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[nhtgvn]

Description

My good old Phenom II 1100t and R9 290s in CF

Specifications

CPU	Phenom II 1100t (OCed @ 4.0Ghz)
Cooler	Enermax Liqtech 240
Motherboard	Asrock 990FX Extreme 6
Memory	16GB Gskill Ares DDR3 1600Mhz
Graphics	Sapphire VaporX R9 290 (2in CF)
Disc Drive 1	WD black 500GB
Disc Drive 2	WD black 500GB
Disc Drive 3	{drive3}
PSU	Rosewill Hive 1000w
Case	Rosewill Rise
Monitor	LG 29" (21:9 ratio ultrawide)

[duramax08]

That blue theme works really well! Have you thought about going SSD? That will make a huge difference.

[nhtgvn]

thanks, that was actually a part of my upgrade plan, i am trying to save some money to get two (one to boot win and to install software and second to install my games)

[duramax08]

SSD's are awesome for OS's. When I upgraded my 120GB OS SSD to a 250GB SSD, I left the 120GB in my PC and installed a few games on it. And to be completely honest, I didnt notice a difference while playing games. TF2 would launch just as fast as when it was on my 7200RPM 1TB WD Blue. Same thing for a couple of other games I had installed.

Unless youre trying to get away from HDD's, I would just get a SSD for your OS and keep games on your HDD.

[nhtgvn]

thanks for the advice, not that i am trying to get away but i thought my games might load faster too... but if it won't make a difference i'll probably get an ssd for boot drive and try to put my 500gb drives in raid0

[adr_tech]

Love the build! Looks beastly

[nhtgvn]

Thanks, still working on it