My new rig from Cyberpower PC arrived. Yeah I know this is system builders so I guess buying a pre-built system doesn't belong here... Hate on me if you wish, I am too happy to care. My last few builds have all had "Murphy's Law" issues that just depressed the hell out of me, so I just want a warranty and a place to say "here.. fix this.."
Case: Obsidian Series 650D
PS: Raidmax RX-1000AE (1KW)
Mobo: Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3
CPU: i7-2600K
CPU Cooling: Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (4GBx2) 1600MHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7970
HD: 2TB SATA III
OS: Windows Premium (x64)
Cyberpower did a very nice job with the cabling and zip ties, but they must have done something wrong with the case's SATA drive slot on top of the case as when I put in a drive it crashed with a blue screen. I just hooked up my HyperX SATA to the mobo's eSATA port and that worked fine.
I OCed CPU to 4.5 Ghz, but keeping other values to auto for now (and let it throttle). I don't have a program for monitoring CPU temps (I did download the Asus suite, but have not installed it yet). Max voltage I have seen in CPU-Z so far was 1.34v so I figured it was fine. Stable in all applications, have not run Prime95. If anyone has some safe links to those (or similar) programs I would appreciate it.
The GPU I have not OCd yet, but I am very impressed with the temps I have seen in Catalyst, only 32c while surfing, and after 30 minutes of playing Skyrim on Ultra (2560x1600) it was only at 61c, with the fan speed at 30%. Very nice! I do appreciate that it is winter now and my room temp was around 65F.
I will post some pictures once I get the pics out of my camera.
Upgrades in the semi-near future:
~64GB SSD for Intel caching
Dedicated sound card? (maybe, don't really care about sound as I have bad ears and am happy if dialog is loud enough to hear and if I shoot something I hear a "bang" sound).
Anyways, I do plan on sending Cyberpower PC a nice review and telling them I saw them on Tech Report.