Victory

Thanks. Now I've installed my 2nd 780 Ti I'm almost guaranteed 100+ fps. At the moment, I don't plan on adding a custom water loop (nor am I sure I'd have the space to do so) but it might be something I look into doing in the future. I used a motherboard tray from a company called MountainMods. It was a bit of a pain to get it shipped into the UK (because I had to pay import fees - which delayed it arriving and bumped up the cost) but it's a very study tray and has a great finish (as I ordered the Anodize black version). If you're putting one inside the G5, I believe you have to choose the 2x80mm fan exhausts becuase the 120mm is too large - I went with the 2x80mm fans one anyway. Hope that helps. Victory

A 2nd 780 Ti has just been installed and I'm just waiting on the arrival another 16GB of RAM (should arrived today.) Will update the OP and then I'm off to see what frames I can get on Battlefield 4!

Thanks Haha, I don't know about that! Thanks.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the quick response!

Hello all, I'm in need of some help. I'm thinking about making an upgrade to my system, but I'm unsure if my power supply will have enough power for the changes I'd like to make. Here's my current build: Intel Core i7-4770k @3.5GHz 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM (x2 8GB Sticks) NVIDIA EVGA GTX 780 Ti SuperClocked Edition GIGABYTE Z87 U3DH x2 256GB Samsung 840 Pro (Raid 0) Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive Corsair AX860i Platinum Certified Corsair H100i (with x4 push-pull Corsair AF120 quiet edition fans) Corsair M95 Gaming Mouse Corsair K95 Gaming Keyboard Windows 8.1 Professional 64-bit LG 34UM95-P 34" Ultra-wide monitor. What I'd like to do (and I'm thinking about doing) is purchasing another 780 Ti and putting the two cards in SLi, and also purchasing another two sticks of 8GB ram to give me a total of 32GB. Obviously I've only got 860w of power to play with so my question is can the power supply "support" the upgrade? Thanks, Victory

Somebody noticed Because of how the the motherboard tray is designed, you can't mount the motherboard the correct way up (not without extensively altering the case). Although it was something that bugged me a little at first, I've come to terms with it to be honest with you; mainly because I barely ever see inside the case . I think anyway this particular build is more about the exterior appearance rather than the interior.

So I ended up bringing my monitor back to my accommodation. Unfortunately the pictures probably don't really do it any justice (as setup at home it looks much nicer) but at least it'll give you a flavour of what it looks like

£3,500 for the whole setup, which equates to around $5,600.

Thanks buddy. I'm currently at my university accommodation and won't be heading home until next weekend, but I'll certainly take a photo for you then. Yes I was quite lucky really that I had a friend who was quite experienced with using hand-held tools. I believe he used a Dremel (if I remember correctly) to cut out the back panel and then we simply used nuts and bolts to attach the motherboard tray to the already cut holes (thanks to already perforated holes around the case).

Haha Yes I suppose, but I've always thought that £1k is a large amount of money for a monitor. At the time of the build (a few months ago) I spent my budgeted amount on the build itself and didn't really think about the monitor. Maybe if another sum of money comes my way then I'll consider it.

Haha, I would be inclined to agree with you there! Sadly I don't have a spare £1,000 to be spending on a cinema display! There's nothing wrong with my current LG 34UM95-P though since I do a lot of web design and therefore make real use of the extra-wide monitor.

Ah okay. I would have chosen 120mm fans but the motherboard tray didn't support them so I was stuck with 80mm. Although it'll be very costly, have you considered a water-cooled system?

I have both an upgraded iMac 27" and upgraded MacBook Pro so I don't really see the need to dual boot. Granted I love the OS X operating system (prefer it over Windows), but this is solely a gaming PC and therefore I don't particularly see the point.

So if I'm just surfing the web, using programs such as Photoshop or even doing a considerable amount of gaming then the fans aren't really that noisy. However, if I stress the system then the noise picks up slightly. That said it's never really been an issue because A) The system is hardly ever stressed B) I often have my headset on that cancels out the noise. Thanks!

Let me start my thread by saying that this is my first ever PC build. It took roughly 1-week to build and assemble (excluding the weeks I waited to get my parts) and cost me roughly £2,300 all-together. When I first decided that I was going to build a PC, I had already decided that I was going to build it inside a Apple Power Mac G5 case. I've always loved Apple products (and still do) but when it comes to gaming there's no comparison. Going back to the uniqueness, I knew of nobody who'd done something similar; so along with my love for Apple - this seemed like the perfect PC build. I started out by sourcing a Power Mac G5 that was in near pristine condition. Let me be the first to tell you that this wasn't easy. I ended up purchasing a £45 case off eBay and spent 3-hours collecting it. I didn't really want to spend £45, but since it was in mint condition I felt that it would be a lost opportunity if I didn't. Additionally, I had ordered a load of my PC parts from places like Amazon, Scan, etc. and they had all arrived. I made a little collection of parts at the back of my room (as you do) which sat there whilst I prepared the case.