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

..Brian..

Grim. wrote: »

apologies for the crap phone pics but finally (just about) finished my rebuild into the SM8

still need to braid pcie cable but fairly happy with the results

Man, that looks the business!

Talk us through your hardware. CPU/GPU? OC and voltage? Temps? Quiet edition fans? Is that an EK D5 Xres? The clean CSQ blocks look great!

Did you make the power cables/extensions yourself? I'm in the process of trying to confirm the pinout of my PSU to remake all the cables, it's a big job!

Excellent work!

Grim.

..Brian.. wrote: »

Man, that looks the business!

Talk us through your hardware. CPU/GPU? OC and voltage? Temps? Quiet edition fans? Is that an EK D5 Xres? The clean CSQ blocks look great!

Did you make the power cables/extensions yourself? I'm in the process of trying to confirm the pinout of my PSU to remake all the cables, it's a big job!

Excellent work!

Cheers

Cpu and mobo are actually getting on a bit now have had them for about two years but they still pack a decent punch, will probably upgrade to x99 in a year or so if it starts struggling.

all at stock clocks for now

CPU: i7 3820
MB: Rampage IV Formula
Ram: 16GB Gskill Ripjawz 2133
GFX: EVGA GTX780 SC ACX

System drive is an Intel 330 180gb and then have a 120gb corsair and a 750gb Samsung evo840 for games with a 3tb HDD for tv/movies

and yes i done all the cables myself with Teleios sleeve nearly all of it using the heatshrinkless method, this was actually my first time sleeveing and i'm fairly happy with the outcome.

for pin outs i generally just copied the modular cables or found references online, and yes its a feckin massive job :P and gets surprisingly expensive.

all the radiator fans are corsair sp120 quiet editions with the fan speed reducer, the exhaust fan is an af120 allegedly "Quiet Edition" which i've unplugged due to noise and vibration even with the speed reducer, the sp's have been perfect though

deceit

Really nice build Grim, always enjoy seeing high end water cooled rigs

..Brian..

Yea the cables turned out great!

I'm looking at MDPC sleeving myself. Will be going heatshrinkless also, looks a million times better imo. It surely is adding up quick, I'm looking at about €100 for everything, sleeving, heatshrink, terminals and pins, tools etc. Where did you buy the wire? Found some on Ebay coming from China fairly cheap.

I have the pinout for my PSU from Overclock.net but I don't want to touch the stock cables at all in case I ever need to RMA it but as they're several crossed wires, and a few double wires also, I'm having to go through them one by one testing resistance with a multimeter to find which end corresponds with which and then try and match that up to the pinout diagram I have from OCN.

Can't wait to get cracking on it though!

Are the SP120's PWM? (edit: just read you are using the low noise adapters, probably not PWM so!) Was looking at them before however a lot of reports of them loosing their PWM function and just running 100% when you try PWM control more than 3 or 4 of them. Looking at Akasa Apache Super Silent Blacks, getting good reviews and look great on paper. Just have to find out if I can easily open them and take the blades off to rewire/paint them.

Will be making up new cables for them and a PWM D5 also and running them all through this 10 way PWM splitter PCB I managed to pick up the other day to keep it all nice and tidy.

glynf

..Brian.. wrote: »

Yea the cables turned out great!

I'm looking at MDPC sleeving myself. Will be going heatshrinkless also, looks a million times better imo. It surely is adding up quick, I'm looking at about €100 for everything, sleeving, heatshrink, terminals and pins, tools etc. Where did you buy the wire? Found some on Ebay coming from China fairly cheap.

I have the pinout for my PSU from Overclock.net but I don't want to touch the stock cables at all in case I ever need to RMA it but as they're several crossed wires, and a few double wires also, I'm having to go through them one by one testing resistance with a multimeter to find which end corresponds with which and then try and match that up to the pinout diagram I have from OCN.

Can't wait to get cracking on it though!

Are the SP120's PWM? (edit: just read you are using the low noise adapters, probably not PWM so!) Was looking at them before however a lot of reports of them loosing their PWM function and just running 100% when you try PWM control more than 3 or 4 of them. Looking at Akasa Apache Super Silent Blacks, getting good reviews and look great on paper. Just have to find out if I can easily open them and take the blades off to rewire/paint them.

Will be making up new cables for them and a PWM D5 also and running them all through this 10 way PWM splitter PCB I managed to pick up the other day to keep it all nice and tidy.

I have the MDPC ATX & Molex pin removers, welcome to borrow them if you like. Been gathering dust for the last year or so anyway.

Recurve360

Busy day yesterday on tidying up the PC. Fitted the custom shroud properly, painted the drive holders, 5.25" clips and PCI slot screws Really freshen up the interior I think and should go well with the red braided cabling that im waiting on.

Sure makes a difference from the original:


Close up shots of each(spoilered as not to clog up the thread):

Specs:
Corsair Carbide 300r
Corsair CX600W
AMD FX6300 at stock speeds
AS Rock 970 Pro 3
8GB Gskill Ripjaws 1600mhz CL10
MSI gamers Series GTX 660
1+2 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drives(3TB total)
120GB Kingston SSD(boot drive).

Other mods planned is a full perspex side panel,
212 Evo with push pull
Replace all fans with Enermax TB Silence fans
Custom braided red PSU Cables
GT210 to fit purely to display my 3rd monitor for web browsing...

..Brian..

glynf wrote: »

I have the MDPC ATX & Molex pin removers, welcome to borrow them if you like. Been gathering dust for the last year or so anyway.

Excellent man, may very well take you up on that! Will come back to you closer to the time.

NTMK

i thought i should throw this up since im rebuilding/moving stuff around soon enough

Rattlehead_ie

Well just finished off my build...well OcUK did, I just didnt have the time or patience to build it myself. So I spec'd they built

wandatowell

What underlay did you go for with the carpet?

Recurve360

Rattlehead_ie wrote: »

Well just finished off my build...well OcUK did, I just didnt have the time or patience to build it myself. So I spec'd they built

Mind posting the full system specs?

Also isd your USB3 front panel header not connected, it looks like it was just left hanging there in the pics...

Rattlehead_ie

That fell out during shipping, or could have been taken out. It was back in before the system even booted, but thanks good eyes

i7 4970 @ 4.5Ghz
16GB Ram @ 2133Mhz
MSI ATi 290 oc gaming edition
250 Samsung SSH Basic Version
2 x 2TB 7200rpm WD HDD
800W PSU
Asus Z97-A Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard

hal9000

New build nearing completion.

..Brian..

Man I love that case! Have a plan to cut out most of the front panel and replace it with an acrylic panel, just have to get around to buying the case.

jamescd

What case is that ?

hal9000

jamescd wrote: »

What case is that ?

Corsair 760T (white)

frozenfrozen

Did a good bit of a clean of the room and moved a lot of stuff around. More importantly I got a Herman Miller Aeron chair.. worlds a part from anything else, my arse is officially spoiled





Gave the case a little dusting and got the finger prints off the acrylic. Apologies for my head being in the reflection..

TheFlidKid

Still constantly updating rig. Sorry for the potato quality and cables

LeakingLava

Pics of my rig

I now also have a Philips LivingColor as an ambilight kind of thing pointed towards the wall.

Computer Specs

Intel Core i5-4690k Quad Core - Haswell Refresh

ASUS HD7850 - DirectCu II 2GB DDR5

ASUS Z97-PRO(Wi-Fi ac)

8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport Series DDR3-1600 CL9

Be Quiet! System Power 7 700W

Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB 6GB/s

2 Western Digital 1TB HDD

2 Samsung 1TB HDD

Cooler Master Storm Trooper

3 Benq G2420HDBL Monitors

Extras

Bose QuietComfort 15

SteelSeries Apex

Logitech G300

Logitech X-530 5.1



Currently due a graphics card upgrade

wandatowell

Tidy.

glynf

Got bored so I got some 800 grit sandpaper from Halfords and removed the Green colour from my cards.







Still waiting on a replacement case and H80, so temporary set up to see what the cards look like:







They look blue-ish in the pictures but are completely white, well happy with the results.

glynf

Finally got the replacement cooler & case, finished (for now:)) apart from making new cables. That will be an xmas job, must get the crimping tool first. Was thinking of red, light grey & black MDPC or similar sleeving.


Like this case a lot, but tricky enough to build in as it is quite small.

deceit

Sweet looking rig . Us lefties really do love death adders and eyefinity

glynf

Thanks, us lefties don't have much of a choice apart from deathadders

deceit

glynf wrote: »

Thanks, us lefties don't have much of a choice apart from deathadders

I've two death adders and the Naga (Need to support Razer as they support us ). The Naga feels really comfortable to hold also, probably more so than the death adder but I still love using the death adder. I've left my Naga and spare Death adder boxed though

glynf

I have two deathadders, one in the box also, just in case Would be great if they upgraded the left hand version to 2013/chroma spec. Thought about taking the sensor/pcb/wheel and transferring them to a left handed-from what I can see there is little or no difference in the shape & size of the mouse chassis.

ED E

Those samsung panels are lovely, VESA is great when you can drill the walls but when you cant thats what you want.

deceit

My work in progress server. It has 2 6 core xeon's and 144gb ram. Just need to find two cheap coolers that can screw into the cpu backplates until I watercool it.
I'm building it to replace my single 6 core 48gb server as I'm running out of ram and running out of disk space. I will build a couple of raid 5 arrays with 2-4tb drives.

Serephucus

As someone who thinks he is a bad-ass with his C2750 based server: **** you.

ED E

^ what he said.