Mousemagician
Limp Gawd
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Hi guys,
I finally made the jump!
The story: after a (VERY) disappointing (VERY) short experience with the Zotac Z68 ITX board, I decided to switch to micro-ATX.
Everything began a few months ago, when I upgraded my old friend gaming system (Asus P6T DeLuxe, Intel LGA1366 i7-920, 2x fanless Gigabyte HD 4850 CrossfireX, in a Antec P182 case) to a small form factor with Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3, Intel i7 2600K, XFX HD6950 2GB, in a LianLi PC-Q08.
Here the thread of this build.
I got the H67 ITX from Gigabyte just to hanging on until a good P67 or Z68 ITX board would have come out.
Here the thread of expectations and communications with motherboard manufacturers on this matter.
All of you know the recent sad situation: no decent Z68 ITX boards, o at least, nothing that makes the difference with a good H67 ITX board, for now…
Was the H67 ITX solution disappointing?
NOT AT ALL!!!
Why, thus, looking for some beefier?
BECAUSE I DEEPLY NEEDED TO FEEL THE ELECTRIFYING SENSATION OF A ROBUST OVERCLOCK (I know that you understand what I mean, I know that!)
Here what I decided to do:
FROM THIS
TO THESE
In other words, I got a REAL SFF gaming system and a nice file server.
Components list for the micro-ATX
CASE: Thermaltake Armor A30 (Microcenter $90)
MoBo: Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z (Newegg $169.99+$7.87 shipping)
CPU: Intel core i7-2600K (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Microcenter $294)
CPU heatsink: Thermalright AXP-140 RT (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Heatsink Factory $69.95)
GPU: XFX HD-695A-CNFC (HD6950 2GB) (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Newegg $269)
GPU heatsink: Scythe Setsugen 2 (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Newegg $44.99)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2X4GB), DDR3 1600, model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Newegg $80)
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M700 (recycled from my old socket 1356 system)
HD: 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300, model CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Newegg $254.99)
RAID 0: 2x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C SATA 3.0Gb/s 1TB 7200 RPM (recycled from my ITX system)
The build story is gonna come after...
Just let's know that I got an easy and stable
4.7GHz (with turbo boost still functioning)
I finally made the jump!
The story: after a (VERY) disappointing (VERY) short experience with the Zotac Z68 ITX board, I decided to switch to micro-ATX.
Everything began a few months ago, when I upgraded my old friend gaming system (Asus P6T DeLuxe, Intel LGA1366 i7-920, 2x fanless Gigabyte HD 4850 CrossfireX, in a Antec P182 case) to a small form factor with Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3, Intel i7 2600K, XFX HD6950 2GB, in a LianLi PC-Q08.
Here the thread of this build.
I got the H67 ITX from Gigabyte just to hanging on until a good P67 or Z68 ITX board would have come out.
Here the thread of expectations and communications with motherboard manufacturers on this matter.
All of you know the recent sad situation: no decent Z68 ITX boards, o at least, nothing that makes the difference with a good H67 ITX board, for now…
Was the H67 ITX solution disappointing?
NOT AT ALL!!!
Why, thus, looking for some beefier?
BECAUSE I DEEPLY NEEDED TO FEEL THE ELECTRIFYING SENSATION OF A ROBUST OVERCLOCK (I know that you understand what I mean, I know that!)
Here what I decided to do:
FROM THIS
TO THESE
In other words, I got a REAL SFF gaming system and a nice file server.
Components list for the micro-ATX
CASE: Thermaltake Armor A30 (Microcenter $90)
MoBo: Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z (Newegg $169.99+$7.87 shipping)
CPU: Intel core i7-2600K (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Microcenter $294)
CPU heatsink: Thermalright AXP-140 RT (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Heatsink Factory $69.95)
GPU: XFX HD-695A-CNFC (HD6950 2GB) (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Newegg $269)
GPU heatsink: Scythe Setsugen 2 (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Newegg $44.99)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2X4GB), DDR3 1600, model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Newegg $80)
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M700 (recycled from my old socket 1356 system)
HD: 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300, model CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 (recycled from my ITX system, it was from Newegg $254.99)
RAID 0: 2x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C SATA 3.0Gb/s 1TB 7200 RPM (recycled from my ITX system)
The build story is gonna come after...
Just let's know that I got an easy and stable
4.7GHz (with turbo boost still functioning)
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