CM Strom Scout Build

[esberelias]

Hey guys,

This is my build... Figured i'd post it up here see what you guys think! hope you like it.

Cooler Master Storm Scout mid-size gaming case | Asus Sabertooth X58 Motherboard | Intel i7 950 3.06GHz | Corsair H70 CPU Cooler | Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 3X2GB | XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB DDR5 CROSSFIRE (one crashed and is being RMA'd) | Corsair HX850W Modular PSU | Two OCZ Vertex 30GB Solid state Drive (RAID 0) | WD 1TB Caviar Black (for Storage/Games) | WD 1TB Caviar Green (for Storage/Temp files) | WD 2TB Caviar Green (For Backups) | Samsung SH-B083L Blu-Ray ROM & DVD Writer | Zalman ZM-MFC1 Plus 6 Fan-controller | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

Recent Picture. Had two Red Cold Cathodes but one broke and I had a blue one laying around so I just chucked it in for now....Looks aight... but i think i'm going with white LED soon​

I mounted my rad in the front for looks... I didn't want it being all crowded and i think it looks awesome like that. A Lot better for air flow as well

Front shot. (without front panel)

Night shot (i had two Red cold cathodes in there but one snapped and i had a blue one laying around so i put it in for now (see first picture) but i think im going with while LED lighting soon.

back of case & I/O Panel

Screen is a 23" Samsung SyncMaster 2343

Logitech G15 KeyBoard

Razer lachesis Mouse <--- which i absolutely hate!!

Thermaltake BlacX Duet duel drive day for my 1 TB green and 2 TB green

I'm not sure if anyone noticed as well in the very first picture if you look closely one of my GPU cards (bottom) is slightly a darker color than the top one. Its because i was trying something and i painted the red part of the card to a olive-ish green color to match the rest of the board and in my opinion it looks A LOT better than the red with the Sabertooth colors. I will have the other card painted soon (just got it back from RMA want to test it out make sure its fine before i rip it apart and void my warranty) and i'll post up some pictures!

thanks for looking and PLEASE let me know what you think and leave me a comment.

 

[SieB]

Looks good, don't like the stickers on the side though.

 

[dugdiamond]

nice solid build

is that PSU strong enough though?

 

[Mumbles37]

Very nice, love the Scout with red LEDs.

HX850 is good even for sli gtx 570s overclocked, should work fine

 

[dugdiamond]

HX850 is good even for sli gtx 570s overclocked, should work fine

two 5770s use more power than two gtx570s

and,

have you counted the drives!!!

 

[Mumbles37]

That is a lot of drives! I'll admit I hadn't seen all of them before.

But I think it's hard to strain the HX850 without really, really pushing it. The review here said that it was actually capable of putting out 1084W, way more than what it's rated at.

 

[SieB]

Well according to AMD you only need a 600w PSU for CF 5770's.

http://www.amd.com/uk/products/desk...5770/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-5770-overview.aspx#3

And two 570's need 750w

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-570-sli-review/13

So for both situations the PSU is more than enough.

 

[esberelias]

Thanks for the comments guys.

before I had the 850w, I had a Corsair 650w and that was powering up this system but it was warm to the touch under load...so it was working at it's peak for sure. and on the corsair power calculator before i bought the 850w it actually recommended a 650w with crossfired cards and 4 HDD.

These HDD aren't in there anymore. they are external now. but i do have 3 SSD's in there and according to SSD Reviews.com the power consumption on Vertex 2's MAX is like 1.22 watts (I have the Vertex's so it should be around the same)

 

[dugdiamond]

cool