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[GreatTahitian]

"Bottleneck" is so over used. Go do testing please and learn before you speak.

 

this. raise the resolution 4k and we'll see any cpu bottleneck disappear pretty quick

[jackalopeater]

Confirmation from Cooler Master that everything on their end is being processed and shipped asap, so just a few more days before I can get started building.

 

 

 

[Ralphington]

Interesting sounding build, will be very cool to see how the performance works out, also Keith is a cool name!

[jackalopeater]

I just wanted to share how close the Swiftech H320 comes to hitting the mosftet heatsink...so close, lol.

 

[Atomicnerd64]

I just wanted to share how close the Swiftech H320 comes to hitting the mosftet heatsink...so close, lol.

 

is it this dusty in real life too? you should keep it clean so close you can barely breathe btw. excited for the build 

[jackalopeater]

Update: Cooler Master shipped out the HAF 935  Stacker and V1200 PSU today, they're sceduled to be here on Friday 2/27.

 

But today this puppy made it's way home

 

[enRodjavel]

Looking forward to some Benches now =D

[jackalopeater]

I ran Heaven on the basic preset with everything as stock just to get an idea.  But, if I'm off work tomorrow due to weather I'm going to run a gamut of stock benchmarks to get a baseline idea on everything before I get deep into this one.

 

[jackalopeater]

Case and PSU arriving tomorrow,  Expect a flood of pictures on Saturday

[CatzRuleZWorld]

I had a kavari system but sold it to get my current system (in sig) but when I had it I unfortunately didn't know anything about overclocking so I couldn't do anything with it that way and I just used the internal graphics and it worked fine for league and minecraft.

[enRodjavel]

We demand pics! Hehe where be this flood u be talkin baout...?

[SYPH]

Well over at overclock. Someone contacted the OP. So I thought to share with you guys...

Contacted OP, He has to pay to update the build log (Sponsered Build) and will update once it's all sorted out

[jackalopeater]

Cleaning up pics, ran into some issues during the build yesterday, had a friend break down on the highway and had to go pick her up.  But it's built, and I'm loving it so far

 

 

but here's a start

 

[SYPH]

Damn. Seeing pictures of boxes is already making me jealous lol. Be sure to upload some benchmarks of AAA games once your not busy

[jackalopeater]

Well over at overclock. Someone contacted the OP. So I thought to share with you guys...

 

Yeah, I'm working on getting it straightened out so it can go in their Sponsored area

[jackalopeater]

Well, unfortunately my 7850k is a pig when it comes to overclocking.  It took major voltage to get past 4.2ghz with marginal perf increases.  Needless to say, the Mrs will be getting an upgrade real soon as I'm going to be ordering an 860k (still Kaveri based ) and hoping for better luck.  But here's a link to the 3dMark Firestike and Firestike Ultra scores 

 

Firesrike http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6081975?

Firestrike Ultra (surprised me here) http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4198530

 

[SYPH]

Any gaming benchmarks? lol

[JarJarBanksy]

I don't really care too much about how well it performs a synthetic benchmark. How well it games is what is really important for a gaming rig. I really want to see how much of a bottleneck there is or if the A10-7850k is actually a respectable gaming processor at the high end.

[jackalopeater]

Here's a quick look at using Tomb Raider 2013 completely maxed settings 1080p (AA = FXAA) 

 

 

[Ceatra]

-Snip-

How much games do you have?

[SYPH]

100 Minimum is actually pretty good lol

[JarJarBanksy]

This is not bad. Those are not bad frame rates.

[jackalopeater]

Hey guys, I'll be stuck in a hotel room tonight....good thing is I have all the build log photo's ready to go, so I'll be uploading them into multiple posts tonight

[enRodjavel]

Sounds awsome

[jackalopeater]

Okay guys, here's the first round of pics.  I built it over a couple days and the final build pics will be much better and higher quality.  BUT, let's get started

 

This is "Phase 1" of the build where I had to get it started 

 

 

Case came in and, well, it's kinda big, lol.

 

 

My 18 month old daughter next to it for mini human size comparison, lol

 

 

When I went to remove the HDD cage I found that thing is secured by 2 screws connected to the 5.25" bay area and 4 in the front intake fan area (fans not included with case)

 

 

Got the motherboard mounted in the case, found that it had plenty of room without feeling like there's "wasted" space

 

 

These HDD trays are nice, I know there's an SSD mount on the back, but I have a second SSD that I swap out to play on Linux with.

 

 

Got the PSU sitting pretty in there, that V1200 is the nicest PSU I've ever used.  

 

 

The opinions are true about the space behind the mobo tray, it's a little lacking, but flat cables to make it much easier to work with.

 

 

A quick test fit of the R9 295x2 to make sure that it's going to fit the way I want it to.

 

 

Went ahead and stripped down the 915, very easy, but ton's of screws holding the HDD cage and 5.25" bay in, lol

 

 

Quick look at the hole I had to cut for the 295x2's rad to slide through to the top portioin

 

 

at this point, I was getting tired and needed to get some work done using the pc.  Man, if I was going straight Air cooling the mid tower portion looks very sleek and is a great size for Air only.

 

 

Here's a view of my desk as I was ending Phase 1 of the build getting ready for some water

 

 

 

 

Phase 2, or completing the build is coming this evening......or tomorrow, lol.  Bear with me folks