My summer upgrade

[mathias]

So I've been lurking on the forums and enjoying looking at other peoples build, whether they were totally customize or just a plain build, so I thought I would share my own upgrade.

The upgrade is set to replace my 7 year old build which as been faithful to me through thick and thin. To get an idea of what I'm coming from, these are the specs: i7 920 @ 4,0 Ghz ; 2x Gainward GTX 660 (Non-TI) ; 6 GB DDR3 1866 MHz.

 

These are the specs of my new build:

• Motherboard: MSI Z170A Gaming M7
• CPU: Intel i7 6700k
• CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer 240 (AIO Liquid cooler)
• GPU: MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8GB
• RAM: G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3200 16GB
• PSU: Corsair RM550x
• Case: Corsair 400Q
• OS Drive: Samsung 750 EVO SSD - 250GB
• SSD Storage Drive: Samsung 840 EVO SSD - 250GB (Transferred from old build)
• HDD Storage Drive: Some Seagate 1.5 TB 7200 RPM drive I had lying around

Now at this point I would have loved to show you some super smexy pictures of the build however the only camera I has access to at the moment is the one in my smartphone so it would have to suffice:

 

Overall, I'm super stoked about the build. It's incredible to see how far hardware has advanced. The noise level of my old build would compare to a small vacuum cleaner (not quite but still.. ) yet this remains silent even while under load and gaming. I think it ended up super clean with regards to the colors; the graphics card, motherboard and RAM goes well together. Even though I don't care to much about the aesthetics as I don't have a windowed sidepanel, it is still oddly satisfying that things somewhat matches.   

[Darlin]

Jealous! Love the rig, goodwork!

[t24revl]

Nice job! Great color scheming!