My Puget Computer

You'll get my floppy drive when you pry it from my cold dead hands! Seriously, it's a weird thing for me, but it's proven moderately useful in the past so I include one when I can. As for the cooler, it's Puget's Hydro CL1 Liquid Cooling System 1366. I was gonna go with a Cooler Master V8, but the Puget fellows recommended the Hydro for a higher/more stable overclock.

It's an Asetek LCLC which is what the Corsair H50 is (although the base is supposed to be improved).

Ok setup, but overpriced. This is an enthusiast forum, DiY.

No need for that water cooling for that small NM processor. You could easily overclock that past 3.5ghz on air...Need better ram. Ditch the floppy drive. A gaming computer but you only got a storage harddrive???. With the money you could have saved building it yourself you could have got a nice raptor or solidstate for os/game partition. Ram and harddrive are the potential bottlenecks of this system.

It was my understanding that this forum was for pre-built/boutique built systems?

Originally Posted by Chaoticon

Ok setup, but overpriced. This is an enthusiast forum, DiY.

i think you need to read the Guidelines For This Forum - Read BEFORE Posting - normally i wouldn't interject but your post is quite condescending

I think it's a great rig - looks like it should serve you well. and glad you got ava behind you. enjoy!

I know the rules, which is why I eluded to a price point and building it - instead of newegging(new word?) prices and amounts etc. The post was supposed to be a little condescending to emphasize my "opinion". If he didn't want input then he wouldn't have posted.

Originally Posted by Chaoticon

Ok setup, but overpriced. This is an enthusiast forum, DiY.

No need for that water cooling for that small NM processor. You could easily overclock that past 3.5ghz on air...Need better ram. Ditch the floppy drive. A gaming computer but you only got a storage harddrive???. With the money you could have saved building it yourself you could have got a nice raptor or solidstate for os/game partition. Ram and harddrive are the potential bottlenecks of this system.

while I'll agree that it is expensive, it's also a nice setup.
but as for expensive... what kind of support do you get? people seem to forget that support is also figured in the cost of the computer.

how good is their support team? that would be a make it or break it point for me if I were to buy a boutique computer.

the support is the part you hope you never need! lol

Originally Posted by j-sta

while I'll agree that it is expensive, it's also a nice setup.
but as for expensive... what kind of support do you get? people seem to forget that support is also figured in the cost of the computer.

how good is their support team? that would be a make it or break it point for me if I were to buy a boutique computer.

Their support team is great, the last thing i bought from them was a case and it came with the wrong window, they ordered me one from performance-pcs and shipped it to me, then UPS picked up the old one.

Im actually shocked that machine cost 3500 when it costs a bit over 2k to build, but i give the guy props for not ordering from AVA.

That is very very nice.
Congrats and enjoy it.

The Corsair cooler is plugged into the fan header by the RAM because the CPU fan header will throttle the cooler.

Originally Posted by thebaest

Id love to see your solitaire benchmarks Can I ask what the Floppy drive is for? Just because you have a connection on your motherboard doesnt mean you have to plug something into it ^^

I thought my pc wouldnt work without something in the ISA slot?

You get what you pay for, and you don't hear much complaining about Puget. I'd rather support the little guy over the big guy any day.

Just thought I'd give an update. So far, everything is running great. No problems of any kind, no BSOD's etc. Put in my positive ResellerRatings review (figured I'd wait a bit, just to make sure everything was all good).

Good.!

Originally Posted by Metallikat

Just thought I'd give an update. So far, everything is running great. No problems of any kind, no BSOD's etc. Put in my positive ResellerRatings review (figured I'd wait a bit, just to make sure everything was all good).

Great. Glad you have a good computer.
I may have missed it, what case did you use???

Looks like a killer setup

lol...whats a floppy drive? haha...I didn't know people still used them

Floppy has its uses!

But, here I am not really even using disc media at all anymore. Flash drives/SD cards stay on my keyring

Originally Posted by FRAGMAN BOB

I thought my pc wouldnt work without something in the ISA slot?

Vesa Local Bus FTW!

glad to hear that was a sound investment for ya, OP!