The Gaming PC Building/Upgrade Thread

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smbu2000 said:

Well I'm almost through putting together my new system. This is what I have so far:

CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k @ 3.4 GHz (sandy bridge, http://tinyurl.com/3p9g9kx )

MOBO: ASRock P67 Extreme6 ( http://tinyurl.com/3pfbjmj )

GPU: 2 x 896MB Nvidia GTX 260 (core 216 models) in SLI (had these from before, 1 is EVGA and 1 is ELSA)

RAM: 8 GB of DDR3 1600MHz  G.Skill Ripjaws X (2x4GB) http://tinyurl.com/3g8r94f

Storage : 120GB Intel 510 Series SSD, 1TB 7.2k drive and 2TB 5.4k drive (only the SSD is new)

Optical Media: Lite-On 20x DVD Writer (old, have had this for awhile)

Input Devices: Razer Lycosa Keyboard and Razer DeathAdder Mouse (had these from before)

Case: Lian Li PC-X900R (Red one, http://tinyurl.com/3dz49gj )

PSU: 850W SilverStone ST85F-G Strider Gold Modular PSU (80Plus Gold) http://tinyurl.com/3t62tdw

Will be getting the case tomorrow, so I can put it all together. I currently have it all in my old case (Antec Sonata III) running on a 500W PSU! I didn't want to install the new PSU in the old case since I knew I was getting a new case.

I'll be switching out the GTX 260's soon as well once I get my 2 x 2GB AMD Radeon 6950 cards(Gigabyte, http://tinyurl.com/3g4pmvd ) to use in CrossFire.

Wow man, congrats on having an awesome machine.  But all that money spent, and you chose a Silverstone power supply?  Any particular reason?  I don't think they are bad, but seems like an odd choice.

Awesome build, should be able to run Portal 2 no problem =P