My first build and a hello to the community! :)

[DrunkPacman]

Hi! This is my first build which i'm pretty proud of. This also happens to be my first post on the forums. Don't know why i haven't made an account yet been following TTL for a while now.
On with the build then.
Specs:
AMD fx-8350 (Stock clock atm)
Gigabyte GA-990fxa-UD3 Motherboard
EVGA Supernova 750G
2 bog standard 500gb HDD's
16gb Kingston Hyper-X beast 1333Mhz
Fractal Design Define R4
Corsair H100
Radeon HD 5770 ( Have a Asus direct cu2 290x oc pre-ordered)
Not pictured is a 128gb toshiba SSD i installed a couple of days after this build.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Nice GPU! Hopefully you will notice the performance differences from the 5770

Also is the ssd running the OS? It would be a shame if it did not!
Welcome to the club:wavey:

 

[DrunkPacman]

Nice GPU! Hopefully you will notice the performance differences from the 5770

Also is the ssd running the OS? It would be a shame if it did not!
Welcome to the club:wavey:

Yeah i cloned th OS to the SSD. In hindsight should have got a bigger one as i only have 30gb's on it yet :/
5770 was from my first PC which i bought from cyber power. Regret buying from them as the parts were horrible and the overclocking was shoddy kept blue screening on me.
If you have any tips for ocing this i'd like to hear them!

 

[Remmy]

Welcome to the forums dude

You've got one of the most important points of being nice and tidy down and that graphics card should an awesome upgrade

 

[NeverBackDown]

I am not an avid AMD Cpu overclocker but all i do know is to use Amds CCC and not any other software for monitoring temps and such.

Many ways to get GB back on your ssd. Two big ways are to delete the Hibernation file and move the Virtual Memory to your HDDs. Easily 20GB gained and most likely even more since you have 16GB of ram(which also means you don't really need VM).

Edit: Also remove the top HDD cage to get more airflow into the rig!

 

[Remmy]

I'd like to thank you NBD for mentioning that hyberfil.sys file. I never knew that existed lol. Just opened Command Prompt, typed 'powercfg –h off', hit enter, and gained something like 8-10GB..... You legend xD

 

[DrunkPacman]

Haha thanks NBD for the hibernation tip 13gb's saved there!

 

[TUiZHD]

Thanks for the tip, welcome to the forum

 

[NeverBackDown]

I'd like to thank you NBD for mentioning that hyberfil.sys file. I never knew that existed lol. Just opened Command Prompt, typed 'powercfg –h off', hit enter, and gained something like 8-10GB..... You legend xD

Haha thanks NBD for the hibernation tip 13gb's saved there!

Thanks for the tip, welcome to the forum

Welcome all