Project Daring Here's a project I'm starting for gaming rig! Specifications Case: Silverstone RV-02 CPU: Core I7 920 DO Stepping @ 4GHZ Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE Ram: Corsair Dominator 6GB Graphics Card: Sapphire 5870 Vapor-x Hard Drive: Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Power Supply: Coolermaster Silent Pro 700w Cooling Intake: 3 X 180mm Silverstone Fan Exhaust: 1 X 120mm Akasa Apache Black CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C12P SE14 w/ 120mm Akasa Apache Black
This weekend I got the SSD and a graphics card. I was waiting to see what the fermi would be like. As I wasn't impressed with the results of the fermi I decided to go with the fast but cool Sapphire 5870 Vapor X. The graphics card is very quiet indeed. My old 275 GTX sounds much louder at both idle and load. I can run BFBC2 at 1920 on high with everything turned up to the max. For the SSD I went with a Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB. This is my first SSD and I must say I am very impressed with it. Windows boots extremely fast and the OS is a lot snappier. The annoying startup whirrrr of the mechanical drive is now a distant memory. The whole system is much quieter. I'm hoping to have everything in the case by the end of April. I may get another 5870 between now and then. I need to braid the ATX and cpu power cables.
