Takes a pretty big pair...

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...and he believes he should have been able to do more. This soldier really and truly deserves the medal. Comment on the military.com article says it all:

 

Sgt. Meyer, you did not let your brothers down. You allow them to rest in peace by bringing them home to their families rather than being given up to the enemy. Well done Marine.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/09/15/marine.medal.of.honor/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

 

http://www.military.com/news/article/marine-to-receive-moh-sept-15.html

 

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Yeah their very similar. HAF X has native front panel USB ports, a duct for cooling graphics cards and a little cooling support and XL-ATX compatibility with 9 PCI slots. The difference is marginal and i honestly think both are quality cases.

Unboxing the H80, i was happy to see that they included 2 fans, unlike previous editions that supported 2 but only came with 1.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01244.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01245.jpg
Vertex 3 SSD
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01247.jpg
I5 2500k processor with Intel's stock heat sink
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01246.jpg
Dominator Ram

[Guest RET.CW4.ThievingSix=US=]

Here's the ending to my story.

After getting in game and bf3 for a, while the card would not show any display after crashing while watching a video. I would get past POST and then the starting windows screen would show and then nothing. I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers fully and using different versions and nothing seemed to fix the problem, the card worked fine in safemode but would not work with the drivers. As a last ditch effort i took my card out and placed in back in again and like magic it started working, it was really odd.

So here the last few pictures of my build.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01248.jpg
The motherboard was definitely as beastly as expected
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01250.jpg
Messy Build area = Good build
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01252.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01249.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01251.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/ThievingSix/Pc%20Build/DSC01253.jpg
In the PC world size matters, here is a comparison of the old and the new.

All in all it was a great experience, and i definitely learnt a lot. Would i build again?, even though i had a lot of trouble and my motherboard travelled over 40000 km's it was a lot of fun and i got exactly what i wanted for a great price.

Also here is a list of all the parts i used

Item name: COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119225
Price: $169.99

Item name: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1502FAEX 1.5TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136793
Price: $94.99

Item name: EVGA 012-P3-1571-AR GeForce GTX 570 HD w/Display-Port (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130621
Price: $319.99

Item name: CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX750 (CMPSU-750AX) 750W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139016
Price: $169.99

Item name: CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMP4GX3M2C1600C7
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145290
Price: $69.99

Item name: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131730
Price: $194.99

Item name: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
Price: $219.99

Item name: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116717
Price: $264.99

Item name: SONY Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 8X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM 8MB Cache SATA Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B - OEM
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118050
Price: $99.99

Item name: CORSAIR H80 (CWCH80) High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181016
Price: $91.99

Item name: OCZ Vertex 3 Series – MAX IOPS Edition VTX3MI-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227714
Price: $239.99