New computer build (video)

[m0de]

just thought id share my recent build.. I am very very happy with it. by far the smoothest build ive had.

video:

specs:

case: COOLER MASTER Elite 430
motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s
processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz
ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
videocard: ASUS GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) x2 (only one installed at the moment)
harddrive: Seagate Barracuda XT ST33000651AS 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
psu: Rosewill Green Series RG630-S12 630W (blue was sold out ;_; )
other: AeroCool Touch 2000 Controller

[i love you]

Re: New computer build (video)

Wow, that looks really sick dude. How much did the build cost in total?

[m0de]

Re: New computer build (video)

what you see in the video costs right around $1000. ill have to go through my invoices from newegg to total it all up. ill edit with an exact amount ina bit. and about $1350 with the dual gtx 570 setup which ill get running soon. i just wanted to make sure everything ran ok before putting the other 570 in.

prices edit:

processor: 169.99
motherboard: 104.99
ram: 62.99 (had a coupon thingy from an email from newegg)
dual videocards: 700.00
power supply: 59.99
case: 49.99
touch screen fan controller: 57.98
harddrive: free. was a gift. retails for 429.99 (did nottt think it costs that much)

total: $1585.93

[i love you]

Re: New computer build (video)

That is a pretty fair price for the specs. I really like what I see. Hopefully sometime in the future, I will plan on building my own computer but the sad thing is that I am somewhat bad at determining which computer parts are considered good or not.

[darkshark]

Re: New computer build (video)

I like that case, what did that run ya?
and why did you go with AMD over intel?

[ghost-]

Re: New computer build (video)

why not a 4x4 16GB ram?

[m0de]

Re: New computer build (video)

I like that case, what did that run ya?
and why did you go with AMD over intel?

price pretty much. i slowly picked out and had the parts shipped as i had the extra money. im happy with the way it turned out~

edit: prices were just recently added to my above post

[m0de]

Re: New computer build (video)

why not a 4x4 16GB ram?

mainly because of the coupon deal i had at the time. it was a limited time offer.

[Gravity Kitten]

Re: New computer build (video)

Looks sick, m0de.
Wish I had the motivation and money (not to mention knowledge) to do this.

[fido123]

Re: New computer build (video)

why not a 4x4 16GB ram?

Who in the **** uses 16GB of RAM for playing video games? Unless he's doing video editing/hardcore anything over 4GB wouldn't make a difference at this time.

[UserNameGoesHere]

Re: New computer build (video)

Not a fan of Seagate hard drives, but that's easily swapped out.

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: New computer build (video)

pairing AMD and nVidia is a bad idea.

[m0de]

Re: New computer build (video)

pairing AMD and nVidia is a bad idea.

what makes you say that?

[fido123]

Re: New computer build (video)

pairing AMD and nVidia is a bad idea.

Didn't even notice this. This is bad news for you as IIRC AMD mobos don't support SLI which is requird to run 2 NVidea cards.

General rule of thumb is if you do go AMD NEVER get an NVidea card, however if you go Intel you can go either or as long as the mobo supports all the features your video card has. Also AMD is kinda shitty these days and I'd only ever use it if I needed to do some large caluclations, video editing, or rendering since AMD only tops Intel at large calculations.

[ghost-]

Re: New computer build (video)

Who in the **** uses 16GB of RAM for playing video games? Unless he's doing video editing/hardcore anything over 4GB wouldn't make a difference at this time.

shit you never know. m0de might be into video editing though I doubt it.