Assassin arrived - questions

*Edit* Questions regarding sata and fan resistors sorted out. See review thread for more recent info.
Anyway, here are the specs:

Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Black OPS Assassin Edition 
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz (Unlocked CPU for Extreme Overclocking) (Quad Core)
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Deluxe (Intel P67 Chipset) (New & Improved B3 Revision Without SATA 3G Issue) 
System Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 1000W Corsair (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible) 
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (300GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Model: 320 Series) 
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 2x RAID1 (500GB Western Digital Caviar (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache)(Model: Black Edition)
Optical Drive 1: Blu-Ray & DVD Writer/Reader (Burn + Play Blu-Ray & DVDs) (12x BD-R) (Lite-On iHBS112) 
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card(s): 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB (Includes PhysX Technology) 
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: AIR: Stage 2: Noctua nh-u12p se2 
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: - No Thanks
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
CPU Boost: Stage 1: Overclock CPU 4.0GHz to 4.4GHz
Graphics Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Memory Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory
OS Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition)
Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD)

It looks like the RAM is  actually Corsair sticks, which is fine by me lol.  I guess the video cards are EVGA reference models. I also requested the SSD to be hooked into a 3Gb/s slot rather than 6 to avoid marvel controller  **Edit - yes it is in SATA 3Gb/s,  it looks like the bluray drive is the one in the SATA III.**Edit -  resistors were in the noctua fan lines, I took them out.**



The Fan plugs - they all go to one fan power outlet it seems.










Edited by bishamon - 20 Jun 2011 at 10:12pm

looks to me like its under the black tape that says power because there is a fat part near the end.

I think those are resistors, too.
Anyway, I looked around the back and the SSD and hard drives are routed like I wanted.


Edited by bishamon - 17 Jun 2011 at 10:15pm

Stuff sorted out.  Some more pictures. Solid build (still haven't gotten to plug it in).

GURREN LAGANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You sir are awesome for that. Great looking system, it's so beautiful!

Originally posted by Dragoonseal The Sandy Bridge P67 chipset motherboards have the benefit of 4 native Intel SATA 3Gb/s ports and 2 native Intel SATA 6Gb/s ports. Depending on the motherboard it might also include 2 addition Marvell ports though, so be sure to distinguish between the Marvell and Intel 6Gb/s ports. According to the ASUS spec sheet the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe does have the additional Marvell ports, which are colored navy blue, the Intel 6Gb/s ports are colored gray. Though as Rice has already noted, the 320 series won't break SATA 3Gb/s speeds, so it isn't really going to matter either way as long as it's on an Intel port.

That makes sense. I was wondering why there was a gray and dark blue 6Gb/s port.  The light blue 3Gb/s ports have all the hard drives hooked to them. A while back I had done the math on the 320 series max speeds vs the ceiling of SATA 2 and SATA 3, and it seemed like 3Gb/s was still enough...so I'm not worried. Better than any HDD by a lot at any rate. I suppose I could switch it over to a gray intel 6 Gb/s later if I wanted, but it shouldn't make a difference I guess.


Edited by bishamon - 18 Jun 2011 at 4:28am

Congrats looking good

I'll make another post when I get it fully set up (I'm typing on it now, but I have to move all my stuff over from the old computer, try some games, etc). 

Sweet!

@bishamon,

Can you make a new post without the images of the fan connections and all of the talk about helping you figure out?

This way the new thread is fresh and is just the review of your system.