Paceman's new stuff has been ordered.

[WalkinTarget]

The secret, unwritten rule is to always take pics with the PSU not in the case. It SEVERELY clutters up any pic and makes a wiring mess unless you want to invest a few hours in cable management. You DO know we ding you a few points off any new build thread around here if you don't do that cable management stuff up front, right ??

I actually have built enough rigs that I have it down to a science now, and I've always offered to help out anyone local to me with it. That stock Intel cooler ... HaH !! It looks sooo tiny compared to the hulking 120mm monsters we are used to seeing. Pace, don't sweat it ... if it lights up and works properly once you are done, you will be happy.

[paceman]

It lights up. everything is installed and restored from backups.

Eats up BF4 - all Ultra settings averaging 45-55 FPS.

Now just wish I could keep an eye on the CPU temps while in the game.

[K PhaNTOM]

Beast. Now bring it down to Medium settings so you can get 200FPS like me. And eat up the competition. (Make sure you set your FOV to 90 and above)

[Duke{CLR}]

It lights up. everything is installed and restored from backups.

Eats up BF4 - all Ultra settings averaging 45-55 FPS.

Now just wish I could keep an eye on the CPU temps while in the game.

I run RealTemp on a second monitor so I can see this information live, the program will also record the highest temp for any given session so even if you have it in the background you can see how high it got.

Here is a screenshot I took in Windows that shows both monitors, It's handy.