The Build Saga: Part Fifteen.

We are officially on the home stretch. The PC is assembled. All major parts and pieces are inside. I will have picture very soon. The case still needs a little lovin' and I'd like to put in my non-crucial media player before I snap pics. I've also got another fan to install. Turns out that the sweet 230mm fan that people were raving over and swearing fit into this case... does not. I have a $20 huge white fan that I have no use for. Who the fuck is going to need a 230mm white case fan? FUCK! I ordered another 200mm, same as what I got to go with the one that was already in the case. It will mount just fine, just so long as it has clearance with the video card. The video card looks like it MIGHT cause me some trouble, but we'll have to see.

 My shopping list is pretty small now. Picking up some Noctuas to replace the fans in the case. Grabbing a Blu Ray player because I fucking want one. Getting the 200mm NZXT case fan just so that I've got something on the side. After that we are done. Complete!

 I've got a couple of monitors and a mount ordered. I decided to go with the ASUS VS239H-P monitor, twice over. 23 inches, matte-like screen, VESA compatible, black on the bezel, IPS and competitively priced. The mount seems pretty standard. It's made by Tyke. It has some pretty good reviews, is not insanely expensively and looks easy to use. I actually watched some YouTube videos about the mount, because I wanted to see what I was in for. It looks pretty good. I'm excited to get the monitors and get them attached. Again, pictures are coming soon. I will have complete pics of the PC, as well as some shots of my desk and my monitors.

 Since I've got everything together, I figured that I would run some benchmarks. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but without overclocking I can say that I am very pleased compared to my old rig.

Used the defaults for 3DMark, not sure if I can even use anything else.  In the top 25% seems pretty good.

Heaven kind of hurt my feelings.  I was expecting to be closer to the 60 FPS mark.  I'll take it, though.  Maybe with some overclocking I can hit that mark.  I ran this test at Ultra Quality, Extreme Tesselation, 1920x1080 fullscreen at 8xAA.  It was unforgiving.

I've never run Valley before.  My first experience wasn't so bad.  I thought the benchmark itself was gorgeous.  Even though I tried to ignore it, all of the colors and outdoor landscape sucked me in.  I maxed out the settings here, too.  1920x1080 fullscreen with 8xAA with Extreme HD Preset.  I pushed it pretty hard.