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I finally assembled my retro HEDT system !

 

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What I bought used :

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K from @Damascus, better price than what I can see in France.

Motherboard: EVGA Micro 2 Micro from Damascus but previously owned by @Zando Bob, good price and not even available in France.
Video Card: Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon R9 290 4 GB from ebay for actually a very good price.

Case: modded Antec Three Hundred from my build from 2010, it needed to be modded to allow the video card to fit in the case.


What I bought new :

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S because discount and it's Noctua.

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2 x 8GB 3200MHz CL16 meh memory and not even quad channel yet.
Storage: Crucial MX500 500 GB 2.5" why pay the double for Samsung when this one is as good ? :P

Power Supply: be quiet! Straight Power 11 650W not supposed to explode ™️

 

What I plan to bought later :

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2 x 8GB 3200MHz CL16 for that fancy quad channel memory.

3 Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM fans because there are actually no fans in the case.

 

A build log will maybe come in the next year (if Earth survives 2020).

  1. nox_

    nox_

    The tape in the case is very me in 2005 :D Nice build, looking forward to build log. Earth should be fine, at least around France.

  2. Meganter

    Meganter

    Well I did sand the edge but it wasn't really aesthetic so I added duck tape, pretty sure it's not better :P

  3. nox_

    nox_

    Mine looked way worse anyway.

  4. Meganter

    Meganter

    I tried with metal scissors and I ended up using a Dremel :P The cuts are well done but kind of sharps so for the cables I placed duct tape above to be sure it doesn't cut them on the long run. It's also a build for fun since I already have a main one far better, I'll keep it or sell it, I don't know yet :D 

  5. Evolution.

    Evolution.

    have the same mobo and getting the same cpu soon so hedt gang 

  6. Fast_N_Curious

    Fast_N_Curious

    I like it. We should go toe to toe. Retro showdown between Intel and AMD.

     

    You will probably have better memory bandwidth but I think I can hold my own in GPU performance at the very least.

     

    CPU, not so sure. If you get a chance run some benchmarks in AIDA64, I'll post the full benchmark report on my rig later.

  7. Meganter

    Meganter

    Your GPU is way better than mine :P but my CPU should be better indeed :) 

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