A desktop after 8+ years

[coolpcguy]

I've been tinkering with computers for well over 15 years now - and since 2007 I've been using laptops almost exclusively - prime reason being space(or the lack of it) since I moved away from my home, to a new city. Staying in a PG meant there was no space.

Since the past year and half I've been in Bangalore, staying in a rented house and though wanted to own a desktop, there wasn't a decent justification to get it, especially since my laptop, HP Envy 14 was coping well. Till November, my Envy's main system fan died and my laptop was running on GPU fan - which meant running any application would result in temperatures shooting to 80-90 - could barely run a game for 10-15minutes.

December was a fairly busy month for me thanks to some personal matters(*cough*see signature*cough), and in mid Jan I finally decided to get a new desktop than fix my laptop. Anyway, after going through some TDF threads, settling on a budget(which was stretched by over 6k) here's what I got

Core i5 3470 (initially was a i3, but decided to move i5)
MSI ZH77A-G41 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) PC RAM (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R)
Gigabyte 7750 GV-R775OC-1GI
Seasonic S12II 620 Watts PSU
Cabinet is a CM690 handed down to me, thanks to Zoombas.
Seagate 7200RPM ST500DM002

Display's my existing Dell UltraSharp U2312



Flipkart screwed up delivery.


Processor: i5 3470

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yes, that's the condition of the box when I opened the package. One HSF pillar is stuck, can't be moved up/down.

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You can see how the pillar is "jammed" in.
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The one on the far right is the bad one.

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Another view of the bad pillar.

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versus the good one.

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PSU

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GPU

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Memory:

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Got a replacement from fk yesterday, and this time.. it didn't look like it was eaten

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This is how I started the build

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Motherboard taken out

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Slotted the processor in. Was surprisingly easy, despite my lack of experience in handling the new ones

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Stock HSF

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HSF fitted on CPU

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Fitting in the RAM

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And then the GPU

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CPU-Z Validation: CPU-Z Validator 3.1
GPU-Z Validation: techPowerUp GPU-Z Validation 5krs5

Temps on light load:

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Temps after one round of 3D Mark 06 & 3D Mark Vantage

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Looking forward to playing some games on this without the system having to shutdown

 

[dashing.sujay]

Why not a B75 board instead of G41 ?

 

[coolpcguy]

G41? It's an H77 chipset- based board. Took this because it seemed to be reasonably priced

 

[Extreme Gamer]

I believe the other poster got confused because it says G41 after H77 in one of your screenshots

The board is definitely an H77 from MSI. A G41 won't fit an LGA1155 processor. The G41 moniker represents its position in MSI's food chain.

 

[furious_gamer]

@OP
Why did you choose 7750? You could have get 7770 for little bit higher price. Anyways congo for your new rig after your stone age rig,

 

[RON28]

hey nice rig and pictures congrats, which monitor you have and whats the resolution?

 

[avinandan012]

^ see first post

Display's my existing Dell UltraSharp U2312

@cpg congrats

nice to see you posting again

 

[dashing.sujay]

G41? It's an H77 chipset- based board. Took this because it seemed to be reasonably priced

I believe the other poster got confused because it says G41 after H77 in one of your screenshots

The board is definitely an H77 from MSI. A G41 won't fit an LGA1155 processor. The G41 moniker represents its position in MSI's food chain.

Yeah, my bad

 

[coolpcguy]

I believe the other poster got confused because it says G41 after H77 in one of your screenshots

The board is definitely an H77 from MSI. A G41 won't fit an LGA1155 processor. The G41 moniker represents its position in MSI's food chain.

Indeed

@OP
Why did you choose 7750? You could have get 7770 for little bit higher price. Anyways congo for your new rig after your stone age rig,

Thanks. Couldn't extend my budget more, and I'd already overreached it.

hey nice rig and pictures congrats, which monitor you have and whats the resolution?

I have a Dell 23" UltraSharp U2312HM, 1920x1080 resolution screen

@cpg congrats

nice to see you posting again

thank ye!

Yeah, my bad

hehe

 

[theserpent]

Congo we have the same card

 

[Abhishek Nama]

Nice and neat setup! I am thinking of upgrading my 5 year old desktop on similar lines
BTW, what was the total cost of the setup?

 

[coolpcguy]

Nice and neat setup! I am thinking of upgrading my 5 year old desktop on similar lines
BTW, what was the total cost of the setup?

Thanks. Excluding Monitor & Cabinet, came to about 38k. Had already bought the monitor a year ago for 14k, Cabinet got from a friend for free.

 

[Abhishek Nama]

Thanks. Excluding Monitor & Cabinet, came to about 38k. Had already bought the monitor a year ago for 14k, Cabinet got from a friend for free.

Free Cabinet....great friend Enjoy