It is time to update my OLD rig

[Gman]

That may be true regarding the smaller SSD, in one of my boxes that's all that's in there, a 128 Samsung 830, but he always has the option of adding another larger SSD later, should be space for it NP.  It's true the smaller SSDs only allow for a couple of your favorite games, if you have more than 4 or 5 games on Steam, the folder usually won't fit.  There IS a Steam program out there however that you can move whatever game you're playing at the time from your Steam folder on the old type spinner drive over to your SSD, and then switch games around as you see fit or need to.  It's on the front page of PC Gamer right now, I'll link it later if anyone cares, as it's a great little tool for those with small boot SSD drivers to be able to play whatever game of choice they want on that SSD drive, and then move it back to the spinner Steam folder and swap out a newer game when it comes along.

Great build, I'm glad you got it and worked everything out.  Really nice system you've put together.  Regarding assembly for beginners, I wish you had posted something, there are several youtube videos, one from fellow Canuck Linus at Linus tech tips that walks you through every single step of the process, and makes it a lot easier for first timers, or even old timers when technology changes since the last build.  Oh well, you're finished now, and off to game you go.  Good CPU choice, most sites agree that i5 cpu is the best bang/$ for gaming, and I commend your choice of Corsair for a case, I'm a Corsair fanboy when it comes to their cases, and a lot of their other products as well, but especially the boxes.  Congrats, again, nice little unit there, great bang/$.

edit - Here is the link to SteamTool Library manager and the story on PC Gamer about it.  I'm using it now, works great, very simple, no bugs or crashes in any games yet, as the box the missus uses has a smaller 120 ish GB Samsung ssd like I said, and so far so good.

http://www.pcgamer.com/whats-the-best-way-to-move-steam-games-to-and-from-an-ssd/

[j500ss]

Thanks Gman

When the time comes for another build I will be staying with the Corsair box, just a bit higher end one  Yea, space is NOT an issue in the box at all. The only near issue I had was with the CPU cooler, there is no way 2 more sticks of ram would ever fit.  I suspect had I gone with the low profile sticks it might be possible.  I've already decided that if I have to have more RAM, I'll just go with 2x 8

 So far as the small SSD goes, well that is live and learn.  I really don't game much at all, and I am sure a time will come when I do add a second one, or just a bigger one and run a fresh install of the OS.

 Basically all that I have on the SSD is the OS, Avast, and CCleaner, everything else including AH is on the HDD

A squaddie( 1Wolf)  turned me on to a site that shows how to move things around with Win7 and also optimize the use of SSD's and HDD's in combination.  Thus far it is working pretty good I think.

[Gman]

I was going to get a really large Corsair case as well, their 750 I think it was at the time, but seeing it, it was just TOO big.

I went with a couple C70s, they were on sale for 100$ Canadian, which was about 2/5 off and a great deal.  I really liked them because they had spring loaded rubber folding handles on both sides of the top, making picking it up and moving it around a lot easier.  Even when building the system, this came in handy many times IMO, and the missus likes to go to the local LAN parties in Alberta, so hauling the box out of the car and such = perfect.  Good overall case as well, nice window, lighting, great ventilation and expandability.  I've always been really impressed with Corsair's cases, always been great quality and well thought out IMO.

Don't worry about the SSD thing, as I said, it's not a HUGE deal, you can always put your primary games you play on the remaining space which should be at least 40 or 50gb if not way more, after your OS and other primary programs and such.  Plus, for 100 to 150$ you can always add another mid 200gb range drive in the future, and off you go, right.  I honestly don't find much of a performance hit if any running games on the spinner drive on our one box with the small SSD drive, a little slower booting the game, but that's really the only negative.

[Masherbrum]

I like the Fractal Design Arc Midi 2.    Room up the yin yang for running cables and multiple boons for offset fans/radiators.   All I have are four 140mm fans at 18db and 15db LEPA fans that replaced the wind tunnel fans on the H80i.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I was going to get a really large Corsair case as well, their 750 I think it was at the time, but seeing it, it was just TOO big.

I went with a couple C70s, they were on sale for 100$ Canadian, which was about 2/5 off and a great deal.  I really liked them because they had spring loaded rubber folding handles on both sides of the top, making picking it up and moving it around a lot easier.  Even when building the system, this came in handy many times IMO, and the missus likes to go to the local LAN parties in Alberta, so hauling the box out of the car and such = perfect.  Good overall case as well, nice window, lighting, great ventilation and expandability.  I've always been really impressed with Corsair's cases, always been great quality and well thought out IMO.

Don't worry about the SSD thing, as I said, it's not a HUGE deal, you can always put your primary games you play on the remaining space which should be at least 40 or 50gb if not way more, after your OS and other primary programs and such.  Plus, for 100 to 150$ you can always add another mid 200gb range drive in the future, and off you go, right.  I honestly don't find much of a performance hit if any running games on the spinner drive on our one box with the small SSD drive, a little slower booting the game, but that's really the only negative.

I'll tell you what's big. My maxi tower. It barely fits under my computer table lol. OTOH space is no issue even though I have 5 hdds + the SSD in it (and used to have a watercooling setup).