Hello all,

Today, I will be upgrading my PC. I personally think these are some quite important upgrades.

First here are my specs, I will then list the new parts and why I chose them.

Current Specs:

Intel Core i5-4670k

Asus ROG Maximus Hero VI

Corsair Dominator Pro 8GB (4x2)

PowerColor PCS+ R9 270x

Toshiba 500gb 5,400rpm HDD 

Corsair CS650 PSU

CoolerMaster TPC612

CoolerMaster HAF 912 Adv.

So the big question is, what am I upgrading?

Here are the new parts:

PowerColor TurboDuo R9 285

Plextor M6 Pro 256gb

Western Digital Blue 1TB

So, why am I upgrading?

Simple, the Toshiba HDD I have is currently over three years old, and it is really slow, it takes over two minutes to get to the log in screen on windows, and it takes even longer to open programs on the desktop.

And what about the Graphics cards? Thats barely an upgrade right? Is that worth the money to upgrade?

Nope as the R9 285 has a two frame advantage over the R9 270x, but heres the twist.

I won the R9 285 in a PowerColor giveaway in January.

And It just arrived two days ago. 

Now Its time to Upgrade, I'll post pictures of my progress soon.

Hey LTT,

I registered to the site back last August, made a post back in December in regards to a computer I was going to build. However, I never updated that thread. I just wanted to show off the computer I built and have been using the past 4 months.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  (Purchased For $575.99)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (Purchased For $99.99)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste  (Purchased For $6.90)
Motherboard: Asus RAMPAGE V EXTREME EATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  (Purchased For $469.99)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  (Purchased For $422.99)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For $149.99)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For $469.99)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $69.99)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $74.45)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 4GB STRIX Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (Purchased For $550.00)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 4GB STRIX Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (Purchased For $550.00)
Case: Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case  (Purchased For $129.99)
Power Supply: Corsair 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For $279.99)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit)  (Purchased For $119.99)
Case Fan: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition 39.9 CFM 120mm  Fan  (Purchased For $17.86)
Case Fan: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 39.9 CFM 120mm  Fans  (Purchased For $28.99)
Case Fan: Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 37.9 CFM 120mm  Fans  (Purchased For $27.99)
Case Fan: Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 37.9 CFM 120mm  Fans  (Purchased For $27.99)
Case Fan: Corsair Air Series AF140 Quiet Edition 67.8 CFM 140mm  Fan  (Purchased For $21.99)
Monitor: Asus PB238Q 23.0" Monitor  (Purchased For $215.69)
Monitor: Asus PB238Q 23.0" Monitor  (Purchased For $215.69)
Monitor: Asus PB238Q 23.0" Monitor  (Purchased For $215.69)
Keyboard: Corsair Vengeance K70 Wired Gaming Keyboard  (Purchased For $115.13)
Mouse: Corsair Raptor M45 Wired Optical Mouse  (Purchased For $48.29)
Other: Siberia V2 Heat Orange Edition (Purchased For $38.14)
Other: Triple LCD Monitor Free Standing Desk Mount with Optional bolt-through mount/ Stand Heavy Duty Fully Adjustable fits 3 /Three Screens up to 24" ~ (by VIVO) (Purchased For $79.97)
Other: Cable Matters Gold Plated DisplayPort to DisplayPort Cable 10 Feet - 4K Resolution Ready by Cable Matters  (Purchased For $35.97)
Other: Corsair Vengeance MM200 Extended Edition Gaming Mouse Mat CH-9000046-WW (MM200 Extended) (Purchased For $32.99)
Total: $5092.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-25 01:54 EDT-0400
 

Here are some pictures from when I built it! (Warning: High Resolution)
Still learning how to use my Nikon D3300.

Album 1 - http://imgur.com/a/0pSDs
Album 2 - http://imgur.com/a/u8PLt

 Sorry if this isn't the right format for how these types of posts are supposed to go - I haven't been on a forums for the past 9 years. (PSPCube/ConsoleDiscussions era)

Hey Guys,

What do you think!? 

Since the Cosmos II didnt come with a windowed side panel and/or the option to buy one the only solution was to make it ! Because a high end case with high end hardware needs to be showed off right ! Now time my own GPU 280X incl backplate etc comes back from RMA because this GTX660 is so tiny ! 

Since I am into tech, space, etc the Cosmos name and theme did justice with a graphic design in the acrylic

Just wanted to share! Cuz Im pretty proud of it and like it a lot ! Next step: EK Waterblocks custom loop ?! 

(Sorry for the bad quality pics, they are just taken with my phone!)

Cheers,

Bram

Hello!

I couldn't find the ideal case for my new build. So I designed my own! Its been a long and expensive project, but I'm super pleased with the results! Read on if you want to find out more. And I've also made a video:

What I wanted and why I wanted what I wanted:

2008 is the last time I made a new pc for myself. Yes I'm still going on a 4ghz Core 2 Duo! Most of the time I am the weak link in the productivity chain, not the computer...   My objective with computer cases / modding is always to reduce noise as much as possible. I am not a fan of windowed cases and the maximum number of LEDs I tolerate is 1. I also like products that take up no more space than needed. This is my list of requirements for the case:

  - Small, very small!

  - Quiet, very quiet!

  - Dual slot long graphics card

  - Big tower cooler

  - Slightly long powersupply (up to 160mm)

  - Enough 3.5 and 2.5 inch soft mounted drives

  - (slim) Optical drive

The parts:

The parts itself are really nothing special, just a solid gaming build:

  - Coolermaster G550M power

  - Asus Z97i plus

  - I5 4690K (@4.7ghz)

  - Noctua NH D15

  - Kingston 16Gb DDR3 2400

  - Gigabyte GTX970 G1 GAMING 4GD

  - Crucial M550 512Gb SSD

  - Samsung Slim DVD SN 208 FB

  - Be Quiet Silent Wings fans (3x 140mm, 2x 120mm)

The Case:

Considering it fits all these large components, it is really really small:

  - 20cm wide, 32cm deep, 28cm high (32cm with feet)

  - 7.9in wide, 12.6in deep, 11in high (12.6in with feet)

  - 18 liters volume, 0.64 cubic foot

To give you some idea, the Coolermaster N200 which is one of the smaller 'normal' micro ATX cases that I sometimes use, is 34 liters in volume, almost twice the size!

Personally I quite like the brushed stainless steel look with chrome fan grills. It has a nice industrial / minimalistic type of look about it! I've attached some pics.

In order to make things workable, the fans are all mounted from the outside. This way I can just about get to all the mainboard connectors without going all "Go Go Gadget Arms" to get to impossible to reach places. Its been surprisingly 'easy to get to' and no blood was spilled during the build.

The cooling:

The top fans are intake, 2x 140mm fans blowing onto the graphics card and down into the case. The bottom and rear fans, close to the cpu cooler, are exhaust fans. The powersupply has the intake on the front and exhaust on the bottom as well. This goes against natural convection and I am an idiot!  Actually I think any sort of forced airflow will be many times more potent than the natural tendency for hot air to rise. The fan direction can be changed, and I might do that at some point to compare the two situations. Top intake, bottom exhaust has the benefit of attracting a lot less dust into the case.

At idle the fans all run at about 350RPM. At full load it was about 650RPM to give you some idea. That is really not very high speed, nice and quiet. The GTX970 does have a bit of coil whine, though its not as high frequency as I feared.

The Temps:

Temps? Do we care about temps? If you're building a silent computer, low temps mean your fans need to be slowed down! I've been quite conservative with the fan profiles so GPU and CPU top out at about 75c. Most likely I will change the profiles to get 80 .. 85c maximum temps, in return for even less noise. Remember we're talking a few high quality 500RPM soft mounted fans, this thing is really quiet!

Hey if you've seen any Linus videos, you know hardware can take quite a beating, it will be fine for years!

The conclu$ion

Making a 'one off' is expensive. This case cost about 500 Euro or 550 USD! Gulp!  Sometimes you just have to do a crazy thing.

I could make more, and it would cost less because of the production volume benefits, but lets not get ahead of things for now, I'm happy this one is done!

im a BIG fan of the Deus-Ex so this case will be Built in that theme 

This Log is going to start as a backlog in sorts, Mostly because of the Issues I've run into along the way.  We should catch up fairly quickly 
Parts:  
CASE: Antec ISK600
 PSU: Corsair HX650-Refurb
MOBO ASUS Z97 Maximus- Impact VII ITX
CPU Intel 4790K 
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz 8gb
GPU EVGA GTX 980 SC 
SSD Samsung EVO 850-250Gb in raid 0

From the get go I wanted a Small case that would House pretty much top of the line hardware. My requirements were that it be small, powerful and quiet.

Small enough to fit in a square hole in my entertainment system 

there was NEVER going to be a build log about this PC. but things have changed and this is where we are. 

this first Post will bring us up to the PSU and install of the hardware in the ISK600

I chose this because its small, it can fit a full size GFX card, a full size PSU, and fit a tower cooler inside

Test fitting the Case. Looks good! ( I wanted it to be hidden, this was working out well so far)

There was NO way that I could fit this hardware in here with the Sleeving that came on the PSU. So I stripped it off! 
I had purchased and then sold a Zalman tower cooler since I wanted the system to run nearly silent, I thought an all in one H80I GT would be Perfect!

 more of this Mess....


with the help of Amazon, Lutro customs, and some scorched fingers I began the process of Sleeving.

I bought paracord in Black, (for Ground lines) Midnight blue, (12v,5v,3.3v lines)and Royal blue (spec lines)

getting there! the 6 pins are done and the 24 pin is almost finished!!

 

Done!!!  FYI, that Abit mobo was used for testing just in case I messed up royally and plugged a pin in the wrong socket. Better to fry a AMD64 3200 and DDR mobo then the new shiny stuff

Dropping in the H80IGT this is Such a tight fit that mounting the cooler needs 2 people. The pressure on those thick lines was Horrible! i'm honestly surprised nothing broke

There is ZERO clearance here....

Awww yess this was coming along nicely! 
 

GPU & 6 pin connectors installed! I Learned the lashing from some dude on youtube and from my wife ( I could not figure it out... so she worked on the nice one you see here and helped me out) Ive since redone these and they look better!

 the 6 pins.



pulling the cooler off for testing. its at this point I started realizing that this Case, this AIO water-cooler and the lack of fans were not going to cut it. 
temps for the CPU were around 65-70 and the GPU temps were thermal throttling just shy of 83c

part 2 to follow Thanks! 

Red Republic and Paradise

Red Republic is the name of my rig, Paradise the name of my dorm appartment/workstation
Please note that this project is 100% self paid by a uni studend, so it is not as awesome as it could be...

This is also my first build, so it was not easy and I didn't venture out into modding yet, but I did as much as possible and I love it like a baby.

First of, Paradise:

I did a podcast for a while, that is the reason for the microphone. All parts on this desk can be found here: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/3pgVQ7

The 40" 4K is the best thing ever. I have so much real estate, It is just as good as an ultrawide for productivity, because you don't need to scale and you can view videos in fullscreen without bezels. (Linus, if you read this, I am hereby attacing you opinion! )

The Rig itself:

This project took forever. It is in a lot of ways a first for me. I soldered, sleeved, generally made cables the fist time ever. I did not look at value, I looked at looks. The InWin 901 started it all by just looking way too sexy.

I always hated all cases on the maket, the are all the same, especially anything bigger than Mini ITX. and they are all gugly, and huge and I just cannot get myself to like them. But the 901 is different. It has glass sidepanels on both sides, which makes the cables important. It just looks sexy as fuck, with the aluminum body and the black interior.

The Maximus VII Impact has the best looks from all Z97 ITX boards, so I went with it. Generally, only the 960 is not top of the line in the build, because I don't need it. I was running onboard for the longest time, because I don't game. I don't even have a Steam account. So the 960 is just there for looks. I wanted the Windforce one, but I had horrible experiences with 2 DoA ones and everything else is too wide. So I settled for EVGA.

Here are the rest of the Pictures:

Thanks for viewing!

Project: Orange Titan

 The Orange Titan project is an orange and black themed build that Ive always wanted to do. My favorite color scheme is orange and black so this is pretty much my dream build......for now  . Please no negative comments, if you do not like it, or disagree with the parts i have chosen, then you don't have to look at it, simple as that. I chose to go with White LED strips because only white shows the true colors of your build. Colored LED's always tint the color of your build to the color of the LED's which i don't want

Parts Needed:

Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540 (Aquired) Mesh Grills are Painted Orange

CPU - Intel i7-4790K (Not Aquired)

Motherboard - Asus Z97 Sabertooth Mark 1 (Aquired) Not yet Painted. I will be painting the Thermal Armor orange

CPU Cooler - NZXT Kraken x61 (Not Aquired)

Memory - 16GB G.Skill Sniper Series 2400MHz (Not Aquired)

Video Card - Zotac GTX 980Ti AMP! (Not Aquired)

SSD 1 - Crucial M4 128GB OS Drive (Aquired)

SSD 2 - Samsung 840 EVO 500GB Gaming Drive (Aquired)

HDD - Western Digital Velociraptor 1TB Dump Drive (Aquired)

PSU - Seasonic X1050 1050W Full Modular (Aquired)

Cables - Ensourced Customs Custom Black/Orange Modular Cables (Aquired)

Fans - Be Quiet Silent Wings 2 140mm x5 (Aquired) [Might be upgrading to Silent Wings 3 or LTT Noctua fans in the future]

Filters - Demciflex Corsair Carbide Air 540 Full Filter Set (Not Aquired)

LED Strips - Darkside Dimmable LED Strip White (Not Aquired)

Pictures will be coming soon....

Hello All!

This build will be slightly different to my last build/update log.

This build is more of a test to practice spray painting cases and other PC components for a future project.

Now lets get to the "backstory" of this build.

My friend recently moved and his dad had to get rid of a lot of old parts, instead of throwing them away, he gave them to me!

So now I have, two cases, three motherboards with cpus in them, one GPU, two power supplies, some random RAM, a Sound Card and a WiFi Card.

I have decided on which case to use (It looks similar to this one, I'll try upload a picture later) 

I want to paint this case Black, as the grey is not very appealing. 

I will spray paint it. 

One of the MotherBoards seems to have an AMD Cpu while the other two have Intel Core2 Quads. 
I have a GT220 lying around and I think the one in the other pc is an AMD HD 4750 or HD 4670.

So yeah, this project may be fun, but I am not looking forward to dusting all the PCs as there is dust everywhere.

I may be able to get an update in later with some pictures, but I am kinda busy this weekend and I am going on holiday mid this week so I will have quite a bit of packing to do

If any of you have any feedback or suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated if you posted them below!

Ordered: 

Intel i7 5820k

Gigabyte x99 Gaming 5

16 GB Gskill ddr4

Corsair AX 850w Gold

Fractal Define S

Need to Order 

GTX 980 Ti  1 or 2 depending on how mutch money I will have 

Crucial 500GB SSD 

Hitachi 2TB HDD 

Corsair H110Gtx

Red leds to make LED strip for inside

Corsair AF fans 4

Sleeved cable extensions

I've been planning this for a while, and now parts are coming in now, so here we go. I am going to put an Intel NUC into the Lego Lord of the Rings Tower of Orthanc (Saruman's tower).

Parts:

1x Intel NUC (model TBD, will probably be the latest i5 or i7 model with Iris Pro) (will have to buy a complete kit and strip the board out of the case)

2x Lego #10237 http://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-Tower-of-Orthanc-10237

1x Lego #79007 http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Battle-at-the-Black-Gate-79007 (for parts)

Computer Parts TBD:

RAM (8 or 16Gb, 1866MHz preferred)

128 or 256 GB SSD (I can put a 2.5" drive on the second floor of the Tower, or an M.2 drive on the NUC) (mass storage and backups will be on the NAS and OneDrive)

Why do I need two of the Lego Tower of Orthanc sets? Because the set is for a 3-sided playset version, and I want to make a 4-sided tower.

Dimensions and choice of computer parts:
A lego brick is 8mm by 8mm by 9.6mm. The inside capacity of two Tower of Orthanc sets combined, on the first and second floors, is 12 studs by 18 studs, or 96mm by 144mm. This is pretty small, but a Intel NUC board measures 102mm by 102mm. My plan is to use the Battle at the Black Gate set as spare parts to allow me to make the available footprint be 14 by 18 studs, or 112x144mm. I looked at Gigabyte Brix units with the option of stripping them out of their case as well, but I believe they are too large, over 5" in each dimension.

An Intel NUC is perfect for my uses for this computer because it is going in my office and I don't want to game on my work computer at all. I will be driving two 1680x1050 monitors with it, hence the desire for the latest integrated graphics. I need a lot of RAM because my work ends up requiring hundreds of browser tabs across 3 browsers at times. Storage space is not a huge concern, I will only be using Microsoft Office, Firefox, Chrome, IE, and a few really tiny custom programs.

Current Progress:

The Battle at the Black Gates set arrived ages ago and I built it by the instructions because why not. The first of the two Tower of Orthanc sets arrived today, and I'm going to build it tonight or tomorrow because again, why not. The second set will arrive Tuesday or Wednesday, and when I can I will start combining them into one big tower. When I do so, I will be trying to put in ingress and egress vents for the system to breath, a spot for wires to enter and exit, and also seeing if I can make the overall tower taller and more awesome (I'm not too concerned about the end result being an accurate model).

Next Steps:

I need to decide on the NUC model, SSD, and RAM. If anyone knows of other systems whose main board, when removed from the case, is less than 112x144mm, I'd love to know about them.

Hi Folks

here's my first gaming build log.. parts i've chosen:

CPU- Intel Core i5-4690K

CPU COOLER- Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

MOTHERBOARD: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard   (Purchased)

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury Red 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (Purchased)

STORAGE: A-Data Premier Pro SP900 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased)

GPU: MSI GTX 980

CASE: NZXT S340 (Black)  (Purchased)

PSU: CORSAIR CX 600  (Purchased)

Im going for an BLACK-RED color scheme bought almost everything for the PC just need an CPU,CPU cooler and a GPU.  

Recently i've readed the reviews of the PSU that its S**t.. not upgrading it now but after everythings complete i will get an 750w from EVGA... also as i would like to have  a very nice look i think ill get a water cooling unit instead of the Hyper 212 Evo..  Got any thoughts?/ upgrades let me know ;-) For the monitor setup i thought an BenQ EW2440L.

Current pictures. ( SSD & RAM gonna arrive on monday)

Will update the post when my Ram & SSD will arrive. cheers!

Hey guys! 

Had to do this build for a friend of mine, programming and office use. 

Here are the specs and below the pics  hope you enjoy them

Intel Core i5 4460 tray
x2 HDD WD Blue 1TB 3.5”
SSD HyperX Fury 120GB
RAM 8GB DDR3 HyperX Fury 1600MHz
Scheda Madre MSI H81M-P33
PSU Thermaltake Munich 430W 80 Plus
Thermaltake Contac21
TP-Link 300N wifi card
CM Elite 342
MX4 thermal paste

For cable management I first put the PSu up, divided the cables I would need to from those I would not use and went on yo use cable ties and zip ties (only used those supplied, didn't buy any additional ones).

Added the parts a bit at the time managing wires as I went along - pics of closed case edges included to show all closes perfectly.

The cloth tape you see was added to reduce vibration.

 

Hey Everyone,

For a while I have been into PC gaming, though my system could barely keep a constant 60 fps in games like minecraft even on the lowest settings. I decided that it was time for a change so here are the parts that I have chosen for this build.

Finally all the parts arrived (accept for the GPU and RAM, as I got those later that night for my birthday )

Hey guys, I've been lurking on the forums a lot and I thought I would post the first build I ever did myself.

Prior to this, I've always been gaming on laptops. My first was an ASUS with a 500 series card and then replaced that with a MSI GT70 2OC with a 770m. 

Since then I have decided that a real desktop was what I needed to do since laptops cant really compete as a desktop replacement.

So here is my build.

Win 8.1 OS

i7-5820k overclocked to 4.5Ghz (Since its summer I've reduced the clock to 3.9 since ambient temp is crazy hot in my apt)

EVGA 1000W Platinum PSU

MSI Gaming 7 X99 Motherboard

2 x MSI 970 GTX overclocked +150 Core and 275 Mem running in SLI

Samsung 840 Pro 250gb

Samsung 850 Evo 250gb

WD Black 1TB

GSkill 2666 Ram 16GB

H100i GTX Cpu Cooler from Corsair

CM Storm Trooper Case

Well the story goes like this, over the past month my siblings PC has gradually been getting louder and louder, I finally decided to do something yesterday, I was done with being able to hear it from the next room while it was running simple tasks like netflix. For fun before I took on this project I ran Prime95, the cpu cooler got so loud it could be heard 30 feet away and around a corner without having to try to listen to it.

So I took off the side panel and yea dust, lots of dust, so I said "screw it I have a whole evening with nothing to do, let's rebuild this PC and clean every nook and crany"

Dust

Also noticed that whoever put on thermal paste previously used to much.

Spoiler

All the parts nice and clean with the Spec's

Spoiler

 

Specs:

CPU: Pentium D 950 3.4Ghz stock cooler

Ram: 3GB 533mhz DDR2

GPU: Geforce 8600 GTS (passively cooled)

PSU: some strange brand 320 watts

Storage: 80GB Seagate Sata 2 HDD
OS: windows XP (32 bit)

Case: unknown

PATA Floppy drive

PATA Optical drive

Ran it before I put it all back in the case.

Finishing up and Cable Management

Before and After

Sadly the PC is too old to have a temperature sensor on the cpu, so I can only judge temps by soud.

The big surprise was when I powered it up on the test bench, when the cpu was idling with no case to block the noise, the power supplies tiny amount of coil whine was louder then the CPU cooler, and the thing is a 130 Watt cpu with a stock cooler, it just blew me away.

Hopefully after this much needed rebuild, this old Pentium D will last much longer for my 5 younger siblings, who use it daily for playing games, doing homework and watching Netflix.

Now that I have Fenrir, My old PC, Falx II is sitting as a derelict and being used for spare parts..

But, my girlfriend has decided she wants it, and wants to do some work on it too whilst keeping it as original as possible. So here we are.

Specs wise, it's nothing impressive, holding an A8-6600K with 8GB of RAM and a GTX 750Ti. We plan to keep the processor and GPU and upgrade the RAM to 16GB and also give it an SSD along with water cooling because, with it's 100W TDP stock, overclocking nature and AMD construction, it's a lava brick.

Current Parts:

MSI A78 PCMate Motherboard (lovely board if i'm honest)

AMD A8-6600K Quad Core 4.2 GHz

DDR3 1600 8GB

Noctua NH-U9S CPU cooler

MSi GTX 750Ti 2GB

Various HDD's

Planned add-in's:

Fractal Design R4, White with window

Kingston SSDNow 120GB

Corsair H105 Liquid Cooler

Matching 8GB DIMM of RAM (already found)

White Optical drive

This is going to be a long-running thing as nobody has the money to buy it all outright and do it in a day at the minute, but i'm hoping that having my old PC transferred to a more roomy environment, given a beefy liquid cooler and a SSD for boot will help a fair bit. It's not gonna be used for anything intensive or tough, so the A8 will more than do the job. Besides, I've had the system running etc before so i can verify what's normal or not and also give some advice on overclocking that is relevant to that specific processor and GPU (won the sillicon lottery twice in a row.. hot damn..)

So yes, I look forward to slowly re-introducing my PC into the world as Falx III and I'll enjoy seeing it have a new lease of life. Either that or scrap parts.

Long live Falx.