Boom....

[Ashenfield]

Computer is dead.
Time to go shopping.

[Darkhawke]

Im guessing it commtitted suicide from depression as a result of lack of gaming ..Hopefully the new doesnt suffer the same fate

[Torvalis]

that sucks, but always fun to build a new system!

[Ashenfield]

Nice new water cooled i7 running now.
Been a while since I built one from scratch

[Ashenfield]

So I went with the following setup:

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50Ghz, 8MB L3 Cache
Boot: 128GB 2.5" 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SSD), Read: 550MB/s Write: 520MB/s
Data: WD Black (WD2002FAEX) 2000GB (2TB) SATA3
Memory: 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1866MHz CL10 Dual Channel Kit
Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H60 2013 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V Socket 1155 Intel Z77 Chipset
PSU: 750W Corsair Builder series modular power supply
Case: Fractal Design Core 3000
OS: Windows 8 Professional 64bit

Kept my old video card for the moment, I wasn't at the point that it didn't run things I wanted to play so I saved the money for food

[Spidubic]

Setup from the start with Win8 that SSD drive should absolutely fly. Boot time must be pretty impressive as well. Mind you with Win 8 you will rarely need to shut it off completely.

[Dizzarian]

wow top of the line, very nice.

[Spidubic]

Any news on the new beast? Chance to stretch its legs?

[Ashenfield]

Not a lot of high power gaming done on it, but it hasn't slowed down on anything I've thrown at it.

Overclocked the 3.5Ghz cores to 4.0Ghz with only a marginal temperature increase and no stability issues.

It's got enough juice to be running the main OS (including gaming) while still running a full time CentOS 6 linux install in the background as a virtual machine.

It makes I happy