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RobertH:

My first build!

First time wiring a computer too. haha

that thing looks very pretty dude, nice job!

Kardon:

-Bigass image-

Funny how cable managment can make even mean rigs look so small lol.

Q6600 @ 3.5 with xigy

2 x 4890 950 Core 1050 mem

PCP&C 750

Corsair dominator 2x2 1066 @ 5-5-5-15

DFI LP DK X48-T2RSB PLUS

2 x 250gb seagate raid 0,  500gb seagate storage

Holy c**p. I've *never* seen cable management that looks that good before. Wow. Can you come teach me how you do it? Wow....

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I pwn n00bs.

Thanks  

The main things that seems to clean up a case for me are mounting your Hard drives backwards and runing as many cables as you can around the back of the case. And you can never seem to use too many zip ties lol

I had to cut a hole for the cables in the mobo tray and modify the toolless drive rails because the stock cable management in the case flat out sucked. That's what really made it turn out so well. Spending a few hours moddifying your case match your parts can make a night and day difference.

I also try to stick to mobos with the sideways sata ports

Kardon:

Thanks  

The main things that seems to clean up a case for me are mounting your Hard drives backwards and runing as many cables as you can around the back of the case. And you can never seem to use too many zip ties lol

I had to cut a hole for the cables in the mobo tray and modify the toolless drive rails because the stock cable management in the case flat out sucked. That's what really made it turn out so well. Spending a few hours moddifying your case match your parts can make a night and day difference.

I also try to stick to mobos with the sideways sata ports

Ahhh...see modding a case always terrified me, since if I mess up, there goes a once-pristine case (or so goes my fearful thinking). Your build really makes me want to try it though.

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I pwn n00bs.

My new build. runs pretty good too. 

Processor:

Intel Core2Duo E8500 Wolfdale OCed to a little over 4ghz temp under load 44C

Memory:

8 gig Gskill DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12

Hard Drive:

2 Samsung Spinpoint 1TB 7200 rpm

Video Card:

EVGA Nvidia GTX 280 1gig GDDR3

Motherboard:

ASUS P5Q SE Plus

Sound Card:

On Board

Power Supply:

Antec TruePower Quattro 1000 watt

Speakers:

Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1

Operating System:

Windows 7 RC

Fans:

Scythe GentleTyphoon 120mm Case Fan

Case:

Thermaltake Strike MX ( yeah the 30$ one) lol

Keyboard:

Logitech diNovo Edge 2-Tone

Mouse:

Logitech MX Revolution

Monitor:

LG Flatron W2243T

Misc:

nothing I can think of, questions just ask. no pics atm.

I haven't built it yet, as I just ordered the parts earlier today, but I will list them anyway. Pictures will come next week hopefully!

Processor - AMD Athlon II

Memory - Crucial 4Gig (2GBx2)

HDD - WD Caviar Blue 250GB 7200RPM 3.0Gb/s

Video Card - Nvidia GeForce 9800GT

Motherboard - Gigabyte MA770 ATX AMD 

PSU - Corsair 400W

OS - Windows Vista x64 with FREE Win7 Upgrade

Case - Antec Three Hundred Black Steel

Monitor - I wasn't going to include anything I already have/is integrated, but this is worth saying. Sadly, I have to keep using this 15" CRT monitor that was given to me from someone for free. I think it was bundled with a Dell Dimension 4600 or something. I will be playing games on it at 1024x960 and will have to wait until X-Mas to get money to buy another. >.<

Here is the wishlist for you as well. Click.

First time building from scratch.  Here's the wishlist.

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=10715711

OK, got her up and running.  Was a bit nerve racking at first, especially handling the core, doing the heatsink and thermal paste stuff, but after that, it was just snapping, screwing, and running wires.  Took me about 12 hours with lots of breaks and re-reading how-tos, etc.  Cable management came out pretty good, but the back (no pics) is half neat, and it is a struggle to get the other side to the case on. Cables cant be more than one deep for the most part, and the main power wire is almost too thick by itself.  However, got it on and Im not taking it back off. :)

Running at 45C average with all fans on low for the Mobo and CPU.  Havent seen it above 55 yet even in a spike, and I opened about 50 IE8s with flash in the page.  Only OC/Bios adjustments was the XMP changes to 1600 7/7/7/7 etc for RAM.

Pics below.  Thanks for your help n0lxx.  And to all those soon to be first time builders - it isnt that bad, go for it!

i have...

a q6600 running at 2.8 ghz

 4gb of gskill ddr2 800 RAM

a 500gb seagate 7200 rpm

an overclocked MSI 4850

some old sound card i got from a friend. better than onboard.

 a 300watt power supply( somehow running all this after my old 550 got fried)

 vista home premium 64

dell inspiron  530 with 2 120mm fans cut in the side

dell 19" monitor

stock drives

upsides: cheap. plays games. even crysis on low.

downsides: doesnt play crysis on medium unless its in DX9.

My specs, as well as my Wifes specs, are in my sig. I built these twin rigs when I joined this board in May.

To this date, both can do anything without any issues at all! 

I highly recommend!

Heres the gist of what i have. My first built rig.

I-7 2.66 Ghz Processor
1 TB WD Caviar Black Hard Drive
12GB OCZ DDR3 1600 RAM
LG Blu ray Burner
ASUS P6T LGA 1366 mobo
Zalman CPU Cooler
GTX 260 GPU
750 W Thermaltake PSU
Acer 23" Full 1080p Monitor
Logitech Wireless Keyboard/Mouse
Cooler Master Centurion 5

 I added a case fan to the side panel and it sits directly above the CPU cooler so it cools it down more. I'll be adding another case fan to the side panel but this time it will sit on top of the massive GTX 260.

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MnM

Thought I would update my rig (and finally got the hang of posting pictures on this site):  See sig for specs.

This is my current system as it currently is:

AMD Phenom II x4 940

G.SKILL 2GB DDR2 800 x4

HITACHI 1TB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA

EVGA 512-P3-N973-TR GeForce 9800 GT x2 (in SLI)

BIOSTAR TPower N750

HT | OMEGA STRIKER 7.1

Rosewill Xtreme Series RX850-S-B 850W

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

NZXT Tempest

SONY Black 18X DVD±R DVD Burner x2

Rosewill 52-in-1 card reader

The PROS:  

The case is big, holding up to 8 hard drives, fans everywhere to keep everything cool, and pre-setup to handle a water cooling system.  The audio card is the best card you never heard of. I was suspicious at first but was pleasantly surprised at how well it works, glad I didn't go with SB this time. Video cards in SLI are simply awesome handles everything I throw at them. Just upgraded to the quad-core from a dual-core 6000+. Not that I wasn't pleased with the dual-core, just that I like to max my systems out. About the M/B, supposedly supports up to 16GB but don't got the ~$500 for it.

The CONS:

Biostar support is pitiful, plain and simple.  For some reason the on-board audio went out, thus the sound card, I never got a reply from thier support team. The memory is right next to the cpu cooler and gets a lot of heat from it. Ditto for the primary video card.  The case doesn't have a good cable management system. As for the power supply, I should've went for a modular one. Oh well, live and learn.

 Other Thoughts:

I would eventually like to max out the hard drives for the case, totalling 8TB, and add an external Blu-Ray burner. Other than that I am looking for a good WIRED MM keyboard and laser mouse and 2x 1080p monitors.

Would appreciate any constructive comments and advice.

your name does that rig justice MassiveOverkill ;)

cant believe you shoved all of that in there

Joe88:

your name does that rig justice MassiveOverkill ;)

cant believe you shoved all of that in there

 Thanks man.

mmahend1:

 

I-7 2.66 Ghz Processor

I just built this rig 2 weeks ago:

(Let me know what you guys think)

i7 920 @ 2.66GHz (I'll overclock once I get the cpu cooler below)

Noctua NH-U12P SE1366

OCZ Platinum 3x2GB DDR3 1600

Asus P6T SE (This has 2x pci-e lanes that actually run at x16 unlike many boards)

2x XFX HD 4870 1GB (In Xfire, hence the importance of 2 x16 pci-e lanes rather than 1 x16 and 1 x8 like many SLI/Xfire boards)

WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm Sata

Silverstone ST70F 700W (Modular is a dream to work with)

HP 24X Multiformat DVD DL burner w/ Lightscribe

Thermaltake Armor+ MX (very roomy mid-tower)

Windows Vista x64 Ultimate

For Peripherals:

(Had all of these with my previous rig)

Sceptre 20.1" LCD 1680x1050

Klipsch 5.1 Promedia Ultra Speakers

Logitech G11 Keyboard

Logitech G5 v2 Mouse

And now for the pics:

(Sorry for the quality, lighting was bad)

-Shwinster

Shwinster:

2x XFX HD 4870 1GB (In Xfire, hence the importance of 2 x16 pci-e lanes rather than 1 x16 and 1 x8 like many SLI/Xfire boards)

For it being ATI & XFX!!!

Processor - Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping

Motherboard - Gigabyte EX58-UD4P

Memory - Corsair XMS3 3 x 2GB DDR3 1600

Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB with an iStarUSA iStorm Hard Drive Cooler

Power Supply - Thermaltake Toughpower W0178RU 850w

Video Card - EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition

Case - Azza Solano 1000

Operating System - Windows Vista Premium 64 bit

Monitor - Acer X193Wb 19" Widescreen LCD

DVD Drive - Sony Optiarc 24X CD/DVD RW

I got this for about $1550 but I'm expecting about $300 in rebates and cashback.

I'm using the stock heatsink right now since I'm not overclocking but I'll probably upgrade to something better in the future. I'm also planning to upgrade my video card and go SLI in the future. I'll probably give the current video card to my sister when I build an i5 or AMD computer for her. Depending on when I build my sister's computer, other parts may also be upgraded/canninbalized too.

Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to play around with this computer as I just built it two weeks ago and I'm out of the country right now and won't return for 3 weeks.

Intel Core i7 920 D0 @ 3.68Ghz                            

Gigabyte EX58-UD4P

OCZ Platinum 3x2GB DDR3 1600

WD Caviar Black 640GB / WD Blue 160GB

EVGA GTX 275 Superclocked Edition 

Xigmatech Dark Knight heatsink/fan

Antec 902 - Corsair 750w modular (comes with a velvet bag)

Sony with lightscribe CD/DVD burner

Asus VH242H 16:9 monitor

Windows Vista 64 bit

Just finished some upgrades on my rig with my friend. switched out the front leds with blue and put blue ones in all the other 230mm fans. painted the entire thing black and blue mesh. Also made a led bar above my mobo.

Oh WOW. That thing is gorgeous..

I'm gonna paint mine all black now..

i7 920 @ 3.8GHz
ThermalRight TRUE 120 Limited Edition Black
G.Skill PI Black DDR3-1600 2GB x 3
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB x 3 RAID-5
VisionTek HD 4870 X2
MSI X58 Platinum SLI
Corsair 1000HX
SilverStoneRaven RV01-BW Slightly Modified
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit
Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Headset
Ideazon Merc Gaming Keyboard
Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Mouse
Acer AL2416W 24" 1920x1200 LCD Monitor

Thumbnails used, linked to full size pictures. 

i7 920 @ Stock
Patriot DDR3-1333 1GB x3
Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX
MSI X58 Platinum
Antec TruePower Quattro 850w
No case
Windows 7 Ultimate RC x86
$20 USB Mouse/ Saitek Eclipse
Spectre 19" 1280x1024