andrevautour
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Hi guys,
So as you may know I have moved to Z77 a few weeks ago now, and before that I had a very nice Sabertooth X58 motherboard and i7-920. My sister had an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition and Gigabyte 990FX-UD7.
I sold my sisters CPU, motherboard, memory and a couple of other things to a friend recently, so my sister is getting my X58 stuff now.
This is not going to be terribly exciting I'm afraid because it will all be stuff you've seen before if you've seen my previous build, and my sister is stuff using a trusty old 932 which is just so so old at this point I am getting tried of looking at it to be honest.
But I do want to have a log for each build here, so as usual I did take some pictures as I built and I will share them with you now.
Note: I know people are going to talk about the power supply and how much overkill it is, and I fully understand this, but please let me just clear it up by saying that the AX1200 is NOT something that was intended for this build, but it was just something that my dad picked up a while back for a really good price because it thought it would be nice to have a spare high end PSU around, and so we have been running it in my sister's computer for about a year now just so that is it being put to some use rather than just sitting and also it saves buying another smaller power PSU for her build.
Another thing I will note about this build is that I do know that it's not the cleanest build I've ever done by a long shot. I wanted this build to be a bit more function over form to a degree, for example I wanted to connect things like the media card reader at the front, optical drive, etc because my sister uses those things, even though they make a tiny bit more clutter in the case. I wanted to make this build substantially quieter thank the last setup, so I wanted to put fan speed reducers on all the fans and the NH-D14. I had plenty of spare noctua reducers around so I used those. Everything is fixed speed all the fans are just fixed at the reduced speed, and I have to say that I am really impressed how fast it is. We also made her a shef that servers as a desk end table extension type thing and also a stand for the computer to sit under the desk, and when it is under there it is near silent for anywhere more than a couple feet away. I will cover the desk extension a bit later on.
Here is what the specifications are like for the build at this point. Keep in mind that none of this stuff is new, it is entirely comprised of mine or my dad's old hardware, with the exception of the power supply which I covered earlier.
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X58
Processor: Intel Core i7-920 @ 4.0 GHz
Graphics: Gigabyte Radeon HD 6950 Windforce OC
SSD: Crucial M4 128GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB & Seagate 500GB X4 (at least some of these will be removed shortly)
Memory: 12GB Kingston HyperX Genesis 1600 MHz
Cooler: NH-D14
Fans: Stock Cooler Master case fans with speed reducers
PSU: Corsair AX1200 (Not intended for this build, just making use of it because we had it around)
I am seriously sick of the 932 and we have a couple of them left around here. I would seriously like to see this build but into something a bit more modern, but we will see about that.
I am not really that happy with how the interior of this turned out but it really will never be seen because its down on the ground in the corner so like i said functionality is more important than looks in this case so I'm not too fussed about it for now.
Note #3: The Kingston memory and the crucial m4 drive are not pictured here because those things were added in a bit later on.
Here are some pictures from my fairly fast build process. My sister came in right when I was starting and nagged for a minute but then sat down at my computer and played hitman for a while.
IMG_1637 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1650 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1651 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1652 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1653 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1654 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1654 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1655 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1656 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
I had a bit of fun running all these SATA cables
IMG_1657 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
As I mentioned earlier I wanted this build to be much quieter than it was last time it i put reducers on all the fans. i zipped these nh-d14 reducers up and tucked them in behind the d14
IMG_1658 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1660 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1661 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
I am quite pleased with how the back panel turned out
IMG_1662 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1663 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1664 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1667 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1669 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1670 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1672 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1675 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1677 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
So as you may know I have moved to Z77 a few weeks ago now, and before that I had a very nice Sabertooth X58 motherboard and i7-920. My sister had an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition and Gigabyte 990FX-UD7.
I sold my sisters CPU, motherboard, memory and a couple of other things to a friend recently, so my sister is getting my X58 stuff now.
This is not going to be terribly exciting I'm afraid because it will all be stuff you've seen before if you've seen my previous build, and my sister is stuff using a trusty old 932 which is just so so old at this point I am getting tried of looking at it to be honest.
But I do want to have a log for each build here, so as usual I did take some pictures as I built and I will share them with you now.
Note: I know people are going to talk about the power supply and how much overkill it is, and I fully understand this, but please let me just clear it up by saying that the AX1200 is NOT something that was intended for this build, but it was just something that my dad picked up a while back for a really good price because it thought it would be nice to have a spare high end PSU around, and so we have been running it in my sister's computer for about a year now just so that is it being put to some use rather than just sitting and also it saves buying another smaller power PSU for her build.
Another thing I will note about this build is that I do know that it's not the cleanest build I've ever done by a long shot. I wanted this build to be a bit more function over form to a degree, for example I wanted to connect things like the media card reader at the front, optical drive, etc because my sister uses those things, even though they make a tiny bit more clutter in the case. I wanted to make this build substantially quieter thank the last setup, so I wanted to put fan speed reducers on all the fans and the NH-D14. I had plenty of spare noctua reducers around so I used those. Everything is fixed speed all the fans are just fixed at the reduced speed, and I have to say that I am really impressed how fast it is. We also made her a shef that servers as a desk end table extension type thing and also a stand for the computer to sit under the desk, and when it is under there it is near silent for anywhere more than a couple feet away. I will cover the desk extension a bit later on.
Here is what the specifications are like for the build at this point. Keep in mind that none of this stuff is new, it is entirely comprised of mine or my dad's old hardware, with the exception of the power supply which I covered earlier.
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X58
Processor: Intel Core i7-920 @ 4.0 GHz
Graphics: Gigabyte Radeon HD 6950 Windforce OC
SSD: Crucial M4 128GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB & Seagate 500GB X4 (at least some of these will be removed shortly)
Memory: 12GB Kingston HyperX Genesis 1600 MHz
Cooler: NH-D14
Fans: Stock Cooler Master case fans with speed reducers
PSU: Corsair AX1200 (Not intended for this build, just making use of it because we had it around)
I am seriously sick of the 932 and we have a couple of them left around here. I would seriously like to see this build but into something a bit more modern, but we will see about that.
I am not really that happy with how the interior of this turned out but it really will never be seen because its down on the ground in the corner so like i said functionality is more important than looks in this case so I'm not too fussed about it for now.
Note #3: The Kingston memory and the crucial m4 drive are not pictured here because those things were added in a bit later on.
Here are some pictures from my fairly fast build process. My sister came in right when I was starting and nagged for a minute but then sat down at my computer and played hitman for a while.
IMG_1637 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1650 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1651 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1652 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1653 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1654 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1654 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1655 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1656 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
I had a bit of fun running all these SATA cables
IMG_1657 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
As I mentioned earlier I wanted this build to be much quieter than it was last time it i put reducers on all the fans. i zipped these nh-d14 reducers up and tucked them in behind the d14
IMG_1658 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1660 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1661 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
I am quite pleased with how the back panel turned out
IMG_1662 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1663 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1664 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1667 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1669 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1670 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1672 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1675 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
IMG_1677 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr
- I do know my self, if i was going from AMD to intel that will make a lovely build 
