One of my many hobbies is building custom computers. Personally I'm more into building and overclocking systems than I am into gaming or anything like that, but most of my friends are hardcore gamers. One of said friends was looking to upgrade their system and came to me to build it. So to all the other BP.net members that are into computers enjoy and let me know what you think.

System Specs:

Case: Antec 902

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V (intel socket LGA 1155, SATA III, USB 3.0 intel Z77 chipset)

Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K (Intel Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz-3.8GHz 77 Watt Quad Core)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB kit (dual channel 2x 4GB sticks 1600MHz)

Graphics Card: Gigabyte Windforce AMD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 vRAM (PCIe 3.0)

Power supply: Corsair GS-800 (800 Watt PSU)

Data Storage: 2x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM drives in RAID 0 (SATA III 64MB Cache)

Optical Drive: ASUS DVD burner

Case Fans: 2x 120mm LED intake fans on the front (Antec TriCool) 1x 120mm LED rear exhaust fan (Antec TriCool) 1x 200mm LED top exhaust fan (Antec TriCool)

CPU Cooler: Enermax ETS T40-VD (4 copper heat-pipes that are in direct contact with the CPU, 1x Enermax TB Vegas PWM 120mm LED fan)

Monitor: ASUS PA248Q IPS 24" Professional Monitor (1920 x 1200 LED Backlit IPS panel, 178 degrees viewable, 300 cd/m2, 80,000,000:1 contrast, 6ms response) Note: My friend also does a lot of work in photoshop so a monitor with 100% sRGB was important

I would consider this a mid-range system. It can handle pretty much any game you through at it with mostly maxed out if not maxed out settings. I was able to get a stable overclock of 4.8 GHz when the CPU is running on a single core (48 multiplier x 100 clock) if the CPU is running 2 or 3 cores it will run at 4.6 GHz (46 multiplier x 100 clock) and if it is running all 4 cores it will only run at 4.5GHz (45 multiplier x 100 clock) The GPU is also slightly overclocked.

Onto the pictures:

















Not the best cable job I've ever done, but nobody will open the back of this build ever again so it really didn't matter.