bigsinky

to run stable, hyperthreading had to be switched off. I can only see 4 cores in cpuinfo. still damn fast though

CREWJ

This ^

Try running it at 1200 and 16x anti aliasing. That tests even the best of computers.

StickyMicky

Will be interesting to see what sort of real world gains you get over the Q6600, hurry up and finish it

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

I will try to run them back to back, means I need a new hdd for the q6600

Tony

TonyBurns

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Ok, sorry for the picture quality, its off my iphone and ive not had time to upload the pics off the camera yet hopefully get to do that tomorrow some time

She is all up and running now, I just have to load all the drivers on but very quiet and very quick with the ssd drive
Amazingly its not at all cluttered inside, there is a nice box that hides the power cables so its tidy, cables on the back are ok as you cant see those either but I have some step by step pics on the camera which will give you a better look at the pc
One of the pics below is when I first booted the PC up, the overclocking looks to be very easy and the monitoring also looks very good

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s...8/IMG_0076.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s...8/IMG_0077.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s...8/IMG_0074.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s...8/IMG_0080.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s...8/IMG_0079.jpg

Tony

jura11

iTrader: (7)

Tony looking good,but i think you are need little bit tiding there(in case).
HAF series cases have excellent Cable management.
Sandy Bridge use UEFI BIOS which looking very nice.



Jura

TonyBurns

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Not much I can do with the sata cables tbh half of the rest will be hidden when I fit the air tunnel for the graphics card so as they say, out of sight, out of mind but the rest are all tied in along the cable runs

Tony

jura11

iTrader: (7)

Agreed,but something like this will look much better






Jura

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

Yeah thats neat but a big downside is the cables are under the motherboard by the looks, those get quite hot and then melt your cables looks neat but can lead to a potential fire hazzard (I use to cable big telephone exchanges for a living ) so keeping cables away from issues like that (heat sources) is a must in my book

Tony

PS, that build is also so yesterday, ide?! not the future

bigsinky

i have my rig in one of these



massive over kill but plenty of cooling inside the case. you can read the review

http://www.overclockers.com/lian-li-...lar-cube-case/

jura11

iTrader: (7)

Hi Tony

Yes all cables are under motherboard where cannot be melted,here is how it looks(not mine),you can use this same system






Jura

jura11

iTrader: (7)

I've seen this case in my friend,and as you are said cooling is for my friend everything(he don't like design of CM HAF).He have water cool from Danger Den there and still have plenty space.

Lian Li is daddy of aluminium cases and probably best cases out there



Jura