Son's Christmas computer build

Well, some of you may have seen a thread several weeks ago about a build I was planning for my son's Christmas present.

Parts List:
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 case
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
AMD Radeon Performance Series 8GB Ram
AMD FX-6300 6-Core
CORSAIR Hydro Series H75 Cooler
CORSAIR CX series CX600
GIGABYTE R9 270X OC
Western Digital WD Black HD

I looked at the instruction for anything about 2 minutes, that was to get the motherboard headers correct. I haven't built a rig in years and it was a breeze. Kinda like riding a bike I guess, I was expecting some difficulty for some strange reason.

Fired right up and posted when I hit the switch. Loaded Windows 7 and installed all the drivers. Since I am 34 going on 8 I figured I'd see what she was made of immediately. I started a CPU burn and GPU before going to work, 12 hours later still running when I got back home. Seems pretty stable so far. Nothing was on fire

I did the AMD CPU test, made it to 4.3 MHz, I clicked stop as soon as it hit 4.4 MHz.



The H70 seems to be doing well, it would only fit one way in the rear fan spot in the top of the case. Mounting it you cannot have fans inside, the hit the motherboard. I had to mount a single fan on the outside...still working on that issue.



At stock clocks running Unigine Valley at max settings like the benchmark thread on here it pulled just over 1100. I didn't try any overclocking.








Idle temps are 19c in the BIOS and Core Temp had me at 21c. Load temp in Core Temp peaked at 36c. I don't know how accurate those are but that what it said.


Son is more than happy with it, he is thrilled!

Wow, sweet build. Your son is probably really happy. What games does he play?

ninjabubbles3 said:

Wow, sweet build. Your son is probably really happy. What games does he play?

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Minecraft right now!

I have dug around Steam a little, got a few ideas.

Dang I'm really impressed with that case. I just recommended it to a friend based off reviews but that's got a lot more space than I expected. He just built his machine today in it.

Looks good. :good:

Plenty of room for anything.

A few issues I did have with it....the radiator would only bolt on the rear top fan slot. The radiator would hit the 5 inch drive bays, front fan slot is out of the question. When the radiator is mounted in the rear fan slot...you can't fit a front fan on the top. The radiator will cover up the screw holes.

There was a few spots inside the case in the drive bays the paint was really light, they missed a few spots.

It would be a great case for some dremel work! It has tons of modding potential!

It was either that case or the 200R for me.

Now Im not sure which one would have been better

Looking good, I wish I had something like that when I was younger haha. Bet he is thrilled with it. With that h75 there's plenty of room for overclocking of it's only getting to 39c, if your son ever requires to do so in the future.