Chaosfire's Random Assortment of Junk

Current Specs:
Case:HAF 922.

Motherboard: Asrock Extreme 3 Gen 3

CPU: AMD FX-4170 Zambezi @ 4.2GHz. Currently, no OC, however that's subject to change.

Heatsink: I am currently using the stock heatsink for my CPU.
GPU: AMD Radeon 6970. Slightly OC'd. 1gb. The model shown in the image is 2gb.

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Green, 500gb. Not the fastest, but meh. Used to boot the OS, store programs, etc.

PSU: Rosewill Green Series "80+ Silver" 530 watt.

RAM: 16GB of Corsair XMS3. Won in a contest. Timings are 9-9-9-24, subject to change.

Keyboard and mouse are semi generic.
Monitor: Generic 22" gateway monitor, running 1360x1024, highest supported resolution of this monitor. Unorthodox, but it doesn't look half bad.
OS:Windows 7, Ultimate Edition.


-Motherboard/CPU. In the future, when I have money, I may consider upgrading to something in the upper part of the ivy bridge line, with a corresponding motherboard. Won't be for a while though.
-GPU. Oh, the possibilities. I dream about having 2 7990's in Crossfire, but that's only a dream.
-Moniter. Something 1080p. 1900x1200 is my preferred resolution,
-Mouse. Not too picky, but a new mouse would be cool.
-Keyboard. This baby
-OS. Maybe, in the future, I'll dual boot with a linux distro, but I'm keeping windows 7 for gaming, and I refuse to ever upgrade to windows 8.
-Fans. My case has room for 2 more fans, and I plan on filling those slots for the coolest possible temps eventually.
-Heatsink. If I ever want a more serious overclock on my cpu, I will probably purchase something along the lines of this.
-Overclocking. I plan to overclock my CPU to 4.5GHz, or possibly higher, and I plan to overclock my RAM as well. All in good time.
Temps range from 25c on the CPU, and 35 idle on the GPU, to 40c on the CPU and 50c on the GPU when active with a game, however, it's the middle of summer here, and it's 90 outside most of the time, so may not be accurate.

I'll update this with benchmarks and possible pictures of the finished product in the near future.

quote duneworld

What's going on with the Intel socket 1155 Z68 Asrock motherboard and the AMD socket AM3(+) CPU?

Rosewill don't sell any 80 Plus Silver PSUs either, the photo you have provided looks like an 80 Plus Gold certified Capstone.

Erm,. I'm just really bad at finding pictures.
this Is the actual motherboard, and this is the PSU. Sorry about that. :/

quote harbin91

Not a bad build, but why does that keyboard cost $99? It looks like just a normal, regular keyboard with funky lights.

Slightly suprised to see you've gone with a 6970, despite the 7series being out now. I believe a 7870 is pretty much equal on performance with that. Cost might've been the important factor here though.

The 7XXX Series wasn't released yet when I had purchased the Graphics Card almost a year ago. I had earned about 1000$ Last summer, and only about 500$ worth of that had gone towards parts. In about april, when I could find work again. (Wisconsin work laws concering minors <18 had changed) I purchased the final round of parts. The keyboard listed is a mechanical keyboard. Mechanical-switch keyboards use real switches underneath every key. It feels good to use, in my opinion.