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Finchy
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Greetings all, been a long time Lurker of this site and finally decided to register/post my first serious build. I've build some medium end PC's before but this time I was fortunate enought to have a decent PC budget to play with so I hope you enjoy the build. The first pieces are Assembled and I will look forward to sharing it with you. Here is a pic of some of the pieces and others I already have that I bought weeks ago that are not shown in picture yet. Also I nicknamed this PC the Beast because everyone of my friends call it that when they see the Haf X lol

 

 

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Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i
PSU: Corsair AXi Series AX860i
CPU: Intel i7-4930K
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro Series SSD 256GB
OS: Windows 7 Pro (64Bit)

Case: Coolmaster Haf X

HDD: 3TB Seagate

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP

GPU: Nvidia 660Ti FTW ( Will replace around black friday with the best avaliable for a decent price to hold me over until next year Black friday where I will go Top of the line for Star Citizen)

 

I must admit I am a bit concerned about installing some of this as I have no experience mounting the CPU to the Mobo or using that Water cooler and attaching it, thus I will do steady research for a week or two before I attempt any hands on work but when I do I will update with Pictures of the complete build.

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Welcome to the forums, can't wait to see the finished pics.

i9 25.6 GHz with NeuronThreading, 256gb 6000 MHz RAM, GTX 990 OC 3024MHz 12gb, Skeletal X99 motherboard, 1 Petabyte SSD, Fractal Design Humaniod R1 Case, Herbivore 10,000W PSU, Noctua NF16 LP Derma Cooler.

Probably the only Star Citizen player who is planning on a career in Journalism instead of piracy, mining, trading, exploration, military, station management, etc.

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Trust me I used an H100i on the first time I built a rig also and the instructions are incredibly straight forward. You'll be fine and you'll have an awesome rig :)

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Welcome to the forums! I would say just stretch an extra 50 bucks and get a 670

i5 4670k| Asrock H81M-ITX| EVGA Nex 650g| WD Black 500Gb| H100 with SP120s| ASUS Matrix 7970 Platinum (just sold)| Patriot Venom 1600Mhz 8Gb| Bitfenix Prodigy. Build log in progress 

Build Log here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/119926-yin-yang-prodigy-update-2-26-14/

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Thanks for the nice welcome all and I feel better now about doing this myself :)

 

 

Welcome to the forums! I would say just stretch an extra 50 bucks and get a 670

Ahh I forgot to mention that GPU is from my old build. I picked it up last year boxing day with my AMD FX-8150 Black edition for super cheap so I was hoping to replace it this year with a 780 or something if they drop to the 300ish price range.

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As the others said, welcome to the forums.  Sweet looking build so far, can't wait to see the rest :). 

CASE: FRACTAL DESIGN DEFINE R4  |  MOBO: MSI MPOWER Z77  |  CPU: Intel i5 3570k @ 4.4 GHz  |  CPU COOLER: NOCTUA NH-D15  |  GPU: EVGA GTX 770 SC |

PSU: CORSAIR AX860 W/ RED BRAIDED CABLES | SSD: SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250 GB | HDD: WD BLACK 1 TB | FANS: 3x NOCTUA NF-A14 | MONITOR: HP W2371D

KEYBOARD: CM STORM QFR MX BLUES W/  PBT KEYCAPS  |  MOUSE: LOGITECH G502 | MIC: AUDIO TECHNICA AT2020 | HEADPHONES: SENNHEISER HD 558

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welcome to the LTT community! and just like everyone else has said, the building process isn't hard at all my friend, it may seem daunting at first but i think you'll find its a lot easier than it seems. i did my first top to bottom build about 4 months ago its a cake walk. with the guys and gals here on the forum and linus' awesome videos it will be a snap for you! :) 

And then you realize your shoes are filled with peanut butter, what then?! >:L

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Ok so It's been a little while and finally got it done with some changes. Here are the components I went with. I'm going to add Blue LEDs  and replace the 660ti with either the 780 or the R290x around black friday.

 

Motherboard: Asus P9X79-LE

CPU: Intel Core i7- 4930k 5GHz

Memory: Corsair 16GB Vengeance LP

Cooling: Corsair H100i

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 660Ti

OS: Windows 7 x64 Pro

PSU: Corsair AX860i

Case: Coolermaster StormStryker

Storage: Primary - Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB SSD

              Secondary - Seagate 3TB HDD

 

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Welcome to the forums  :). Why 4930K? If you're just gaming going 2011 is a waste unless you're going for some 3-way SLI system. You should also try to improve the cable management a bit. Otherwise it's a really nice build :).

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Just another update more Parts I got today. Picked up an Asus USB-N66 Adapter for my PC to replace my Dlink Network card. I went from 1Mbps speeds to 56-60Mbps with this tho my internet speed is 100Mbps on the desktop that is connected through a cable to the Modem. I also picked up an Asus RT-N66U Router to see if that will better help increase the speed of my Wifi to get as close to 100Mpbs as possible on the wireless side of things as the stock Internet Modem we just got has terrible reviews for its wifi Capabilities which is why I think the speed is so slow on Wifi.

 

 

I also Caved and Picked up the MSI HD Radeon 7990 as it was only 500$ and it has a 3 year Warranty where if it fails or breaks etc.. in the next 3 years I get an auto replacement of the newest card out there that has similar specs, so this 500$ card could potentially net me a Future GTX 760 if they exist in the future or what ever the equivalent is when it does fail. I thought it was to good of a deal to pass up so I went for it :)

 

Here is some pics I snapped on my phone of the Card. 

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The card is really heavy but it does not slouch down or anything and it was very long but as you can see I have plenty of room in this case to fit it.

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