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z0oT · 07-02-2014 6:12pm

twinsen wrote: »

I think you should get bigger case for that last pc

I'd actually love to put the little ITX board into something like a Corsair 900D or those obscenely huge Caselabs cases for sheer hilarity.

TBH though, that Cooler Master Elite 344 case was like €30 at the time I put the thing together. I couldn't argue with the price, even if it does dwarf the board.

SterlingArcher · 07-02-2014 7:02pm

Nanoxia deep silence another good option with r4 and the h

deceit · 08-02-2014 3:55pm

Finally got a chance to put the res in the pc, idle temps dropped from the low 30's to low 20's with just switching the res (Not sure how :eek: but i'm happy

).
I'm not sure if I should keep the other 290x when I get it back and watercool it also or just leave it as it is and sort the crystal link stuff first.
Can ignore the colour of the dye as i'm just testing it out with plain water and the bit of dye that wasnt drained out to see if I was happy with it.

Serephucus · 08-02-2014 3:57pm

Probably just ambient temps. The res wouldn't have anywhere near that sort of affect.

deceit · 08-02-2014 4:00pm

Serephucus wrote: »

Probably just ambient temps. The res wouldn't have anywhere near that sort of affect.

I'm thinking it just helped get trapped air out of the loop easier with the baffle, other than that have no idea why.

Blitz17 · 09-02-2014 1:35am

Finally swapped over my to my 540. Love this case but who ever decided to make the front panel cabling that short should be fired from Corsair. As you can see its just stretched over the mobo. Will sort that out when sleeving them! The fans are temporary as I have SP120s to go in when the time is right. I need to sleeve the USB connection thats going across aswel, thats from the BitFenix Recon. Waiting on a desk to arrive aswel as its crammed where it is

Danger781 · 09-02-2014 1:44am

That's a lovely case

deceit · 09-02-2014 1:48am

Blitz17 wrote: »

Finally swapped over my to my 540. Love this case but who ever decided to make the front panel cabling that short should be fired from Corsair. As you can see its just stretched over the mobo. Will sort that out when sleeving them! The fans are temporary as I have SP120s to go in when the time is right. I need to sleeve the USB connection thats going across aswel, thats from the BitFenix Recon. Waiting on a desk to arrive aswel as its crammed where it is

Really tidy looking rig

Blitz17 · 09-02-2014 2:06am

Thanks guys.

Had a proper fail moment earlier , Went to boot it for the first time in its new home and all good but the screen just went blank after the starting windows splash. I checked every connection over and over and still couldnt figure out what was going on. About an hour later I look at the back of the monitor and the HDMI wasnt pushed all the way in

:o

Valdez · 09-02-2014 2:28am

Blitz17 wrote: »

Thanks guys.

Had a proper fail moment earlier , Went to boot it for the first time in its new home and all good but the screen just went blank after the starting windows splash. I checked every connection over and over and still couldnt figure out what was going on. About an hour later I look at the back of the monitor and the HDMI wasnt pushed all the way in :o

I know how you feel, I did something like that with my last build. When I upgrade some parts in my case. I never plugged the power back into boot drive. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't finding the boot drive. Lol

robk24 · 09-02-2014 12:32pm

That's a savage case!
What are the acoustics like? is it quiet?

Redisle · 09-02-2014 3:19pm

My setup since I moved to Bristol. Decided to leave my other PC at home for when I visit. Cheated a little this time to save money and bought the PC already built from Ebay. Worked out well though and saved a few hundred pounds compared to component cost.

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Specs:

Core i7 4770K @ 4.2Ghz
Corsair H80i Water Cooler
Gigabyte Z87X-D3H
16GB Corsair 1866mhz Vengeance
Plextor 256GB M5S SSD
2TB HDD
Palit Super Jetstream GTX 780
Asus Xonar DG 5.1
Corsair Carbide 300R Case
Corsair GS700 PSU
Corsair K70 Mech KB

Speakers: Onkyo HTX-22HDX + SKS22X

Quite happy with it so far! Had a pleasant surprise with the graphics card too as the auction had it listed as a stock GTX 780. This one is top bin with base clocks of 980/1550 and I have pushed it quite a bit higher too with no issues!

Here's a 3dmark result with some GPU overclocking (which was stable, ran Furmark and others with no issues, probably can go higher) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7658856

..Brian.. · 13-02-2014 6:09pm

Mwah haw haw haw haawwwwwwww! The final pieces of my upgrade have arrived! Unfortunately in a moment of madness I decided to do a fresh install of windows so I haven't actually played anything yet! Doh!

marko93 · 13-02-2014 7:14pm

..Brian.. wrote: »

Mwah haw haw haw haawwwwwwww! The final pieces of my upgrade have arrived! Unfortunately in a moment of madness I decided to do a fresh install of windows so I haven't actually played anything yet! Doh!

Sweet Jesus. That is fantastic

Aka Ishur · 13-02-2014 8:32pm

The DiCU2's are always so well finished.

..Brian.. · 13-02-2014 8:49pm

Yea they look great, the finish is fantastic and the back plates are beautiful. They feel premium as well, good weight to them, the cooler housing feels metal as well as opposed to plastic. I was really impressed by the packaging as well, high quality and a bit of drama when opening the box!

deceit · 14-02-2014 11:10am

..Brian.. wrote: »

Mwah haw haw haw haawwwwwwww! The final pieces of my upgrade have arrived! Unfortunately in a moment of madness I decided to do a fresh install of windows so I haven't actually played anything yet! Doh!

Have you tried to overclock them yet? What are they like sound wise?
Was tempted to get the 290x versions but no sign of blocks for them yet turned me off.
Sweet looking rig btw

One thing though, I've never been a fan of the cables looping down over the cards, always prefered to see as little cable as possible

. Seems to be more popular lately to do this, only reason I see for doing this is on sr-x style boards where they are too wide for the cable to go the other way.
What type of cpu are you running with them?
Also one thing with them being so power hungry is a 750 watt enough for two of them and a cpu, each card should use a max of 265 from the wall so about 240 which makes it about 500 for both cards.
This leaves very little room for everything else, cpu, motherboard, ram, hd, ssd (I know most are small power requirements but with the cpu added they all add up)
I managed to get my 290x so will be in a similar position to you now when I get a second block/backplate

btkm8unsl0w5r4 · 14-02-2014 11:23am

deceit wrote: »

Have you tried to overclock them yet? What are they like sound wise?
Was tempted to get the 290x versions but no sign of blocks for them yet turned me off.
Sweet looking rig btw
One thing though, I've never been a fan of the cables looping down over the cards, always prefered to see as little cable as possible . Seems to be more popular lately to do this, only reason I see for doing this is on sr-x style boards where they are too wide for the cable to go the other way.
What type of cpu are you running with them?
Also one thing with them being so power hungry is a 750 watt enough for two of them and a cpu, each card should use a max of 265 from the wall so about 240 which makes it about 500 for both cards.
This leaves very little room for everything else, cpu, motherboard, ram, hd, ssd (I know most are small power requirements but with the cpu added they all add up)
I managed to get my 290x so will be in a similar position to you now when I get a second block/backplate

Oh yeah agreed 100%, if only somebody was selling a digital 860watt platinium certified PSU for a knock down price

cough

http://www.adverts.ie/power-supply-units/corsair-ax860i-unopened-in-box/4791836

..Brian.. · 14-02-2014 2:28pm

deceit wrote: »

Have you tried to overclock them yet? What are they like sound wise?
Was tempted to get the 290x versions but no sign of blocks for them yet turned me off.
Sweet looking rig btw
One thing though, I've never been a fan of the cables looping down over the cards, always prefered to see as little cable as possible . Seems to be more popular lately to do this, only reason I see for doing this is on sr-x style boards where they are too wide for the cable to go the other way.
What type of cpu are you running with them?
Also one thing with them being so power hungry is a 750 watt enough for two of them and a cpu, each card should use a max of 265 from the wall so about 240 which makes it about 500 for both cards.
This leaves very little room for everything else, cpu, motherboard, ram, hd, ssd (I know most are small power requirements but with the cpu added they all add up)
I managed to get my 290x so will be in a similar position to you now when I get a second block/backplate

Haven't tried overclocking them yet. Not sure my PSU would cut it tbh. After some gaming and running a few benches in Heaven and Valley, the highest power consumption I recorded on my power monitor was about 540w, although after 10 minutes of FurMark it peaked over 700w!

Thinks did get hot after 10 minutes of Furmark alright, hit 92°C! However during gaming and the aforementioned benches it was close to the 80°C. Fan usage was up over 50% in Furmark, which was audible, no doubt about it, but not [i[that[/i] bad. During gaming it's lower, around 40% and fine to game with. I use headphones either way so it's not an issue.

Running a 3570k@4.5ghz with them at the mo. Having some issues with drivers and power saving features that I'm going to mess around with when I get home from work. Look at the differences in the two GPUz below. Apparently though this is ULPS so will try knock it off once home and see if they start to match.

Also had a couple of BSOD's, stop code 0x0116 I think, can't remember 100% off the top of my head, have to go through that later as well.

Skyla Scrawny Macaroon wrote: »

Oh yeah agreed 100%, if only somebody was selling a digital 860watt platinium certified PSU for a knock down price

cough

http://www.adverts.ie/power-supply-units/corsair-ax860i-unopened-in-box/4791836

Nice try man

Alas I'm not broke!

deceit · 14-02-2014 2:50pm

..Brian.. wrote: »

Haven't tried overclocking them yet. Not sure my PSU would cut it tbh. After some gaming and running a few benches in Heaven and Valley, the highest power consumption I recorded on my power monitor was about 540w, although after 10 minutes of FurMark it peaked over 700w!

Thinks did get hot after 10 minutes of Furmark alright, hit 92°C! However during gaming and the aforementioned benches it was close to the 80°C. Fan usage was up over 50% in Furmark, which was audible, no doubt about it, but not [i[that[/i] bad. During gaming it's lower, around 40% and fine to game with. I use headphones either way so it's not an issue.

Running a 3570k@4.5ghz with them at the mo. Having some issues with drivers and power saving features that I'm going to mess around with when I get home from work. Look at the differences in the two GPUz below. Apparently though this is ULPS so will try knock it off once home and see if they start to match.

Also had a couple of BSOD's, stop code 0x0116 I think, can't remember 100% off the top of my head, have to go through that later as well.

Nice try man Alas I'm not broke!

There's a chance the blue screens can be power related, if theres just not enough power for the cards they will hit a brick wall.
I wouldnt risk it with all the expensive kit you have in your pc as if the psu fails could take everything else with it.
If you turn off ulps your second card will consume a load more power and most likely put you over your limit. I know its only supposed to effect when the card is idle but it gets the second cards max draw higher when disabled also after testing with my 7970's.

..Brian.. · 14-02-2014 5:28pm

Even though the power monitor never went above ~540 watts during real world application? Is there much risk if the PSU does die? Thought most decent PSUs would just shut down and fail to start, not go out in a blaze of glory like cheaper ones! This is my PSU. Obviously if it's a serious threat to the system it will be getting replaced asap!

deceit · 14-02-2014 5:59pm

..Brian.. wrote: »

Even though the power monitor never went above ~540 watts during real world application? Is there much risk if the PSU does die? Thought most decent PSUs would just shut down and fail to start, not go out in a blaze of glory like cheaper ones! This is my PSU. Obviously if it's a serious threat to the system it will be getting replaced asap!

I have to wonder about them power monitoring plugs (I wouldn't put much faith in them), I've two under my desk here and one shows my pc uses 211 watts, while the second one says it uses 286.
Either way, even if it is accurate, I wouldnt be happy with just 750 long term as any equipment being used near its max will wear out alot quicker than if its not stressed as much. I've had two psu's blow from two good quality manufacturers, both took motherboards and ram with them.
When psu's go they can in alot of instances take other parts with them, its just decent quality parts are much less likely to blow.

I'm showing this as 290's and x varients would be similar.
This is from guru3d:
Power consumption AMD Radeon R9-290X 2-way Crossfire

System in IDLE = 130W
System Wattage with GPU in FULL Stress = 661 Watts (This is just the wattage with gpu's fully stressed, what happens if cpu is stressed also, especially your overclocked one, would easily go over 750)
Difference (GPU load) = 531W
Add average IDLE wattage ~20W
Subjective obtained GPU power consumption = ~ 551 Watts

..Brian.. · 14-02-2014 6:15pm

Would this 850w be ok? I can pickthat up for €100. Or would I need to go closer to 1000w?

deceit · 14-02-2014 6:24pm

..Brian.. wrote: »

Would this 850w be ok? I can pickthat up for €100. Or would I need to go closer to 1000w?

850 would be enough yea imo. If you pick that up for 100, i'm sure you can get a fair bit of the cash back from selling your own so you wont be much worse off.

chewythefirst · 15-02-2014 2:22am

Skyla Scrawny Macaroon wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/power-supply-units/corsair-ax860i-unopened-in-box/4791836

interesting, where you pick this up? and how come your selling it?

btkm8unsl0w5r4 · 15-02-2014 11:40am

chewythefirst wrote: »

interesting, where you pick this up? and how come your selling it?

I moved up to a 1200w PSU as I have tri sli. I RMA'd my old 860 and got a brand new one hence the unopened supply. Its a great PSU but not for overclocked processor and three GPU's. Dual SLI no problem. IMHO the PSU is the key component of your system. So much instability is from PSU problems expically in overclocked configurations. If you would spend 400 euro on a GPU spend more than 100 on a PSU. I have a graveyard of PSUs in my garage all good brands.

TerrorFirmer · 15-02-2014 9:13pm

Installed an old remote controlled LED Cabinet kit into my PC today, getting bored with my color scheme is a thing of the past! Not coming out perfect at the moment because my Fans are Blue LED and I also have Blue LED Strips in there so the different colors are a little mixed....there are other colors as well not shown, like yellow and pink...

wandatowell · 16-02-2014 4:35pm

^^^^ Needs more cables

spix · 16-02-2014 6:00pm

That looks familiar

Genghiz Cohen · 17-02-2014 2:52pm

wandatowell wrote: »

^^^^ Needs more cables

And a 212 Evo or H100i.

Kur4mA · 17-02-2014 4:25pm

I find it amazing how much of a cabling elitist snob I've turned into since I finally got the finger out, bought some cable ties and spent a few hours actually tidying my case up. It's still not perfect, but it's a million times better than it was. I'll post pics at some stage!

TerrorFirmer · 17-02-2014 5:49pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

And a 212 Evo or H100i.

I actually had an Evo 212 but I managed to break it when installing new parts. I was going to get another one but the stock cooler doesn't offend me too much and it's alright for mild overclocking as well, leaving it for now.

As for my cables, installing that LED kit made a mess of it, but when the side panels on you can't see any of it through the window, which satisfies me well enough.

deceit · 17-02-2014 5:56pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

As for my cables, installing that LED kit made a mess of it, but when the side panels on you can't see any of it through the window, which satisfies me well enough.

Need to be instant banned from all PC enthusiast forums with that comment. Wheres Solitaire when you need him. :mad:

btkm8unsl0w5r4 · 17-02-2014 8:29pm

Cables a mess = airflow a mess. Why spend money on upgrades, especially aesthetic ones, and not do the simple free things of tidying up all the cables.

chewythefirst · 17-02-2014 9:24pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

As for my cables, installing that LED kit made a mess of it, but when the side panels on you can't see any of it through the window, which satisfies me well enough.

o good god...... i don't even know what to say to both your lack of cablemangment and the reason you gave for not doing it.

Even if i couldnt see it i would always know it was there every time i looked at my rig, maby that is just the OCD head in me screaming at these pictures.

TerrorFirmer · 18-02-2014 10:10am

Skyla Scrawny Macaroon wrote: »

Cables a mess = airflow a mess. Why spend money on upgrades, especially aesthetic ones, and not do the simple free things of tidying up all the cables.

It doesn't affect airflow. above PSU level the cables are good, the only messy ones is from the kit I just installed. There are no cables in the way of any of my fans, I'll sort the kit out eventually!

You know what they say - out of sight out of mind!

glynf · 28-02-2014 6:52pm

First upgrade in a while, and I finally got a mechanical keyboard.and The left-handed deathadder is a spare-I got the fear that they might stop making them:o

Well impressed with the build quality & liking very much the satisfying click when I hit a key a lot more than I thought I would.

The down side is I feel a dose of upgrade-like-a-bastard-itis coming on.:)

Seaaan · 28-02-2014 8:22pm

Cherry red keys? What're they like? Thinking about getting one myself as my next stupid purchase

glynf · 28-02-2014 8:59pm

Yes Cherry reds, and very they have a nice tactile feel to them, plus not as loud as expected. The only other mech keyboard I had was an old IBM one years ago, and this is much better in fairness. It is a seriously solid and heavy piece of kit as well, and the wrist rest is sweet.

Next I need to figure out what LED's my mouse uses, plan on breaking out the soldering iron & replacing them with red ones, the colour clash is pissing me off

moonlighting · 28-02-2014 9:41pm

the stands for those monitors look odd.
why are they not in the center lol

glynf · 28-02-2014 9:50pm

That's the design, don't give a fiddlers either as they're all full of 120hz goodness.

chewythefirst · 28-02-2014 10:56pm

So i have ordered white custom braided cables a 24pin 8pin 6pin and the shop i found did a front panel cable as well

I also ordered a NZXT led 1m white light strip.

This is the front panel cable.

Blitz17 · 28-02-2014 11:02pm

chewythefirst wrote: »

So i have ordered white custom braided cables a 24pin 8pin 6pin and the shop i found did a front panel cable as well
I also ordered a NZXT led 1m white light strip.

This is the front panel cable.

I got them to do that in but in White-Black-White-Black to match the rest of my cables. After sleeving them all blue before and taking forever THEN unsleeving them when I changed colour of the build. Never sleeving again :pac:

Seaaan · 28-02-2014 11:19pm

Blitz17 wrote: »

I got them to do that in but in White-Black-White-Black to match the rest of my cables. After sleeving them all blue before and taking forever THEN unsleeving them when I changed colour of the build. Never sleeving again :pac:

How much does self-sleeving cost? And where would you get the supplies in Ireland? It was something that intrigued me a while ago, out of boredom

Blitz17 · 28-02-2014 11:33pm

Seaaan wrote: »

How much does self-sleeving cost? And where would you get the supplies in Ireland? It was something that intrigued me a while ago, out of boredom

Its very cheap actually but time consuming , VERY time consuming.

You need to decide what sleeve you want to go for.

I used Paracord which is easily available on Amazon in lots of different colours.

Tools to remove pins from atx connectors, molex etc.

Heat shrink and a heat gun. All of those can be picked up quite cheap online.

Seaaan · 28-02-2014 11:36pm

Blitz17 wrote: »

Its very cheap actually but time consuming , VERY time consuming.

You need to decide what sleeve you want to go for.

I used Paracord which is easily available on Amazon in lots of different colours.

Tools to remove pins from atx connectors, molex etc.

Heat shrink and a heat gun. All of those can be picked up quite cheap online.

Seems a lot simpler than I thought. Might attempt it at Easter when I've time off, thanks!:o

Blitz17 · 28-02-2014 11:41pm

Seaaan wrote: »

Seems a lot simpler than I thought. Might attempt it at Easter when I've time off, thanks!:o

Thats exactly the mistake I made :P

Plenty of guides on the internet regarding it aswel.

Seaaan · 28-02-2014 11:57pm

Blitz17 wrote: »

Thats exactly the mistake I made :P

Plenty of guides on the internet regarding it aswel.

I don't mind wasting time if it will look nice! Better than dropping 70 or so in a bag of corsair sleeved cables.

farna_boy · 04-03-2014 4:31am

Seaaan wrote: »

I don't mind wasting time if it will look nice! Better than dropping 70 or so in a bag of corsair sleeved cables.

There is a good guide in the video below. I have bought everything I need for it, now I just need to put aside some time to actually do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxyrkD7HaV4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxyrkD7HaV4

Seaaan · 04-03-2014 9:43am

farna_boy wrote: »

There is a good guide in the video below. I have bought everything I need for it, now I just need to put aside some time to actually do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxyrkD7HaV4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxyrkD7HaV4

Your PSU is modular or not?

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