A New "Challenger" Approaches!

[Stranger The Steef]

Hello, everyone!  My name is Stranger The Steef!  I was formerly known as BlueFalcon77 back in the early stages of KSP, since v. 0.8.  I was one of the people who had a great enthusiasm about recreating the SR-71 Blackbird, along with the XB-70 and a few others, stock.  Anyway, I cannot retrieve my account info from my former because I had terminated my Yahoo! email (it's a spam MAGNET).

 

But... I digress.  This topic is about me finally building my own rig.  And the quotes in the title are necessary, because that is what I had christened her name to be.  She will be my workhorse for the distant future, and will also pay respect as a monument to the brave souls lost in the 1986 disaster.

Specs

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Intel Core i7 5820K 3.3GHz CPU

ASUS X99-A LGA 2011-v3 Motherboard

Corsair H110i GTX Performance Extreme Liquid CPU Cooler

MSi GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming 8GB GDDR5

16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 RAM 3000 MHz CL15

Corsair RM1000x 1000W Power Supply Unit

Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD (Boot)

2x HGST 2TB HDDs @ 7200RPM, 64MB Cache

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

Corsair 780T Full Tower Case

 

Here's Challenger in her glory.

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[Vanamonde]

While fan works will be made on this device, the device itself is not a fan work. And so, the thread has been moved to the Lounge. Carry on. 

[legoclone09]

Awesome! How did you get that case for the computer?

[Green Baron]

Only thing i'd change is the operating system ....

(if i had the powder for the rest of course)

Have fun :-)

Do you run the two disks as a raid 1 / mirror for performance ?

 

[Stranger The Steef]

On 8/7/2016 at 4:31 PM, legoclone09 said:

Awesome! How did you get that case for the computer?

NewEgg.com!  Corsair makes a helluva case.

[Stranger The Steef]

On 8/7/2016 at 3:28 PM, Vanamonde said:

While fan works will be made on this device, the device itself is not a fan work. And so, the thread has been moved to the Lounge. Carry on. 

Thank you for the notice, I will try to be more mindful of where I post things.

[Stranger The Steef]

On 8/7/2016 at 5:27 PM, Green Baron said:

Only thing i'd change is the operating system ....

(if i had the powder for the rest of course)

Have fun :-)

Do you run the two disks as a raid 1 / mirror for performance ?

 

No, I do not run RAID 1 or RAID 0, sorry.  I'm just starting things off normally for now, but will probably get an external RAID array in the future.

[Stranger The Steef]

Also that pic was a Photoshop placeholder for the custom vinyl text that I put on later.  Here is an updated pic!

 

[CAKE99]

5 hours ago, Stranger The Steef said:

No, I do not run RAID 1 or RAID 0, sorry.  I'm just starting things off normally for now, but will probably get an external RAID array in the future.

You should DEFINITELY get a RAID array, back in February 2015 my hard drive died, I had a backup from November the previous year, but I still lost a lot of stuff.

(Also THAT'S A VERY NICE PC YOU HAVE THERE, IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO IT.)

Edited August 29, 2016 by CAKE99

[Stranger The Steef]

6 hours ago, CAKE99 said:

You should DEFINITELY get a RAID array, back in February 2015 my hard drive died, I had a backup from November the previous year, but I still lost a lot of stuff.

(Also THAT'S A VERY NICE PC YOU HAVE THERE, IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO IT.)

I will do it when I have the best opportunity available.  I do have a 1TB backup external for the moment, but will upgrade in the near future.