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[Shaolin_Steve]

It's Been A LONG Time!

I haven't been on here for ages, I got submerged in some MMO for about 2 years and all sorts of things really. It's been about 5 years since I was talking to some members on here about upgrading my PC and it come to around £500 which I was quite pleased about.

Times have changed and I have just paid for a new upgrade on a completely whole new PC.


Would love your thoughts about it:

http://www.cyberpowe....aspx?id=416665


Nice to come back here. Just started watching PP again. brings back good memories!

[Shaolin_Steve]

32 views and no comments? What happened to the community spirit? lol.

Anyway...

It's still being built so fingers crossed I get it by Friday!

[Nevermore]

I'd say a few of those views are bots or crawlers, people are still there though

I haven't built any new gear for a while now, newest i've got is a Core2 with a 9600GT :\

[x_byakugan_x]

Well I clicked it and its just a huge list of parts. What you selected isn't on the link. Paste here what you actually chose?

I'm on a C2D also.. lol. But have been keeping up with what's good since I nearly upgraded for BF3.

[Shaolin_Steve]

Well I clicked it and its just a huge list of parts. What you selected isn't on the link. Paste here what you actually chose?

I'm on a C2D also.. lol. But have been keeping up with what's good since I nearly upgraded for BF3.

Oh dude your still here. Nice lol.

Yeah my old custom Desktop was running C2D with an EN8800GT card lol.

I'm surprised the link doesn't work for you, I have shown several people in the UK that link...

Ok here it is:


Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 800D Full Tower Gaming Case [+167]
Lights & Illumination: 12" COLD CATHODE NEON LIGHT [+14] (BLUE COLOR)
Extra Case Fan Upgrade: Maximum Case Cooling Fans for your selected case
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2700K Quad Core 3.50 GHz 8MB Cache LGA1155 + HD Graphics ***Overclockable XXX***
Overclocking Service: S&S Overclocking (CPU Safe and Stable overclock: guaranteed min. 10%, max. 20%.)
Cooling Fan: Asetek 510LC / Xtremegear Liquid Cooling system w/ 120mm Radiator (Asetek CPU Water Cooling ***Overclockable XXX***)
Motherboard: [CrossFireX/SLI] Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Intel Z68 Chipset ATX Mainboard w/ BT GO! Lucid Virtu, Intel SRT, UEFI BIOS & 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, 4x SATA-III RAID, 2 Gen3 PCIe X16, 1 Gen2 PCIe X16, 2 PCIe X1 & 2 PCI ***Overclockable XXX***
Memory: 16GB (4x4GB) PC12800 DDR3/1600mhz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair XMS3 w/Heat Spreader ***Overclockable XXX***)
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card (Major Brand Powered by AMD)
Video Card 2: None, or On-Board Integrated Graphics [-310]
Power Supply Upgrade: 1350 Watts Power Supplies [+70] (ThermalTake ToughPower Modular Gaming Power Supply -- SLI / Crossfire ready)
Hard Drive: 120 GB Corsair Force Series 3 SATA III Gaming MLC Solid State Disk [+23] (Single Hard Drive)
Data Hard Drive: 1TB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16M Cache Hard Drive (Single Hard Drive)
USB Flash Drive: USB 2.0 Portable Pen Drive
USB 3.0 Portable Pen Drive
Optical Drive: 24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE. [-24] (BLACK COLOR)
Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
Network: ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT -- As standard on all PCs
Mouse: Razer Mamba 2012 Elite Wireless Gaming 6400 dpi 4G Dual Senor Mouse [+102]
Wireless 802.11B/G/N Access Point: None
Flash Media Reader/Writer: INTERNAL 52in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer [+5] (BLACK COLOR)
USB Port: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional [+28] (64-bit Edition)
Freebies: Free Microsoft® Office® 2010 STARTER EDITION (Reduced-Functionality versions of Word and Excel that include advertising)
Warranty Service: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3 Year Labour, 1 Year Parts, 1 Month Collect and Return plus Life-Time Technical Support

Edited by Shaolin_Steve, 17 April 2012 - 04:12 PM.

[x_byakugan_x]

You remember me? o.O

Also.. how much did you pay for this? It's all good stuff.. would be overkill for the stuff that I do.

[7h3 n00b m4573r]

Is a nice looking rig
I'm rocking around on a core2duo based laptop these days

[Shaolin_Steve]

You remember me? o.O

Also.. how much did you pay for this? It's all good stuff.. would be overkill for the stuff that I do.

Briefly... lol.

I paid £2,000 for it. They told me it will arrive next week. I would never have thought about paying that much for a rig myself, but I am working full time now, I stopped driving because the only place I ever need to get to is London where my g/f lives and it's less than an hour train journey.

I'm still living with my rents paying rent and all for now, but to be honest, I really wanted a new upgrade and I am a 'Home Boy' lol and I am paying it off over 10 months, so I am happy with it

Is a nice looking rig
I'm rocking around on a core2duo based laptop these days

I hope it turns out to be a nice rig lol.

I saw many views about for gaming experience, people would be better off with i5 as opposed to i7. No idea about that, but then again I am not someone who upgrades over and over again. I admit that I didn't have to get the best AMD graphics card there is, but I think I just wanted to be in date lol. My friend got a similar rig 2 months ago but he got 6 core!!! OMF**K lol, but then he got a much lower end graphics card. So that's why I went for the quad core, so I guess I made up those differences between that and the graphics card.

BF3 graphics look insanely good on my friends computer and I am pretty sure that my system is good enough for future games for quite some time. All I need now is a good mouse mat and I am all set lol.

[x_byakugan_x]

Youll def be playing BF3 on max, beautiful game. and yeah you should be set with that rig for years. I cant even dream of paying 2k for a computer right now. Maybe when I grow up to be a big kid and work full time.

[7h3 n00b m4573r]

I saw many views about for gaming experience, people would be better off with i5 as opposed to i7. No idea about that, but then again I am not someone who upgrades over and over again. I admit that I didn't have to get the best AMD graphics card there is, but I think I just wanted to be in date lol. My friend got a similar rig 2 months ago but he got 6 core!!! OMF**K lol, but then he got a much lower end graphics card. So that's why I went for the quad core, so I guess I made up those differences between that and the graphics card.

No idea if i5 is better than i7 or not, I used to think I'd be following that stuff forever but it stopped after I finished uni and started working.

Youll def be playing BF3 on max, beautiful game. and yeah you should be set with that rig for years. I cant even dream of paying 2k for a computer right now. Maybe when I grow up to be a big kid and work full time.

That's when you'll learn about these things called "living expenses" and spend even less on PC bits, can't believe how much I spent on computers whilst I was studying

[Love Duckie]

No idea if i5 is better than i7 or not, I used to think I'd be following that stuff forever but it stopped after I finished uni and started working.



That's when you'll learn about these things called "living expenses" and spend even less on PC bits, can't believe how much I spent on computers whilst I was studying

Dude I remember you packing an crossfire 3870 rig (at least I think it was that) with Core2Quad Q6600 G0 revision.

What happened to it man?!

[x_byakugan_x]

If you still have that quad... sell it to me ><. I can afford to get rid of this P-35 mobo just yet. Only takes C2D and C2Q's lol..

[7h3 n00b m4573r]

Dude I remember you packing an crossfire 3870 rig (at least I think it was that) with Core2Quad Q6600 G0 revision.

What happened to it man?!

Oh that was ages ago, sold off those graphics cards a while back and got a HD4870, upgraded the CPU to a Q9550 then to an i5 760 and put the core2duo parts in a file server. Changed the HD4870 to a HD5770, taking a small performance dip for a massive reduction in power usage and to test out eyefinity (turns out I'm not a fan).
That rig's packed away somewhere back at home.
Got a job in the Royal Australian Navy and no longer have room for a desktop so got my asus G51 laptop second hand last June, that's falling to pieces now so I'm changing it for a Metabox P170EM-SB which I'm hoping will arrive this week and will be the first laptop I've bought where I didn't completely cheap out.

[Shaolin_Steve]

All done and arriving tomorrow!!

I got work off Monday also, so it gives me some time to really enjoy the new set up. Might watch PurePwange again to motivate myself lol. I only finished watching all the episodes last week. Happy Days!