I just bought a bunch of parts to build a gaming PC. I know many of you here like that sort of thing, so I took pictures to document the build. As of now I'm about halfway done; I'll upload the rest here when I'm done if people are interested.
To start, my parts all stacked unopened: Link
Got some thermal paste applied! (Arctic Silver 5 if you were wondeing): Link
Dat cooler: Link
Finally got the motherboard mounted: Link
Parts list:
Intel i5-2500K
NVidia EVGA GTX 680 (It should be arriving in the next few days if I got lucky and am in the first shipment)
8GB G.Skill Ripjaw X 1866MHz RAM
ASRock Pro3 Gen3 Motherboard
Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU Cooler
Corsair TX650 650W PSU
NZXT Full ATX Phantom (White with red trim)
Crossover 27Q 2560x1440 IPS Panel (On its way here. No idea of the delivery date.)
*I also apologize for the crappy pictures. They were all taken with my phone with flash on, so the white balance was all messed up. I fixed them a bit in Photoshop but nothing too serious.
[Edited by Ho-Oh2224, 3/22/2012 3:29:30 PM]
Thats AWESOME Good Luck when you play your first game on it,Fabuloso, and good on you.
I am concerned that you may need a larger power supply... just sayin'.
How do you estimate or work out the size of the power-pack required for this kind of horsepower???.lol
I am concerned that you may need a larger power supply... just sayin'.
How do you estimate or work out the size of the power-pack required for this kind of horsepower???.lol
Link
Try this out. It is a PSU calculator. When I run my system I almost max out 650W.
Just so you have an idea here are my system stats:
Intel Core 2 Quad 9400 (OC'd at 3GHZ) - Stock Cooler
Saphire AMD 6950
8G OCZ PC-6400
MSI P45 Platinum (motherboard)
OCZ 750W Silencer PSU
Antec 300 - 1 120mm fan & 4 80mm fans
ACER S231HL - 1920 x 1080
The monitor and case do not really apply the PSU usage, but I just put up the same characteristics as were originally posted by Ho-oh. His is clearly a higher end, so I estimate that he may have greater need.