Almost time

[Pauly]

Production Dates

Processed Date 03-05-2012
Pre-Production Date 08-05-2012
Build Date 24-05-2012
Test Date 29-05-2012
QC Date 29-05-2012
Who Worked on This Order?

Built By Tom Davies
Tested By Garnet Heller


Well I guess it won't be too long before my nice shiny new PC arrives, maybe Friday fingers crossed



My old rig which I bought back in 2005 is

Silverstone Temjin TJ06 case
MSI K8N Diamond mobo
AMD Athlon 64x2 3800+ proc
2GB Corsair XMS twin 1024kit
2 x 6800gt sli config (later upgraded to an 8800GTX
Silent tower heatpipe cooler
2 x 160GB HDD
16x DVD +/- R/RW
16x DVD
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Zs soundcard
Akasa Fan controller
480w Tagan whisper quiet PSU
XP OS

Really love my case, was an awesome step up from the generic beige PC I had before, be sad to see it mothballed, may find a use for it some day.. pics below

 

[Pauly]

Looks like delivery tomorrow..YEHAAAAA!!!!
Will post pics as soon as I've installed my fan controller.

Production Dates

Processed Date 03-05-2012
Pre-Production Date 08-05-2012
Build Date 24-05-2012
Test Date 29-05-2012
QC Date 29-05-2012
Awaiting Dispatch Date 30-05-2012



Case CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 500R WHITE MID TOWER CASE
Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i5-3570k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ max 4.60GHz)
Motherboard ASUS® SABERTOOTH Z77: USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, THERMAL ARMOR
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics CardNONE
3rd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 120GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
SSD CACHE DRIV NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader NONE
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£69)
Processor Cooling COOLIT ECO II A.L.C ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER (£59)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Fan Controller NONE
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D PCI-E Soundcard (£76)
Network Facilities 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive NONE
Firewire & Video Editing NONE
TV Card NONE
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Monitor NONE
2nd Monitor NONE
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables 1 x 2 METRE GOLD PLATED V1.4 HDMI CABLE (£8)

 

[Corfate]

Yay pics

The 500r is a great case -pats the one sitting next to me

 

[sanj]

You're gonna love your new pc mate,just looking at the cable managment on your old one!

 

[Pauly]

Yay pics

The 500r is a great case -pats the one sitting next to me

Thanks buddy, origionally ordered the InWin MaNA 136 Black Gaming Case, but (and appologies to anyone who has one) I kept coming back to it thinking how plasticky it looks so opted for the 500r instead.

Aye Sanj you're right it does look a bit like sphagetti junction in there

Arrives tomorrow