My ~$2,300 Rigg Built During The Summer

[moh.vze.com]

Before (my slow *** computer that I've had since 2001):

Now (My new rig!):

My office (Ignore the crappy chair that's being held together by ducktape and such):

The wiring might look a bit messy, but it looks a lot better than what I had before!

Q6600 g0 Overclocked to 3.0 GHz.

Stress test:

Maximum temperature in this picture was 58C in a 75 degree F room. The highest the temperature that this thing has gotten was 67C in a 87 degree F room

The total cost was $2,400.

This was my first time building a computer from scratch. I built all of this during the month of August.

Note: I bought my Q6600 g0 during a bad time when they were jacking up the prices (I wanted to get this rig done before summer ended). As a result, I probably spent 40$ more then I needed to.

Specs to my rig (I might have forgotten to list some items but oh well)

Monitor:

22'' V7 Monitor For - $200

Keyboard:

Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard - $38.00

HardDrives:

Seagate FreeAgent Desktop Drive 320GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - $80

Maxtor 500 GB HD - $100

WD Raptor X 150GB for - $159

Mobo:

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R ATX Intel Motherboard - Retai

Processor:

Q6600 g0 - $310.00

Ram:

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop - $69.99

Speakers:

Logitech Z-5500 Digital Speaker System for - $220

SoundCard:

Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Sound Card - $49.99

Power Supply:

Corsair 620HX Watt - (~120$)

Video Card:

EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Computer Case:

Antec Sonata II Mid Tower Case W/ 450W Antec SmartPower 2.0 PSU $30 After $50MIR - $80 (They screwed me over with rebate. I'm never shopping with Antec company again).

CASE SILVERSTONE|TJ09-BW BK RT - $290.00

Cooling (Heatsinks and Fans):

Heatsinks:

Thermalright Ultra-120 extreme - $60.00

Thermalright HR-03 plus - $50.00

Fans:

(5x) 120mm Yate Loon D12SL-12 BLUE LED 38.5 CFM, 25.4

dBA) - $31.25

(2x) 120mm Scythe SFF21F S-FLEX™ Case Fan (63.7 CFM/28 dBA) - $28.00

Other:

LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black SATA Model LH-20A1S OEM BK - OEM - $30.00

Arctic Alumina Adhesive 5grams Part A and B - $6.00

ArctiClean Thermal Material & Surface Purifier - 60ml - $6.00

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - 3.5 gram tube - $6.00

(20x) 4" Translucent White (Natural) Zip Tie - $1.00

Here are some pictures of my install:

Ultra-120 Extreme Side View:

Ultra-120 Extreme Base View:

Ultra-120 Extreme Base View close up:

HR-03 Plus Front View:

HR-03 Plus Front Base View:

HR-03 Plus Side View:

HR-03 Plus Top View:

HR-03 Plus RAMSinks View1:

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HR-03 Plus RAMSinks View2:

HR-03 Plus 120mm Fan Hanging:

HR-03 Plus Top View of 120mm Fan Hanging:

HR-03 Plus GHETTO FAN ZIP TIE SOLUTION1:

HR-03 Plus Fan GHETTO FAN ZIP TIE SOLUTION2:

HR-03 Plus Ghetto Tip Tie closeup:

HR-03 Plus Ghetto Zip Tie Flatview:

HR-03 Plus Ghetto Zip Upright:

Right side view:

Inside the case:

(This was a picture where I have not connected any wires and such)

My work space:

Ah, can't forget about my Z-5500. The bass on this thing isn't too hot (Probably because I leave it at stock setting sublevel because I'm too afraid to blow it up), but the 5 speakers sure sounds great!

I just wished my car would produce the great 5.1 surround sound like these speakers -_^.

The best freaken speakers I've ever heard.

[kevinb721]

maxtor...ehhhh

seagate > maxtor

everything else is pretty nice, i would just never buy maxtor. we were putting a server together for one of our clients that wanted 6 maxtor drives striped in a raid 5 array and 5 out of the 6 were DOA. we had to order a whole new batch of 10 and guess what 4 out of those 10 were yup you guessed it DOA. oh well, i guess different people have different luck. that just wasnt a good day at work for us

Edited October 26, 2007 by kevinb721

[rusty959]

looks pretty nice. Where did you get the G15? Last I checked, I couldn't find it for that low. How's the 3dmark06 score?

[Mesto]

Nice Rig..

is that Maxtor 500GB a SATA hardrive?

[moh.vze.com]

looks pretty nice. Where did you get the G15? Last I checked, I couldn't find it for that low. How's the 3dmark06 score?

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=583581

That's where I found the deal for the G15. However, I decided to play it safe and only use the 12.50$ rebate after gco.

My rebate should arrive soon:

Your rebate check was mailed on 19-Oct-2007. Please allow at least 30 days for delivery.

As for the 3dmark06 score, I loss my screenshot, so I'll get back to you on that

Edited October 27, 2007 by moh.vze.com

[moh.vze.com]

Nice Rig..

is that Maxtor 500GB a SATA hardrive?

It's SATA.

I bought it over priced for $100 shipped.

I could have gotten it for 80$ shipped if I waited.

By the way guys, getting the rebates to process correctly was a pain in the @ss. It took me 3+ months to get Antec, FRYs, and X-Fi Creative/Circuit City to correctly get my rebates through.

They were giving me bullsh!t about not receiving my mailed in rebates and such.

I think about 60% of the items I've bought had a rebate.

I've received about 200$+ back in rebate money thus far.

I'm still awaiting for my

Corsair CMPSU-620HX $20 Rebate @ ZipZoomFly

12.50$ rebate from the G15 keyboard

30.00$ rebate from the X-Fi creative sound card

Crap. There's a few other rebates in the list that I can not think of now, but I'm pretty sure all of the "expensive$$" rebates has been done.

I re-read through my first post and it looks like I didn't show which items were After mail in rebates. My "original" post that I made elsewhere had it until their server crashed and I was too lazy to rewrite everything in detail, so I just left the prices as is (assuming that I got all my rebates, which I will)

Edited October 27, 2007 by moh.vze.com

[Slinky]

nice rig

[treossi]

bad ass! but i see windows

[Slinky]

thats because windows is awesome