10-26-2013, 09:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2013, 09:42 AM by Paperthintelevision.)
(10-26-2013, 05:10 AM)craigpd Wrote: Would have been better of with a Noctua DH-14. Great air cooler, far better than a H80i.
GPU is something I would expect to see in a $1200 build.
HDD, I wouldn't store anything inportant..2TB HDD's die often enough. I shudder to think how long that HDD will last before dying. (3 Platters, 3x the failure rate essentially)
SSD. Would have been better off with a 240Pro, known to be very reliable, haven't heard too much about the one you have chosen, but what I have heard places it behind the 240Pro in terms of reliability and read/write.
Cable management is horrible. Fix dat shit.
Motherboard. Great choice.
CPU. I would say overkill. i5-4670k would have been a better choice IMO.
Those speakers are shit-tier. You would have been well off with some decent Music-headphones, seen as you do produce music on the side. If you are going to get some headphones, then grab some Audio Technica ATH-M50's..Fantastic headphones, well worth the price.
I won't even go into the mouse and keyboard.
Razer make cases?..this can only end badly.
PSU is great.
RAM, no need for 2133Mhz, unless you have an APU there is no noticeable difference between 1066 ana 2133.
That's a Razer mousepad not a case, my case is a Corsair Modular 400r. I like my razer keyboard and mouse man, they're great! It's mechanical. It lights in the dark so I don't have to have a light on in my room and has some macro keys.
I haven't tried the speakers yet. But I wasn't looking to get the most amazing 2.1 setup out there, I don't like Altec Lansing (had bad bad experiences with them), and I also have a recording studio with some really good studio monitors as well as various pairs of studio headphones so I'm not concerned about that. Those studio headphones look nice and have great reviews but they're kinda shady on the details about material and construction. I absolutely fucking HATE using headphones while on the computer doing anything. I wanted a big sub for gaming in my room, so I went with this, it's huge. If I ever felt like it, I could just hook up my comp to my studio, I'm not worried about this issue, I also read up on these speakers and have noted the problems therein.
I'm aware of the HDD situation regarding high capacity HDD's. I have a lot of alternative backups of my shit so I'm also not worried about this. This is because I work with RAW .wav and .flac recordings and that if they ended up lost or damaged, I would tear my fucking hair out. If the 3TB HDD goes kaputt then I will buy 3 1TB HDD's (money will not be an issue for me in a month or two). I also bought the same flash drive that my friends own and they never reported anything off about it, so I went for it.
I changed from a few GPU's. Honestly...why do I need a 770 or 780 for?... like what? 5% more performance than the previous version? fuck that. maybe I'll just buy another one. Or a titan and go sli. I'm running on 1080 monitor with 60hz, I don't see the point in getting the latest GFX card when this one is perfectly suitable for my gaming needs.
the motherboard is good, un-freaking believable capabilities.
the CPU is overkill, I will admit. But I honestly don't give a fuck. Money is not a big prob for me.
I think that was the only speed offered for the vengeance series ram on the website I ordered it from. My friend said the same thing, too.
The power supply is good. It was of the few that really had some great safety features (platinum atw)
My friend also said that I should have gotten the Noctua. Maybe I'll get one, idfk!
I will probably only be overclocking for certain things, if not at all. heat is an issue in the summer because we don't use air conditioning so I may not even want to run it some days because it will heat up my room significantly. But in the Winter, I'm hoping this thing will heat my room, because we also use a wood stove for heating my whole house which doesn't do much justice if there's no one tending the fire every 20 minutes, depending on what type of wood we use.
the computer was not completely organized when I took those pictures and I wasn't expecting you guys to comment on that yet... The case is modular so hiding all those cables will be no problem. Being a very organized person, I can see myself spending at least 1-2 hours getting it right SO QUIT YOUR BITCHIN'!
Like I said, money is not a problem. I make 13K a month, this was just a little project of mine for a year or so.