So when I first joined back in 6/18/2011, I had a pretty old AMD rig. Before that was a Pentium 4 3.5Ghz but that wasn't custom built so back to the AMD. This rig was a hand me down from a good buddy of mine, during the time my laptop 
died and desktop had a nasty virus. And I needed to edit photos n what not. He said I could have this AMD rig if I could figure what was wrong with it. It was an old rig of his just sitting in the closet too lol. He built it himself as well, but it turned out the mobo was fried somehow. And it was one of those awesome boards back in its prime I think.
 
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-D 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136158
 
So this was the dead mobo I think since I had a 939 Socket chip. Found a cheap replacement
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157081
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 939 ULi M1695 ATX AMD Motherboard
 
It came with THE FIRST e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature Series™ Card
http://www.evga.com/articles/301.asp 
 
I had no idea it was this special till I looked it up now. lols Any who, this card lasted me for the longest time ever and still plays some of today’s games surprisingly. At first it couldn't with the drivers given? My friend remember using some other driver, it was called the Omega driver for the card and I guess was named 7900 GTO instead, this driver allowed me to play almost all the games I couldn't before with corrupted lines on current games at the time. This driver fixed something to allow me to play some new games. I also only had a small overclock on it with a 80mm fan blowing on it :) I started noticing artifacts here there from time to time down the road. Lowered the clocks and sometimes back to stock. So I feared it was nearing the end of its life, but still works fine today. But this made me go out in the market for a new card! And since I was so impressed by this little card I went straight looking for EVGA cards. And then I saw the EVGA 560Ti that was kinda in my price range. 
When I went to frys to take a look, I saw the EVGA Crysis2 GTX 560Ti Maximum Edition! I was drooling over it but I managed to save up for it and bought it on June 2011 when I first joined up here! I was a noob at overclocking and didn't know how to tweak anything other than the main multiplayer, for the most part it was stable to me.
 
So my old rig specs were http://www.modsrigs.com/detail.aspx?BuildID=27954
AMD Athlon (4400+)2.2GHz Dual Core 939 Socket(2.5GHz overclock with stock cooler)
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 939 ULi M1695 ATX AMD Motherboard
OCZ 2x 1GB EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Titanium 2-3-2-5
SilverStone ST60F 600W
9700 GT changed to 560Ti
IDE!!? WD Hard drive

Have a few pics of this mighty old rig, sorry its getting dusty. I haven't used it awhile as it sits under my desk with its missing side panel lols. I hope to get a cheap case for it and build it back up to give to my parents to use since it’s still a great computer. I recently got air cans but I took the last pic beforehand.








 
update: Heres a cleaner pic :P


Ok ok.. Time for the main finale? :D So in September 2011 I began my 1st real project build. So 3 months after I joined I've been looking around n read up on everything because I was so far behind in the computer world as I've been on consoles more than anything. So it was time for me to catch up. So I decided to go with the Z68FTW route and my super awesome amazing GF of mine bought me the mobo for our "monthsary" gift to get me started on my project quest. It took me the whole month just to get it working. I got the mobo on the 8th and didn't get it working till the 28th! Every day was hard, waiting when would be the day I will be able to power it on. Reasons for my delay were at first waiting to save up for the 2600k. And when I picked that up on the 25th I was unable to power it on correctly because I was missing my 8 pin connector from my old rig that never came with it. And my friend didn't know where he put it so I had to find a deal on a PSU and picked up a AX850w from frys on the 28th. But at last! I got it working. I have pictures from the start and up till now with all my upgrades to pretty much wrap up my project for the most part.
Consider it a picture story pr0n book.
 
http://www.modsrigs.com/detail.aspx?buildid=28121
Motherboard - EVGA - Z68 FTW
CPU - Intel - i7 2600K - Overclocked: 4.5 GHz @ VCore: 1.245 
RAM - Corsair - 16GB Vengeance CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 - 9-9-9-24
Graphics Card - EVGA - GTX 560 Ti Maximum Graphics Edition
Secondary Graphics - EVGA - GTX 560 Ti SC
Case - IN WIN - Dragon Rider
Solid State Drive - Corsair - Force Series 3 CSSD-F120GB3A-BK 2.5"120GB SATA III
Hard Drive - Western Digital - Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
Hard Drive - Western Digital - External 1TB My Book Essential
Hard Drive - Western Digital - External 2TB My Book Studio
Hard Drive - Seagate - Expansion 1.5TB External Drive
Heatsink - EVGA - Superclocked CPU Cooler
Accessory - EVGA - Control Panel 4 for P67/Z68 FTW
Monitor - ASUS - VE278 27" LCD
Monitor - HP - S2231 21.5" LCD
Sound - Creative - Inspire T6160 5.1
Sound - Creative - Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series
Sound - Creative - Gaming X-Fi I/O Front Bay Champion Series
Power Supply - Corsair - AX850
Keyboard - Razer - SC2 Marauder
Mouse - Razer - SC2 Spectre
Sound - Razer - Tiamat 7.1 Headset
Accessory - Razer - Mass Effect 3 Razer Vespula (Mouse Pad)
Fan - Cooler Master - x4 SickleFlow 120 Blue LED Fan (R4-L2R-20AC-GP)
CD/DVD - ASUS - DVD Burner
-------------------------Pictures from the beginning till current-----------------------------------
I tried to put them in order ish as best as I could/remember.
 
omg omg omg omg :D


 
EVGA mobo box was bigger than I thought

 
Yea EVGA is #1!



 
EVGA Mobo came in and I was drooling on how AWESOME it looked! First time seeing a EATX in person lols




 
Goodies with the mobo


 
It may contain awesome!





 
Shocked on how big the case box was O_O!







 
EVGA Mobo backside oops!

 
EVGA Motherboard all locked in, just waiting for the parts

 
Corsair Vengeance Memory 16GB

 
Last pic of it lifeless

 
All the goodies I used :D

 
i7 2600k is ready to get put in!

 
EVGA Superclocked CPU Cooler is ready to get put in too! First boot, letting the old card do the honors (had old rig running with new card still)


 
SSD Ready to go!

 
(New & shiny<3)

 
EVGA Super Cooler installed! Its alive!

 
She’s running finally!

 
Right side panel cpu fan

 
Lights off


 
Picked up a backplate for my Crysis Card







 
My side fan in its new glory in the beginning (LED's are dying now as you will see down the pics)







 
New monitor came in!









 
New Razers ME3 Mouse Pad!





























 
Update 4/23:
Accidentally closed the temp while doing a quick stress so theres two snaps of idle and stressed temps.
With my low voltage it is stable doing folding and gaming just fine, I never saw a need to use prime95 to check my stability since it does not crash at all doing my day to day things.



    -----------------------------------------------UPDATED 5/27/13-----------------------------------------------------
Got some new goodies in the past two months, thought I'd share them with you :)
 
Picked up a 680 FTW 4GB

 

 
Corsair H100i


 
Removed the EVGA Heatsink, Frostbite spread pretty nicely


 
Clean again! Ready for the H100

 
Corsair Neutron SSD 256GB, Noticeably few seconds faster than my previous SSD.

 
Added WD Black Caviar 4GB to the rig!

 

 

 
So thats where she stands now :)
Don't forget to visit my ModRigs +1 
http://www.modsrigs.com/detail.aspx?buildid=28121
Thank you for looking!
 

This is very clean and well built!
 
Although I would of gone for a second GTX 560 Ti Crysis 2 Edition, since their black shrouds do look neater, but on the other side since you have no Acrylic side window that should not matter then
 
You did a great setup with the lighting too, yeah I really like on how you did this build

Thanks everyone 
I'll be sure to check out everyones ModRig that posts up here 

Gold Leader

This is very clean and well built!

Although I would of gone for a second GTX 560 Ti Crysis 2 Edition, since their black shrouds do look neater, but on the other side since you have no Acrylic side window that should not matter then

You did a great setup with the lighting too, yeah I really like on how you did this build

Yeaaa I really wanted another Crysis 2 Edition but I couldn't fork out the cash to get another box set, though now I think about it I coulda sold the second game to even out the extra costs xP
+1 to your rig as well, might sexy red evga cards you got there

The GeForce 7950 GT AGP 512MB 256Bit GDDR3 is the last high end AGP card made from NVIDIA :)
 
Like this Evaluation Board I have from Axel/Nvidia:

Core/Mem 550Mhz / 1200Mhz DDR
 

looking good from what I can see. I'll check it again at home and see if the rest of the pics show up.

Are you serious about the 1.245 vcore for 4.5 ghz?!
 
im running my 2700k at 4.5 and need 1.42 vcore. thats nuts

esCob4r
Awesome rig! There must have been a huge difference in performance going from that 7900 to 2x 560tis. +1 for sure

Yes quite the difference! haha. I got the 2nd 560Ti added in December, give or take 3 months later.
 

cblaxx 
Are you serious about the 1.245 vcore for 4.5 ghz?! 

im running my 2700k at 4.5 and need 1.42 vcore. thats nuts 

 
Yup!

I updated above with snaps of this and temps. As mentioned, this voltage setup was not stressed under prime95. However my system does not crash while SMP Folding and playing any of my games, which is good enough for me
Typical idle temps are 28-32c with about 45-55c while gaming and 58-62c folding

Nice job... ±1

Thanks guys! +1 to your rigs too

Good lord was that a huge update, 56k beware!
 
Rig looks good man, and I have that mouse-pad...it sucks.

AzN-SoLjA

Lols yea, hope nobody on these forums run 56k hahahaha. I never had issues with this mouse pad though, works great with my mouse.

 
The smoother side sucks, the texture side will get worn like all Razer hard mouse pads.  The N7 badge is just sticker, it'll come off in due time.
After using it for sometime I couldn't stand it and went with a Puretrak talent, and now I'm a believer of the cloth~
 
 

 
"Finally" is an understatement. LOL. Great job. So many pics too. Wow.         

AzN-SoLjA

Ah really? I think the mouse pad actually worn out my spectre pads, I wanted replacements but they don't list them. Prob need to shoot em a email. I know the n7 was a sticker, I did had an issue of it peeling but now that I used it so much, it doesn't peel no more thankfully. Guess I pressed it down long enough for it to stick properly. Think it needed to be ironed on some more or something lols. Funny on the size though, I barely use half of the surface xP however I like this surface over cloth, last pad I had got insanely dirty. I would hate to consistently replace it from that issue alone.

 
The N7 came off on my wrist 
 
Sorry for sounding negative in your awesome thread, just annoyed by all Razer hard surface mouse pads 

Looks great!

Reserved for rebuild pictures