James_P

Hear, hear!
 
Microsoft is SKYNET, I can prove it. 
If you look closely at the names you'll see that both of them ends with the letter "T", coincidence? I think not! 
Also look at the name "SKYNET" you'll see that it spells out "SKYNE[C]T" = KINECT.
 
The Xbox One is the beginning of the Skynet rule over mankind. "Always Online", to study our behavior, our routines and our weaknesses. All in preparation for the downfall of mankind. 
 
 
Hide yo kids hide yo wife, the end is neigh. 

Hi everybody.
 
Here is my custom Haf x .
 
MB:sabertoth z77
CPU:3770k oc 4.6 ghz
CPU Cooling:corsair h100i(to be cutom watercooled)
Ram:2x8GB 1600mhz corsair vengeance low profile(to be changed Dominator or hyperx)
PSU:1200 watts corsair.
Graphics:ASus directcu2 7970 oc Crossfire(to be watercooled)
HDD:2xSamsung 840pro RAID 0, 2x 1TB western digital black edition RAID0
 
Custom PSU cover  
custom sleeved cables (PSU,HDD,VGA and 3pins)
 
 
Future plans:
 
RAM:hyper x beast 2133
Watercooling Custom from frozen cpu.
RAM,cpu,hdd,and graphicscard to be watercooled.
 
360 radiator on top,and frontmount 360 rad.(and maybe even put one 140 rad on the back ,
since i am cooling it all then it wont be overkill.
 

EDIT: Items will not be shipped until after September 1st or when all winners reply to Slick - whichever comes first!

Announcing our HUGE Computex giveaway powered by WD. This is a bit of a special giveaway. The more you watch our Computex videos from the Western Digital booth in Computex the more stuff we're going to give away. You can see the latest updates from WD at Computex here: http://www.wdc.com/computex/
 
EDIT: BONUS for readers/viewers from the USA/EU - Get 15% off internal hard drives until June 16th, 2013 (US & EU only) with promocode "COMPUTEX2013" - http://wdstore.com & http://bit.ly/12qcLsk
 
 
This thread will be updated daily from June 4th to June 8th to give you the links to the videos. In order to enter, all you have to do is post in this thread, but make sure you check back daily and watch all of the videos so that we can hit our targets and give away ALL the coolest stuff!
 
 
If you want to play through all of the videos you can see them here:   
 
Here are all of the eligible videos individually:
 

 

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M41LukUo-Yk&list=PL8mG-RkN2uTwEIByWErWuJ6OMBI-MQQ9K&index=3
 

 

 

 
 
 
This video thumbnail announcing the contest should give you some idea how crazy this is:
 

 
The contest closes June 30th and it's open to residents of the planet Earth.
 
TLDW: 
 
25,000 views average per video - 5x My Passport Ultra, 2x My Book Studio external hard drives
50,000 views average per video - 2x 1TB Velociraptor, 2x 4TB Black, 2x 3TB Red hard drives
75,000 views average per video - 2x Puget Systems Core i5 GTX 660 gaming systems
100,000 views average per video - 1x Steiger Dynamics LEET gaming grade HTPC worth over $2000
 

 
Here are the full specs of the Steiger machine. Please be sure to follow them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/STEIGERDYNAMICS
 

 
Subscribe to this thread so you'll see the updates!!
 
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1 bonus entry for sharing this post on your Facebook. Post a link to your Facebook page showing the share.
1 bonus entry for sharing this post on your Twitter. Post your twitter handle and a link to the tweet showing your share
5 entries if you do all three things!!
 
Also please like Steiger Dynamics on Facebook. These guys are building very cool systems, and they're working towards getting gaming and performance computing into our living rooms. Would you rather have one of these or an Xbox One... https://www.facebook.com/STEIGERDYNAMICS
 
Good luck everyone and stay tuned!

IMPORTANT: I just checked asus's website spec on your motherboard to see what it was. According to Asus the board will only work with 2nd gen processors.http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8H61/#specifications
 
 So that means sandy bridge not ivy. You should upgrade that board to an Asus p8z77 pro (This:http://ca.asus.com/en/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V_PRO/#specifications
 
 or mATX equivalent or your CPU will NOT BE COMPATIBLE.
 
A couple pointers, first off while selecting the parts of a pc can be an easy task, (this fits with this so on and so forth) optimizing it for exactly what you need it to do can pose a challenge. Price to performance is a huge thing. It is smarter to spend the extra 100 dollars to have a system perform well than save 100 bucks and tear it down 2 years earlier. First off the GTX 660 compared to the 660ti isn't a good value. I would definitely jump up to a 660ti for gaming, The psu is important. Because this rig doesn't need a ton of wattage I would suggest an 80 plus bronze at least with about 450-500 watts of power. Jonnyguru is an amazing website for researching power supplies   http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5927 . I personally would recommend the Silverstone SFX series 450 watt 80 plus gold psu http://ncix.com/products/?sku=75786&vpn=ST45SF-G&manufacture=Silverstone%20Technology
This is a great psu for a mid range build quiet, and modular so the build will look tidy. Jonnyguru gave it a damn near perfect score. (Linus swears by that site). I would also suggest jumping up to a 3570 (3570k if your friend is an overclocker). The two  extra cores will seriously improve speeds. Games these days like crysis 3 are moving towards multi core and you have to consider the fact that when the new consoles drop that game devs will be able to leave the archaic console hardware behind meaning having a slightly beefier system will be much better in the long run. Again you will need to change that board to use ivy bridge processors. P8z77-v pro would be my board of choice.With regards to the drive you might want to swap to a black drive because it will be able to load faster. You could also consider a cheap ssd boot drive if interested. The case is more of a personal taste sort of thing but personally I hate cheap feeling cases as well as loud cases. I just recently swapped my Corsair obsidian 800d for a fractal design define r4 windowed version. They are dead silent come in black, white or grey, are relatively cheap, (about 100 bucks canadian) easy to build in, can have side panels, and look outstanding with great build quality. Trust me that case will have you set. http://ncix.com/products/?sku=75045&vpn=FD-CA-DEF-R4-BL-W&manufacture=Fractal%20Design&promoid=1360
 
 
So what I would change, probably running you around 300 more dollars, but A RIDICULOUS PERFORMANCE JUMP is as follows
CPU - 3570 (K if he is an overclocker)
Motherboard - Asus P8Z77-v pro
Ram - corsair 8gbs
Graphics card - ANY GTX 660ti (go with what is on sale) Because of board swap you will be able to upgrade to SLI if desired later on.
PSU - Silverstone SFX 450 watt 80 plus gold
Case - Fractal design define r4 black or white, windowed or non windowed version (personal taste)
Hard drive - Western Digital 1tb 7200rpm black drive
 
Please keep in mind I do not know what the budget is but If you can save for a little longer or afford the extra 200-300 dollars the price to performance ratio will be much better.
Good luck with the build and I will be following this thread. :)
 
P.S. Depending on when you are building you might want to hold off because computex is just around the corner and new hardware will be dropping (Z87 and Haswell)