Question 1

hello, 
i would ask  what kind of  CPU comes with it a I7 ?  ,and if there a harddisk with it .

Accepted Answer

Barebone means you have to add your own memory, CPU, hard disk and optical drive. The rest is included although you may also want to add a faster graphics card if you want to use it for gaming. You shouldn't buy this unless you are comfortable building your own computer out of basic parts.

Question 2

How many interal 3.5'' bays will this case house? It's a shot in the dark, but are there any bays to house an optical/blu-ray drive?

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I don't have my case open at the moment, but if memory serves me correctly you can get 3 or 4 3.5" drives in it. Two of these are toward the case front (under the optical drive slot) and two are on trays above the motherboard.

Yes, there is room for an optical drive. The top panel is spring loaded such that an optical drive will push it out when opened. (You can see the eject button push-through in the upper-right of the pic.) In the past, I've had problems with the spring being too tight for my optical drive... it thought it hit an obstacle and wouldn't  push the panel down! On my new machine I use an external drive for the rare occasions when I need to access a CD or DVD.

Question 3

IS THERE A LESS EXPENSIVE PROCESSOR?

Accepted Answer

The processor is up to you, this is just the barebones motherboard and case. There are a ton of Z77 CPUs on sale now that the newer models are out.

Question 4

What's the clearance room for graphics cards?  Length and width (front and back), please.  Those SATA ports look really close to that PCI-E slot, and I ran into trouble upgrading the video card in my last Shuttle: the fan housing ran into the hard drive tray.  Just want to make sure I know what will fit before I buy it.

Accepted Answer

The clearance is pretty tight, but it fits a full size card. I bought a EVGA GTX 660 SSC and it fits pretty close to the frame, but it still closes. its outfitted with a i5 3750K, 16 GB of RAM, DVD-RW drive, a 1 TB HDD, and a 120GB SSD. So the wiring is pretty packed. The computer is used all day to process graphics and video and it doesn't run hot, there is a low constant hum of all the fans together.

Question 5

I wanted to add a fanless graphic card on my SZ77R5, still using the integrated. And i'd like to know if the "HIS iSilence H775P1GD Radeon HD 7750 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16" would be an upgrade or not? And whether it fits or too tall and etc. since i don't know much about graphic cards. And i would greatly appreciated if someone can help me out please!

Accepted Answer

The integrated GPU is about what you'd expect with any consumer integrated video. It's fine for HD video playback, but anything more and you might reach a choke point. Any current generation GPU would be an improvement over it. I was able to squeeze a "EVGA SuperClocked 02G-P4-2765-KR GeForce GTX 760" into the box. The real trick to installing any GPU will be getting the power cable(s) around the card from the supply. I had to remove the cable ties around the power cables, but in the end it worked perfectly.

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