Q&A for my new righ

**hannibal** · 06-07-10, 08:02 AM

Here is as good a place as any

ASUS P5N-D Motherboard
Core 2 Duo E8500
2x Corsair Dominator Dual Channel Kit
ThermalTake CPU Cooler
EVGA 9800GT superclocked (for PhysX)
XFX HD-587X-ZNDC Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) XXX Edition 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity
2x ASUS VB195T Black 19" 5ms LCD Monitor 250 cd/m2 50000 :1 (ASCR) Built-in Speakers
Monitor Stand
Antec 1200 case

The CPU cooler is necissary since after the E6xxx series intel went to half height Fan/Heatsinks in the retail boxes. My PSU is a PC Power and Cooling 750W you cannot get anymore, and I cannot remember where I got my hard drives and DVD-RW drives from.

**WileECyte** · 06-07-10, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by hannibal

Here is as good a place as any
The CPU cooler is necissary since after the E6xxx series intel went to half height Fan/Heatsinks in the retail boxes. My PSU is a PC Power and Cooling 750W you cannot get anymore, and I cannot remember where I got my hard drives and DVD-RW drives from.

Unless you're planning to overclock, the stock heatsink/fan combo is all you'll need. As the heat profiles of chips has gotten lower, Intel (and AMD) have made their cooling solutions smaller.

**Checkmate** · 06-07-10, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by hannibal

Here is as good a place as any

ASUS P5N-D Motherboard
Core 2 Duo E8500
2x Corsair Dominator Dual Channel Kit
ThermalTake CPU Cooler
EVGA 9800GT superclocked (for PhysX)
XFX HD-587X-ZNDC Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) XXX Edition 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity
2x ASUS VB195T Black 19" 5ms LCD Monitor 250 cd/m2 50000 :1 (ASCR) Built-in Speakers
Monitor Stand
Antec 1200 case

The CPU cooler is necissary since after the E6xxx series intel went to half height Fan/Heatsinks in the retail boxes. My PSU is a PC Power and Cooling 750W you cannot get anymore, and I cannot remember where I got my hard drives and DVD-RW drives from.

you have an entire nvidia card running just for physx? is that really worth it? it seems to me like it has alot of potential but not that much support, games that run of proprietary physics or havoc physics for example. Do they tap into Nvidia Phyx even though your graphics are comming through ati?

at the moment my mobo only has one PCI-E slot built into it so yeah

**hannibal** · 06-07-10, 08:42 PM

Yeah I did it because I was running an SLI setup before and it did not cost me anything, but it is not a requirement. I honestly do not trust the half height heatsinks from intel, I have had a lot of people I know tell me the have had trouble with stock setups and heatsinks. The Intel heatsink is an aluminum piece as well.

**WileECyte** · 06-07-10, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by hannibal

Yeah I did it because I was running an SLI setup before and it did not cost me anything, but it is not a requirement. I honestly do not trust the half height heatsinks from intel, I have had a lot of people I know tell me the have had trouble with stock setups and heatsinks. The Intel heatsink is an aluminum piece as well.

AMD gives you nice copper heatpipe heatsink/fan combos. The plate and heatpipe are copper, but the heatsink attached is aluminum...

**Checkmate** · 08-12-12, 12:03 AM

Took me over TWO YEARS from when I opened this thread to actually get the money and get this thing built. So glad it's finally done! I've never built a pc from scratch before either. So of course day 1 and 2 were nothing but troubleshooting..and things not working right etc etc.

So scary when you think you've done something wrong ><
Check it out!

CASE
Cooler Master HAF 932

MOTHERBOARD (Courtesy of ttp, thanks bigdog!)
Intel Extreme DP55KG
LGA1156 Socket

GFX
SAPPHIRE HD 6870 1G GDDR5

POWER SUPPLY
Corsair TX850

RAM
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB)
1600MHZ DDR3

HEATSINK
Corsair Hydro Series H50

CPU
Intel Core i5-750 Quad-Core

SSD (boot drive)
OCZ 60G

HDD
Seagate Barracuda SATA3 6.0Gb/s 1TB 64MB Cache

MOUSE
SteelSeries KANA

KEYBOARD
SteelSeries 7G

Got my sc2 and css installing right now :3

**HeavyG** · 08-13-12, 11:31 AM

I have had some nightmare builds before. I have done so many now that I can pretty quickly troubleshoot and find out if it is a hardware issue or not. Having a test bed system is always a great thing as you know it always works.

Glad you got it up and running, and congrats on your first build! I am still running an i5-750 (actually 760) in one of my boxes at home, but it isn't really used for gaming. Great chip... not as good as the Sandy/Ivy Bridge i5 chips, but it does good enough for most gaming applications.

**Viktor_Olin** · 08-13-12, 07:42 PM

Nice. The next build should be much easier now that you're a pro!

And now I'll make my usual pitch for the TPG Folding Team: http://www.teamplayergaming.com/pc-h...ding-team.html

When you're not gaming, put that bad boy to work in the furtherance of science! We could use the help.