GTA IV)