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What are your heaven benchmarks on that baby? It looks similiar to my build but perhaps slightly better :)
 
Figured id throw my rig in the ring, pretty happy with the cable management and overall look 😀

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/computerj.jpg/
 
well inb4 i knew what i was buying before i bought it

FX-8150 4.0 ghz V8 Coolermaster
Asus Direct CU II 6950 2 GB
16 GB kingston hyperx 1600 mhz 9-9-9-24
Crosshair V Formula
Seasonic 1000w platinum
Seagate 500 GB 7200rp, 32mb cache

need to know anything else? 😛
 
well i put it all together myself, kinda disappointing you think its unbalanced. 🙁

story behind it is i build a phenom II x2 550 be with a m4a78t-E board 4 gigs of standard kingston ram, had a 750 w corsair, then i bought the 6950 then upgraded everything except the hdd.

Really want to know the unbalanced part, is it the ram? the lack of ssd? or the bulldozer...
 
Oh alright, well i purchased the 1000w platinum for 2 reasons;

1: stable power my area has real bad power issues
2: futureproof, i keep psu's for a while and will either crossfire or upgrade to a 7970 in the next year

As for the cpu i know, but its amd and im a fanboy to the extent i understand the naming scheme and how they work blah blah etc,
but i also use this rig for rendering and the 8 pipelines work great for what i need em to do.

The coolermaster v8 is just cause a buddy of mine has one and it keeps his cpu cool, honestly i think ill be moving to an h100 soon.

But since you mentioned it and i want to learn more bout intel, seeing as i haven't used an intel rig since my pentium D, whats pros/cons of a 3570k?

i think thats sandy bridge right? i guess biggest thing for me is from my understanding intel socket boards dont come cheap
 

The only thing truly unbalanced is the PSU, although you have your reasons for it. You would have been fine with a Gold/Platinum 850W, nothing more. GPUs are using less and less power every generation, so a 1000W isn't really necessary unless you have plans on running the most powerful hardware on the market.

Bulldozer isn't as bad as benchmarks and reviews make it out to be. It isn't as powerful as the latest i5 and i7s, but it does fairly well nonetheless. At it's current price point (excluding the FX 8150), it's a nice alternative to Intel. Personally, I would take an FX 8120 at it's price range vs the non-k i5s which cost more.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1210060/fx8120-vs-2500k-benchmark-results
 
You're missing the point.

While I agree that the PSU is in fact one of the most future proof components(Case would be #1 imo) the fact is, as we progress into smaller and smaller die size(I'm sure thats not the right term but I'm tired e.g. 45nm, 32nm, 22nm, 14nm etc) the power consumption goes down.

The same can be said for GPUs. AMD/ATi/Radeon specifically has made vast improvements in idle and maximum power consumption just in the last 4 years. So in actuallity current high-end/mainstream hardware actually uses less wattage than comparable hardware from 2008.

If you have an issue with "dirty power" I would've recommended a 80 PLUS SILVER or better rating, and a battery backup like one of these: Hooray power!

I am currently running a 5970 and 5870 on a Seasonic 750W 80 PLUS GOLD and I have no power issues.

Also HDDs use very little power. In order to utilize the power of your 1000W PSU in HDDs it would take over 60 HDDs. Also as far as future proofing for HDDs? As platter densities get better, we are getting more TB per drive. Therefore, less power needed. This of course isn't including SSDs, which use like 1 or 2 watts.

So while the counter argument was phrased in a douche like manner by someone else, it's still a valid counter argument. But being overzealous with a quality PSU is certainly better than being at the other end of the spectrum!
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I guess that makes sense, the thing is i plan on having TB's of storage, im a serious data rat, mostly uncompressed video files, i mean like 2 minutes of 1080p uncompressed can get up to like 6 gigs or more? i cant remeber atm, ive also been up a while.

I still feel as though id be able to one day hit 1000w in some way or another, but as you say everythings starting to take less and less power, maybe i went too big here.

Still begs the question, why are there 1500W psu's for consumers? What are they running? crossfire? dual xeon rigs?
 



"Some" people get larger PSU's because of longer life. A PSU at 50% load is going to last longer than a PSU at 100% load (or always under stress). Better to be safe than sorry...
 


Not quite right. But I understand what you're saying.

I'd place my Seasonic PSU @ 100%(I'm sure sometimes I'm spiking over 100% actually) vs. a Logysis @ 50% any day of the week!
 

General Housekeeping and Off Topic discussions.

Your original post is still referenced in the reply, so your information is still there.
 
Did a little cable management.....also got some Corsair SP120 fans! 😀
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Sold my Thor V2 & Hyper 212 and bought an R4 & Blue Phanteks, upgrading to a Blue & White ASUS P8Z77-V next with a few Blue LED fans:


Pardon this one my hand was shaking pretty bad.
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More/better pics to come tonight.
 
How about this cable management? Had to play doctor it was over-heating and throttling.

M18X R1

i7-2860qm
580m sli
8GB Hynix 1600
256GB Samsung 830
750GB WD Caviar Black
18.4" 1920x1080
Blu-ray

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