i7 3770s rig for home workstation

[A1200]

Hi all, been following LTT on YT for a while, thought I might as well join in on here. I am not a gamer but work in eCommece and so very IT heavy.

 

This is my workstation I have just put together from parts I had in old system and a few new bits from Amazon. Motherboard I purchased from eBay from Boston (UK) University. They have an eBay outlet where they sell all the boards they have changed for newer ones. Just a solid, steady and quiet machine  for the family to use office/photos on and a bit of working from home.

 

I did try setup with Unreal Tournament GOTY edition which is the last game I really played and of course it runs really well.

 

I have a similar rig for work which I will share the pics once I have the new cooler installed.

 

• CiT Dark Star Midi Case
• Gigabyte H77M-D3H Motherboard
• Intel i7 3770s
• Noctua NH-U9S CPU Cooler
• Gigabyte GT1030 Passive cooled GPU
• 16GB G.Skill F3-2400C11D-8GXM Ripjaws
• Corsair RGB Fans
• Corsair RM650x PSU
• Kingston SSDNow A400 240GB SATA 3 boot drive
• Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB data drive
• Microsoft Wireless Kbd / Mouse 800
• Philips 24IS4 Monitor
• Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit

[A1200]

I have done a couple of minor upgrades. The i7 3770s has been replaced with the 3770k, because why not right? Also got a 4x USB bracket to come of some of the spare USB host connections on the mother board, also got a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 OC 4GB GDDR6 Graphics Card (Model GV-N1656OC-4GD) not top of the range graphics but massive step up from the GT 1030.

[A1200]

OK I didn't like the moderate(ish) speed increase of the 1650 OC, so returned it and got a an ASUS TUF Gaming NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER instead. Also my RAM was purchased as 2 kits so I couldn't enable the XMP profile so I have ordered Corsair 32GB (4x8GB) Vengeance Low Profile DDR3 as a 4 DIMM kit so will benchmark and take new pics tomorrow but looking kinda good stats-wise already considering the microarchitecture (Ivy Bridge) is from 2012! 

[thrasher_565]

On 3/8/2020 at 6:17 AM, A1200 said:

Hi all, been following LTT on YT for a while, thought I might as well join in on here. I am not a gamer but work in eCommece and so very IT heavy.

 

This is my workstation I have just put together from parts I had in old system and a few new bits from Amazon. Motherboard I purchased from eBay from Boston (UK) University. They have an eBay outlet where they sell all the boards they have changed for newer ones. Just a solid, steady and quiet machine  for the family to use office/photos on and a bit of working from home.

 

I did try setup with Unreal Tournament GOTY edition which is the last game I really played and of course it runs really well.

 

I have a similar rig for work which I will share the pics once I have the new cooler installed.

 

• CiT Dark Star Midi Case
• Gigabyte H77M-D3H Motherboard
• Intel i7 3770s
• Noctua NH-U9S CPU Cooler
• Gigabyte GT1030 Passive cooled GPU
• 16GB G.Skill F3-2400C11D-8GXM Ripjaws
• Corsair RGB Fans
• Corsair RM650x PSU
• Kingston SSDNow A400 240GB SATA 3 boot drive
• Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB data drive
• Microsoft Wireless Kbd / Mouse 800
• Philips 24IS4 Monitor
• Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit

that is stupid how the case only air slots up to the mid mark in the front. is the bottom of the front panel open?

 

nice ut for the win i love that game! you leaky peace of meat

Edited August 18, 2020 by thrasher_565

[RogerCanuck]

Very nice -- I'm interested to see how your benchmarks come out.

[A1200]

13 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

that is stupid how the case only air slots up to the mid mark in the front. is the bottom of the front panel open?

 

nice ut for the win i love that game! you leaky peace of meat

Yes it is vented at the bottom and on the sides..I have new pics I will upload once I put out the trash as well as do some benchmark screendumps.

[A1200]

OK I am going to hang fire on posting benchmarks - the boot SSD is a Kingston A400 240GB and even though it is only SATA 3 it is sucky even for SATA (data drive is a Samsung EVO much better results). So I have ordered and am going to do a data transfer of the boot drive to a MX500 250GB drive:

 

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Crucial-MX500-250GB-vs-Crucial-BX500-240GB/3951vsm578496

 

Huge difference. Will do new pics and benchmarks tomorrow if I have the time.

[A1200]

Doh just realised I posted the wrong comparison. I meant to show: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Kingston-A400-240GB-vs-Crucial-MX500-250GB/3953vs3951

 

OK added new SSD and didn't realise  SSD was in IDE not AHCI mode, so even more performance knocked out. New spec:

 

• CiT Dark Star Midi Case
• Gigabyte H77M-D3H Motherboard
• Intel i7 3770k
• Noctua NH-U9S CPU Cooler
• ASUS TUF Gaming NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
• Corsair 32GB (4x8GB) Vengeance Low Profile DDR3
• 3x Noctua NF-S12A PWM case fans
• Corsair RM650x PSU
• Crucial MX500 250GB boot drive
• Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB data drive
• Microsoft Kbd / Mouse
• Philips 24IS4 Monitor
• Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit

[A1200]

Some benchmarks of the upgraded machine. For general purpose productivity/gaming/development, it can handle it all from a 8 year old CPU. Can't complain!

[A1200]

Updated photos with new components. Also added a Startech PCIe USB 3.0 board & rear USB 2.0 ports from the motherboard IDC for more external I/O capacity.

[A1200]

1 more benchmark. Furmark score @ 1080p. Stress test in OC mode tops out @ 76 Celsius w/ fans @ 49%.

[A1200]

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