Reporting in.

It's been about half an hour since I've finished installing Windows and minutes since I've finished with all the additional hardware soft installations.

I think I owe it to you chaps, to have my first ever post from this new pc on these forums.
Thanks to everyone who helped my build this rig and save a few pennies while doing so.
Additional word of appreciation for Cat - without your contributions I wouldn't be using the pc I'm using now - you are in my opinion, a great part of this community.

Anyhow without further ado short picture summary:

Components + antec 300 out of picture:
http://img46.imageshack.us/i/dsc00002wl.jpg

First step with the PSU - with it being the first build I made, this is where it started to get fun !

http://img96.imageshack.us/i/dsc00003bw.jpg

Forgot to take some pics while mounting things on the mobo and mobo in the case - was too carried away :P So that's everything without cables done:

http://img821.imageshack.us/i/dsc00004ik.jpg

And that's the way it is now - cables really do need some more tidying up, but I will do that when I get 2 more fans for the case.

http://img535.imageshack.us/i/dsc00022rk.jpg

P.S.
Bah no idea why pictures ain't working, nevertheless right clicking and opening seems to work :*(

I'm getting broken links for the images.

Yeah black same here when I look at it :(
Right clicking and opening seems to work but doesn't show up - no clue why

Did you get the following GTX460:

http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...s%20Family&sw=

If so how noisy is it??

PS:

Thanks for the nice comments! :D

YW Cat
I got the superclocked one since as you know - budget and it was on sale for 135.
I heard it twice so far, both times while installing additional evga soft but not otherwise.
dling some games now to put it through the paces - it's not oced or anything now - will write here when I do and if noise is an issue at all.

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Originally Posted by Molotov

P.S.
Bah no idea why pictures ain't working, nevertheless right clicking and opening seems to work :*(

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Reason the pictures are not showing is because they are not actually jpeg images although it's ending in .jpg it's actually an html web page. :rolleyes:

the actual image locations are
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8767/dsc00002wl.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8767/dsc00002wl.jpg

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/553/dsc00003bw.jpg
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/553/dsc00003bw.jpg

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/197/dsc00004ik.jpg
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/197/dsc00004ik.jpg

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7889/dsc00022rk.jpg
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7889/dsc00022rk.jpg


EDIT: yes your cabling is a mess ;) but I know what it's like, you want to get the pc up and running.

Cat
Just ran mw2 all maxed 1920x1080 no issues with noise whatsoever. This is ofc only mw2 - I'm dling bad company 2 next, then dow2 followed by napoleon and empire total wars (which should put a bit more strain on it) I'll update you how it performs on those.
In addition I haven't tweaked with evga precision tool yet - there seems to be a LOT of room left for increasing fan speed (it's at about 1/3 or 1/4 of max now) but I won't be touching that right now.

Pob
thanks for explaining the image thing :P
As for cables - main issue is that the 2 fans have annoying cables which are right in mid of everything but i can still just tape those up, cpu cable from psu is also right in the middle of everything and too short to pull around properly :(( same with usb and headphone/mic ... ill figure something out with some of em but I recon some will still be in the way :(

Next step is to get a CPU cooler, then unlock and overclock the CPU, then overclock the graphics card.

Thanks!

So you got the one which vents the exhaust out of the case.

I am just asking as there are two versions of the card - the other one does not vent the exhaust out of the case.

cat
got it slightly wrong - i had it on minimal setting of fan speed (30 whatever it means :P)
yeah there is one with fan in middle and fan on the right - mine has it on the right - is it the crappier one ? (my guess it is)
if you are really interested in noise levels I can dl crysis/warhead again and give it a ragging on that (would have probably done it at some point anyway)

nibbler
this is exactly the plan although I'm not sure I can afford new cpu cooler atm - skinnt as hell now (valentines :( )
I shouldn't risk unlocking or ocing with stock cooler should I ?
If not I'll just mess with card for now since that looks a bit easier.

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Originally Posted by Molotov

cat
got it slightly wrong - i had it on minimal setting of fan speed (30 whatever it means :P)
yeah there is one with fan in middle and fan on the right - mine has it on the right - is it the crappier one ? (my guess it is)
if you are really interested in noise levels I can dl crysis/warhead again and give it a ragging on that (would have probably done it at some point anyway)

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The one you have got vents the hot air out of the case which I prefer TBH.

Temp and noise is higher though cat, otherwise I'd have got this model. Although for your needs it makes sense, seeing as you need the airflow. I wouldn't do anything with the stock cooler personally, but monitor the temps and see how it goes.