OK... time to brag about my new PC system... custom built by no other then the King of SimHQ, Doug... cost under 1500 bucks including shipping... incredible system, fast as hell, and very well made and put together... other companies can learn and thing or two about custom PC builders, their love and attention to detail. Thanks a mil Doug... it's a FANTASTIC system.

Not only does every game i have run on maxed settings, not one game dropped below 50 fps, most never dipped below 80... and the best part... when I video record with FRAPS, I can't even tell... no drop in performance what so ever, unlike my old system that was pretty good, but because a slide show when I tried to record video.

All the games I have installed and playing... minus BlackShark 2... my activation code didn't work...

SWEET... and thanks again Doug... you the man.

System Specifications

Intel i7-2600K processor
Cooler Master Hyper N 520 CPU fan
Asus ROG Maximus IV Gene-Z mobo
8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 RAM
Asus ENGTX570 DCII GeForce 570 video card
Western Digital 640GB 7200 w/32MB cache HDD
Corsair TX750M power supply
Corsair Carbide Series 500R black case
LG CD/DVD optical drive
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit

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Lots of fans, but it is amazingly still quiet.

3 XIGMATEK 120mm case fans
2 120MM case fans
2 fans on the power supply
2 fans on the video card
2 fans on the CPU cooler
1 200 CM big assed side fan


screens, all on max/ultra settings:



































BTW: The purpose of the screens is to show detail and distance... smooth as butter.

The price goal was under 1500... well met.

oh ya, limits now.

Very awesome Magnum and good job on the build Guod, great CPU/MB/PSU/GPU combo.

Also just in case you didn't know that 2600k CPU has lots of headroom for overclocking in the future, I dropped a similar 2500k and Asus P8Z68-V motherboard in my case this week and was able to overclock it to 4.8ghz stable on air cooler with just a few simple BIOS tweaks and a small voltage offset, there's even headroom to go into the 5ghz territory someday with more volts and heat if I want to try, but for now a simple 4.8ghz with minimal volts (+.040v) and heat (29c idle, 73c full load) is amazing.

Great intel chip and Asus motherboards these days, that will do you well for the next couple of years at least.

Congrats! Nothing like that new pc feel.

Congrats, Mag!

Cool, what did you do with your old dinosaur Dell XPS730X ? I am in the process of upgrading mine.
Decided to put 12gb of Crucial Ballistix 1600ddr3 and am now searching for newer GPU with no less
then 2gb up 4gb. I love the cases the old Dell XPS series had. Have 2 of them. One from my dead
XPS 700. Some seriously heavy duty cases. Need to tear out that old BTX mobo from it and mod it.

Dell 720... in my daughters room.

and thx folks.

Nice shots! You should have had this one when we were driving.
Extra horse power never hurts

Btw, is that orange and black DP who I think it is

She must think you are one great Dad for that. My son would die if I gave him one of mine.

yes... was watching the practice session... my wheels not set up yet, tomorrow.