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Well I didn't get any defective parts, I just pressed the order button, then about 10 minutes later wished I had gone for some sort of semi-modular power supply but hey I managed to hide most of the cables even inside that tiny little case.
 
M1kkelZR said:
yeah he stole my case, he came to my house threatend me to give him my case or he'd take my entire pc away. I gave him the case and now I'm using a glassbox.

Darn you Mr. BootUp05!
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Could be worse. He could have forced you to give him your case and then leave the rest of your system on carpet. :eek:
 
Some pics of my rig... My RAM is pretty old, but G.Skill do an awesome job in aesthetics :D

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ASUS P7P55D - awesome board. When I had an i5 760 I had a P7P55D-E, the one with SATA 6GB/s and USB 3.0. :)
 
87dtna said:
And the sata 6gb/s ports were worthless because they had worse performance than sata 3gb/s ports. ;)
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Really? SATA 6GB/s on my board seemed OK (certainly faster than the SATA 3GB/s I was using with a Foxconn board beforehand) but still not that fast. When I upgraded to a P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 it was definitely a lot faster.
 
P55 doesn't naturally support sata3, so a seperate chipset was used.

A typical sata3 SSD would get ~400mb/s read and 150mb/s write on those controllers, when on sata2 they get 280 read and 260 write. So while the read performance is slightly better, the write speed suffers. Also, typically there's a lot of latency issues on the external controller, it's just way better when the chipset itself supports Sata3 naturally such as the Z68 as you mentioned. Most sata3 SSD's will get 500+ read and 450+ write speeds on true sata3.
 
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Spent the last 2 hours finally putting together my new (ish) rig. I bought it in June last year :P

Just need to pick up a graphics card now!













It's now all ready to run, but I'm putting it back into its box for now, once my room is done I will power it up :)

EDIT: Just picked up a 90cm Back SATA Cable so that I can route the optical drive cable round the back of the motherboard, only cost me £1.70! Surprised that a 45cm cable isn't long enough!
 
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Neat was the main goal, as it's going to be sitting on my desk facing me without the side panel on :)

The budget for the GPU is £100 - £125 and I'll probably be buying used.

I've been looking at the 560Ti, HD6950 & HD7850 so far :cool:
 
87dtna said:
P55 doesn't naturally support sata3, so a seperate chipset was used.

A typical sata3 SSD would get ~400mb/s read and 150mb/s write on those controllers, when on sata2 they get 280 read and 260 write. So while the read performance is slightly better, the write speed suffers. Also, typically there's a lot of latency issues on the external controller, it's just way better when the chipset itself supports Sata3 naturally such as the Z68 as you mentioned. Most sata3 SSD's will get 500+ read and 450+ write speeds on true sata3.
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I don't think I have a lot of latency problem on eSATA 6GB/s, USB3 and SATA3. As well as USB3 on my old motherboard. As long as hard drive support SATA3 is need for all of three different type of high speed port. About external controller, do you mean firewire or USB2 hard drive external?
 
Bootup05 said:
Neat was the main goal, as it's going to be sitting on my desk facing me without the side panel on :)

The budget for the GPU is £100 - £125 and I'll probably be buying used.

I've been looking at the 560Ti, HD6950 & HD7850 so far :cool:
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I thought you had an XFX 6870? Or did you sell it because it was getting a bit dated?

7850 would be the best option, they're a bit more expensive than £100 though. More like £140-£160 (http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...aphicscards/amdhd7850series/fx-785a-cnjc.html) you want a 2GB card ideally.

I'd forget about the 560 Ti and the 6950 now. They're both old and have been replaced. 1GB of RAM is a limitation you'll get with a 560 Ti. Can't remember if a 2GB 6950 was available, but I'd choose a 2GB 7850 over it anyway.

But it looks like you've made a great start! :good:
 
Jamebonds1 said:
About external controller, do you mean firewire or USB2 hard drive external?
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No he's talking about the 'external'/third party Marvell SATA 6GB/s controller the ASUS P7P55D-E had. The Intel P55 chipset did not have a SATA 6GB/s controller built in like the newer 6x and 7x chipsets do, so in order to get SATA 6GB/s on the P7P55D-E a Marvell controller had to be used which was slower than the Intel 6GB/s controllers on the 6x and 7x chipsets. Same story with USB 3.0 too.
 
The CPU is a i3 2100 that I bought from Aastii, and I did have a XFX HD6870, but sold it to pay off my Wonga loan :P

Now I'm looking for something new that would be a bit better than the 6870, is only having 1GB of VRAM really that much of a problem?

I will be playing at 1080p

My budget is quite strict, I don't really want to spend anything over £130, but don't know how I'm going to get a 1GB+ card for that price!

EDIT: There are a few 2GB HD6950's on eBay within my budget
 
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