Introducing the
x58 Almighty system, that i build for dirt cheap, and is rock solid and powerful enough for about everything.... The start of the system was with the combo CPU, MB, RAM, Cooler (Arctic freezer 13), as the seller seems was not very educated. He did something to his working system then removed some ram sticks, and the system would not post anymore, i saw the ad with the broken mobo, and saw also a lot of dust balls on the ram slots and stuff, and i got the idea that maybe, he messed something up. He was willing to sell the mobo for 5$, since it was not working, and the rest parts cheap. When i did get home, i did power up the system, and guess what the UD7 posted just fine... So far so good, but i needed good case, and PSU and GPU as well. This is the part when i found few months later great ad, from a woman, that did sell parts of her son broken pc... It was Corsair Graphite 600T with Corsair HX750w Silver for only 25$, i straight called ofc... The PSU had only 2 sata cables, rest was missing, so needed to buy extra Corsair cables... These 2 parts were exactly what i needed in order to start the build, tho i found later on, that no matter what fans i put and how many, that case was garbage, and the air flow was shit, not to mention the black plastic did brake like bread sticks, and i did need to glue most of them... Then i found SS TJ11, and just sold the god damn 600T, as the build quality of the TJ11 is 10 times better, and the air flow 100 times better.... At least that Graphite case was good, to sell it, and with the money to buy TJ11... The GPU R9 280x, i got from a miner for 15$ cuz of the fans, i got more R9 280x cards from him that i sold... Rest parts are from my old AM3+ FX8350 system, the SSD and HDDs... The TR Silver Arrow Ex, i got for 35$ brand new, and when i sold the Freezer 13 for 15$, that did reduce the price of the TR even more... The total cost of that system was like 120-140$ for high end parts lol...... Have an R9 280x Toxic card, but is too long for the SS Air Penetrator 180mm fans, and does not fit, also i like more the blue PCB of the VaporX, as the UD7 is also blue....
Intel Xeon w3680 (same as i7 980x EE, as far as i know) - 30$
GIGAbyte GA-X58A-UD7 - 5$
G. Skill Sniper 12GB 1600 - 30$
Sapphire Radeon VaporX R9 280x - 15$
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music - 15$
ThermalRight Silver Arrrow Ex - 35$
SilverStone TJ11 - 12$
Corsair HX 750W Silver - 12$
Cooler Master Musketeer II - 15$ (kinda expensive, for what i use to get parts, but ehh it is Musketeer and black too, so yeah...)
Few Mark did past, now is at Mark V, after few parts were changed... And yes there was ASUS MatriX R9 280x card, that turned out to be garbage, as it was degraded, could not clock over 950MHz, and was also hot, no matter what, so i sold that POS, and replaced it with the waaay better VaporX and Toxic cards... I gotta say the TJ11 case looks F insane, the only thing i dont like is, that it is very tall, if the bottom HDD/ water cooling space was not there, was going to be better.... Still the design is sick, they needed just to add few more aggressive parts, like on the Raven series, and it would be godlike...
Bad F card, did run hot like shit, no matter it is 3 slot card, and the fans are very thick, it did not help it, same with ASUS DCII HD7970 3 slot cards, also did run hot....
And here is the fix for this crap MatriX...
Speaking about crap, the Freezer 13, was also crap, specially the mounthing parts, jesus do i hate garbage stuff, i F hate garbage stuff, POS cooler....
That system is monster, i did test over 100 F GPUs on it, and it did run not only rock solid, but also at 4.5GHz CPU speed.... 2-3 cards were blown up, so they did blow up, in the system...
