Lordred
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Figured I needed to poke my head in here to bother you guys once again. Well here we go. Another AMD rig by the guy who doesn't know when to quit. Sparkplug: FX-4100 GTX-660 SC 2gb ASRock 990FX Profesional (De-badged) Arc-Midi The idea was to make a quiet rig with out resorting to extreme cooling methods, and the other idea was to have a nice simple rig which used very little power, I got what I wanted. No issues gaming on my 1200p, runs very quiet with 3 140mm's and 3 120mm's. Five of the six fans are setup as intake, so most of the case air is pushed out the one exhaust fan, and the GTX-660 (works out very well by the way) But I'm sure you guys came for the pictures! While nothing special, I enjoy its clean. no fuss. no muss look. After a small look under the heatsink detailed here I was able to push the little 660 out to about what I think is a comfortable maximum for the card of a 1202 boost clock and 6808 mem clock 3DM11 weighs in at 6280 thus far http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4481194 Enjoy     
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/25 12:04:48
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Looks nice :D GJ 
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/26 07:39:03
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Im all for Bang-4-Buck!
Depending on apps and games, why didnt ya go with a Intel i5-3570K? Unless ya reused most of ur system, on the build?
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/26 07:43:16
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Looks pretty nice to me... clean
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Lordred
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/26 15:49:25
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Well the reason I did not get a Sandy or Ivy was that I am a foolish AMD die hard.
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/26 18:04:25
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I wouldnt say foolish, that just ur taste!
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/26 19:02:53
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knightsilver
I wouldnt say foolish, that just ur taste!
I would say foolish is an apt word for the situation. The only thing that I have going for me is I only spent 99$ on the CPU and 150$ on the board (It is impossible to get an unlocked Quad and High end board on team blue for 250$)
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/27 20:20:26
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Nice B4B.
What do ya do? Game, Fold, Modeling?
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/27 20:23:54
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/27 23:36:55
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knightsilver
Nice B4B.
What do ya do? Game, Fold, Modeling?
I used to do alot of GPU folding the last two years, but lately I have not been folding. As soon as I get a dedicated ISP (which is unknown when I will) I plan to leave some hardware folding again. For now this is simply my gaming rig.
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2012/09/27 23:47:42
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It is not a crime to like both you know. Looks good. Lordred
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2013/02/22 00:49:00
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/dig up from grave. SLI! 
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2013/02/22 12:19:39
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Very nice build indeed. With the upgrade to SLI 660s have you encountered many issues with games? Won't be for a while but I plan to hopefully get another 660 3g model in my rig for sli. But I have been hearing so many problems arising with sli in games such as far cry 3, bf3, crysis 3, planet side 2 and others.
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2013/03/14 20:47:59
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Keeping it Classy! update to original post to follow later. 
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2013/12/06 14:03:55
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How's the 680 Classy compare to the SLI 660?
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2013/12/06 19:56:01
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Very nice, clean, and compact!
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2013/12/07 09:25:57
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Great lil build. Any plans to add more white into the color scheme?
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2013/12/12 20:03:11
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Love the flexitube. Great alternative to time-consuming sleeving and still looks great!
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Re:Sparkplug (The Budget AMD/GTX660)
2014/01/17 11:03:31
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The 680 Classified is very cool running! here is an updated massive pic! :) Straight link  I am also rocking an FX-8350 in lue of the FX-4100, got it for a fantastic price, just hunting for a second 680 Classified now, but not in a hurry. I am pretty happy with the performance of the system. Current 3D Mark 11 Score P10444Current 3D Mark Fire Extreme 3681
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