New PC Get!

[xcalibur]

The PC that I've been wanting forever has finally arrived

. This is the first time I've ever built a PC and I'm quite happy that nothing went wrong. The only dissapointment was that my PSU is a bit too weak for my graphics card but its ok. I'll buy another PSU later.

The specs:

- E8400 CPU
- MSI P45 Neo-F motherboard
- WD 640AAKS HDD
- 4GB PC2-6400 Ram
- 500W OCZ StealthxStream PSU
- Palit 9800GTX+
- Pioneer 116-DBK DVD burner
- CoolerMaster CM-690 Dominator case

Some pics:

Spoiler: Careful! High res.

The mess of wires in the first pic has been taken care of by the supplied cable management.

EDIT: Just played Crysis at High settings with 8x Antialiasing. NOT A SINGLE STUTTER!

 

[Ace Gunman]

Infinitely superior to mine.

 

[raulpica]

You should have got a Core i7

Core i7s p0wn Core2 cpus massively

Awesome config, btw

 

[m3rox]

That's one sexy computer

I have one question though (and please forgive my noobishness, I haven't tinkered with a desktop's innards for a few years now), what are those black strips with the blue things on them in the first pic?

 

[Sonicslasher]

I just jizzed in my pants

 

[War]

Unhappy face.

 

[Santee]

that makes my old broken desktop look like the crap that it actually is

 

[War]

Now Xcalibur is gonna be too busy with his Crysis friends to pay attention to me :[

 

[cupajoe]

Damn. Those are some nice socks.

 

[science]

I don't get these spec things. Can it play Minesweeper?

 

[War]

I don't get these spec things. Can it play Minesweeper?

Doubt it. Maybe on low-quality settings in black and white.

 

[Canonbeat234]

Yeah how can you convert an IDE hard drive into the SATA port on the motherboard =/

 

[BORTZ]

i like that your on GBAtemp in the picture lol

 

[xcalibur]

i like that your on GBAtemp in the picture lol

And I was on IRC channel on my eee at the time lol xD.

 

[Mangofett]

nice stock heatsink fan

 

[xcalibur]

nice stock heatsink fan

I was tight on cash yo. I'll buy that among other things to complete my purchase but as it stands its still a decent pc.
Probably be able to buy whatever is missing within the month but the reason I just didn't wait and buy it all then is because pc components have steadily been rising in price. The E8400 cpu was £102 3 months ago...
If I waited any longer I wouldn't have been able to buy what I needed.

 

[Orc]

Hell Yeah! We has same PC cases

Try to convince Sephi to geta CM-690 too.

Spoiler: Oh btw here's mine insides

I has no cable managements.

 

[xcalibur]

That's one sexy computer

I have one question though (and please forgive my noobishness, I haven't tinkered with a desktop's innards for a few years now), what are those black strips with the blue things on them in the first pic?

Part of the cases toolless design. Special strips so we can add in any removable drives without screwing them in.

QUOTE(Orc @ Feb 1 2009, 10:45 PM) Hell Yeah! We has same PC cases

Try to convince Sephi to geta CM-690 too.

Spoiler: Oh btw here's mine insides

I has no cable managements.

Setsuna and Lockon must get awfully hot there.