It's been a few years since my last build and i had alot of money to shell out on new gear so here's my latest setup as follows:
ASUS ROG Series MAXIMUS VI HERO Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard
SSD:250GB Samsung 840 EVO Series 2.5" SATA 6GB/s (SATA-III) Solid State Drive SSD
Hard Drive for bulk storageHGST 4TB 7K4000 Desktar Hard Drive
Processor:Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
RAM8GB (2x4GB) G.Skill RipjawsX 2400MHz CL11 DDR3 Dual/Quad Channel Kit [F3-2400C11D-8GXM]
New Monitor: LG 29EA93-P 29" LED LCD IPS HDMI Monitor
http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-29EA93-P-led-monitor (http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-29EA93-P-led-monitor)
Older parts that i kept from last build: GPU:http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-560 (http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-560)
Hard Drive:WD 2tb Green
http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=933 (http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=933)
Case: http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/34-phantom (http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/34-phantom)
Power Supply:http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/powersupplies/nov-psb1000.html (http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/powersupplies/nov-psb1000.html)
Hard Drive Comparrisons:
Benchmarking in progress:
Finished benchmarking:
Look how old my Samsung HD321KJ 320gb compares. The 4tb HGST hodls up well, but nothing beats the SSD.
(http://imgur.com/yZOYYwx)
lol that is literally my every conversation with steven
Least it looks better than mine.
Quote from: James Almasy on 27-11-2013
Least it looks better than mine.
you've got sexy shoes there m8
I upgraded my GPU recently to the Gigabyte G1 970, i will get a 2nd card once it drops in price in the future for SLI. I have OC'd it to the power of a 980 using EVGA's Precison tool, fantastic bit of software.
Got a new Keyboard - The Corsair RGB K95 - Brown. Fantastic bit of kit, full of glowy goodness and i also obtained a Logitech G502, much better improvement over my old mouse that literally only worked on a old rubber mousepad i had, would not work on any other surface.
Speaking of surfaces, got a Starcraft 2 QCK steel series mousepad, works far better than the Razer Goliath extended pad i have.
Now for the huge update, that is, my 3 monitor setup, i sold my older monitor thats shown in the original pictures on the left. It was a 24" TN panel, was a pretty good monitor but age was setting in, had a big back too. I moved to getting a 23" AOC IPS for the left and the 29" 21:9 ips monitor has moved to the right with a huge 34" 21:9 ips in the middle. Hitting 3440 x 1440 resolution is pretty sexy indeed. The stand is shitty with it though, i will eventually mount it, but the price has fallen rapidly in the last few weeks, so will be sending this one back and getting a replacement hopefully with less light bleed.