So I've Started On a New Build
that's not only sexy but kicks major ass
Friday, February 7, 2014 by starkers | Discussion: Personal Computing
Yup, it's that time of year again, but this time it's not a PC upgrade but rather a complete new build... starting with a real sexy case...
Now this is a full tower and has oodles of room inside for lots of fantastic shit... accommodating extra big graphics cards, enormous CPU coolers and even a magical leprechaun who can fix stuff when it's broken. Orright, maybe not the leprechaun, but it is fechin' huge inside. And what's more, to make it even more fancy, it has keys to get into it... so nobody's stealing my graphics card in a hurry... the innards of the beasty are quite secure.
Orright, so maybe it's not that secure, but there are lots of things to like about this case. For example, the 'hot swap' hard drive bays and the 'daisy chained' power connecters so that only one SATA plug from the PSU is required. Then there's the great ventilation, easy access to everything and the sexiest appearance ever.
Anyhow, enough of all that, let's talk about the innards...
PSU.... Silverstone 1200w 80 Gold
Mobo.... Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H [has 10 SATA 3 ports and 10 USB3 ports]
CPU.... Intel i7 4770K @ 3.5ghz [but highly overclockable]
Cooler... Corsair H60 Liquid CPU Cooler.
RAM... G-Skill Trident DDR3 2400mhz x 32GB
SSD... Samsung 840 Evo series 512Gb
GPU... Gigabyte Radeon 7970 GV-R797WF3- 3GD.
Well that's all I got in it for now, but it has been a long, hard day and I've had enough, it's bedtime and the rest will have to wait 'til tomorrow.
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Reply #261 Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:44 PM
you two seem to have had a reletively positive experience with norton/symantec virus 'products'.
Yeah, I had a positively rotten experience with Norton.. Not only did it miss an infection, my PC [before I got into higher-end rigs] froze solid during its attempt to expunge it from my machine. Even a 'hard shut down' wouldn't happen... the only way I could close the machine down was pull the plug from the wall. And the only way I could restart without Norton wanting to take up where it [was forcibly] left off was in Safe Mode. Once that was achieved I uninstalled Norton and swore never ever to use it again... and I haven't.
As for the infection - no, not Norton, I'd gotten rid of that - Avast found and dealt with it quietly and efficiently without hogging all the system resources [as Norton does] so I've stayed with Avast ever since.
harpo, the NON-subscriber