550D with MSI Gaming

[ARod]

Now just waiting on the GPU, SSD and HDDs.  Yeah, last photo, the H100i with fans in pull made it by .5mm.

 

 

 

 

 

[xToFxREAPER]

looks awesome man, whats your gpu gonna be?

[Wauthar]

What PSU are you using? I like the red stripe.

[ARod]

Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 750W.  GPU is the MSI R7970 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition.  I pretty much stick to single strong GPUs.  Then, putting in a Samsung 840 500GB SSD and a pair WD 1TB Red drives in RAID 1.

[xToFxREAPER]

Thermaltake 750W Gold.  GPU is the MSI R7970 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition.  I pretty much stick to single strong GPUs.  Then, putting in a Samsung 840 500GB SSD and a pair WD 1TB Red drives in RAID 1.

good choice, i have a 7870 in a second computer, i like amd's cards actually their pretty good but im a sucker for physx xP i love borderlands 2 lol

[ARod]

good choice, i have a 7870 in a second computer, i like amd's cards actually their pretty good but im a sucker for physx xP i love borderlands 2 lol

 

Got the card for $390.00 so I didn't think twice.

[xToFxREAPER]

Got the card for $390.00 so I didn't think twice.

hell yeah thats an awesome price, whered you get it?

[ARod]

Got it from a major distributor, have to be a reseller of sorts to get access.  I'm a buyer at my company so I get stuff for slightly less than what you would see at the big E-tailers.

[jimi]

nice!

[mgsstar]

Like that your fans and psu are matching your red and black themed build! :)

[ARod]

Red & black is a pretty easy theme to do & it's also my favorite.  The fans are Phobyas.....check it out here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7FyzvhlOPM

 

Really just got them for the PWM, low noise, good pressure, high CFM and because they match.  It's in a Corsair 550D case so only the rear one will be clearly visible from the outside. They're also LED which I didn't intend on but they do look awesome lit up.  I have both the 2 front and 2 radiator being controlled by the H100i's Corsair Link.  The rear one will be exhausting at max speed at all times.

[ARod]

Also, case and everything in it was highly affordable.   Here is a quick listing of items.  I chose the Z77 route instead of X79 and doing so allowed me to get a new ASUS 144Hz monitor, Corsair K70 keyboard & Corsair M65 Mouse.  Free shipping on everything below:

 

Corsair Obisidian 550D:  $150.00 minus $20.00 rebate = $130.00 

MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming:  $165.00 minus $30.00 rebate for combo 3570K = $135.00

Intel i5-3570K:  $220.00 minus $30.00 rebate for combo motherboard = $190.00:

G.Skill 8GBx4 1800 DDR3: $230.00

MSI R7970 Twin Frozr III OC Boost Edition: $390.00

Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 750W: $130.00

Corsair H100i = $105.00

Phobya Nano-2G Silent: $16.00 x 5 = $80.00(yeah it's a lil overboard)

Samsung 840 500GB SSD: $360.00

WD 1TB Red HDD: $80.00 x 2 = $160.00

Windows 8 Pro:  I work for an IT reseller so I had an NFR key from Microsoft and for Office 2013

 

Total: $1,910.00, no tax & no shipping

[ARod]

Additional stuff coming in today!  

[ARod]

Got her up and going.  For the RAID 1 I did get two bad drives.....I guess that's better than the mobo or gpu failing.  I'll post pics of the finished build once I'm done tweaking.

[ARod]

So I got lazy but here are the pics of it all finished up.  Well, almost...still need to get a blu-ray thrown in there.

 

 

[mgsstar]

So I got lazy but here are the pics of it all finished up.  Well, almost...still need to get a blu-ray thrown in there.

Looks really nice! Like the red and blue theme of your build. :)

[ARod]

Looks really nice! Like the red and blue theme of your build. :)

 

Yeah, those MSI bastards :lol:  changed the superficial theme on the board to black n red but didn't change the blue LEDs from the regular GD65 motherboard.  Might as well make the H100i LED blue while I'm at.

[mgsstar]

But your rear red fan and your red H100i matches together nicely imo. You could try with the blue led on the H100i to see if it matches the theme.