Lucidium's new build

[Pemalite]

lucidium said:

Pemalite said:
I have to ask... Why the 3970X and not the newer Ivy-Bridge based 4970X? (Or the 3930K/4930K derivatives)

All you need now is for a proper water loop, braid up some cables and get a more decent case. :)

And without farther adoo... Welcome to the Socket 2011 PC gaming master race! Bahaha

Because i built this rig off of mostly spare parts from upgrading my work computer, which is running a 4960X (4970X doesnt exist, yet :P), work pc has same motherboard and ram (just more of it, 64GB) but an Nvidia Tesla K20X instead of a gaming specific card, didn't want the 3970X to go to waste so yeah..

My wife's comp is even better than my work comp to be honest, she's running dual Xeon E5-2687Wv2's on an Asus Z9PE-D8 WS with full compliment of 256GB of ram.

which looks like this for the record.

 

My Mistake! Granted... The only difference would be a multiplier change between the 60X and 70X anyway. :P

I've had my 3930K for over 2 years now, clocked at 4.8ghz, it's weird hanging onto a CPU for so long these days and still hitting the top of the performance charts, I wan't Haswell-E already.