New comp, High specs!

I hope you bought a 6970 ? ^^

I got one and IT's FREAKING AWESOME !!

nope im more for nvidia, so 580 for me

Yep my gtx 580 arrived monday.

After work on monday I built my computer, its nice a smooth and fast!

Will also upload the pics of me building it soon, cba to upload them yet.

Only thing i need to put in now is the SSD which im putting on hold for abit, jst waiting on a msg.

Decided to upload my photos of my new computer being built

1. Mounted the Motherboard, Connecting the case front panel eg power cables, Connected the front case fan and Mounted the H70 CPU Cooler Bracket.


2. Mounted the 3x 2GB Total 6GB Corsair Dominator RAM.


3. Installed the 1000w Corsair Modular PSU, Attatched the 2x power cables to the Motherboard.


4. Had to remove the H70 bracket and then Mount my Intel i7 CPU, Then installed the H70 Bracket again.


5. Removed my rear case fan, Mounted the H70 Radiator and 2x H70 Fans, Fan either side of the Radiator, Then the H70 pump on the CPU.


6. Mounted the Samsung DVD RW, with the power cable to the PSU and the SATA II cable to Motherboard.


7. Mounted Samsung 1TB HDD with the power cable to PSU and the SATA II cable to Motherboard.


8. Lastly Installed the Nvidia GTX 580 Gigabyte Graphics Card to the Motherboard, Using the 2x Power cables to the PSU.



9. Finally made all the wiring nice and neat, cable management.


10. All done!


It Turned on..





Will post a photo of all the computer soon including monitor, keyboard, desk etc...

Your Blue peter badge is in the post mike...

Here's the rest of my pc...





Pic without flash, so you can see my pretty blue lights lol.

im impressed mate nice cable management, one question is your mobo running the ram in dual channel mode as you have 3 installed

How much did it all set you back mike...

how the f**k did you get it so tidy inside!?!? mine is a mess, and i really tried this time

capitan wrote:how the f**k did you get it so tidy inside!?!? mine is a mess, and i really tried this time

Underneath the motherboard is a gap and some holes run all the cables under there

Take a look at pic 9

Viglen wrote:im impressed mate nice cable management, one question is your mobo running the ram in dual channel mode as you have 3 installed

Not sure how I check it mate but if this helps Im running the 6GB ? that what u meant?

Jay Scott wrote:How much did it all set you back mike...

Not worked it out yet mate, dont really want to either but i will soon.

capitan wrote:how the f**k did you get it so tidy inside!?!? mine is a mess, and i really tried this time

Ye like Jay said, that case is designed so you can hide all the wiring at the back of the case, plus the Modular PSU helps.

Jay Scott wrote:How much did it all set you back mike...

Finally added it all up today bravely

The price including VAT+Delievry was £1,933.41