Stoner81
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OK guys the time has finally come to send my beloved i7 930 to silicon heaven and upgrade my rig.
As for the project name it's a long running joke between myself and my better half, she refers to my PC as "The Mistress" because she/it is the other woman in the relationship and it has just stuck
(not to mention it's damn funny!).
Now with that said shall we continue?
My current rig is a i7 930, 12GB RAM, GTX480, Antec 1200 case along with optical drive and 4 HDD's (no SSD), the plan is haul this system out of the dark ages and hopefully end up with a powerful system which is quiet (mine sounds like a jet plane taking off when the fans ramp up).
I did have some original plans for this build which have since changed (this build log is posted on another forum) anyway some parts have been changed here and there and so the final spec looks like this:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £97.99
1 x Silverstone Tundra Series TD02 Liquid CPU Cooler £83.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
2 x Corsair SP120 Quiet Series High Pressure Low Noise - Single Pack (CO-9050005-WW) £13.99 (£27.98)
Total : £759.88 (includes shipping : FREE).
A new gpu will have to wait for now but will use the GTX480 in the mean time.
Once parts arrive I will get snap happy with the camera
Stoner81.
I had a couple of packages arrive...
So as one does one set about unboxing stuff and here is what I found...
Now for a picture of what is being replaced (my beloved 930 OC'd to 4GHz and has served me faithfully for 4 years or so)...
Started pulling it apart since I wanted the PSU out of it, wow was there a lot of dust in there!
Here is said PSU along with an assortment of cables...
Me covered in dust, well me leg anyway all from the HDD cages from my Antec 1200 case...
Now a snapshot of the chaos that was/is the "office" (it gets worse), in the image you can see 4 HDD's 3 of which will end up in the new rig since I have a SSD for the OS drive...
Better picture of the HDD's, the one in the top left corner will no longer be used as such but will probably end up as a external storage drive or something not really decided yet..
Ran my Boogie Bug through the washing machine and I think it has ruined it somewhat but will see how it goes...
Nice clean desk for the new rig to sit on assuming you ignore all the scratches etc lol...
Unboxing of the motherboard...
Now for the CPU cooler...
Motherboard installed in to the case...
Now the RAM...
Now the CPU cooler is installed coupled with 2x SP120 Quiet Edition, before anybody says anything yes I know it's not great to have the fans blowing down in to the case since all the heat will be dumped in to the case but I ran in to clearance issue with the RAM. However, I won't be going for stupidly high overclocks either since my old system was at 4GHz I would be happy with that or a bit over (4.2GHz maybe) to keep the temps down nice and low...
Most of the cables are done along with all the HDD's in place, the system has a SSD (OS), 2x 1TB and 1x 2TB drives...
Now this is where it kinda goes pear shaped to say the least! My Antec 850 died on me for some unknown reason so had to get another PSU which was the XFX 850W Fully Modular Pro Edition...
So got that installed and all ready to go when BOOM! I hit the isolator switch on the PSU and the machine comes to life without me using the main switch on the tower! It stays on for like 2 seconds then promptly dies accompained by a loud pop/crack sound and a distinct smell of burning
So I yoink out the power cable pronto and throw in a cheap PSU I have just to make sure my rig is OK, which took replacing the power lead for the tower and monitor so it was fried as well thanks to the PSU going. Anyway took it back to where I got it from and got a replacement PSU though not the same brand since they had none in stock so went with the Corsair RM850 Fully Modular PSU...
Anyway finally after 3 days of messing about she lives!
A couple of shots of the rig with the new PSU from both sides, for its size it wasn't too bad on the cabling though I did have to be a bit creative as it turned out since the panel would not fit back on but I got it sorted after a few alterations...
Here she is now sat in situe with Windows 7 installed! It has seemed like this has taken forever and a day to do with the problems with the PSU etc but I am really please now with her, the speed difference a SSD makes it just outright insane!
Overall I'm just happy she is up and running again, I have sorted out the RAM timings etc so my RAM runs at 2400MHz (which is very nice I must say). Not done any overclocking or anything yet and temps are around the 30-40 mark roughly speaking while idle, not really stressed the system too much as of yet only played some DDO for like an hour or two and the highest temps I saw were low 50's I think maybe lower.
Anyway thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the ride!
Stoner81.
As for the project name it's a long running joke between myself and my better half, she refers to my PC as "The Mistress" because she/it is the other woman in the relationship and it has just stuck
(not to mention it's damn funny!).Now with that said shall we continue?
My current rig is a i7 930, 12GB RAM, GTX480, Antec 1200 case along with optical drive and 4 HDD's (no SSD), the plan is haul this system out of the dark ages and hopefully end up with a powerful system which is quiet (mine sounds like a jet plane taking off when the fans ramp up).
I did have some original plans for this build which have since changed (this build log is posted on another forum) anyway some parts have been changed here and there and so the final spec looks like this:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £97.99
1 x Silverstone Tundra Series TD02 Liquid CPU Cooler £83.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
2 x Corsair SP120 Quiet Series High Pressure Low Noise - Single Pack (CO-9050005-WW) £13.99 (£27.98)
Total : £759.88 (includes shipping : FREE).
A new gpu will have to wait for now but will use the GTX480 in the mean time.
Once parts arrive I will get snap happy with the camera
Stoner81.
I had a couple of packages arrive...
So as one does one set about unboxing stuff and here is what I found...
Now for a picture of what is being replaced (my beloved 930 OC'd to 4GHz and has served me faithfully for 4 years or so)...
Started pulling it apart since I wanted the PSU out of it, wow was there a lot of dust in there!
Here is said PSU along with an assortment of cables...
Me covered in dust, well me leg anyway all from the HDD cages from my Antec 1200 case...
Now a snapshot of the chaos that was/is the "office" (it gets worse), in the image you can see 4 HDD's 3 of which will end up in the new rig since I have a SSD for the OS drive...
Better picture of the HDD's, the one in the top left corner will no longer be used as such but will probably end up as a external storage drive or something not really decided yet..
Ran my Boogie Bug through the washing machine and I think it has ruined it somewhat but will see how it goes...
Nice clean desk for the new rig to sit on assuming you ignore all the scratches etc lol...
Unboxing of the motherboard...
Now for the CPU cooler...
Motherboard installed in to the case...
Now the RAM...
Now the CPU cooler is installed coupled with 2x SP120 Quiet Edition, before anybody says anything yes I know it's not great to have the fans blowing down in to the case since all the heat will be dumped in to the case but I ran in to clearance issue with the RAM. However, I won't be going for stupidly high overclocks either since my old system was at 4GHz I would be happy with that or a bit over (4.2GHz maybe) to keep the temps down nice and low...
Most of the cables are done along with all the HDD's in place, the system has a SSD (OS), 2x 1TB and 1x 2TB drives...
Now this is where it kinda goes pear shaped to say the least! My Antec 850 died on me for some unknown reason so had to get another PSU which was the XFX 850W Fully Modular Pro Edition...
So got that installed and all ready to go when BOOM! I hit the isolator switch on the PSU and the machine comes to life without me using the main switch on the tower! It stays on for like 2 seconds then promptly dies accompained by a loud pop/crack sound and a distinct smell of burning
So I yoink out the power cable pronto and throw in a cheap PSU I have just to make sure my rig is OK, which took replacing the power lead for the tower and monitor so it was fried as well thanks to the PSU going. Anyway took it back to where I got it from and got a replacement PSU though not the same brand since they had none in stock so went with the Corsair RM850 Fully Modular PSU...
Anyway finally after 3 days of messing about she lives!
A couple of shots of the rig with the new PSU from both sides, for its size it wasn't too bad on the cabling though I did have to be a bit creative as it turned out since the panel would not fit back on but I got it sorted after a few alterations...
Here she is now sat in situe with Windows 7 installed! It has seemed like this has taken forever and a day to do with the problems with the PSU etc but I am really please now with her, the speed difference a SSD makes it just outright insane!
Overall I'm just happy she is up and running again, I have sorted out the RAM timings etc so my RAM runs at 2400MHz (which is very nice I must say). Not done any overclocking or anything yet and temps are around the 30-40 mark roughly speaking while idle, not really stressed the system too much as of yet only played some DDO for like an hour or two and the highest temps I saw were low 50's I think maybe lower.
Anyway thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the ride!
Stoner81.
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