My new rig

[matt1314]

Hello everyone!

I needed more power and built my own system last week. Everything done by my own hands, took me like 1 1/2 days. Here are the specs:

Mainboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4, Sockel 1155, ATX

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K, LGA1155

CPU Cooler: Thermalright HR-02 Macho

Main Memory: 16GB-Kit Corsair XMS3 PC3-12800U CL9 (DDR3-1600)

Graphics Card: MSI N680GTX Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC, 2048MB GDDR5

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series

HDD: WD Caviar Green WD10EARX 1TB SATA 6 GB/s

SSD: Samsung SSD 830 128GB SATA 6 GB/s

ODD: LG CH10LS20 Blu-Ray ROM Super Multi Blue

PSU: Antec TruePower New TP-750 750W (with Blue LED)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit (OEM)

Case: Cooler Master 690 II Advanced USB 3.0 - NVIDIA Edition (ATX)


Monitor: ASUS VS248H 24'' LED Monitor, Full HD

Loudspeakers: Edifier C2 2.1 Soundsystem

Keyboard: Microsoft SideWinder X4 Tastatur

Mouse: Microsoft SideWinder X3 Laser Gaming Maus


Please leave some comments. Still got a few problems to sort out, hopefully they'll be gone soon. So far it works pretty well.

[Franch88]

Very nice system, all the components are at an high level. Great choice for the top CPU (you should overclock it) and graphic card (actually the top powerful single-GPU graphic card). You've picked very good brands too, in particular for mainboard (ASRock is an ASUS brand, it has a great price-features ratio), RAM memory, graphic card (I love MSI's custom graphic cards), HDD (Wester Digital is the best brand for me, unlike Seagate/Maxtor) and case (one of the best brands). Not a great brand choice about the SSD, IMO, but it should have been done for less cost reasons; these kind of storage units still costs a lot and can give serious problems, but the things are going better, though.
I guess that you've spent a minimum price of 1800 Euro for all. The self buiding is a very nice experience, and money saving too. I see a good optional in this system a liquid cooling system shared for CPU and GPU, but it's another pretty high cost.

[matt1314]

Thank you, Franch.

That SSD is highly recommended and one of the best nowadays, known for its longetivity. So I took this one, I listened to some computer experts on a forum. They recommended it to me.

Yeah, the costs were above 2000

[whoami]

WOW! Cool PC! I wish I could build one (I can, but I'll have to save for a decade )

[matt1314]

Seems like not all problems have been sold and only one was left. It turned out very unconvenient: the mainboard was defective. Shipped it back to get hopefully a replacement.

[matt1314]

Got a replacement and it seems to have solved my problem. Everything is working so far, so let's hope it'll stay like that for a long time.

[HummersRock]

Wow, sweet system Matt. I'm jealous, I'd love to build a new system.

Cool that you got an SSD. I would love to get one for my next build.

I hope your having a lot of fun with it!

[matt1314]

Haha, thanks. Yeah, having all games running at like a minimum of 30 FPS with maxed out settings is really great.

I hope you'll build one yourself once. It was pretty difficult to me for the very first time but I managed to success.

[Quagmire69]

WOW maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!! Thats a system NASA can use, nice man, but I have a terrible pc man, its vista, who uses that garbage man?

[MurdocBr]

Nice config matt!

@Quagmire69: our pc are better than pc from nasa, they have a clock with only 1,4 MHz and 1MB of memory, weighs 29 pounds, a cell is more faster than a pc from nasa

[whoami]

Very nice system.

WOW maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!! Thats a system NASA can use, nice man, but I have a terrible pc man, its vista, who uses that garbage man?

Not too much "maan" and "man" etc in there Just kidding.

[Flexoman100]

WOW maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!! Thats a system NASA can use, nice man, but I have a terrible pc man, its vista, who uses that garbage man?

Hahahaha, Allen, a PC from NASA is slower than my grandma.