- Joined
- Mar 17, 2010
So after right at 4 years of no builds and holding out for something to come out worth my $$, I broke down and bought a new system!
Without delay:
From / To
Biostar 790GX XE / Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
AMD Athlon II x4 630 / AMD FX-8320
4GB G.Skill 4x1GB DDR2-800 / 8GB G.Skill 2x4GB DDR3-2400
Visiontek Radeon HD 4850 512MB / Gigabyte GTX 760 Windforce 2GB
Samsung EVO 120GB SSD
Corsair RM-750
Fractal Design XL R2
Steelseries APEX
Logitech G500s
Now, first I know the PSU is more than needed, however it was the same cost as the 650W. I figured I would be upgrading in the future as it is to SLI or such. So far it is running beautifully and completely silent! I have messed with a little bit of overclock on the GPU and thus far get ~5%(1135/1200 Boost) Core and ~7%(6508). Which I would love to get more, but both memory and core seem to artifact individually over each of the above
. I attempted to overclock, but need to do more research before I attempt that again, and better cooling. Ironically my Gemini II S(non-524) is only about 10*C hotter on average than my previous CPU(@3.2GHz OCed)
. I managed to save about $200 all together from average prices at the time.
So next is to add better 140mm case fans, new 1080/1440p Monitor(undecided), custom sleeving, and start work on my custom watercooling loop.
Thoughts?
Without delay:
From / To
Biostar 790GX XE / Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
AMD Athlon II x4 630 / AMD FX-8320
4GB G.Skill 4x1GB DDR2-800 / 8GB G.Skill 2x4GB DDR3-2400
Visiontek Radeon HD 4850 512MB / Gigabyte GTX 760 Windforce 2GB
Samsung EVO 120GB SSD
Corsair RM-750
Fractal Design XL R2
Steelseries APEX
Logitech G500s
Now, first I know the PSU is more than needed, however it was the same cost as the 650W. I figured I would be upgrading in the future as it is to SLI or such. So far it is running beautifully and completely silent! I have messed with a little bit of overclock on the GPU and thus far get ~5%(1135/1200 Boost) Core and ~7%(6508). Which I would love to get more, but both memory and core seem to artifact individually over each of the above
. I attempted to overclock, but need to do more research before I attempt that again, and better cooling. Ironically my Gemini II S(non-524) is only about 10*C hotter on average than my previous CPU(@3.2GHz OCed). I managed to save about $200 all together from average prices at the time. So next is to add better 140mm case fans, new 1080/1440p Monitor(undecided), custom sleeving, and start work on my custom watercooling loop.
Thoughts?
