My newly upgraded gaming rig

[Captain Helltheo]

I built my first rig about 4 years ago and I needed an upgrade inorder to play BF3 and soon to be Ghost Recon: Future Solider. So I spent about 2 months researching and speaking to people on the forum and finally made a decision and this is what I chose:

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Motherboard

AMD FX-4 4100 CPU @ 4.5Ghz

NZXT Havik 120 CPU cooler

Sapphire HD 7850 GPU

Corsair TX650 PSU

Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3 memory

Coolermaster HAF 932 (already had)

LG DVD RW optical drive

250GB HD (can't remember what the make was it used to be my old HD)

 

[wassupdoc]

Gah, turn the cooler round!

You are just sucking hot air straight off your gpu, which will not help your overclock on the cpu

Pretty tidy build tho XD

 

[stockholm1984]

I agree with Wassupdoc, turn your CPU cooler round to make the most of the front/back cooling in the case. Other than that it looks a nice tidy build!

Notice you're from Worthing; what part do you live in? I grew up there.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Looks good but as above change the orientation of the CPU cooler.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Good build apart from the CPU cooler orientation.

 

[Bullmecha]

Nice rig

 

[Captain Helltheo]

I wanted the cooler to flow to the back but the mounting bracket will not alow it to go front to back. well the CPU stays arround 45C at load anyway.

Notice you're from Worthing; what part do you live in? I grew up there.

I'm from broadwater

 

[Solidarity]

I wanted the cooler to flow to the back but the mounting bracket will not alow it to go front to back. well the CPU stays arround 45C at load anyway.

I have the same problem with my cooler. The mounting system wont let me rotate it. Nowhere seemed to tell me about it.

 

[Rob_the_scot]

Nice build

 

[yassarikhan786]

I wanted the cooler to flow to the back but the mounting bracket will not alow it to go front to back. well the CPU stays arround 45C at load anyway.

I'm from broadwater

It's strange that you can't change the orientation, but a 45 C load temp is very nice, so it doesn't really matter.

 

[Master&Puppet]

The 8150 gave BD such a bad rep that people totally overlook the 4100 which is actually a stonking little chip, a versatile performer if a touch power hungry.

 

[Captain Helltheo]

It's strange that you can't change the orientation,

yer that was because the Intel threads on the braket for the crossbar are slightly shorter than the AMD threads, therefore the crossbar cant screw onto it.

 

[yassarikhan786]

yer that was because the Intel threads on the braket for the crossbar are slightly shorter than the AMD threads, therefore the crossbar cant screw onto it.

Oh I see

 

[lcpldongworth]

Nice set up

 

[Terrifictez85]

Easy fix mate, on the crossbar put the tow ling parts on top instead of underneath. Is what i did with my Havik 140mm when i had it. Fits perfect

 

[Captain Helltheo]

I managed to mount my cooler horizontally and got 43C on load

loss of 2C, that was worth the hour of disassembly and reassembly

 

[stockholm1984]

Hey, no one ever said how much cooler it'd be...

Broadwater eh? I used to live on Poulters Lane so not a million miles away.

 

[Captain Helltheo]

yer I was really supprised how much of a difference it made. I think it was because the cooler was closer to the rear fan meaning the air flowed was faster unlike before.

 

[pwoznic]

Hey, I just joined this board and found this thread. I was hoping to view the pics of the cpu orientation because I just ordered this mobo with an 8150 and will use a rocketfish universal cooler that I have lying around never used. It's been a while since I installed an AMD. lol