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So its rocognized as a solution by msi to bend the front panel pins on my mobo so the plugs clear the 2nd pcie slot for sli. The card when in slot 2 hangs over the pins and when you plug in the front panel connectors the card hangs out of the pcie slot a bit and im not comfortable trying to mash it in there. I read that msi has recognized the bending of the pins as a official solution because of a design flaw on their behalf. Lmao well time to bend some pins I guess.
 
I've broken down my watercooled rig. I'm converting the SUGO SG08 to my main rig for a bit. The Caselabs will await a new (yet to be released) motherboard and CPU. For now I will run a 3570K on a ASRock Z77E-ITX, EVGA GTX 750 ti, and retain my same Crucial M4 256GB SSD and 1TB Blue for storage.

Pics to come! Waiting on parts.
 
Had a fan fail on one of my 7870 DD's and XFX sent me a heatsink with shroud and two fans. Problem is, the heatsink is for a Tahiti LE chip so is incompatible with the reference 7870 PCB. And to make matters worse the fan mounting holes don't match the stock heatsink.

No doubt the HS XFX sent is better that the one that I had (2 heat pipes). The Tahiti LE HS is 4 heat pipes and full copper block.
 
Have a upcoming birthday for my sister, and she loves gaming on the computer lol. Saw her playing rust with a dell PC, and damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn her GPU couldn't handle that whatsoever. (Some crappy, old HD 7570 from AMD)

She's also graduating this year on June, so I think I want to get her a "better" gaming PC as a gift haha. And it also gives me a chance to give my gtx 770 and Corsair tx750 watt psu to her. I guess my budget will be around 1000$ depending if there going to be good sales coming up.
 
Hey guys I have a friend who wants to make a $1500 PC and instead of getting an i5 or an i7 he wants to get the amd 9590 because he is convinced that future games that he will be playing (star citizen) will need all 8 cores and the amd cpu will run it better, he also wants to get 16 gb of ram for the same reason, im not the best when it comes to knowing the exact reasons as to why he shouldn't but I want to convince him that he could be getting a better graphics card and other stuff that will make real preformance boosts, so long story short, what should I tell him that will convince him not to waste his money on things that will be useless? thanks!
 


Games barely even use 2 or 3 cores right? Whatever, tell him to just get a 8350, that cpu is not worth it. unless, it is the 12 core one, which would still be over kill. 8 cores is more than enough... I think..
 

RIGHT, BECAUSE OF THE MULTI THREAD, IT TECHNICALLY HAS 8 CORES RIGHT?? damn caps.
Anyway, it's 8 cores for the 9590. Just it's at 5 Ghz(w boost standard is 4.7)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116939
pretty sure that has hyper threading as well. So what if it's a little old? Old is gold right?
 



i got that, took forever for me to pick a case...my next build is a mini itx water cooled....im gonna have fun with that one.
 


yeah all i did was remove the quick bay slides from the case.....im not ready to mod it completely just yet. have some plans in the works tho.

 


Like?...

 
In my opinion the Air 540 is a larger case that I would never really use. Big overkill cases are not really my style. I prefer a very neat and tidy mid-tower for most all builds. Its just my opinion. Some people prefer the look of a huge case over the look of the components inside.
 
It is a mid tower. On the box it says mid tower cube. Bud, It looks smaller than you think. Dont worry. Or maybe you have seen it in real life but still. I dont know about your system, but it fits mine well.

And you said its a case that you would EVER use 😛
 


A cover over the hhd bays all the way to the top with a cutout in it with an led strip behind it so it lights, thinking of painting the interior another color.....maybe making a full sleeved cover for over the psu, getting sleeved cables as well. Maybe "WC" custom looping.....also getting rid of the monitors and getting the correct ones i want...144 instead of the 60...lol my mistake there......
 
I have built in the Air 540 before. I just don't personally see the need for the deep back. It just takes up space. I could do a perfect cable management job without all that extra space. Look at my build a page or two back. The back panel on my case is an inch deep at most and I have a non modular PSU AND cable extensions.
 
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