iBuyPower Gamer Paladin System with an Intel Core i7-870 CPU

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I live in Houston, you could've had it delivered here and I'd have signed for it. Problem with that would be you'd come to pick it up and I'd already have it plugged in and trying to find it's max OC.
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I actually live just north of Houston (Woodlands) but close enough.
I live in Houston, you could've had it delivered here and I'd have signed for it. Problem with that would be you'd come to pick it up and I'd already have it plugged in and trying to find it's max OC.
That would have saved my some time :lol:
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x.clay wrote:I actually live just north of Houston (Woodlands) but close enough.
I live in Houston, you could've had it delivered here and I'd have signed for it. Problem with that would be you'd come to pick it up and I'd already have it plugged in and trying to find it's max OC.
That would have saved my some time :lol:
BTW, now that you have an awesome gaming rig, can I have your old one? :)
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Double post. *grumble*
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Intel and IBP put together a pretty sweet system. I haven't had a chance to try any games but I have WiC loading and I'll probably get Hawx, Crysis, and few other loaded up later. I'll get a some more pictures up once I have a little more time. I have my mom and sister staying with me over the weekend. Our study is also the guest bedroom which means I can't stay up late gaming. I don't know if I'll be able to stand it another night so I may have to move everything out to the dining room so I can get some gaming in.
BTW, now that you have an awesome gaming rig, can I have your old one?
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Sweet system you lucky sob :) Lets see some benches on it!
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very nice dude..I am wondering tho...the spec list(when the contest first started) said there was a GTX285 in there...kind of looks like you switched it out?
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I see wire management is not one of their strong points. With a bit of work and some wire ties you'll have that fixed in no time :)
Start by reversing the hard drives so the wiring is hidden.
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InspectahACE wrote:very nice dude..I am wondering tho...the spec list(when the contest first started) said there was a GTX285 in there...kind of looks like you switched it out?
Didn't XFX put the ATi cooling solution on some of their cards for briefly?
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The power connectors on the card aren't in the right area for it to be a GTX285 plus the backplate the the profile of the cooler is a dead give away that its an ATI card.

You'd figure a company like iBuyPower would put some effort towards cable managent.
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Professional wiring for all cables inside the system tower Achieve exceptional airflow in your chassis [+ $19]"

I'm guessing...ummm...no.
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I think I got "geek wood" :mrgreen:

Awesome looking system - cable management SUX though - wow. Hopefully the case has room to run the wires between the back side panel and the motherboard!!

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They are doing a drawing for basically the same system over at [H], and it says the videocard will be an ATI 4890. I wonder if you accidentally got one of those
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Intel had an 'error' with the system specifications... I though it was odd that NVIDIA would be buying any NVIDIA Cards anyway due to the marketing battle they are in.
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very nice dude..I am wondering tho...the spec list(when the contest first started) said there was a GTX285 in there...kind of looks like you switched it out?
It is a 4890. Nate and I spoke about this and it was a spec mix up. It sounds like Intel has had some headaches with this contest. Intel and Nvidia aren't on the best terms right now so it would be weird for Intel to spec out a ton a high end Nvidia cards. It is still a killer system so I'm not going to complain. I have a 4870 so I am going to play around with a hybrid crossfire setup.

As many have mentioned the cable management is pretty poor so I'm going to be cleaning that up. One thing I have noticed is that this setup runs considerably warmer than my previous builds. You can feel the warm air coming from the back of the case even at idle. The CPU idles around 40-55. I did a quick run of CoreDamage and it got up to 77c and I turned it off. Right now they are using a single generic NZXT fan on the radiator. I am going to switch it out for two Noctua fans similar to what LR showed in their review on the corsair version of this cooler. I think I am going to install an aftermarket cooler on the 4890 for some killer overclocking there as well. 1Ghz here I come :)
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Another site's contest advertised a GTX 295 but it arrived with a GTX 285 instead. To make up for that they included a monitor.
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x.clay wrote:As many have mentioned the cable management is pretty poor so I'm going to be cleaning that up. One thing I have noticed is that this setup runs considerably warmer than my previous builds. You can feel the warm air coming from the back of the case even at idle. The CPU idles around 40-55. I did a quick run of CoreDamage and it got up to 77c and I turned it off. Right now they are using a single generic NZXT fan on the radiator. I am going to switch it out for two Noctua fans similar to what LR showed in their review on the corsair version of this cooler. I think I am going to install an aftermarket cooler on the 4890 for some killer overclocking there as well. 1Ghz here I come :)
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I have heard of iBuyPower shipping the wrong components. Maybe this is where the confusion started.
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