[MERGED] Your Main PC - Pictures, specs and discussion <IMAGE HEAVY>

Sonics2k

Some of you may remember a post I made some months (November) ago on building a new PC. Four months later, a change of career and more changes of mind than I can count, I finally got the build together. This was my first time building a PC since about 2000 so a surprisingly large amount has changed, mostly easier, but just as finicky as before.

The unboxing and preparing


Motherboard, CPU and RAM installed


Reference version GTX 970 from Overclockers.co.uk



The first test boot was mostly a success!


The final build with LEDs installed and fans working fully. Monitor is the Asus ROG Swift. (I may have forgotten to connect them)


Logitech G600 to replace my old dead Razer Naga


She's gorgeous with the NZXT LEDs in place. Lights can be adjusted in brightness with the flick of a switch.


The station itself. Inner PC is my fiancees PC which we used to share, but as we both game a lot it made more sense to buy my own PC.


Specs:
Intel i5 4690k Devils Canyon
Zotac Reference GTX 970
8GB Kingston HyperX RAM
Corsair H100i cooler.
SK Hynix 256GB SSD
Seagate 2TB HDD

The case is gorgeous and quite easy to build in, but because of the shape I would -highly- recommend getting your cables sorted out as much as possible first. Connect your cables to the ATX first and slot that in, and then put in the motherboard. Don't bother adding in the GPU until you at least have the sata cables attached to the motherboard and HDD/SSD.

glynf

Sweet build, love the way the RAM matches the mobo. And that monitor..

Squaredude

Picked up one of those monitors a few weeks back. G-sync I don't know how I lived without it.

wandatowell

Love where they located the SSD's.

Blitz17

Few pics of my build as it stands! The whole thing went on hold when I lost my job Have my EK Rads/Blocks/SP Fans but no pump/res/fittings/tubing. Had a Noctua NH-D14 cooling the CPU @ 4.6Ghz but sold that when I picked up the EK block, thought I was close to buying everything. Also need to pick up an RGB keyboard. I have the computer just thrown where it is as the room is being done up.

Sorry for the poor pics!





Specs
4670k
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
Teamgroup 2666mhz 4GBx2
Sapphire R9-290
Samsung 840 Evo 128GB
Seagate 1TB HDD
BeQuiet Power Zone 650w
Bitfenix Recon Fan Controller
Custom braided cables

Baked.noodle

Nice. What's that case Blitz? Looks interesting.

WhiskeyGoblin

Baked.noodle wrote: »

Nice. What's that case Blitz? Looks interesting.

Modded Corsair Carbide Air 540, i think !

Blitz17

Baked.noodle wrote: »

Nice. What's that case Blitz? Looks interesting.

Thanks, Its a Corsair 540 Air. Took a dremel to it a few days after buying it though!

glynf

Very nice cables-did you sleeve yourself, if so what sleeving did you use? Sorry to hear about the job.

TerrorFirmer

My PC.



The setup.



The general setup, PC is hooked to a 50" Samsung. Xbox One and X360 hidden away underneath!



And finally...the graveyard, where projects go to mostly die.

Serephucus

Out of interest, what's the red cable in the front panel?

Cool graveyard.

That desk must get toasty as hell. :P

the_syco

Serephucus wrote: »

Out of interest, what's the red cable in the front panel?

Guessing a USB3 lead?

kearneybobs

Having that heat in between your legs like that could be good for your sperm count!

Really must get around to ptting in some LEDs into my Define R4 case. Thinking about going with the NZXT Hue. I have enought room in my bays for it if I take out my media card reader which I dont use too often.

TerrorFirmer

kearneybobs wrote: »

Having that heat in between your legs like that could be good for your sperm count!

Kids mean less money to invest in the 'graveyard'. :cool:

I prefer cathodes myself, LED's tend to be more piercing light, which I'm not much of a fan of, cathodes are softer.

The red cable is actually the data cable for my Oneplus One!

Aka Ishur

Hi all, took me a while but I finally finished up my DeskPC build watercooling wise. Apologies for the huge size of the images.

Started with an old kitchen table









Updates:
Audioengine A2+ Speakers
LG 34UM95 Ultrawide monitor
Corsair K65 Mechanical keyboard
Kone XTD+ Mouse
Philips Fidelio L1 headphones
Monsoon and EK Hardline watercooling setup.

..Brian..

Awesome work man!

Sonics2k

That is truly fantastic. Well done.

The wall paper is gorgeous, do you have a link for it?

Aka Ishur

Sonics2k wrote: »

That is truly fantastic. Well done.

The wall paper is gorgeous, do you have a link for it?

http://imgur.com/gallery/lHvLXKE/new

here you go

wandatowell

Would love to see a build log for the table.

Great work pal.

Aka Ishur

wandatowell wrote: »

Would love to see a build log for the table.

Great work pal.

I don't have a build log as it was so simple, I honestly didn't think people would be interested, but I could do up instructions if someone wants to build there own. It would be a couple of weeks though because I am swamped with work stuff.

Danger781

How big is the desk? Looks to have plenty of space! Was looking at getting a large corner desk but if I could get something like yours I think I'd be happy.

Aka Ishur

Danger781 wrote: »

How big is the desk? Looks to have plenty of space! Was looking at getting a large corner desk but if I could get something like yours I think I'd be happy.

Box is 80x120,tabletop with glass is 135x100

irishmover

My gaming/photo editing build. Not quite as fancy as the desk above but was pleased with my first build from scratch. Decided to go all out on this one but to try buy the items at the cheapest possible price I could find. 3 months of shopping around before eventually purchasing all the parts.

All prices are in AUD.

Setup:
NZXT H440 Razer $200
i7 4790k $465
Asus z97 Deluxe (without NFC & WFC) $330
MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4GB $447
Noctua NH-D15 After market CPU cooler $108
Corsair 750w PSU $110
G.Skill Ripjaws x2 8gb sticks @ 1866mhz $160
Razer blackwidow chroma $160
Razer Naga $70
Samsung 28" UHD monitor $512
Samsung 850 Evo 500gb $240
Toshiba 3TB 7200rpm HDD $106
Win8.1 $70

Total: $2978 AUD/ €2156.61

jaffusmax

I miss my Blackwidow KB

I broke 1 Cherry Switch thought I could fix it then did a Father Ted and mangled the whole KB!!!!!!!

The Red

Hahaha did a father ted. Brilliant.

The Red

Been following this thread for a while but havent posted anything yet. Just waiting to get a new case and will post up my rig.

Loving the builds lads.

deceit

I've started to migrate my pc from a little devil v8 to a v10
Will replace the bottom rad mounts when I speak to someone in LD and get them to sell me some new ones .
I took the Phase change unit out as plan on using it with a bench table. Will purchase one of the ld cooling box's for it.
The dye in the res and tubing make it look horrible but hoping as I run water through it, it clears up.

deejer

Nice. What are you doing with the V8??

deceit

deejer wrote: »

Nice. What are you doing with the V8??

I haven't decided yet, I was going to use it as a server case but I came across a more suitable case for that over the weekend so now I'm not sure

deejer

deceit wrote: »

I haven't decided yet, I was going to use it as a server case but I came across a more suitable case for that over the weekend so now I'm not sure

Well id certainly consider giving her a new home!