The Kentsfield Build

After sitting down at my parents old AMD 939 system and seeing it's sluggishness, I decided to build them a new system for Christmas 2013 that would be much more responsive and perform more on par with newer generation systems but at a lower budget. Here are the specifications:
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Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 @ 3.0GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP43T-UD3L
Memory: Corsair XMS3 2x4GB @ 1333MHz
Heatsink: Zalman CNPS10X Performa
Power Supply: Antec HGC-520 520W
Graphics Card: XFX HD 4670 1GB
Hard Drives: Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB
Optical Drive: LG DVDRW
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Case: Antec VSK-4000 with 3 Bitfenix Spectre Pro 120mm fans.
Other: 3.5" Black 10 in 1 Card Reader
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I didn't go with the most absolute newest generation system as my parents aren't using the PC for much more than printing documents, using it's storage, looking through the internet and checking emails so I went with a bit more of a budgeted approach while still allowing the system to be a quad core setup. I originally was going to use a Bitfenix Merc Beta case as the rig for this system, but as explained in the Mercenary v1 post, NCIX didn't have any in stock so I switched to the Antec VSK-4000 which is a nice clean looking mid-tower rig. Unfortunately I don't have a large amount of pictures to document the system build (considering it was built as a surprise) but I will try to cover what I can about the build.

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Update on the blog

So recently I've gone through and updated a number of photos in a number of the posts of my blog, slowly converting it over from imageshack to imgbox so that the pictures consistently load. Plan on continuing to do so as well as condensing the main page posts so that some of the longer stuff (like some of the more recent build posts) don't take up massive amounts of space on the main blog but will still have the full contents on seperate pages (eg. the Mercenary v1 rig post). I will get everything updated so that the blog will seem more consistent as well as I am working on several other posts regarding the v2 of the Mercenary rig, the Crimson Avenger build, and several other overviews/builds.

The Mercenary v1 Rig

As I mentioned a while back, I was putting together some spare parts along with some extra parts I acquired when building the Kentfield rig. I originally planned to use a Bitfenix Merc Beta case as it's rig, but found out soon after ordering that NCIX does not carry anymore of them. As such I switched the order to the Alpha version so that I could still use it for another build. Enter the Mercenary v1 rig.

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Updates on the Way!

So I'm back into posting on my blog again. I took a bit of a break as it seemed to be a bit of work for not many people reading it, but I have realized that it's a good use of time to show off my skills as a computer technician but also cover some other topics relating to gaming and hardware.

Finally got back into the creative side of things and started drafting up some new posts and coverage of some of the stuff I did over the last year. I'm also in the midst of updating all my pictures by moving to a different image host because imageshack has just been garbage recently and now isn't even free. So many of my pictures on the site are broken, so I will be updating the posts with fixed pictures and organizing the posts like some of the more recent ones so that the extremely long coverage posts will be shortened but take you to a new page to read all the content of the "article". Anyway, next thing I will be covering will be my Mercenary v1 rig (which has been more recently updated to a v2 build) so looking forward to finishing that up.