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Merlin - My First Build
by Howtodudes
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Description

This is my first ever build! I call it Merlin, cuz its crazy magical. Haha I think I did a pretty good job with my budget: around 700-800. My friend helped me pick out the processor and motherboard. Basically the essentials were the SSD and the video card. So far I'm loving this build! I had to wait a while for my OS and my SSD bay converters. I also had a hell of a time installing Windows 8! The partitioning got all screwy and, needless to say, I wasted a whole night.

But everything's running fine now! Windows 8 will take some getting used to.... but I can see my programs running fine! Minecraft FPS got a HUGE boost. I went from less than 30 FPS on my old laptop to over 500! Can't wait to install more games on this machine! I do plan on getting an HDD, as I already partitioned about half of my SSD to the C: Drive...

Details
AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Clock Rate3.5GHz
CPU Temperature While Idle-
CPU Temperature Under Load-
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card
GPU Core Clock Rate1.05Ghz
GPU Effective Memory Clock Rate6.01Ghz
GPU Temperature While Idle-
GPU Temperature Under Load-
Comments
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JTsComputer [1 Build] 3 points 14 months ago

hard to complain about the part selection when building on a budget...well done

 
 
thesupergeek [3 Builds] 2 points 14 months ago

why the nicethermal paste? the stuff on the heatsink is pretty good and should last a wile. just saying, coulda saved 7$

 
 
SrgtMacfly [1 Build] 1 point 14 months ago

great build for your budget! Work on hte cable management tho :/

 
 
sketch24 [6 Builds] 1 point 14 months ago

Ncie budget build.

 
 
Zakuks1 1 point 13 months ago

i like it... and i didn't think cable management was too bad either... then again i rarely see anyone with worse than mine... +1 for you sir