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I used to fold a long long time ago, in 2003! - But I don't anymore the electricity costs are just too high.

Sorry, but I just had to laugh at this. You have money to build a $10,000 computer, but the cost of electricity is too high :rofl:.

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Sorry, but I just had to laugh at this. You have money to build a $10,000 computer, but the cost of electricity is too high :rofl:.

I have money but I'm not stupid. That is just wasting money to run a computer at 100% load 24.7 for no reason.

A penny saved is a penny earned, remember that. :p

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fully agree man ... awesome system and is on par with my dream system (about 6000cdn which I may never build but still) ...

put 3 monitors and fire away gaming orgasm .... **** electricity ... you only live once so might as well enjoy it ... if 2012 elds do it in style, if not, you gona be out a few hundered $ for electricity ... bah, big deal

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TEX4S

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28.8 GHz!!!

WTF are you rambling about ?

Vice - That is a beautifully specced machine - Congrats - and the red cables are beautiful - do they have other aftermarket cables where you bought them ? (Seasonic 1KW Platinum) ?

You definitely dropped some coin, but what impressed me was the 3x 30" Dell LCDs

Cant wait to see the final pics with the cable mgmt. & everything - so far it is a thing of beauty - Im sure you will enjoy it for a while.

You've actually inspired me to get moving forward on my new build - time to say g'bye to the old Core i7 950

+1 on the mushkin - always been a HUGE fan of their RAM.

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Vice

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WTF are you rambling about ?

Vice - That is a beautifully specced machine - Congrats - and the red cables are beautiful - do they have other aftermarket cables where you bought them ? (Seasonic 1KW Platinum) ?

You definitely dropped some coin, but what impressed me was the 3x 30" Dell LCDs

Cant wait to see the final pics with the cable mgmt. & everything - so far it is a thing of beauty - Im sure you will enjoy it for a while.

You've actually inspired me to get moving forward on my new build - time to say g'bye to the old Core i7 950

+1 on the mushkin - always been a HUGE fan of their RAM.

Unfortunately these cables are unique to Corsair. Corsair actually make them themselves and sell them on their own store for their own power supplies. The best you can get for other power supplies are extension cables from the likes of NZXT which although look good add significant length to the size of the cables and make it even more difficult to hide cables.

Corsair offer these cable sets for the HX and AX series power supplies in multiple capacities and colours including White, Red, Blue and Black. All are single braided and look fantastic, very high quality braid.

About the cable management: Unfortunately my case has no where to hide cables. Behind the motherboard tray there is no room and my case is separate out in to three compartments with the PSU + Optical at the top, Motherboard in the centre and Hard Disks at the bottom. There is literally no where at all to hide or route cables other than how it is in the pictures. There isn't even any room in the top compartment to stuff cables in to so that they don't look so slack when they dangle down. Sucks.

I also love the Mushkin Memory I have 24GB of it in my Server at the moment (Core i7 920 / 70TB Storage / 24GB Mushkin Memory / 9260 RAID Card + HP SAS Expander in a Lian Li PC-343B Case with a HX1000 PSU by Corsair) and that memory was killer which was one of the main reasons I decided to go with them again but also I love the look of the Redline Ridgebacks over the Corsair GT's (which are also Red) I just wish the Mushkin was in stock so I can finally finish this thing.

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Vice

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When it is full of kit like pictured it is heavy but not more than say a 30" LCD. The entire case is made from aluminium which makes it quite light. In-fact when the system is completely empty I can lift the whole case with one finger. I used to have an Akasa Eclipse 62 which is all steel construction and that case empty weighed almost as much as this system does completely full! :)

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Nice build, but honestly, that is a ridiculous amount of money to invest in a system that is going to be spanked in a couple of years. You even used 480's instead of 5xx or 6x cards. The build looks good, and a few years ago, I'd have probably done the same thing, but building computers is like being addicted to drugs, you're always gonna be chasing the high that never stays around long. Not knocking the build, as it's quality hardware, and I bet it flies, but that's a crap-ton of money. Final build definitely looks good though, congrats!

out of curiosity, do you have access to a Kill-a-watt? if you do, can you measure the power consumption of that beast?

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Vice

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Nice build, but honestly, that is a ridiculous amount of money to invest in a system that is going to be spanked in a couple of years. You even used 480's instead of 5xx or 6x cards. The build looks good, and a few years ago, I'd have probably done the same thing, but building computers is like being addicted to drugs, you're always gonna be chasing the high that never stays around long. Not knocking the build, as it's quality hardware, and I bet it flies, but that's a crap-ton of money.

I bought those GTX 480's in 2010 when they launched. No urge to upgrade them yet which is why they are still used in this build. The system previous to this one I had built in 2009 and only upgraded the GPU to 480's in 2010. I didn't feel the urge to upgrade the rest until now. I'm not chasing any high, just upgrading every 3 years like I always have done. Each time I always buy the highest end stuff at that moment.

Lot of needless negativity on here I think. A lot more positive responses on the more tech orientated forums that I've posted the build on to be honest. I just wanted to show my build to you guys because I thought it was neat. I don't think I'll post my new rig in 2015 like I have done with this rig and in 2010 when I water cooled my 2009 rig.

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I bought those GTX 480's in 2010 when they launched. No urge to upgrade them yet which is why they are still used in this build. The system previous to this one I had built in 2009 and only upgraded the GPU to 480's in 2010. I didn't feel the urge to upgrade the rest until now. I'm not chasing any high, just upgrading every 3 years like I always have done. Each time I always buy the highest end stuff at that moment.

Lot of needless negativity on here I think. A lot more positive responses on the more tech orientated forums that I've posted the build on to be honest. I just wanted to show my build to you guys because I thought it was neat. I don't think I'll post my new rig in 2015 like I have done with this rig and in 2010 when I water cooled my 2009 rig.

Easy man, wasn't being negative, was just comparing upgrading anything to chasing a high. I did it with cars in the past, tried with PC's, its a never ending chase, just like drugs. Your build looks great, you've got awesome hardware that'll be future proof for some time (at least 4-6 years) and you did a great job on it, I was only saying that that's a butt-load of cash. Didn't know you got the cards in the past, thought you bought them for the build, so was wondering why you didn't get the top of the line 580's or 680's.

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Astra.Xtreme

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Easy man, wasn't being negative, was just comparing upgrading anything to chasing a high. I did it with cars in the past, tried with PC's, its a never ending chase, just like drugs. Your build looks great, you've got awesome hardware that'll be future proof for some time (at least 4-6 years) and you did a great job on it, I was only saying that that's a butt-load of cash. Didn't know you got the cards in the past, thought you bought them for the build, so was wondering why you didn't get the top of the line 580's or 680's.

Well it does say in the original post that he plans on upgrading to 2 x 4GB Kepler cards later on. ;)

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