ScORTED Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 how much did you spend on the tower? because running stock I have this and i spent less than a grand last year, i do know the windows system ratings aren't the best bench mark mind http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e105/escortstreetracer/forums%20stuff/Capture.jpg how much was the cooler? i've been meaning to crank mine up to around 4GHz but still on the stock cooler also i noticed on 32bit windows my old system with 4gb of ddr2 got a 7.8 for ram performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 By tower do you mean case, or the whole thing? I bought the case yonks ago for about 50-60 quid. It's still a current model according to the Akasa website. Cooler was about 70 quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 Here's a few piccies of the assembled box for the nerds http://di.cx/gallery/d/22308-1/IMG_20110116_132657.jpg http://di.cx/gallery/d/22311-1/IMG_20110116_132713.jpg http://di.cx/gallery/d/22314-1/IMG_20110116_132736.jpg http://di.cx/gallery/d/22317-1/IMG_20110116_132757.jpg http://di.cx/gallery/d/22320-1/IMG_20110116_132810.jpg http://di.cx/gallery/d/22332-1/IMG_20110116_132928.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScORTED Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 looks pretty tidy i ment how much have you spend excluding peripherals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 looks pretty tidy i ment how much have you spend excluding peripherals? 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2 £86.99Intel BOXDP67BG, Intel P67 Express, 1 £119.67100GB OCZ Revo Drive X2 Bootable SS 1 £288.99Pioneer BDR-205BK World's First x12 1 £83.99650W Corsair HX Series, Modular, 80 1 £80.65Corsair Hydro Series H70 High-perfo 1 £62.70Speed-Link Green Tree Frog Silk Mou 1 £2.98Cyber Clean Cleaning Gel that Elimi 1 £3.89Newlink NLCL-001 x100 Multipurpose 1 £2.39AKASA AK-All-02BK Black LCD Display 1 £27.49Genius HS-G500V Gaming Headset With 1 £13.97Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz Processor 1 £222.49 Total with the VAT looks around £1275 if you ignore the accessories. This excludes case and video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottg17 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Looks good ... the Corsair hydro series are said to be very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScORTED Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 looks pretty tidy i ment how much have you spend excluding peripherals? 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2 £86.99Intel BOXDP67BG, Intel P67 Express, 1 £119.67100GB OCZ Revo Drive X2 Bootable SS 1 £288.99Pioneer BDR-205BK World's First x12 1 £83.99650W Corsair HX Series, Modular, 80 1 £80.65Corsair Hydro Series H70 High-perfo 1 £62.70Speed-Link Green Tree Frog Silk Mou 1 £2.98Cyber Clean Cleaning Gel that Elimi 1 £3.89Newlink NLCL-001 x100 Multipurpose 1 £2.39AKASA AK-All-02BK Black LCD Display 1 £27.49Genius HS-G500V Gaming Headset With 1 £13.97Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz Processor 1 £222.49 Total with the VAT looks around £1275 if you ignore the accessories. This excludes case and video card. fair, if I had known there was sandy bridge around the corner I wouldn't have jumped onto the 1366 i7, that said thoughI don't think I'll be spending big money for a couple of year again though, nice tidy build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithyandco Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Something else to compare your workstation to: http://www.evo-host.co.uk/getimg/26089.jpg Specs: * Intel i5 750 @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.33GHz* MSI H55-GD65 Motherboard* 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 (9-9-9-24)* NVIDIA Geforce 470 GTX 1280MB (Matrox Triplehead2Go Digital @ 5040x1050 - 3x 22" @ 1680x1050)* Seagate 1TB Traditional HDD CPU sat at 22c at the moment... Runs at 1.2GHz when CPU usage is low. Motherboard OC's it to 3.33GHz when usages increases. Just needs a SSD to boot from to transform this bottlenecked PC into a lovely workhorse! This is my work PC. Vastly outspecs my home PCs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 I've now set this box to O/C to 4.4 Ghz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 If anyone's interested in Super PI scores: http://i.imgur.com/bpfRT.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 (edited) FYI.. my motherboard developed the sandybridge problem with the SATA ports.. it only affects 2 out of the 6 ports on my mobo and as I only have a bd-rom hooked up it's not a big issue.. debating whether to RMA or not.. Edited September 6, 2011 by Stu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottg17 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 (edited) FYI.. my motherboard developed the sandybridge problem with the SATA ports.. it only affects 2 out of the 6 ports on my mobo and as I only have a bd-rom hooked up it's not a big issue.. debating whether to RMA or not.. Might as well, you never know when you may need the sata portsI thought intel were proactively recalling thier own boards Edited September 6, 2011 by scottg17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbsi Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 RMA then see if you can switch to a replacement baord with a Z68 chipset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 FYI.. my motherboard developed the sandybridge problem with the SATA ports.. it only affects 2 out of the 6 ports on my mobo and as I only have a bd-rom hooked up it's not a big issue.. debating whether to RMA or not.. I didnt know about this issue, ive just been catching up on it. Does it only affect the i5 and i7 cpu's or are the i3's susceptible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted October 18, 2011 Author Share Posted October 18, 2011 FYI.. my motherboard developed the sandybridge problem with the SATA ports.. it only affects 2 out of the 6 ports on my mobo and as I only have a bd-rom hooked up it's not a big issue.. debating whether to RMA or not.. I didnt know about this issue, ive just been catching up on it. Does it only affect the i5 and i7 cpu's or are the i3's susceptible? It's not the CPU, it's the sandy bridge chipset. It only affected the first batches afaik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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