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[MERGED] Your Main PC - Pictures, specs and discussion <IMAGE HEAVY>
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Serephucus wrote: »Wouldn't mind seeing some pics of the other side of the case too. Interesting in where you stuffed all the WC gear and cables.
Very nice build mate. I've been thinking about doing something similar myself for a few months now, and this is pretty close to what I have in my head. How do you find the case? Any negatives?
Cheers...
Negatives?
Primary one is cost. I didn't have much change from a grand when all was said and done. Weight of the finished system + coolant etc was a concern too but the desk is sturdy with metal throughout so no issue there but lets put it this way, I wouldn't pick it up too handy :-)
I had an idea in advance of what I wanted to do with it but I quickly learned that all that size vanishes very quickly when you add in 3 chunky 360 rads.
I also deliberately chose my parts so I wouldn't have to do any modding as such. No point in paying a grand for a case only to arse it up with a drill...
Been building systems since '94 but don't really have much in the way of modding experience.
The whole thing was a great learning experience as its the most complex WC build I've done to date.
€11k later Mr VISA loves me
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Three rads? Nice! 1 on the mobo side and two on the other I take it?
What's the noise like in that thing? With most of the WC builds I've done I've gone for as few fans as possible - I've actually never had a system with more than five - 'cause I figured more fans on low is worse than less on medium, but I could be wrong...
Side question: What's the little thing, closest to the bottom left corner of the monitor? I'm thinking bluetooth headset.
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Other negatives in general on this build...
1) I bought but chose not to use expensive QDCs (Quick Disconnects) from Swiftech.
2) Obviously there were some superfluous parts (none of which were cheap), a 240 rad and some BitsPower fittings etc.
3) I wanted to go with a particular coolant from Mayhems - 'Aurora Extinction Green' but it turns out that it isn't suitable for anything other than exhibitions and LAN parties for showing your rig off as it needs to be drained every 6 months and isn't suited for bay reservoirs.
4) I had a Samsung M.2 SSD drive die on me in a week or two of building the box. Very annoying, those M.2 drives run very hot and don't come with any type of Heatsink. The replacement Intel 750 series PCI-E NVMe drive is far better in my experience.
5) Rads never come with the right amount of the right screws! 0 -
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Serephucus wrote: »Three rads? Nice! 1 on the mobo side and two on the other I take it?
What's the noise like in that thing? With most of the WC builds I've done I've gone for as few fans as possible - I've actually never had a system with more than five - 'cause I figured more fans on low is worse than less on medium, but I could be wrong...
Side question: What's the little thing, closest to the bottom left corner of the monitor? I'm thinking bluetooth headset.
No headset in any of those pics M8 just a messy desk! LOL there are some wrappers and a box cutter and some other junk... If you see the glass orb on the left by the lava lamp - that's my headphone stand / holder thingy. I use wireless Creative Labs Omega 3D Tactics kit. Those headphones have a WiFi base station on the desk that connects to the PC via USB cable and there is also a wireless receiver on the desk for my XBox controller which also connects back to the PC via USB cable.
Noise levels are insanely low but I knew they would be.
I put a lot of research into the choice of fan, I used 24 of them so I had to.
Set them to a PWM profile preset in the BIOS so no need for a fan controller.
I have 6 per rad, I'm doing push / pull.
All Rads are pulling air in from outside.
On the bottom of the system board chamber in the case (its split into a motherboard side and a PSU side) I have 3 fans all pulling air in
At the back of the case I have an exhaust fan
At the front of the case under the Bay res - I have another 2 exhaust fans.
Running temps are very satisfactory all at stock but my CPU never goes above 40C while gaming and my Max GPU temp is about 42C while running whisper quiet. Honestly my XBox 360 is much louder!
One other thing, this was my first system with any kind of adaptive frame sync tech between the GPU and monitor.
In this case its G-Sync as its an Nvidia SLI system but G-Sync @ 144Hz / 1440p is sweet indeed. It needs to be seen but to me its up there with the introduction of SSD tech some years back in terms of its impact on my PC experience.0 -
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Fire Strike Extreme - defaults + all components at stock / res for benchmarking was 1440p
Serious quality build there Siskods. What kind of stuff do you do with it? (Not that you need an excuse!!) Spending a grand on a case for me would be absolute lunacy but to each their own. I know caselabs are a top quality product though. 0 -
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I got some nice LEDs from Amazon for the back of the monitor and the edge of my desk.
They come with a little controller and you can produce lots of different colours and effects.
The blue and the green worked for me...
I have something similar, although I picked them up in IKEA. Like €25 a pack and they come with 4 LED bars and a controller switch. You can have a range of colours solid, or set it to gently cycle through colour changing.
Apologies for the horrendous picture quality, but you get the idea. I've been running a purple them for a while and like it. Also have a set to the left of the picture that lights up some storage units where my consoles and comics are.
Seeing all the pics here makes me want to give a **** about cable management. But really can't bring myself to be arsed doing anything about it0
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