Thread: Soys new build.

Well I was just going to order another 560 ti and run SLI on my trusty old M2N32SLI Deluxe. But with all the tax money I got back I decided to go a about the upgrade a little differently.

I got the ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z micro ATX mainboard, a 2500K and 16 gigs of RAM as well as another 560 ti.

Newegg.com - Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I52500K
Newegg.com - ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1560-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Yes I know there are better 560's. I was an early adopter so I am getting one that is identical to the one I bought originally.
Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL (2 sets for 16Gb)

Using the GPU, PSU and SSD from my current rig (all less than a year old):
Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1560-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Newegg.com - CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply
Newegg.com - Corsair Force Series 3 CSSD-F180GB3-BK 2.5" 180GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (2 in RAID0)

And a micro ATX box with a handle:
Newegg.com - APEX TX-381-C Black Steel Micro ATX Tower Computer Case

Cooling:
Newegg.com - ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
Newegg.com - bgears b-Blaster 90 90mm Case Fan
Newegg.com - Scythe SY1225SL12M 120mm "Slipstream" Case Fan


I will have a very portable killer gaming rig but until I get a 590 or something I will be using it's onboard audio. It claims to be an X-FI but I think that is a software layer over a Cmedia controller... oh well... SLI or audio, I choose graphics.



Now I have an M2N32 SLI mobo with 4 gigs and an athlonII X4 laying around. I am going to make a passively cooled media rig out of it. Turns out the GTS 450 (192 cores) can be passively cooled with the Acelero from AC. SO I plan to get two of those to run in SLI and a fanless PSU from Kingwin. I still can't find a fanless cooler for my athlon X4 that would tolerate full load... anyone got any suggestions? I want to be able to game on this (the number of cores for SLI 450's is equal to a 560 ti, so in theory it should run Skyrim and BF3 on high)



Can't wait to build my new gamer...

There are much better coolers on the market than that Zalman 9500.

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Your 650 watts power supply might be under weight to handle 560 TI in SLI and/or with any overclocking.

BL

On-board X-Fi is software driven. Part of it is hardware, but most of it is software...

Right out of the box, the Core i series is very different. I am immediately impressed by the retention system and the chip's interface to the socket. This rig is gonna straight kick ass.


So many new parts! I would be on BF3 again tonight, but the new beast must rise. With luck, I will be around in the morning.

Originally Posted by SoySoldier

Right out of the box, the Core i series is very different. I am immediately impressed by the retention system and the chip's interface to the socket. This rig is gonna straight kick ass.


So many new parts! I would be on BF3 again tonight, but the new beast must rise. With luck, I will be around in the morning.

Soy I'm right with you this is my first Intel and I'm very happy with my I5 2500k. But the retention system for holding down my cpu cooler feels cheap.

BL

This is so exciting!

Fuck yeah!

All put together without a hitch so far; booted immediately and installed windows. Every driver and utility is up to date... Installing games. I have never had a build go this smoothly.


Although I picked a really buff exhaust fan, and I figured I could just slow it down with the mobo... it can't seem to go slower than 2k and it's 90mm so it makes a racket... But on high it moves like 70 CFM.