1. flip your power supply, so it intakes from the bottom of the case
2. route cables more effectively, use the back of the mobo
3. New cooler master cpu cooler is ~$25 4. new case fan(s) can be placed at the front, and/or to the left of the harddrive cage, intake cold air from below the case
Samsung 840 SSD is more than fine....
If you are an SSD virgin like myself it will be light-years ahead of anything youve ever used before
Also, considering its a boot drive there's no real reason to be turned away from "slower" write speeds
It is priced very well and is good value
Not sure but I think steam just detects the stock cpu speed and not the overclocked (or current) speed. Intel does not have a single cpu over 3.7ghz. The only cpu fitting in this category would be the amd 8350 at 4ghz
Here's a "buildlog" of my Fortress, but more like a timeline from when I bought it to how it is now. I was upgrading from a Core2Duo 8400 on a Maximus Formula X38 board housed in a CM 690.
23 March 2011 New parts: Core i7 2600, Asus P8P67 Pro, 8GB Supertalent 1333Mhz memory. Reused from previous build: GTX 460 OC, Corsair HX620, Scythe Mugen 2, Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 40Gb SSD OS drive and various data drives.
29.6.2011 Here I've upgraded to a AX1200 PSU, another GTX 460 OC and a Crucial C300 SSD.
16.11.2012 Upgrade time, bought a MSI Z77 M-Power, i7 3770k, Corsair Dominator 2x8Gb 1600Mhz, Corsair H100 cooler and a GTX 680. I had also somewhere inbetween bought a seccond Crucial C300 128GB ssd and have them running in Raid 0.
14.4.2013 Bought a seccond GTX 680, installed individually sleeved psu cables from IceModz, sleeved my IO cables and the 120mm fan cable. Also tried painting the letters on the gpu's.
17.08.2013 - Installed a windowed side panel, build is now finished.
Silverstone Fortress FT02, MSI Z77 M-Power, i7 3770k, Corsair H100, 2x8Gb Corsair Dominators 1600Mhz, 2x GTX 680 in SLI, 2x 128Gb Crucial C300 in raid 0, 320Gb data drive, Corsair AX1200 PSU with individually sleeved cables.
Future plans/wishlist is a Crucial M500 960Gb SSD as the only drive in the machine and a custom watercooling loop using the Alphacool Nexxxos 540mm.
8.11.2013
Watercooling time...
New stuffs
Teardown time!
GPU teardown...
CPU Block installed
Hardware install...
Leaktest
Some cable"management"
Finished product
Specs now are
Silverstone Fortress FT02, MSI Z77 M-Power, i7 3770k, Corsair H100, 2x8Gb Corsair Dominators 1600Mhz, 2x GTX 680 in SLI, Crucial M500 960GB SSD, Corsair AX1200 PSU with individually sleeved cables.
Watercooling specs:
Alphacool Nexxxos 540mm Rad, 2x EK-FC680 GTX+ Acetal+Nickel GPU blocks, EK-Supremacy Acetal+Nickel CPU block, various EK 90° and 45° adaptors with EK compression fittings, Tygon E-1000 3/8" ID - 5/8" OD tubing, XSPC Dual Bay D5 Res with Swifttech variable pump, Mayhems Pastel Yellow coolant.
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