Woot!

[lewishollings]

PC arrived yesterday at the exact time pc specialist said, I looked everywhere for the camera but no luck will get pics up when I can

Case COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® P8Z68-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
3rd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 500GB SATA-II 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply 600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA1155 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Fan Controller NONE
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD (£16)
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 NONE
Eyefinity / GeForce 3D Vision NONE
Keyboard & Mouse NONE
Mouse NONE
Speakers NONE
Webcam NONE
Headsets (VOIP) NONE
Surge Protection NONE
Cable Tidy NONE
Printer NONE
External Hard Drive NONE
Warranty 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Home Installation NONE
Data Recovery NONE
Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 12 working days
Charity Calendar NONE
Pricing Information
Price (excluding VAT) £672.50
Price £807.00

 

[mantadog]

Very similar system to mine, apart from the HDD, i have a caviar black in mine. Really would have been nice to get a barracuda or a caviar black if you could afford the upgrade.

One thing i have always wanted to find out, and have never quite had the chance. How long does it take you from pushing the power button to getting a working desktop. It's something i have always wanted to know, how the generic 7,200rpm drives cope against a caviar black. I am forever telling people to upgrade to a barracuda or caviar black, yet im not 100% sure how much of an improvment is makes over the standard drives, if you could post up that info i would be forever in your debt

 

[lewishollings]

Dw I'm planning on doing plenty of upgrades as im planning on having this for a long time :L firstly is a quiet cpu cooler and secondly is another HDD

 

[Corfate]

Can't recommend my 212 cooler enough, it's great Knocked 10c off my temps in idle

 

[Buzz]

Very similar system to mine, apart from the HDD, i have a caviar black in mine. Really would have been nice to get a barracuda or a caviar black if you could afford the upgrade.

One thing i have always wanted to find out, and have never quite had the chance. How long does it take you from pushing the power button to getting a working desktop. It's something i have always wanted to know, how the generic 7,200rpm drives cope against a caviar black. I am forever telling people to upgrade to a barracuda or caviar black, yet im not 100% sure how much of an improvment is makes over the standard drives, if you could post up that info i would be forever in your debt

All I can say on this is SSD's Rule. Since changing from normal HDD to system boot SSD from time I press power button to FULL working desktop is 15 sec (14.8 to be exact) Or 21.4 seconds if I have a couple of system monitor progs run on startup (which I dont as a rule)

 

[Buzz]

Can't recommend my 212 cooler enough, it's great Knocked 10c off my temps in idle

What temp does it run at now both idle and running can you let me know please.
Would appreciate it

 

[Corfate]

ATM, it's running at 29c just browing the web. With Prime95 running, it goes up to 36c. BF3 it'll go up to like 34-35c.

If it's just sat on it's own, nothing running, it'll probably fall to around 27c

 

[mantadog]

All I can say on this is SSD's Rule. Since changing from normal HDD to system boot SSD from time I press power button to FULL working desktop is 15 sec (14.8 to be exact) Or 21.4 seconds if I have a couple of system monitor progs run on startup (which I dont as a rule)

Yeah im aware of that, i have seen the youtube videos. But what i can't really find anywhere is a standard 7200rpm drive vs a caviar black.

 

[Buzz]

@ mantadog 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm) Is what I bought with this new machine before got the SSD and that with literally just windows on its on nothing else installed bar windows updates took just under 37 seconds for a desktop boot.. And my older HDD took about 3X that

@ Corfate My CPU runs at pretty much a constant 30C unless running games or photoshop. I have the COOLIT ECO II A.L.C FAT BOY (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) which am very happy with so far. But i think the 200mm side case fan is very helpful to air flow.