My new 2011 Rig

[DT-525]

Put my new rig together last month, been using for a few week's now and the only thing i can say is that is amazing. The thing on cost me £700 and it laughs at Crysis @ 1680x1050 at very high and 8xAA am getting a steady 35FPS i was just blow away. It got a

Gigabyte H55M-USB3

Intel Core i3 540 @ 4.4Ghz

Mushkin Black line 1600MHz

XFX 6870 Black Edition

Corsair TX Series 650W

i got it from Aria as a pre build which had a 4.2ghz overclock and the RAM was only at 1333Mhz. So I did a bit of tweaking of my own and raised the CPU overclock to 4.4Ghz and lowered its volts to 1.250 which made it at least 5 celcius cooler than it was. Overall am very happy with the pre built Aria bundle and would recommend it to anyone. The only thing i would say is there is not much room for cable management but i think i did OK. Get a modular PSU with this case.

Update 08/07/11





Since the original pics have gone because OC3D upload is gone i thought i would post some new pics of all my new toys i got today. I will re-upload the rig images as soon as i can find them. What do you guys think of all my new playthings?

 

[Brooksie]

Some pics would be good dude

 

[bertdasquirt]

I paid £700 for my rig

i5-2300

msi p67a-c45

mushkin balckline 1600mhz 4GB

corsair tx650w

XFX HD6850

 

[SieB]

I paid £700 for my rig

i5-2300

msi p67a-c45

mushkin balckline 1600mhz 4GB

corsair tx650w

XFX HD6850

Was that with a case and a HDD as well?

 

[DT-525]

Some pics would be good dude

Just posted my images, couldn't get them to work last night. Hope you like

 

[ciksas]

The first picture made me…

hmm

I love the look of the card. Nice build by aria

 

[KTCRITCH]

Nice little build ya got there! I approve!

 

[sg12004]

very good rig like the case thinkig of geting that case

 

[TheRussian747]

wow your memory bench looks great! U beat my 4g corsair dominator gt @1877 mhz

 

[Tortuga]

Very nice little build. I love that vulcan, call me crazy.

 

[thedriver132]

Does turning the volts down but the clock speed up make the pc freeze? Have you run prime95 and seen if it is stable?

 

[almighty15]

I could of built something quite a bit faster for the same money...

For a £700 budget you should of gone AMD.....

 

[KaraMurat]

I could of built something quite a bit faster for the same money...

For a £700 you should of gone AMD.....

Agree with almighty, would have gone AMD and built myself, but it is a good build enjoy it mate.

 

[DT-525]

Does turning the volts down but the clock speed up make the pc freeze? Have you run prime95 and seen if it is stable?

prime 95 for over 12h completely stable, must of got a good chip

temps after 12h about 78-80c not to bad if you ask me.

 

[DT-525]

I could of built something quite a bit faster for the same money...

For a £700 budget you should of gone AMD.....

i would rather buy a pentium 4 rather than a AMD.

 

[Tortuga]

i would rather buy a pentium 4 rather than a AMD.

The i3 is a fantastic little chip. I would opt for one before I buy an athlon or phenom quad everyday of the week.

 

[almighty15]

i would rather buy a pentium 4 rather than a AMD.

Fan Boy Much

 

[DT-525]

Fan Boy Much

nothing against AMD, as you can see i have a AMD GPU but there processors are 4 years behind the times. My i3 at 4.4Ghz is probably just as fast as a stock 955. intel run alot cooler and there chips are just better made.

 

[AMDFTW]

nothing against AMD, as you can see i have a AMD GPU but there processors are 4 years behind the times. My i3 at 4.4Ghz is probably just as fast as a stock 955. intel run alot cooler and there chips are just better made.

mate there is no way intel chips run cooler thats wrong,AMD chips are faaaaaar cooler.

 

[DT-525]

mate there is no way intel chips run cooler thats wrong,AMD chips are faaaaaar cooler.

Behave Yourself