It's time to get my build log up and going! I still have to go through the pictures, resize them, label them and such, but here's a quick shot of the parts that are moving in.
 
New Stuff:
i5-760
4GB DDR3-1600
EVGA P55 FTW
EVGA GTX 460
Thermaltake Frio

I used this opportunity of taking down my rig to also get some major, major dedusting in.

A shot before taking stuff down. That Frio is HUUUUGE, and I'm going to keep referencing that later on in my posts. Before taking this down, I was using an i3-530 to tide me over until a good deal on the i5 came out. And guess what. They were on Newegg for $170 a few days ago! So I took that deal and got ready to roll around in i5-ness.


Tools of the trade. That yellow pincer thing comes in real handy when I'm putting in screws at the top of the board. For those of you who are unaware, mid-towers that are bottom PSU mounted have very, very little space at the top of the case for putting your hand. Even with my small hands, it's pretty darn hard to put in hold down screws, take them out, and especially putting in the 8-pin ATX at the top right corner.

Something seems to be missing...

Ah! There you are my P55. In between this picture and the next few, I pulled out everything except the fans and the DVD drive.

Prepare to be annihlated dust, as you face the awesome wrath of 60 PSI air pressure!


Ah. Nice and clean.

While I'm here, here's a quick shot of a simple mod. I had an extra 120mm fan, so instead of putting to rot on my bookshelf of computer things (picture of that later!), I ziptied it to take up the 3 5.25 inch bays that I wasn't using. Moar airflow!

Much, much cleaner!

Here, I have cannibalized the kitchen counter to lay out everything. Time for a rebuild!

And before I forget, here's an awesomesauce picture of these awesomesauce PCI-E extensions made by Crysis_Gamer! 

Poppin' the cherry with my i5-760.

Woaaaah. A sticker AND a processor? Those guys at Intel sure know what guys like me are looking for in a box.


Time for a shot of IC Diamond!

Such is the sad story of the processor. Never again will it know true cleanliness such as this after meeting Mr. IC Diamond. 


In Soviet Russia, heatsink mount you.

Another picture to reinforce the massive size of this heatsink.

Just barely, barely cleared the board's heatsinks. I was very scared that the Frio would bump up against them when I was ordering it. Fortunately, I was able to stalk/track down some members on the forums here who were using Frios with P55 FTWs. Thankfully, they confirmed that it did fit fine! So with confidence, I ordered the Frio and used it.
 

Remounting my 750TX means...it's cable management time!


It's at times like this that I wish that I had a modular power supply.

Quick digression - I love Cooler Master's hard drive mounting system. So much.


Sometime later... 

A thing of beauty that deserves a BR

Nice Sleepee & I need to clean my rig out to!

Great job. I still am noticing small improvements i could do from the builds that pop up in here.
 
BTW, Arctic Silver all the way.

Oh yeah? I considered that when I was buying this case. I'm a little concerned about the top rad though. Would you put the radiator on one side, and then the fans on the other?

In response to introducing Mr. Case to Mr. 60 PSI, ain't it lovely? I went out and bought a 26 gallon air compressor yesterday and one of the first things I did w/ it was clean my old Antec 1200 out - Gotta love it.
 
No more buying canned air!

Overclocked to 3.8! 

That probably isn't a very good indication of idle temps, as I pulled Aura from her GPU3 folding just for this pic. The 460 idles around 40 or so, and 36-37 is what I've seen as idle on my i5.
 
You all know that you're jealous of my Blue/Orange wallpaper also. 

all the pictures look super great,  good job man very clean ^^

cj3waker 

Sleepee 

Oh yeah? I considered that when I was buying this case. I'm a little concerned about the top rad though. Would you put the radiator on one side, and then the fans on the other? 

 

yeah radiator is in the case and the fans are actually outside the case but covered by the top panel 
take a look at my mods rigs for pics 

 
Ah kay, I see what you mean.

I_Know_God 

all the pictures look super great,  good job man very clean ^^ 

 

YerBuddy

Very, very nice!  I like the looks of that MB.  In fact, the whole thing just looks very well done.  Congrats!

Thanks guys! 


 

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Kool build log, lovin that 690 2 case. I like the cable sleeving you did, looks great