I know this is a common topic, but I just kinda wanna jam with the tech heads;D
What are your specs and what do you have to say about them? Is gaming the only intensive activity you use it for? How old is your build? Are you thinking of upgrading any time soon? How?
I'll start:
Case: Corsair Carbide 500r (in white)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 extreme4
CPU: Intel I7 3770K (multithreading)
RAM: Corsair Dominator GT (DDR3, 32GB (8GB x 4)
GPU: Geforce GTX 660TI 2gig
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda STBD3000100 (3TB)
PSU: Corsair Professional Series HX650
Optical Drive: LG Blu Ray... something or other...
Moniter: Samsung 27? LED Monitor Series 3
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64bit
I love the case. It's got huge side panel fan that, honestly, could handle all the cooling on its own most of the time. It comes with two more smaller ones in the front and and one in the back, and all except the back fan have built in white lights that look sweet, plus there's room for two more in the top, and two own the bottom, totally 7 small fans and 1 super fan, potentially.
it has two dettachable cages of drive shelves up front, and all of those shelves can be taken out too. It could be a little quieter, but it's up to me to seek out quieter fans.
The mother board is a little small. Not a problem once it's up and running, but it really was fiddly to set up. I wouldn't pick it again though, it's got some needlesly round about cord set up, plus there are two USB ports on the back that just plum don't work.
Graphics card is fine for now, but after the Xbone reveal, I'm gearing up to do a lot more gaming on my computer, so I'll probably upgrade soon (suggestions?) and when I do, I'll probably up my power supply to HX750w to be safe.
Hard drive is fine but it didn't come with its own bloody SATA cable! WTF?!
The RAM cards are godly! They've go their own heat sinks! They are awfully tall though. I've got a Dark Knight heat sink over my CPU that has its own fan, but it wouldn't fit over the RAM, so I had to move it to the otherside of the heat sink so it sucks air through from the back rather than push it through from the front.
Got no complaints about the processor, but I do a lot of 3d rendering, so I might have been a bit better with a 3900 series, but that would require a different mother board (which it turns out would have been a good idea anyway, so...)
I do a lot of work in Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, etc, so I'm looking to get a second moniter at some point. The model I've got it great in terms of frame rate while gaming.
And lastly, I am very interested in SSDrives, but I'm waiting for the price to come down.
What are your specs and what do you have to say about them? Is gaming the only intensive activity you use it for? How old is your build? Are you thinking of upgrading any time soon? How?
I'll start:
Case: Corsair Carbide 500r (in white)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 extreme4
CPU: Intel I7 3770K (multithreading)
RAM: Corsair Dominator GT (DDR3, 32GB (8GB x 4)
GPU: Geforce GTX 660TI 2gig
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda STBD3000100 (3TB)
PSU: Corsair Professional Series HX650
Optical Drive: LG Blu Ray... something or other...
Moniter: Samsung 27? LED Monitor Series 3
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64bit
I love the case. It's got huge side panel fan that, honestly, could handle all the cooling on its own most of the time. It comes with two more smaller ones in the front and and one in the back, and all except the back fan have built in white lights that look sweet, plus there's room for two more in the top, and two own the bottom, totally 7 small fans and 1 super fan, potentially.
it has two dettachable cages of drive shelves up front, and all of those shelves can be taken out too. It could be a little quieter, but it's up to me to seek out quieter fans.
The mother board is a little small. Not a problem once it's up and running, but it really was fiddly to set up. I wouldn't pick it again though, it's got some needlesly round about cord set up, plus there are two USB ports on the back that just plum don't work.
Graphics card is fine for now, but after the Xbone reveal, I'm gearing up to do a lot more gaming on my computer, so I'll probably upgrade soon (suggestions?) and when I do, I'll probably up my power supply to HX750w to be safe.
Hard drive is fine but it didn't come with its own bloody SATA cable! WTF?!
The RAM cards are godly! They've go their own heat sinks! They are awfully tall though. I've got a Dark Knight heat sink over my CPU that has its own fan, but it wouldn't fit over the RAM, so I had to move it to the otherside of the heat sink so it sucks air through from the back rather than push it through from the front.
Got no complaints about the processor, but I do a lot of 3d rendering, so I might have been a bit better with a 3900 series, but that would require a different mother board (which it turns out would have been a good idea anyway, so...)
I do a lot of work in Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, etc, so I'm looking to get a second moniter at some point. The model I've got it great in terms of frame rate while gaming.
And lastly, I am very interested in SSDrives, but I'm waiting for the price to come down.