Mondak

So this is not just your everyday "help me build a new rig" thread. Here is what I ordered from Newegg yesterday at 7am (UPS Ground)


37-102-059
MS WIN XP HOME w/SP2 SINGLE PACK %
1
$89.99

14-125-025
VGA GIGABYTE 7600GT 256 GDDR3 GV-NX76T256D-RH R
1
$174.99

17-128-003
PSU HIPERHPU-4S580-MS 580W RT
1
$99.99


22-136-033
HD 74G|Western Digital 10,000RPM 16M SATA WD740ADFD R
1
$169.99


35-118-004
CPU COOLER ZALMAN|CNPS 9500 AM2 RTL
1
$63.99

DVD BURN SAMSUNG| LITESCRIBE
1
$34.99

11-112-106
CASE LIANLI|PC-101A SIL RT
1
$199.99

17-130-985
CD-R VERBATIM|94934 30PK LS R ( I got a litescribe burner so I had to try it out...)
1
$17.99

20-145-034
MEM 1Gx2|CORSAIR 240P TWIN2X2048-6400C4 EPP
1
$255.00


24-116-381
MNTR VIEWSONIC|LCD 20" 8msDVI VX2025WM
1
$324.99

36-121-119
LOGITECH X-230 BLK 2.1 SPEAKER RTL
1
$33.99

13-131-013
MB ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe NF570SLI AM2
1
$144.99

19-103-751
CPU AMD|A64 X2 4600+ AM2 2x512K R
1
$265.00

Subtotal
$1,848.90

Tax
$133.47

Shipping and Handling charge
$50.70

Amount Paid
$2,033.07

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So here is what showed up so far as of 10am Friday:







The pictures can't do the case justice. Here is a closeup of one side panel. The interesting thing is that you don't realize how crappy your case is until you work with one of these up close. It is totally solid, has 120mm fans (quiet) and is super well thought out.


These modular power supplies are cool. Here is a closeup of one of the cables.


Before anyone goes hating on the videocard, I really don't play games. I wanted a silent card that could play games if I choose. I may go to SLI just to be silly someday. I had a 4200Ti that had a fan on it and it made a crapload of noise and died after 8 months. I don't like my current wind tunnel PC

Being replaced:

2.4Ghz Celeron
1GB DDR Ram
$30 crapola case
Gforce3 Ti200

I will post more pictures as I put this thing together. Thought you might enjoy this since I am super excited about it all.

Oh yeah - I went with the 570 chipset over the 590. I could not find a single feature I would likely use but I wanted to go with a quality ASUS board since I have had a positve experience with my ASUS W3V Laptop.

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Embic

very nice, love the case. LIANLI cases rock.

Halx

Fuckin' hell man!

If I had $1900, I'd go for the same thing (minus a few parts)

I am so jealous.

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TexanAvenger

I don't understand, how's the playskool stuff fit in?

Mondak

Thanks Halx. Quite the compliment.

Well - I will come clean. . . I did some work for a friend decided to take this instead of ca$h. He bought what I specked and had it drop shipped to my house.

I acomplished a lot tonight (lies). I am REALLY going to take my time putting this together so I don't mess anything up. Besides, the HD won't be here until Monday so no reason to rush.

Boy I really like that power supply. Very shiny and clean.



Uh oh. Not much space to plug in the power cables though. . . Time to break out the Dremel?


Just kidding. LianLi Thinks of freaking everything. That wall near the power supply is removeable along with the second cage for HDs. I can't tell you how well built this thing is. I highly recomend to anyone on the fence to look at one of these suckers.

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newtx

I am impressed. Hope it runs as good as as it looks. The power supply and case are outstanding.

Don't fear the Dremel. The dremel is your friend.

xepherys

Yeah, Lian Li cases are amazing. I have a few year old aluminum case of theirs and I can't see any reason to EVER upgrade it. Also, kudos on the AMD64 X2... I love mine!

maleficent

between your fridge and your new computer... damn boy...

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absorbentishe

Dayamn man, that's a rockin' system there...

guthmund

I got chills; they're multiplyin' and I'm losin' control.


You'll have to tell me how that Viewsonic works out. I may be in the market soon and I'd like to have your opinion.

I better get out of here before I fry my keyboard with all the drool...

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Mondak

A couple updates and thoughts:

1. Newegg rocks. They got the HD to me from NJ in 52 hours from time of order for UPS Ground. I had everything by Friday at 10 am with a Thursday morning order.

2. I am still amazed by the quality of these parts. They go together so well. The little things that ASUS did that help you conect front panel sound, power, USB, Firewire etc. are so well thought out. I hated messing with those wires trying to get them plugged in to the Mobo the last time I did this. This time there is a liitle dohicky you plug em in to and then that plugs into the board. Wonderful.

3. What to say about the case. Unreal. So solid, pretty and overall great to work with. They thought of everything.

4. Cool 'n' Quiet. Enabled that today after 3+ days of running this thing. I thought it was quiet already and noticed that I had to enable it specificly in the BIOS. The loudest thing is the Optical drives and the HD and those are pretty quiet. HUGE difference from what I was running before. Oh yeah - and I have no AC and live in San Diego. My office is in the Southest corner of the house (hottest) and I have to tell you that things are running really cool. I don't know much about this stuff, but the processor normally runs at 29C. Nice.

Closeup of the Zalman Cooler before I attached the duct thing. Cool air is forced in to the CPU cooler and then pushed out by the CPU fan. I suspect with this setup, I could try this without the CPU fan, but I can't hear it anyway so I won't bother. . . yet. I bet this thing is great for one of those passivly cooled solutions though.


Card shot


Other side


So here it is before I installed the 2nd Optical and the 2nd SATA drive. The cables are a mess. I will show pictures next time of them cleaned up.



Here is a thing that I found on the LIAN LI site that describes how the airflow works. It worked on my PC when I embedded it so I hope it shows up for all of you. The fans are totally quiet and run normally around 1200 RPM. I bet that will even go down as it cools off after summertime. This case is a perfect thing to compliment that AMD Quiet stuff I mentioned above.
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After all is said and done, I should have gotten the 590chipset afterall though. I like the idea of the dual PCI-E 16 slots. The 570 lets you put two PCIE16 cards in but gates the second slot to PCIE-8. I would have liked to use the upper slot to get the heatsink centered on the exhaust even though I did not use two cards. It was only another $50 but live and learn.

If anyone can tell me if this matters or not (cough Lazereth) I would appreciate it. I am pretty sure that no card on the market today taxes PCI to the point where the throughput even matters, but maybe someone here knows if that is right.

Finally - thanks for reading and checking out the thread everyone. It is fun for me. I will have one more post at least on it and still owe a monitor review to Guthmund (it rocks and there is an in -depth review on Tom's Hardware if you need it faster).

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cyrnel

Freaking Christmas in August. Nice system, Mondak.

And yes, that's a very nice case. I regularly whine about the cost and point to my 1997 bench antiques running their umpteenth motherboards, but there's no denying the progress of quality components.

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