PC Build Components X79 Core i7 LGA2011

The following photographs provide a component overview of a recent PC build that coincides with the recent set of unboxing videos. You will see from the photographs below that the PC case in Cooler Master Cosmos 2 Ultra Tower. It provides support for up to four-way SLI, features 13 x 3.5″ hard disk bays, 3 x 5.25″ drive bays & has a number of fans including 1 x 200mm, 1 x 140mm and 3 x 120mm. The power supply unit is also from Cooler Master, a 1000 watt 80 plus modular system. The X79 Sabertooth motherboard by ASUS has support for up to 64GB of DDR 3 RAM. CPU cooling is provided in the form of the Corsair H100 fully self-contained water cooling system. The CPU is an Intel Core i7 3930K hexa-core system, capable of concurrently running 12 threads, featuring 12MB of cache & operates at 130 watts. The graphics card in an NVidia GTX 570 with 2560MB or RAM & 480 cores. The boot drive makes use of a 240GB Corsair SSD with a 2TB HD for file storage. The systems volatile memory has 32GB of Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz RAM. Finally external media access is provided in the form of a Pioneer Blu-ray writer, capable of up to 12x write speeds.

PC Build Components

PC Build Components

PC Build Components

Intel Core i7 3930K Processor Unboxing LGA 2011

Unboxing video of the Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Processor, towards the end it is also compared with an Intel P166 Processor from 15/16 years ago. As can be seen the overall footprint / surface area hasn’t changed that much and in the case of the i7 3930K I have heard of many people saying that it is quite large in size, especially in comparisson to the 2600K. If you are wondering what CPU you should purchase yourself then take a look at
http://www.cpubenchmark.net
additional information about the processor may be found on Intel’s website.