Show Us Your Rig [2]

IownAmoneyPit · 28 Mar 2011

Note

This is my first build and I built my new rig a couple weeks ago, It is a sandybridge based rig and it is running great. The only major hiccup was a DOA Evga 570 HD Video card but the retailer replaced it with the Asus card.

Time for some pictures as I dug out my 4 year old web cam and used my Cyberlink You Cam software to take the pics.

OS Windows 7 Professional
CPU Intel i7 2600K @ 3.40 GHz
Motherboard ASUS Sabertooth P67
Memory Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit
Graphics Card Asus ENGTX570 GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-E w/ Dual DVI
Monitor Sharp 42" LCD TV ( 5 HDMI and VGA inputs )
Keyboard Logitech Gaming Keyboard G110
Mouse Microsoft Confort Optical Mouse 3000
PSU Corsair TX 850W Power Supply w/ 140mm Fan
Case Cooler Master HAF 932 High Air Flow Full Tower Chassis
Cooling Zalman CNPS10X FLEX CPU Cooler & 2 Thermalright Silent Fans
Hard Drives Intel SSD 510 Series SATA III Solid State Drive, 120GB
Blu Ray Writer LG Super Multi Blue Internal Blu-ray Disk Rewriter - BH10LS30
TV Card Hauppauge - HVR 1800 Media Center Kit - NTSC and ATSC TV Tuner
Media Card Reader Kama Reader 2, 45-in-1 Card Reader

CPU Cooler & 2 Fans

Blu ray & media card reader

230 mm fan left side

front 230 mm fan

Hard drive

Behind Mobo tray

Heart of the beast

Mobo

PSU

Video card

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Hid IR reciever in empty drive bay

CPU FAN and Ram

230 mm Top fan

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Hid more wiring below hard drive trays

42 inch monitor

Keyboard,Mouse & Media Center Remote

WEI

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Updated in https://www.sevenforums.com/1770966-post429.html

Maxwell · 28 Mar 2011

@IownAmoneyPit Very impressive!! I love those HAF cases.. They look so awesome! Super impressive specs aswell.

paulpicks21 · 28 Mar 2011

Awesome rig Iownamoneypit

A Guy · 28 Mar 2011

MadSupra354 said:

What is the clock of your RAM? It has a higher score than mine and I have 8GB @ 1600MHz

I get a 7.7 with 4 gig :)

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A Guy

Kipper · 29 Mar 2011

Dang A Guy

Toss a GTX 570 and a vertex2 SSD in your system and then the processor will be your bottle neck. Are you planning on upgrading in the near future

kurahk7 · 29 Mar 2011

Maxwell said:

Not my system, but here is one that I built for a family member. It turned out awesome! I am extremely happy with it!

Sorry for the crappy phone shot, I didn't have my 1Ds with me when I built it. That antec case was HARD to work with... It was not easy to make it look clean and I didn't have much time to build it. It turned out well though.

Here is all of the information about the hardware of the build.

WOW This is amazing, I have the same case, the Antec 900 and you're wire management is way better than mine; can you snap some shots of the other side of the case so I can see how you did your wire management please? Thanks

A Guy · 29 Mar 2011

Kipper said:

Dang A Guy

Toss a GTX 570 and a vertex2 SSD in your system and then the processor will be your bottle neck. Are you planning on upgrading in the near future

I may do a SSD when the price strikes me, but have no need for a better GPU. I don't game, and this card serves me fine. I'm quite happy with the PC actually. A Guy

Maxwell · 29 Mar 2011

kurahk7 said:

WOW This is amazing, I have the same case, the Antec 900 and you're wire management is way better than mine; can you snap some shots of the other side of the case so I can see how you did your wire management please? Thanks

I actually don't have a picture of the other side, and it was built for a family member in another state, so I don't have the ability to go take a picture of the other side.

The things that are on the other side of the case is
1. The 24 pin ATX power connector, and it comes in the bottom right management hole, and comes out the top right management hole.

2. The power connector to the video card, it is zip tied to the 24 pin ATX power connector and goes through the same holes.

3. The SATA cords. They are ran behind on the bottom right wire management hole, and ran behind the HDD/DVD cage on the bottom where there is that spot of extra room, I cut a hole down there to alow the sata cords to easily and cleanly go through.

4. The power for the fans. I have the rear exhaust fan wire routed behind the PSU, and the rest going into the 2 holes on the right side, and the molex cord for the power zip tied to the 24pin and 6pin connectors for the mobo/gpu. then on the back those are just stretched to go to each fan molex connector.

All of the wires from the front panel is shoved inbetween the HDD/DVD cage in that small nook that is there. To get them in there I took out the three screws that were holding them tightly together on the back side, shoved everything through, then put the screws back in tightly. You can see that the wires are still slightly showing but it's ALOT better than if they were to be just hanging down.

That is the only things that are hidden on the other side of the case. Everything else is just very tightly zip tied.

Hope this helps!!

(PS. If you have the 900 version 1, it won't have the holes that this one already had. You would have to cut them all your self. Version 1.1 has the holes. If yours has the holes like this one, your good!!)

Kipper · 29 Mar 2011

A Guy said:

Kipper said:

Dang A Guy

Toss a GTX 570 and a vertex2 SSD in your system and then the processor will be your bottle neck. Are you planning on upgrading in the near future

I may do a SSD when the price strikes me, but have no need for a better GPU. I don't game, and this card serves me fine. I'm quite happy with the PC actually. A Guy

Just pokeing at ya my friend. :)

You are so right; staying on the cutting edge can cause you to bleed to death, financially speaking.

kurahk7 · 30 Mar 2011

Maxwell said:

kurahk7 said:

WOW This is amazing, I have the same case, the Antec 900 and you're wire management is way better than mine; can you snap some shots of the other side of the case so I can see how you did your wire management please? Thanks

I actually don't have a picture of the other side, and it was built for a family member in another state, so I don't have the ability to go take a picture of the other side.

The things that are on the other side of the case is
1. The 24 pin ATX power connector, and it comes in the bottom right management hole, and comes out the top right management hole.

2. The power connector to the video card, it is zip tied to the 24 pin ATX power connector and goes through the same holes.

3. The SATA cords. They are ran behind on the bottom right wire management hole, and ran behind the HDD/DVD cage on the bottom where there is that spot of extra room, I cut a hole down there to alow the sata cords to easily and cleanly go through.

4. The power for the fans. I have the rear exhaust fan wire routed behind the PSU, and the rest going into the 2 holes on the right side, and the molex cord for the power zip tied to the 24pin and 6pin connectors for the mobo/gpu. then on the back those are just stretched to go to each fan molex connector.

All of the wires from the front panel is shoved inbetween the HDD/DVD cage in that small nook that is there. To get them in there I took out the three screws that were holding them tightly together on the back side, shoved everything through, then put the screws back in tightly. You can see that the wires are still slightly showing but it's ALOT better than if they were to be just hanging down.

That is the only things that are hidden on the other side of the case. Everything else is just very tightly zip tied.

Hope this helps!!

(PS. If you have the 900 version 1, it won't have the holes that this one already had. You would have to cut them all your self. Version 1.1 has the holes. If yours has the holes like this one, your good!!)

Wow, thanks for the thorough explanation

. Luckily I have version 1.1 so I can follow your suggestions. I need to do my wire management as soon as possible, I can't wait to see how much cleaner my case would be after I follow your tips.