Corsair Overhaul

[gasho]

Hi Forum

I decided a while ago that it is time to change some things arround my PC work area.

1. I decided to change my Monitor stand. As you can see bellow my previous monitor stand was a aluminium poker set that I had laying arround.
So it had to go and I have build a simple wood-stand to fit above my Onkyo Amplifier to hold the monitor.

2. Next thing was to change the appearance of my PC. It was in a old mATX Hedy case that wasn't doing a good job with airflow, cable management, expandibility and cosmetics.
And since I was changing a lot of things I decided to upgrade a few of my components inside and out as well.


3. The old System Specs:

i3 2120 @ 3.3Ghz / Stock Intel Cooler / 4GB DDR3 Patriot SL / Sapphire 6870 1GB OC / MSI B75MA-B45 /

Samsung 500GB / mATX Case from HEDY / Fortron 400W 80+Bronze / Philips 22" IPS Full HD

Pro-Ject USB box / Onkyo 9155 2x65W amp / Polestar Vanguard V-R1 / A4 White Keyboard for 5 Euros / Logitech G1 / Logitech F310

4. Upgrades:

- CM Hyper 212 Evo
- added 4 GB DDR3 Patriot SL
- Sapphire 7870 2GB OC
- WD 1TB green
- Corsair 300R
- Corsair CX500M 80+ Bronze
- Logitech G105
- Sennheiser PC330 Headset
- Noctua NF-S12B FLX (back of the case instead the corsair stock cooler)
- Steelseries QcK Mousepad

5. Upgraded Spec

i3 2120 @ 3.3Ghz / CM Hyper 212+ / 8GB DDR3 Patriot SL / Sapphire 7870 2GB OC / MSI B75MA-B45 /

Samsung 500GB / WD 1TB green / Corsair 300R / Corsair CX500M 80+ Bronze / Philips 22" IPS Full HD / Noctua NF-S12B FLX / Steelseries QcK

Pro-Ject USB box / Onkyo 9155 2x65W amp / Polestar Vanguard V-R1 / Logitech G105 / Logitech G1 / Logitech F310 / Sennheiser PC330 Headset

 

So lets see...

 

 

this is how it looked on the desk. monitor with the poker set

 

starting to build a new stand for the monitor. the wood needed black paint to match the big table.

 

 

 

 

 

leave it for a bit to soak up the paint

 

ready to roll. I have put some pads on the bottom so it doesn't scratch my table.

 

Final look at it on the table without the poker set. Looks much better and it fits the Amp nicely.

 

Old 5 euro keyboard vs new Logitech G105

 

And now lets concentrate on the PC. this was the old case in all its glory

 

Starting to change the components from old case to the new one.

 

 

changed the stock fan for the CM 212 Evo

 

Workbench number 2

 

Slowly the components are finding their new home

 

New GPU the Sapphire 7870 OC 2GB

 

And the final product with all the upgrades done !

 

PS The Corsair 300R is the one with the window side panel

[Morfy]

Nice upgrade!

[piplupgao]

If it was a real corsair over haul you would use corsair cooling corsair fans and a corsair SSD

[naca1227]

Woo for upgrading. I bet that feels good. What are you going to do with the 6870?

[naca1227]

If it was a real corsair over haul you would use corsair cooling corsair fans and a corsair SSD

Corsair cases are the only good thing they make anyways

[piplupgao]

Corsair cases are the only good thing they make anyways

Their fans look good and their AIO WC units have pretty good performance considering the price

[naca1227]

Their fans look good and their AIO WC units have pretty good performance considering the price

Meh

[joelthezombie15]

Looks nice. I liked your little monitor stand :p

[gasho]

Woo for upgrading. I bet that feels good. What are you going to do with the 6870?

A guy needed exactly the 6870 for something so I sold it for 120 E so I paid at the end only 100 E for the 7870 ;)

[MPX309]

looks sweet. good job

[DJ46]

Pekný PC, fakt si sa vyhral s tým stojanom na monitor.

Najprv pozerám - Slovakryl, potom HN a teraz som si všimol Hornbach :D

[FireFox]

Pretty sweet, nice work :)

 

What is that CPU like with the graphics card, does it bottleneck the GPU?

[gasho]

Pretty sweet, nice work :)

 

What is that CPU like with the graphics card, does it bottleneck the GPU?

I can say it doesn't.... much :) You can see some differences with a quad core but not much. depends on the games. Some games show no frame difference what so ever. But I saw a few frames more on a quad at Need for speed shift 2. I didn't test many games. I tested this on a friends PC that is very similar but has a quad...

[gasho]

Pekný PC, fakt si sa vyhral s tým stojanom na monitor.

Najprv pozerám - Slovakryl, potom HN a teraz som si všimol Hornbach :D

Hehe dakujem! Fotku zo slovakrylom som tam dal naschval nech sa vie ze aj na SK sme aktivny a vieme co robime ;)

[Nicktrance]

Pretty sweet, nice work :)

What is that CPU like with the graphics card, does it bottleneck the GPU?

I have a similar setup, unless the game is relatively CPU dependent (like Skyrim-even then I have no problem playing Skyrim with high settings and TONS of mods), you don't see much difference and when you do the framerate is too high to notice anyway.

[hiyayhi]

looking sweet!

[Jumper118]

my mate has this exact setup the only difference is he has a i5 3570k@4.4ghz

[900d]

nice man lookin good.