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fogus
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Made the order!

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Thanks a ton for all your help this time around guys, especially FP! You helped make a great new rig.

Here are the specs for the box itself:
  • Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-V LX LGA 1155 Intel Z77
  • CPU: i7-3770S
  • RAM: 32GB of Corsair standard (already arrived!)
  • Vid: XFX AMD Radeon HD 6870
  • SSD: Intel 330 120GB
  • Case: Fractal Design Define R4 Cases, Black Pearl
  • PSU: Corsair Professional Series AX 750 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Gold
Extras:
  • Accell B087B-006B UltraAV Mini DisplayPort to DVI-D Single-Link Active
  • 2 @ Viewsonic VX2450WM-LED 24-Inch
  • Dual LCD Monitor Stand
  • Zalman Reserator 1 V2, LGA 1155 adapter and universal VGA adapter
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I built it! Idles at <85W, and boots past the Windows 7 logo before the quadrants can fully animate. Water cooling to come soon.
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Good deal. Is it worthy of pics?
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Wow 32 gigs of ram.
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pics and benchies!
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More to come after water cooler arrives.

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Good deal, it's getting there. I like the white PCI covers.
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Sort of a BS way of benching, but I've been busy using this PC, so, here's what Windows thinks of it.

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What's strange to me is that Windows doesn't seem to care about how much RAM I have, just how fast it is. With many people's PCs swapping RAM to (spinning usually) disk, wouldn't it matter much more for performance that you had 4GB or 8GB of "slow" RAM compared with 2GB of "fast" RAM?
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