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StopNotWorking

allen175 wrote: »

What case is that? looks very nice. Is it coolermaster?

Yeah its the ATCS 840

Solitaire

Wondered why it kept reminding me of the (outwardly completely different!) HAF...

Deano12345

Redoing my rear cable management, to make it easier to get the side panel on (and because im OCD cables) anyhoo....


Before :



After :



Ignore the mess on the left, that will be tidied up today (when I get a new Fan Controller )

StopNotWorking

haha a parcel arrived at home for me! No it's not my 1TB spinpoint F3, or the copy of windows pro.. or the noctua cpu cooler.. ITS MY BAG OF 300 CABLE TIES :eek::D

I'll probably have as much fun with these as I will with the new cooler and HDD :rolleyes: Cable paradise here I come

slowlydownwards

Deano12345 wrote: »

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Nice back garden. Where did you get those stick-on cable ties? Have mine taped down with black insulation tape.

stephenmarr

stick on cable ties can be bought in B&Q thats where i got mine.

heres my ocd

Deano12345

slowlydownwards wrote: »

Nice back garden. Where did you get those stick-on cable ties? Have mine taped down with black insulation tape.

Maplin, 8 quid for a pack of 100

shnaek

I finally built my first PC and it's running like a dream. Thanks to all here for your help over the past month. Here are some pics of the build:

stephenmarr

well done i built my first pc at christmas. glad i did.
yours looks good but needs cable management to tidy it up.

StopNotWorking

Shame on me! I never put up a new pic once I got my new cooler in :rolleyes:

Solitaire

People, just wondering if you can try to keep most of the images here at or under 1024*768? Its not vital and I'm not going to demand/enforce it but bear in mind not only are supersized JPEGs very bandwidth-intensive for both sides but many of us don't have 1080p monitors and thus miss a lot of the image unless we fiddle with the Horizontal Scroll Bar Of Doom! Big images aren't bad, just awkward and loses some of the image's impact if you can never see most of it at any one time

Effluo

Solitaire wrote: »

we fiddle with the Horizontal Scroll Bar Of Doom!

ctrl and - together = Ohhhhh that's handy

Or ctrl and scroll wheel on the mouse in and out

shnaek

stephenmarr wrote: »

well done i built my first pc at christmas. glad i did.
yours looks good but needs cable management to tidy it up.

Thanks - yeah, I know I need to work on the cables alright. I got over keen on switching the thing on, but I will have to go back at the cables over the next couple of days.

Grim.

quick update after much fannying about i finaly got my cpu loop sorted

TerrorFirmer

Okay, it's an exterior shot only, because I forgot to take a picture of the inside, part of that might have been subconscious shame over a number of factors. Like....having two 9800GTs and selling one, only to realize I sold the low power edition that didn't require any 6-pin connector, leaving me with the older edition 9800gt and thus had to use a pci-e cable for my modular power supply I didn't bank on using....then realized the front lcd uses a molex, and I hadn't banked on using a molex cable either....then realizing I need a second sata cable because the drive bays and 5.25 are two far apart for one length to reach....then I realized that the 12v 4pin, because of the case design, didn't actually reach across properly, so I had to go into maplins to buy yet more extension cabling that I hadn't banked on...my whole case is packed full of cables I hadn't banked on. I used pretty much all of the cables for the PSU, simply because the distance between all hardware was too great for several headers on a single length. Yeah, why did I buy a modular PSU in favour of my old P&C Silencer again?

Oh well. I like it anyway. It goes great with my amp. Now, just playing the waiting game for my new 40" 1080p TV....:p

Antec Fusion Max
ModXstream 500w
P5N-D 750i
E8600
H50 CPU Watercooler
4Gb Ram
9800GT (the juice sucking edition )

Flaccus

Still in progress. Some of the parts have changed since. No watercooling yet really. But planned.




Replaced all the stock fans bar the HD fan (side box is covering it) which is quiet and sufficient enough to cool the drives at 12v and runs off the motherboard header. Bottom intake is a NoiseblockerPro PK2 1700rpm fan. Rear fan is 1200rpm version but reversed and is an intake too. Both running off Lian Li fan controller. 2 silent 60mm noiseblockers are cooling the northbridge. Silent even at 12v. And for exhausts I have 4 Akasa Apache blacks. 2 of them are running in Push/Pull with a Corsair H50. All 4 fans are connected to the motherboard 4pin pwm header via an adaptor/molex cable. So a total of 5 140mm intake fans (2 on the sidepanel as well ), 4 120mm outtake fans, 2 60mm chipset fans, 1 60mm memory fan, 2 92mm gpu fans, and a 140mm PSU fan. System is reasonably quiet.

I hate side windows so I bought an 800D solid sidepanel and modded it with 2 x 140mm blowholes. Fitted with 2 NoiseblockPro PK2 1200rpm 140mm fans hooked up to a Lian Li fan controller. In total I have 5 fans running off the controller.




Here are some outside shot.




Since the pics were taken I have bought another desk and added 2 more 3008 screens. I have replaced the PSU with an Enermax Revolution 1250w. Added a Gskill Turbulence fan to cool the memory as the Corsair one is too noisy even at lowest working volts. I've also added a X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty with front bay. A bit of a step down from the Asus Essence ST I had, but I need all the space I can get on the motherboard as I am planning on fitting 2 Saphire 5970 Toxic 4gb cards which take 3 slots each!! Also added a PCI-e SATA 6GB/S card to run the SSD's which are in the lower drive bay (no need to cool them) and a Lian Li fan controller to control the intake fans.

TonyM.

Flaccus is taking it to another level awsome rig love to know your Pi score,

I finished my new build last night i7 930 and Asus P6X58D with a H50 cooler i
forgot the board only supports sata ports and my DVD is no use to me now.

massy086

my new haf

massy086

side

massy086

inside

deceit

I finished my build recently based on i7 930, Asus P6X58D and a 5870.

cherryghost

looks nice and spacey

deceit

Yea theres tonnes of room in it, am tempted to put a watercooling rad at the top as theres plenty of space .

massy086

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cherryghost

i take it you sleep with her massy :pac:

massy086

cherryghost wrote: »

i take it you sleep with her massy :pac:

nah just a spare bedroom in the house i used to build her lol

prioryc

after being robbed twice in a shop i just built this not as good as some of the others but it's a start
Vento case
Antec Veris premier
Powercool 450 psu (for now)
4 gb crucial ballistix
Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.66
Artic Cooled Freezer pro 2(or something to that efect)
Asus P7H55DH -Evo
Asus/N-Vidia En9800GT
M-audio Audiophile 2496
blue-ray // lightscribe dvd/cd-rom
Samsung spinpoint f3 1tb
seagate 320 Gb
Kingston 64Gb SSD // Windows 7x64
blue illuminated keyboard
twin 21.6" lcd monitors

windows score 6.8 more than twice my former pc 3.1

massy086

it looks like a solid build mate well done on building it yourself

prioryc

massy086 wrote: »

it looks like a solid build mate well done on building it yourself

Cheers i was lucky that everything just works in it ...compared to vista it was literally plug and play ..its quite addictive too.. would like to build a water cooled on next the Red pc in the above posts is fantastic looking...