First post, by Brawndo
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So I've wanted to recreate the Sandy Bridge PC I built back in 2011 for awhile now, and was able to acquire, at least to the best of my memory, the original parts I used back then. However, my inner geek wasn't satisfied, and I went down the rabbit hole of "bigger and faster is better," so I bought all new high end (for the period) components, and what you see in the pictures below is the result. All of the parts are period correct with the exception of the case, case fans and power supply, and I was able to build it for a small fraction of what it would have cost back in 2011, due to this generation of components being dirt cheap right now. Being a circa 2011 PC, this will be running Windows 7 only. I was originally going to dual boot XP and Windows 7, but the Titanium HD sound card only works in Windows 7 and later. Tri-SLI is absolutely ridiculous and I understand it doesn't scale efficiently given the cost, but I got all 3 including the SLI bridge for under $100, so why not?
Specs:
Motherboard - ASUS ROG Maximus V (this is one bad arse motherboard!)
CPU - Intel i5 2500K (Sandy Bridge)
CPU Cooler - Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo (push/pull fans)
RAM - 8 GM G.Skill Sniper PC3 1866 MHz
Graphics - 3x EVGA Nvidia GTX 580 (tri-SLI)
Sound - Creative X-Fi Titanium HD
Storage - 2x Team Group Vulcan 1TB SSD (one for install drive, one to store ISO images for mounting and playing games)
Optical Drive - portable USB DVD-RW
Power Supply - Corsair RM1000e (fully modular)
Case - Corsair 4000D Airflow (white)
