I researched far and wide, I thought about driving to Micro Center in Ohio which is a 2+ drive for me, but in the end I ordered off the egg and picked up the I74790K combo with a Gigabyte gaming 5 board for only $453.00 dollars shipped to my front door. I could of picked up the gaming 7 board at Micro Center vs the Gaming 5 one for around the same price, but would have had to drive 4+ hours to get it.
I have had some set backs on my new wall mount case build.... anyone looking to order water cooling parts and using FrozenCPU.com to do so, don't! This used to be a company that was my go to for water cooling parts...not anymore! I ordered a new Bitspower water tank Z-Multi 400 to update my water loop and am really sorry that I did. I placed the order on Feb. 12th and was told it would be here within 2-3 days. As it turns out, FrozenCPU's owner might very well be a crack head and the doors are closed but they are still taking peoples money with out shipping Items purchased. I now have to contact my card company to reverse the charges they made against my card for the new water loop items. Thankfully I have also ordered from many companies in the past, and it had been a few years since I went with Mountain mods, but I placed a order with them today after finding out about FrozenCPU's shady a$$'s and within 30 min's they had the new tank shipped out today with a tracking number from Fedex.
I also order a new water block for the 4790K, new 3/4" lines, and new compression fittings. This is the first upgrade I have made to my water loop in around 4 years and I hope to have the parts for it all before ups gets the mother board and new I7 here, but I doubt it. That means I will be running it on a stock cooler most likely, I might have a Zelman custom air cooler that will fit the 1150 socket...not sure yet. All in all this little upgrade path with the new Intel build and water loop parts, and plexi glass and parts for the new wall mount case is looking to be around $1100 dollars. I even didn't skimp on the PCI-E extension cable and went with the $100+ dollar 3M shielded one. I will post pic's once I have everything put together and up and running... lets see just how much better the Intel I74790K is when playing MWO shall we?
Should be interesting... Once again.... I am not a AMD fanboy by any means, this will lay it to rest as I do side by side comparisons with both systems, and film it to post on youtube. Let the fun begin, I haven't put a new system together since last year...and as always, I find that its a itch that needs to be scratched!
Edited by Bill Lumbar, 19 February 2015 - 02:34 PM.