Another upgrade... Sprung a leak in one of my GPU waterblock resulting a burnout GPU due to inadequate cooling. And due to the fact that 9800 GTX+ have been phrased out, I had to get a new pair of GPU.

Old system:
Chassis: 3D Mercury
Power Supply: Thundering H80 ST-750EAD 750W
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67
Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-Extreme
RAM: 3GB OCZ DDR3 Ram
Graphic Card:
1. nVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1GB DDR3
2. nVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1GB DDR3
Hard Drive(s):
1. Seagate ST3200820AS (200GB SATA)
2. Seagate ST3200820AS (200GB SATA)
3. Seagate ST3500320AS (500GB SATA)

New:
Chassis: 3D Mercury
Power supply: Hurricane ST1200z-AP 1200 Watts
Prcoessor: Intel Core i7 920 @2.67
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UP7
RAM: 3GB OCZ DDR3 Ram
Graphic Card:
1. Sapphire Ati Radeon HD 5770 Vapor - X
2. Sapphire Ati Radeon HD 5770 Vapor - X
Hard Drive(s):
1. OCZ SATA II 2.5' SSD Core series V2 30GB
2. Seagate ST3200820AS (200GB SATA)
3. Seagate ST3200820AS (200GB SATA)
4. Seagate ST3500320AS (500GB SATA)
Addition Liquid Cooling: BigWater Thermal Take 760iS
Keyboard: Windows SideWinder X6
Mouse: Razor Mamba
:awesome:awesome:awesome

And some pics:




Now go drool while I go reformat my computer due to the stupid system telling me that my Windows 7 haven't been verify...

 

To spend so much money on two video cards, and yet only have 3GB RAM... this is insane.

However, despite this... cool system brah.

 

Getting new ram next month... Broke due to the stupid leak...

 

Son... I am not disappoint

Seriously. Awesome. Get the additional RAM pronto, though.

I need a cooling system.

 

Any recommendations on quality DDR3 rams?

I'm thinking of getting Corsair XMS3 DHX 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3 DIMM Memory Kit

Edit: I need to get a new monitor as well... Sigh...

 

Stay away from Westinghouse. I just had two of them shit out on me... only after a year.

 

Of course I'm running a 64-bit system, if not, I'm wasting money building such a high-end computer...

 

D: This thread makes me feel so... inadequate. E-peen...shrinking...


Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3070MB
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 8500 GT
Video Memory: 512.0 MB


Granted my computer is rather dated. I got it 6 or 7 years ago and I have it about as upgraded as I can get it without cannibalizing parts and playing Frankenstein.

._. I need a new one.

 

Manufacturer:
System manufacturer
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory:
8192MB RAM
Hard Drive:
1 TB
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Monitor:
Samsung TV
Sound Card:
Speakers (VIA High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones:
Keyboard:
Logitech G15
Mouse:
Logitech G5
Mouse Surface:
Operating System:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)
Motherboard:
ASUS P7P55D LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard
Computer Case:
Antec 900

Finally got it together : ) Planning on continuing updating it, but budget ran out.

 

This is what I am going to build over the next few weeks:
Case: Antec 1200
Hard Drive(s):
2x WD Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0
2x WD Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM SATA 6.0
GPU: Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Soundboard: HT|Omega Claro plus+ 7.1 Channels PCI
Speakers: Logitech X-540
RAM: Corsair XMS3 12GB 240-pin DDR# SDRAM 1600Ghz
MoBo: ASUS P6X58D Premium LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
Monitor: ASUS VW246H 24" 2ms HDMI Widescreen LCD

Any advice from the tech-heads?

 

Yeah...What CPU are you going to get?

 

My GTX 275 fits in my Antec 300, although its a tight fit. You should have no problem with the 5770.

 

This, unless you are an audio freak, most of the current audio setups built in are fine. Ram is overkill as well unless you're doing heavy editing. I'd buy 6gb in a 3 pack, then wait a year or two to pick up more at vastly discounted prices.

On the flipside there Oz, you'll want more then 4gb of RAM, I noticed a big ass jump in loading times from 4gb to 6gb.

 

Stay with onboard sound unless you need the extra ports a dedicated soundcard provides. Or you actually are an audio freak like myself. Dedicated sound cards jump in quality immensely once you go from consumer to prosumer then to professional.

Unless you are recording audio, consumer is fine. Unless you need crazy amount of ports, onboard is fine.

 

You're cutting it very fine with that power supply. While it says it provides 500W it actually will only give you around 270W at 12V (Power suppliers are very sneaky), Considering that your CPU and GPU both average around 150 running at 90%ish that's not really ideal

In addition to that it's not a very good power supply at all (cheap and nasty). Since your going to be getting a reasonably nice system it's worth the extra money for a decent one imo.

 

C'mon it's cute though that they disguised that fact that it was a piece of shit entry level basic PSU, by calling it Basiq instead of basic.

http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_pages/intel_core_i5_750_overclocking_guide,6.html

But yeah, Oz, that chip will treat that PSU like it's bitch, and moderen GPUs suck down power like hell. The bare minimum according to newegg.com's PSU calc for your PC is right around 450ws. Under stress thought your rig will drink that and be wanting some more, and you do NOT want to be stressing the shit out of your PSU, ever. You always want a good bit more then you need. And that's not counting any fans, lights, more then 1 hard drive or optical drive.

You never get the rated strength listed, ever on PSUs. You won't need a 1000w psu, but I wouldn't go under a 750w one.