Pantheon Rig!

[CSheldon]

My results on load were 46 max after 30mins of Prime95, with 3.8Ghz OC, but with stock intel cooler it was pushing close to 70. I think 24degrees drop is good enough for me!

 

[Mgutierrez33]

wow, nice improvement on temps there! What kind of volts is that at? Now you need to get on that SSD tip ;-). I remember the first time I installed one in my computer: the difference in speed and overall performance was like night and day.

 

[Master&Puppet]

SSD wise I'd look at:
Samsung
Corsair
Crucial
Kingston
Mushkin

For gaming you'll be mostly looking at read speeds (should be 500mb/s or greater).

There is a lot of variation in write speeds but you can sacrifice that for price if you are mostly gaming (even a slower writing SSD is very fast for everyday use and games will be reading).

I'd suggest a ~240GB SSD - 120GB doesn't leave an incredible amount of space for games and programs (about 60-80GB after Windows and other bits and bobs).

Don't forget to get a 2.5" SSD caddy with your purchase (often you can get these bundled with the SSD).

When looking around for SSDs be aware that the controller has a big impact on the reliability of the SSD. Sandforce controllers have been notoriously unreliable in many cases, although not all (look for "SF-[number] like "SF-2281" to identify a sandforce controller). I'd suggest that you ring up the company and ask about the number of RMA they've had for the SSD you are looking at to check it's reliability.

M&P

 

[alpenwasser]

My results on load were 46 max after 30mins of Prime95, with 3.8Ghz OC, but with stock intel cooler it was pushing close to 70. I think 24degrees drop is good enough for me!

Hehe, that's indeed a pretty nice improvement .

As for the SSD, M&P's advice sounds good, just go with that.

 

[CSheldon]

Well thanks for the advice, i don't think i'll need a Caddy for the SSD if i get one, because my hard drive bays have holes in so i can screw them into it.

A little feature i noticed the other day!

 

[CSheldon]

Update

Huge update, not really had time due to college work, but here are a few pictures and cable management i did around 30minutes ago.

 

[alpenwasser]

Small pics are small

 

[CSheldon]

I know! I can't make them any bigger for some reason, sorry about that , my camera has died so had to use my phone, i guess that's the reason..Sorry

Cooler is Xigmatek Achilles 2 with Two Blackline LED 120mm Xigmatek Fans!

 

[alpenwasser]

It might actually be the forum limiting the space you can use for attachments and such. Not sure
tbh since I haven't used that functionality myself, but maybe you could look into an imgur account
or something like that?

 

[CSheldon]

I guess i could, i will mess around with it later on, and see what i can do with the image sizes, but a question for you,

Looking to buy a new graphics card, what would you reccomend i have a budget of around..£250-300.

 

[alpenwasser]

Looking to buy a new graphics card, what would you reccomend i have a budget of around..£250-300.

Where I live, that amount of money would buy you something like a GTX670, a 7950 or even
a 7970, depending on vendor and version (I'm assuming you're talking about single card
configs). As long as you stay away from Crossfire (google "frame rating"), AMD cards tend
to give you more performance/money afaik.

But to be honest, I haven't really been keeping up to date on the GPU market since I've bought
my last one, so I recommend either getting advice from somebody more knowledgeable or
from Google before making a decision. I wouldn't want you to do make a 300 GBP mistake
due to my ignorance :lol: