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One of those would be great at a buffet lol...

I'm through with this...on to gaming. Nothing fancy or artful, just a solid game rig.

After a revision of the Vantage mount and removal of the two top fans I was able to fit the top cover without any further butchery. Good news is it did not affect temps much at all.

Did I mention the ridiculous frame rates?

I will most likely just keep the Vantage cooler in this one...it's doing such a good job on it's own.

I have found that the HDDBoost most often results in quicker boot times and general overall snappiness compared to using the ssd alone.

The LianLi case finally arrived and I loosely fitted the parts together for a trial spin. Along with the case Coolit sent me a couple of extra parts...a Vantage cpu cooler and a Omni gpu cooler. The Omni has a 5870 backplate so I will not be using that here. I had intended to use a Boreas TEC in this rig until I saw the Vantage unit... I decided to give it a chance. So far these are the parts installed:

LianLi PC-P50 case

Biostar TP67B+ mb

Intel 2600K cpu

4GB GSkill DDR3 2000

Silverstone Decathalon 1000w psu

Coolit Vantage cpu cooler

Lite-On DVD burner

Sapphire 5970 gpu

WD 1TB hdd

SuperTalent 32GB ssd

Silverstone HDDBoost

Creative X-Fi sound card

The Omni gpu cooler which will not be used here...

If I intend to use the Vantage unit I will have to do some surgery to the top panel so it will fit around the rad/fans...

I was skeptical of the Vantage cooler at first, but after some online gaming and benchmarks at 4.5GHz I was impressed with the little unit's performance. I'm thinking I will roll with it for this gamer.

That's a beast of a system. I love lian li cases too, I had a silver one that I modded from the top (built a custom grill up + dual fan rad to exhaust heat and a reservoir cut out as well). How is the pump holding up for the Boreas? I heard they've been prone to problems. Once you get that system built up, a nice forum review would be awesome! Speaking of which, we need to create a forum specifically for custom desktop build reviews + pics.

This particular case is one I won in a contest at Coolit and has been customized. I will see what they did sometime today. I have four Boreas's with pumps ranging from stock to aftermarket, but I have experienced no failures as of yet. Great idea for a build section as I was confused where to post this.

wow (2x5970) that's a hell of a system you got there, keep it coming man!

btw what drivers are you using for the GPU? If I can see clearly from the GPU-Z 10.10? if yes then give it a try with the 11.2

Yes. 10.10 - The 5970 is picky about drivers for some reason. I will continue to upgrade as I go.

That's funnier than tickling a dog's paw when he is asleep lol!

I have been conducting tests for the past week or so on components for this build and have pretty much settled on this configuration:

Biostar TP67B+ mb

Intel 2600K cpu

Sapphire 5970 gpu

The Biostar mb has all the features I need and there are no glitches in the bios like the Asus models have. I tested two 5970's in cross-fire but decided it was overkill and not needed for my purposes. I flashed the 5970 bios to 950/1200 clocks and the results were outstanding. I will be cooling the cpu with a Boreas TEC and may include the 5970 in the loop if for nothing else than to rid myself of the fan noise. I have a custom LianLi case inbound and due this morning that may house these parts. I will update this thread as the build progresses.

Newegg.com - LIAN LI PC-P50WB Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Lol! Where is this, France?

Thanks for the input! I have done some of those you mentioned...I will do a fresh install and apply the rest then let you know the results.

I've been testing some components for an upcoming game rig and noticed a particular combination giving very fast re-boots. I decided to give it some attention and see how far I could take it. I have it down to 14 seconds so far and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to lower it even more.

I came across a YouTube video by "stamatisx" and left a comment. The reply was to visit this site and help might be provided. Current components are as follows:

Biostar TH67+ mb

Intel 2600K cpu

OCZ Vertex 2 ssd

Win 7 64

To get to this point I have:

enabled quick boot in bios

enabled noGUIboot

disabled startup/services

no sound/video driver - using onboard