My baby is on its way! Take care of her Yodel!

[DaveyP16]

Case SILVERSTONE RAVEN RV03 - GAMING ENTHUSIAST TOWER CASE
Change to: COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7-2600 Quad Core (3.40GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX™
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card 3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 580 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card 3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 580 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
3rd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 600GB VELOCIRAPTOR WD6000HLHX, SATA 6-Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (10,000rpm)
2nd Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
3rd Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
4th Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE 20GB INTEL® SSD 311 SERIES - CACHE DRIVE FOR SYSTEM / 1st HDD
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£45)
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader NONE
Power Supply CORSAIR 1050W PRO SERIES™ HX1050-80 PLUS® SILVER MODULAR (£162)
Processor Cooling TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Change to: Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium (£59)
Network Facilities ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD (£19)
Change to: ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive NONE
Firewire & Video Editing NONE
TV Card NONE
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Monitor NONE
2nd Monitor NONE
3rd Monitor NONE
4th Monitor NONE
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables 2 x 2 METRE DVI-D CABLE (£9)
Eyefinity / GeForce 3D Vision NONE
Keyboard & Mouse NONE
Mouse NONE
Speakers LOGITECH S120 2.0 BLACK SPEAKER SYSTEM (£9)
Webcam NONE
Headsets (VOIP) NONE
Surge Protection NONE
Printer NONE
External Hard Drive NONE
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Home Installation NONE
Data Recovery NONE
Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 12 working days
Miscellaneous FREE Batman Arkham City with any Nvidia® GeForce GTX560 or above!




Just checked the online tracking and she is in Leeds on the 13th working day. Just preying they look after her and she turns up fully working!

Will post a review with pics when I get chance, but working tomorrow and on nights Sat, Sun, so maybe early next week!

 

[Usukane]

Nice one, Davey!

Mine was tested & spent most of the day in quality control today, hoping it's dispatched tomorrow & I get it Saturday *fingers crossed*

Looking forward to the pics & review, it's a really nice build =)

Edit: Try not to worry about Yodel, i'm sure it'll be fine!
I'm just over an hour's drive away from PCS, but i'm more than happy to let Yodel deliver it.

 

[Tony1951]

Yes mines is now in quality control hope to get it mid week starting to get excited. As I am only 5 years off retiring am glad things still excite me.

 

[DaveyP16]

Help please,

connected everything up, but when windows loads the picture is awful and text unreadable at res of 2560*1440. sli mode is enabled and the graphics cards seem to be seated correctly. when i change to res 1920*1080 picture is fine, why cant i use the higher res?

also my wifi is showing no connections available all the time.

any advice please?

 

[DaveyP16]

Sorted,

The wireless card had in fact came out slightly and needed inserting properly.

The resolution issue was down to the cables bought from PCS, when I used the dvi-d cables supplied with the monitor everything worked fine.

Will post a full review and pics a bit later once I am fully setup.

One more thing, the side panel fan (on the side i took off to remove the foam) is not connected, how and where will I connect this and is it easily done? My GPU's idle at around 55, is this normal?

Thanks

 

[Fear]

Glad you sorted your wireless and resolution problems out, the side panel can either connect to a spare 3 pin port on your motherboard or a larger 4 pin molex connector from the PSU and as for you GPU the top card normally runs around 10C higher than the lower 1 and my single idles around 42C just depends how warm it is in my room.