Hi there and welcome to my fist post on Steemit !
I wanted to share my latest computer build, so lets start with the part list:
- CPU: Xeon E5 2673v3 (12 cores 2.4GHz - 3.3Ghz Boost clock
- MB: Asus X99-M WS
- RAM: G.Skill Trident Z 32GB (2 times 2x8GB) DDR4 3200 MHz CL14
- GPU: Zotac 1080ti AMP!
- SSD: Samsung 960 Pro M.2
(mounted on an Asus Hyper M.2 x4 mini card instead of directly on the MB) - AIO cooler: NZXT Kraken X62
- Chassis: Thermaltake Core V-21
- PSU: EVGA Supernova G3 1000W
- Fans: a couple of old 120 mm Enermax fans with variostat
- Thermal paste: Thermalright Chill Factor 3 (CFIII)
And of course some pictures:
Everything boxed and laid out on the table
Front view of the chassis, showing the 200mm fan and front-io
Building on an anti-static mat on top of a towel
Top view, radiator and some nice cable management
Front-Side view, almost everything in place
GPU and extra fans still missing
Rear-Side view, PSU and cable management
Think I did not sooo bad actually
Front-Side view, with GPU and extra fans
Those blue fans look pretty horrendous but they get the job done at the moment
Front-Side view, plexi-panel and dust panels in place
Rear-Side view
On the desk, RGB on the cooler and GPU not set up yet
All good, except the 40'' is showing a VM desktop >.<
A few afterthoughts and future plans for the build:
- The RAM are 2 dual channel kits and are total overkill at 3200Mhz, as the CPU won't let me overclock the ram above 2133Mhz anyway (I was hoping for it, but testing proved me wrong).
Plus they don't work in quad channel, as in only 2 sticks are used by the memory controller although all 4 are seen in the SPD section of the BIOS and in CPU-Z.
I tried all sort of settings in the BIOS, including voltage on the sticks, CPU, VCCIO, VCCSA and so on, to no avail...next up is switching the sticks around and reseating the CPU in the socket.
I'm open to ideas at this point - please leave a comment if you have some !
Last resort will be selling them ... I'm sure an AMD Ryzen build will be happy with it.
That would be too bad, I really like these G.Skill sticks (I'm a KTM fanboy...Orange), but I don't think I'll stay with the brand if I have to replace them. I'll be looking at a proper quad channel kit, probably the Corsair Vengence LPX 4x8GB 2133MHz CL13.
There are also new RGB quad channe kits from G.Skill, but they don't seem play well on X99, plus the way they operate the RGB (by writing in the SPD table of the sticks) isn't very reassuring anyway.
- The fan configuration is all temporary, as I'm waiting for some PWM Noctuas to replace them all, including the front 200mm one. That should allow some nice automatic thermo-regulation with a temp-sensor going to the graphics card.
The intake fan at the bottom will go on top, with a second one. This will make the intake on the bottom passive and will pout less dust into the system over time. The exhaust fan at the rear will be replaced with a 140mm fan.
- The M.2 PCIe card for the SDD is used so that there is less heat on the MB sockets and so the drive resides in the airflow of the chassis. Not sure how this will hold up when I add the second 1080ti next month.
The 960 Pro should heat up less then the notorious 950 Pro, but I got some small copper heatsinks just in case I have to put it back on the M.2 socket on the MB.
- The dust filters on the sidepanels seem to be reflective in some way, causing them to appear grey instead of black when exposed to the camera flash.
I've ordered some magnetic dust filters that will go on the bottom of the case (outside) to cover those intake cut-outs.
- The cable management looks ok for the moment, I'll be looking into some custom sleeved cables later on as a finishing touch instead of the already sleeved stock cables.
Probably best to just go with extensions as the PSU cables have capacitors in them. I guess they better stay in there ?
- A really bad idea to have put that USB3 enclosed SSD on top of the case when I snapped the pictures, as the dust filters have a magnetic contour...was only for a couple of minutes and he's doing fine, to my relief.
- I also really would like to go all out and put a complete water loop in there, but that's for much later I guess :)
Okay, that's it for now, thanks for reading !
Make sure to follow me on your way out, as I'll be back with a second part, adding and changing the things I mentioned :)
Dope setup! I can remember my first PC build they were a lot bigger as for the possibility to do half the things. The size on that is pretty cool. What are you going to be running it for mostly gaming or design?
Thank you :) Yeah they were bigger by a lot haha ! My previous build was about 10-12 years back and basically it was a server case with a left and right chamber, I called it "Cube" ... leading to mCube on this one, the "m" standing for mini.
I'm impressed at how one could fit a nice build like this in about 1/3 if not less of the volume from back then.
First I'll be doing some gaming on this thing as I got hooked on Overwatch and it looks and feels absolutely phenomenal at 4K ultra settings on that UHD 40'' TV. Just need to wall mount that thing, seriously 20cm further back would be nice :)
Then some video editing and conversions for storage, some software development, a bit of web-design, etc..
Also the GPU is mining equihash (ZEN). I'm pulling 730 sols/s at 230W, that's 90% TDP on this card (would be 100% on others, the Zotacs have a slightly higher Wattage per TDP).
Like you I am really impressed about how far computers have come as well as the pricing being so much lower. I spent a lot for my first personal build which was in 2003 I believe. Its crazy cause I loaded so much cool stuff into it people asked me to build machines for them. It was a platinum colored casing, clear side window on one side with neon nights for the front mounted cooling fan even though it had fans on the inside. I thought it was so cool. I'd trade that thing for a good bowl of Ramen today...lol. Overwatch is definitely a cool game. I can remember being in awe of a internet cafe/counter strike place of assembly in Brunei. It was nuts just to watch how crazy they went at one another. I played the game before and a lot but never at that level.
You're right, I think it was also around that time I build that cube computer, it had costed me around €2500 to build it and later upgraded the GPU even...it was a monster back then.
A few months ago the whole thing went to the scrap pile (PSU and motherboard fried) and the case was sold for metal :) only thing that survived are those Enermax fans with variostat haha.
Oh yes I heard in Asia Overwatch is quite popular in internet cafés, also Asia has a lot of good players. It is super fun to play, really fast and intense. Some games make you really go "whoaw did that just happen ?!"
Anyway I'll try to get higher in rank with the new setup now :)
Nice setup
Thanks :)
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