My awesome new rig

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I must say that case is growing on me, feel like buying one I do. Whats your opinion on it so far?
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THE_STIG wrote:I must say that case is growing on me, feel like buying one I do. Whats your opinion on it so far?
Loving it.
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Recently finished Assassin's Creed 3 and now busy with Far Cry 3. Its awesome! And looks amazing!
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How does this compare to your score?

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I've been playing Far Cry 3 this week. This is the first game I think that is really pushing the GPU (Assassin's Creed 3 did not even push it to 30% load):

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This is with everything maxed except MSAA set to x2
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Loaded the new 310.70 nVidia Drivers.

This is the first time ever for me that the "update your graphics drivers" actually made a huge difference in performance in Far Cry 3.:idea:
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The speaker was probably inserted onto the pins with the wrong polarity. Swapping it around should make it beep again. Nice rig though, definitely makes me green with envy. What temps are you getting?
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Nope. Mine does not beep either, only if you enter the bios does it give you a beep.

Yet to try far cry 3. Looking at a new graphics card first but yep it does look good
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GPU is as per above post which is about 60C at full load (only in Far Cry 3). Same with CPU 60C when at full load.

Otherwise both are at 40C.
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Nice :thumbup:
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Nice build! And I would have to agree that I love the chassis, owning one myself. It is great for ducking cables and making your case neat, not to mention it offers remarkable cooling.
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