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This is what I got from Newegg:
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero
CPU: Intel i7-4770K 3.5 GHz
Memory: Trident X series DDR3, 2 x 8 GB
Graphics: Asus GTX 660 Ti 2GB
System drive: Samsung 840 Pro series 256 GB SSD
Data drive: Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 7200 with 64 MB cache
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Case: Rosewill R5 mid tower with plenty of fans and a very roomy interior
Power: Rosewill Lighting-1000
I had forgotten to get a CD rom, so I picked up an LG BR-R / DVD-RW at Fry's, along with some new Bose speakers (no sub-woofer this time: the people in the apartment below me have been complaining.) Kept my 1920 × 1080 HD screen, which I bought less than a year ago. Everything running like a dream: my "Windows Experience Score" is 7.8 (and that, apparently, only because the CPU has only 8 processors; everything else is 7.9.)
I do have a question, though: the case has two fans in the front, but the MB has only cluster of pins for plugging in the front fan (there is one other fan in the back, which is plugged in fine.) Should I look for a splitter cable that will let me connect both, or will one fan be fine?
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No SSD? 
/ravi
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Lost your glasses? It says SSD on the line above the HDD!
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DaveAuld wrote: Lost your glasses?
What gave that away? 
/ravi
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The system drive is a 256 GB SSD.
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Yes. And I'm as blind as a bat.
/ravi
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Nice build.
On the fan front:
One will probably be fine, although it depends on what the outlet fan is doing. Monitor the temperatures over time and see how things are, particularly once you load up the GPU.
On your WEI, mines a 7.9 and that is because of the SSD. the CPU/Ram get 8, the Graphics get 8.2 You can read about mine here: Major Component Upgrades with a twist, benchmarks and all![^]
Cheers,
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Wow, I thought 7.9 was the current high benchmark. I haven't overclocked anything (yet), maybe that's my problem 
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IIRC, 7.9 was the cap at the release of Windows 7, they upped the limit at some point.
I really need an SSD, it's holding my score back. 
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Nice machine. Apparently you can double your ssd's speed if you raid it with an identical one. But that's only worth it if you won the lotto and have the bucks to throw away.
Enjoy.
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Sounds like a slick rig. How much did that put you out?
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Total cost was just under 2000 USD, which includes Office 2010 Pro. More than I liked spending, but my current rig was showing its age (5.5 years old and in a case that's a bit too small and thus difficult to keep cool.) Building it myself saved at least $500 and it doesn't have any bloatware installed.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: and it doesn't have any bloatware installed
Yet.
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Well, at least I didn't have to spend two hours trying to uproot adware, demos and various other crap. 
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Only two hours? I take it you've never bought a computer with Symantec pre-installed? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only two hours? I take it you've never bought a computer with Symantec
pre-installed?
Now that you mention it, I've never had that... um... privilege.
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It is apparently possible to remove Symantec in less than a day, but I'd imaging you would need a Special Tool[^]
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That's pretty solid. I'll be in the market in a few months (having just bought a server that's running Fedora 19) and haven't been keeping up on game-level machines.
Thanks o/
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Just did something similar, though not quite as tricked out as yours. 
Gregory.Gadow wrote: I do have a question, though: the case has two fans in the front, but the MB has
only cluster of pins for plugging in the front fan (there is one other fan in
the back, which is plugged in fine.) Should I look for a splitter cable that
will let me connect both, or will one fan be fine?
The guy from whom I got my parts (he's been my dealer for about 15 years now) suggested just hooking any extra fans up to the power supply itself. In fact, he said that if I didn't mind the extra noise, to just hook all of them up to main power; it won't hurt anything, and doesn't depend on the MB to keep itself cool.
Turns out that on my case, the fans are virtually silent anyway, and when I'm playing games they are even more so, relatively speaking, so I just plugged them into the power supply directly with the adapter plugs that came with the case.
Currently reading: "Dead Beat", by Jim Butcher
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: CPU: Intel i7-4770K 3.5 GHz
Gregory.Gadow wrote: Graphics: Asus GTX 660 Ti 2GB
In the short to medium term you'd've been better off for gaming performance with an i5 and putting the $100 difference into a faster GPU. A 660 is going to struggle to run some titles at 1080p with the eye candy on high. If you got the 660 on the cheap because you're planning on buying an 8xx/9xxx card next year when the process shrink doubles performance per dollar numbers carry on.
Gregory.Gadow wrote: the case has two fans in the front, but the MB has only cluster of pins for plugging in the front fan (there is one other fan in the back, which is plugged in fine.) Should I look for a splitter cable that will let me connect both, or will one fan be fine?
Use a molex to fan adapter[^].
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Now I know why the management types are always putting their fingers in their ears when we speak. They are communicating[^].
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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So they're encouraging children to allow Disney employees to do what?
They get more like the Catholic church every year.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I fail to see what is "new" here.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Disney convincing parents that its people should be allowed to finger their children.
They've failed to do that, in the past.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And here all along I thought it was where they stored their boogers?
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