[PhaedraCorruption]

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Oh my God. I am excited about Sandy Bridge. 

 
As am I. Nice Intel NIC on that board too.
 
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...here are some pictures of when I was putting my system together.
 
I don't have the custom case yet, but I'll be sure to get pics of it when completed.

Those look amazing w/ the all cu heatsink. Just ran OC scanner on a stock clocked Galaxy GC 470 and it touched 92C w/ auto fan, haha! Can't wait to see the case you chose.

 
920/2005 @ 1.175V 68 C in OCScanner.
 
Not my screencap though, that would be off the original owner I bought it off of. I never see the need to go past 875 for day to day gaming. In fact, I leave it on stock unless I'm recording at the same time.
 

 

[Jodiuh]

Friend had a custom acrylic case made...it's bending now, lol. He's looking into something else...I'll find out and get back to ya.

 

[MooTaters]

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Friend had a custom acrylic case made...it's bending now, lol. He's looking into something else...I'll find out and get back to ya.

I had to help build a pc we made for one of my college courses that they do in one of those I think mid tower acrylic cases.  Trust me, never build a decent rig into those cases.  We had a horrible time trying to get liquid cooling, with large tubes plus even the power cables took up a lot of space with a modular psu.  There was just no space for cable management and the pump and reservoir and tubing plus one of the much larger graphics cards for the time.  Of course had to have the radiator on the outside.  They made plans for the next year to try and find a nice larger case...hopefully a full tower.  The teacher just liked that the whole case was clear.  My thought is a window will do fine as most people don't see a nice windowed custom pc plus there's space to hide things.  Sort of sad that the only thing it was really used for was to show off to people. :/

 

[Landis]

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Manufacturer:	Custom Built
Processor:	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), ~2.4GHz
Memory:	4GB RAM
Hard Drive:	700GB
Video Card:	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Monitor:	Acer 20"
Sound Card:	Realtek HD OnBoard
Headphones:	Razer Carcharias
Keyboard:	Logitech G11
Mouse:	Razer Deathadder
Mouse Surface:	Fry's Rug
Operating System:	Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Motherboard:	Gigabyte
Computer Case:	Xion Solaris Green Case

 
HMMM... You have the same CPU, video card, amount of memory, OS version and motherboard manufacturer as me.
 
Please stop stalking my computer!

 

[Royel91]

 
Just recently built for a friend.
 
Case: COOLER MASTER RC-692-KKN2 CM690 II Advanced
 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5
 
Hard Drive: Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB
 
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
 
CPU Fan: Scythe SCMG-2100 MUGEN-2
 
Graphics: Radeon HD 6870
 
Power Supply: Seasonic X650
 
Memory: G.SKILL 8GB
 
Should've been a bit more patient and waited another month for the new sandy bridge processors >.<
An Intel core i5-2500k would've been sweet.

 

[revolink24]

 
Just recently built for a friend.
 
Case: COOLER MASTER RC-692-KKN2 CM690 II Advanced
 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5
 
Hard Drive: Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB
 
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
 
CPU Fan: Scythe SCMG-2100 MUGEN-2
 
Graphics: Radeon HD 6870
 
Power Supply: Seasonic X650
 
Memory: G.SKILL 8GB
 
Should've been a bit more patient and waited another month for the new sandy bridge processors >.<
An Intel core i5-2500k would've been sweet.

It's okay, seems like they were more evolutionary than revolutionary anyway. That build sounds great. 6 cores should be quite future proof, especially for productivity.

 

[Kassem]

Case: Antec 900
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 G0 Engineering Sample OC'd to 3.6ghz 
CPU FAN: TRUE 120
Hard Drive: 1x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB and 1x WD Caviar Black 1TB
Graphics: XFX Radeon HD5850 Black Edition
PSU: 1000W - Want to say OCZ, but I cant remember.
Memory: 4GB OCZ FLEX DDR2 1200mhz\
Monitor: 26" Samsung ToC @ 1920x1200
Sound Card: EMU-0404 PCI Modded by MisterX
Headphones: AKG K701
Mouse: Logitech MX518
Mousepad: Steelseries QcK Heavy
OS: Windows 7 x64 Professional MSDNAA

 

[Jodiuh]

After owning a 460, 470, and 6870 for at least a week, I can say the 460's been my favorite. At least in BC2 and Alien Swarm. It's as cool as 6870, a touch warmer. But it performs better when gaming online in BC2. At least when clocked up to 850Mhz vs 950Mhz on 6870. GTX 560 should be an excellent choice provided it's priced @ or below $250.

 

[mralexosborn]

*regrets not waiting a few months for GTX460*

 

[spookygonk]

My 6GB of RAM for my X58 Gigabyte mobo cost me £150 last June. Had a look at prices yesterday and that 6GB is now £54, just over a third of the cost. I think it's time to go to 12GB (just because I can).

 

[marvin]

Shoebox is up and running.

Intel i5-750
8 GB DDR3 1333 SDRAM
Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 Mini ITX
AMD Radeon 6970 2GB
2x Patriot Inferno 120 GB SSD
Silverstone Sugo SG07 Case
 
Runs a touch hot and loud at the moment, but not really surprising for a mini-ITX system. Nothing that a few 120 mm fans and a Dremel can't take care of, but I'm going to see if I can quiet it down without resorting to that.

 

[yawny]

Intel i7 970 @ 3.2 gHz (with 120mm Noctua cooler, soon to be overclocked)
Asus P6X58D Premium mobo
6gb of Corsair DDR3-1600 RAM
Kingston 128gb SSD
2 Western Digital 1Tb drives (Caviar Black and green) plus tw0 old 250gb drives in SATA 1)
EVGA Nvidia GTX470
HT Omega Striker 7.1 Sound Card
LG Read/Write Blu-Ray Drive
All inside a HAF 932 case glowing red with extra fans 

 

[moocow111]

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Dual-Core @ 3.8 GHz
Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 7900GS
RAM: 2GB
 
It sure does get the job done for being so crappy. I haven't upgraded this beast in probably four years. I'll probably buy a laptop this summer for college next year.

 

[Jbossner]

 
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Processor:​	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz, 4.00GHz
Memory:​	4GB 1066 Corsair Dominator
Hard Drive:​	60GB SSD (Main Drive) + 2x1Tb
Video Card:​	ATI Radeon HD4870
Monitor:​	LG W2252TQ + Samsung 19"
Sound Card:​	Realtek HD ----> Cambridge Audio DacMagic
Headphones:​	K702
Keyboard:​	Stock ASUS
Mouse:​	Razer Copperhead
Mouse Surface:​	Razer eXactMat --> Control
Operating System:​	Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Motherboard:​	Gigabyte DS4P
Computer Case:​	Antec 1200

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Seriously That stupid case has so many screws, When I cleaned it and replaced the Hard drive I counted over 34 Screws to do it -.-

 

[crazybovine]

Processor: i5-750 overclocked from 2.66GHz to 3.8GHz
GPU: ATI Radeon 5870
Memory: 4GB Corsair Dominators
Hard Drive(s): Intel X-25M 80GB SSD, Western Digital Black Caviar 1TB HDD
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
MotherBoard: Gigabyte P55-UD3R
Keyboard(s): Filco Tenkeyless Blue Cherries Otaku Edition, Filco Tenkeyless Brown Cherries
Mouse: Logitech G9X
Mouse Surface: SteelSeries QcK MousePad: Starcraft Edition (Kerrigan)
Monitor: LG W2286L
Computer Case: HAF 922