1st build, how'm I looking?

Hi guys n Gals, longtime reader, first time poster,
I use my pc for playing WoW, checking Emails and maybe watching films occasionally,
Now,my old pc didnt want to play world of warcraft anymore so I decided to build a system that hopefully would do the job and last a while, ended up buying:

AsRock m3a770de mobo, with an athlon 11x3 435 triple-core processor already glued in, 2.9Ghz per core, leave as is, overclock three or try unlocking fourth core? research shows not all fourth cores are stable I understand,
got 2Gb of ddr3 1333 coming, I want more but funds Meh........,
Twintech graphics card using nvidia 9500gt gear, onboard fan/cooler,
Zalman Dual fan ram-cooler,
160Gb Sata
700w psu, came in a galaxy tower, side panel of case has 80mm fan, added 120mm exhaust to rear and a slotfan under the graphics card slot, thinking of adding 2x 40mm draggers at front of case,but that'll require some chopping out and moving power switch higher up the case,
so far,about £320 in UK paper,
keyboard/mouse B.C.L. £10 from local shop, had original for 8 years,thought I'd treat myself
O/s probably Xp Pro, only 32 Bit but I hear WoW is only 32 Bit game so it wouldnt benefit from 64bit O/s,
using a workabout cd drive for installs etc,then it goes back in the drawer till needed
More ram as I can afford it, I.E. other half allows the fundage ,
I dont want a load of posts advertising x,y,z from Mental corporation, if I had mega funds, I'd have gone and bought a highend pre-made,
just a gentle, how did I do?
Thanks
Moto

Apologies, as I said I'm new and ofc I didnt read stickies before posting *slaps own wrist*
P.C. is bought and built (mostly, just Ram to arrive) already, I just wanted a pat on the back, or pointing in a better direction, Thanks,
Moto

I was down to two frames per second on my old (nvidia 6200 le) set up, tried the new card in my old set up and it gave me 60 fps straight off, so I'm thinking its a good start from where I was lol, Ty for the look over J.P.
Moto

Thanks for the input Mavanhel, as I said, the straight off fps was massively improved, this is ofc without the new processor and mobo combination, I just stuck the new card in my old MSI K9N6 PGM 2 V board, sorted drivers out and saw the boost, I'm confident (well, as much as I can ever be) that the new mobo and chip are going to add to the grin factor, I would like to get a shiny gfx card but the Gf is a little miffed I've spent what I have, so that would be a ways away I think, and if everythings working ok, I' probably add another 2Gb of ram first before buying another card.
on the plus side, my first 2Gb of ocz is on its way according to the guy I bought it from, so fingers crossed, may be firing up by thursday
I'll keep you posted and thanks once again for your advice guys

If WoW is the max ull go then 9500gt is fine. If you gonna get to like MW2....GTA4....and so on ull need 9600gt or higher

Ok, I was happy with the build,then I saw a thread on here and got so jealous I just had to do something with my cables, so Heres the final effort




I dont have any drives in the case I know, I have everything I need on the Hdd I.E. Wow


U.S.B.,Power switch etc is fed behind mobo and threaded through a hole in the back

and the one you dont usually see...

not as tidy out back, but it keeps it tidy and unseen from the front


check out this guys thread as well for more cable-based fun http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] 13_50.html

Took half the top drive cage out recently and sprayed it all Matt Black took lightbars off front, the leds will go somewhere in future,just not as bars and not atm
Mmmmm, more fans
Added:
2x 80mm at front
H.DD. cooler, 2x40mm
4x 80mm in the roof
swapped 80mm in side panel for a 120mm
made a template to sit over the 75mm? cpu fan, and superglued another 80mm onto that
and thinking now about putting a 40mm fan on each of the north and southbridges,
Had I mentioned I like fans?

Right, case came, started planning the next rebuild, I wanted to hide the cables more


I mean it was ok, but I wasnt happy so heres a few pics of the process, feel free to ask, criticise, mock or admire as you see fit

see those lightbars at the front of the pc? remember those......



Aaah, that new case smell


I made a jig for the roof fans this time, marked 2 fans side by side and cut the jig to just fit inside the roof section so it could slide as needed.



like this,


Four fans, nice and evenly mounted.


while the roof was off, I sprayed the case Matt Black, and drilled/cut any holes I needed, behind the motherboard 20+4 socket and in the floor for the powerswitch to feed through as thats moved to the back of the rig, under the pci slots,

Remember those lightbars? well I had 2 sets of 2 now so I cut up some blanking plates and mounted them kinda equally to run the length inside the case, just in front of the mobo,


Another blanking plate made up the top section of the box to cover the wires more and stop excess light bleeding out


And a quick test to check they fit/work,


after all that, A simple *Pfft!* case of fitting everything to new case, wiring it all up, and trying to stop myself from improve it anymore, I give myself a week before I start thinking, 'Hey what if I.......' lol
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums [...] nished.jpg

this project was carried out with the assistance of Carling lager, and my Girlfriend (as in she didnt interrupt much) and our three cats, let me know what you think and anything you think I could do better in future
Moto

thank you very much Daem, I admit I have probably got too many fans for efficiency but I like em hehe
surprisingly though, Its not loud at all so.....
Moto

Got me a Sapphire 5770 in there now, up to 925 Mhz from 850 stock, never clocked a card b4 so going easy hehe

Its a Galaxy III case off Egay, not sure of manufacturer tbh, but had 2 now and their not bad, I'll be putting another 2x 120mm's in the side panel to help cool the 5770 soon so its changing again
Good luck on your own case mod hope it goes well
if you have any questions feel free to pm me and I'll help if i can.
Moto

Thanks Nuke, Its always nice to get good feedback, and hopefully inspire people to brave hacking their pc up themselves
Moto

Seeing as I broke a fan on my roof, I modded my spare roof panel a bit

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] on-casemod
Moto