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est:
Thanks for the build photos, Dennis. You just made me want to spend money I don't have on new parts I don't need. Thanks a lot.
dennis:
Muahahaha.
It is sweet to be running all the games at max settings. Sweeeeet.
I am so much better in L4D now that my computer can keep up.
est:
So ok, I just bought a 150gb VelociRaptor (with Han giggling at me and calling me a nerd every time I named it thus) and am picking up a DFI LanParty Jnr mATX P45 mobo either today or tomorrow. These will be going into my mini P180 post-haste. I have decided not to upgrade my cpu just yet, as this can be quite easily done at some later date (ie: when I gots more moneys).
I'll take pics when I build/rebuild. I may/may not also be putting in fairly crap watercooling gear at the same time. It'll be fun!
GuitarFreak:
My new build D:
Voltage isn't right on there.
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est:
Fuck yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou!
I mean uh, nice rig.
Ok, pics time.
New case, outer (and I still haven't taken the plastic off yet. Scared of scratchessssssss):
New case, inner:
New mobo, DFI LanParty Jr (mATX P45/ICH10R board):
Mobo, PSU and DVD drive in place. No drive cage, just put the lower drive bay fan in place:
With drive bay in place:
CPU fan (Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, of course) in place blowing upward because it wouldn't fit the board otherwise:
Shot showing the top and bottom compartments:
I'm pretty happy with the layout. Hot air from the CPU fan is thrown up through the 200mm "Bigboy" exhaust. I'm pretty sure that thing can handle it. Have the drive bay fan pulling air straight through onto the graphics card and an extra fan pulling air through up near the cpu.
After reading a bunch of stuff online I expected that my dvd drive wouldn't fit up top. However, it fits quite easily so I am not sure what people are smoking. As a result of this I have a shitload of space down in the bottom 5.25" drive bays (bottom-right of the second and last pics) and a fair amount of space in the drive bay area holding the fan.
When I decide to go with watercooling I will probably put a drive bay res down the bottom and put the pump up next to the video card with the fan blowing over it, as I have heard some pumps can get hot. The TRU120E will go, replaced by a cpu block. I will put the 1x120 rad I was given outside the rear exhaust port. At the moment I am trying to figure out if I should leave one fan inside and push-pull through the rad or just pull through with one fan on the outside. Either way there is plenty of room in this relatively small case.
Oh and I guess for e-peen embiggening my specs are now: DFI LanParty Jnr mobo, E6750@stock for the moment while I test everything out, 4gb OCZ Reaper ddr2 ram, Radeon 4870@860 core/910 ram, a 150gb VelociRaptor for OS and apps and another 500gb drive for general data.
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