New pc rebuild finally complete

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After waiting over a week to get a new mobo and take care of the P8Z77-V RMA and the Gskill ARES 1866 RMA as well I finally got the new memory (Gskill sniper 1866) and I decided to go with the ASUS Maximus Formula ROG board.What a nice mobo and the onboard supreme FX sound isnt to bad either.Getting the mobo to fit took a bit of time as it is a little bigger than the standard ATX but I got it done and so far its running pretty good.But cable management is going to be a problem since to board is covering a vital cutout for the 24 pin cable.Ill have to get a full tower HAF or thermaltake nvidia case eventually.
Idle cpu temps are pretty good at 30c (4.2ghz)Once I get some benchmarks installed I can get some full load temps and start to get the cpu up to 4.6-4.8 hopefully.
SPECS:
NZXT M59 case
XFX 850 black edition PSU
Asus Maximus V Formula mobo
EVGA GTX 680
Gskill Sniper 1866 8gig kit
VelociRaptor 150
Asus DVD burner
Noctua DH-14 cooler.
I will also eventually replace the noctua with a thermaltake H220 water cooling system for the CPU and motherboards fusion thermo water cooling option.And some red case lighting.

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I do believe I will get the soundblaster ZX SBX PCIE Gaming Sound Card

Sherardp

Clean up those cables. Pull all those cables through the side of the case. Nice build btw. Here's my current rig using a NZXT Phantom.

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Nice one sherardp. What happened to your coolermaster cube case?
I've made a lot of changes to my build. I had a lot of problems with the maximize V board so I got a gigabyte sniper 3 and its awesome. I also installed a custom liquid cooling system. I post some pics if I get a chance

Nightfall

Those Velociraptors are burly HDD's. I remember when the regular Raptor first came out, completely demolished non SCSI drives.

Sherardp

Still going strong here with the Phantom. Have not made any changes at all. Nice to see you guys still at it.

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Here is the loop I installed

This was taken while I was leak testing.All the wires are now under the cover.
I intend to transfer everything into the HAF stacker (modular case) when it comes out.Then Ill be able to add a couple alphacool UT 60 RADS,and add another loop to put my pair of 680s under water.