White Shinobi Build Log

[Sizark]

In January of this year my old 775 gear was really getting on my nerves and decided to die on me, and I wasn't that flush for money at the time either. I already had a 4GB Kit of OCZ Gold series laying around so I didn't have to buy that. I decided to punt for an FM2 based quad core system which would cost around £140, however I didn't want a FM2 CPU with the on-board Radeon graphics. So in the end I went for the Athlon X4 740 and the Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H.

Phobya also sent me 2 of their G-Silent 14's in return for some graphic work I did so that was awesome :)

Old Spec;

White BitFenix Shinobi (blue mesh strips & blue badge)

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @2.4GHz

Gigabyte P31-ES3G

4GB Odd memory haha :p

Sapphire ATi Radeon 5850 Vapor-X 2GB

OCZ ZS-Series 550W PSU

Noctua NH-D14

2 X Phobya G-Silent 14's

3 X BitFenix Spectres 120MM

1TB Hitachi Deskstar

1TB Samsung Spinpoint

Old 250GB Maxtor Gen 1 Sata

New Spec;

White BitFenix Shinobi (blue mesh strips & blue badge)

AMD FM2 Athlon X4 740 @2.4GHz

Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H

4GB OCZ Gold Series 2 X 2GB

Sapphire ATi Radeon 5850 Vapor-X 2GB

OCZ ZS-Series 550W PSU

Noctua NH-D14

2 X Phobya G-Silent 14's

3 X BitFenix Spectres 120MM

1TB Hitachi Deskstar

1TB Samsung Spinpoint

Old 250GB Maxtor Gen 1 Sata

Don't know about you but I think the fans look awesome in this case :)

I was worried about the clips on the D14 shorting on the back of the card, it looks closer than it is but it's not touching. It shouldn't matter anyway because of the backplate on the 5850

Really happy with it so far, out performs my 775 system by far!

[Gdog96]

This looks sweet...good job.

[MunsonedForLife]

Love the way the case turned out...looks amazing!

[Sizark]

This looks sweet...good job.

Cheers dude! :)

Love the way the case turned out...looks amazing!

Yeah me too! always loved the Shinobi.

[Williamchan87]

nice simple build you got... keep up the good works...

I still don't know why OCZ doesn't make ram anymore

[nugnug93]

So glad I found this! I was considering an NH-D14 but was unsure whether it would fit, I really didn't want to replace the case cause I love the Shinobi way too much!

Your rig looks sweet man, love the colour scheme! (Excuse the 'misspelling' of colour here, I'm a Brit :P )