RooTxBeeR Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 So I finally finished this bitch. I work a 9-5 monday through friday, and on Tuesdays I also have business meetings for a personal business from 7-11 at night. SO it took my until yesterday to get everything working and playing. Everything is not 100% yet, I have yet to get 3DMark to do bench testing. I have done some bench testing with the stuff provided from the game called Shogun 2 Total War which put some good stress on my gear. Along with building this Gaming PC. I need to step up my mouse and keyboard game, was using a crappy wireless set up that would glitch out during gaming and get my killed quite frequently lmao. Went out and bought a nice mechanical keyboard and a bad ass optical wired mouse. For anyone that has not seen my other topic, I am putting this right here just incase if anyone asks down the line why I chose a few of the pieces I did because some already have. On this PC I have a 1300W PSU and a Mobo with 4 PCI-e slots. I have this so down the line when I want to upgrade my monitors to a 1440p surround, I can do it with only having to buy the monitors, and a extra GFX card. Instead of having to get a new mobo and PSU along with the GFX card and monitors. Enough talking though, here comes specs and build pics guys. Let me know what you think, let me know what you suggest too. I have never built a PC to this scale before so I am still somewhat a newbie. PC Specs including Price and site of purchase. CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($280 @ Micro Center)CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($35 @ Newegg)Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Extreme ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($385 @ Amazon)Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tactical 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($325 @ Newegg)Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($140 @ Amazon)Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($144 @ OutletPC)Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($380 @ Amzon)Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($380 @ Amazon)Case: NZXT Phantom (Black) ATX Full Tower Case ($122 @ Amazon)Power Supply: Antec 1300W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($305 @ Amazon)Optical Drive: LG Blu Ray player ($50 @ Outlet PC)Optical Drive: Asus CD/DVD read/write ($27 @ Outlet PC)Monitor: LG 27EC33V-B 60Hz 27.0" Monitor ($240 @ Newegg)Monitor: LG 27EC33V-B 60Hz 27.0" Monitor ($240 @ Newegg)Monitor: LG 27EC33V-B 60Hz 27.0" Monitor ($240 @ Newegg)Case Fan: BitFenix Spectre Pro LED 148.7 CFM 200mm Fan ($21 @ Newegg)Case Fan: BitFenix Spectre Pro LED 148.7 CFM 200mm Fan ($21 @ Newegg)Case Fan: BitFenix Spectre Pro LED 148.7 CFM 200mm Fan ($21 @ Newegg)Case Fan: BitFenix BFF-BLF-P12025R-RP 51.3 CFM 120mm Fan ($15 @ Newegg)Case Fan: BitFenix BFF-BLF-P12025R-RP 51.3 CFM 120mm Fan ($15 @ Newegg)Case Fan: BitFenix BFF-BLF-P12025R-RP 51.3 CFM 120mm Fan ($15 @ Newegg)Case Fan: BitFenix Spectre Pro BFF-LPRO-14025R-RP 140mm Fan ($20 @ Newegg)Gran Total: $3376 (Final total including shipping and handling fees, even taxes) Pic time, This was my first package I ever received. Came with my CPU Fan and CD/DVD/BD drives. Installed HDD SSD on the left trap HDD on the right, Once I put the computer together fully found out that the leftside tray was to close to the PSU and wouldn't allow me to plug anything it so I had to remove it and mount the SSD on the right side trays. Marked at $370, paid $280 at microcenter, shweet. Once sexy squire inch right thur What's overkill? never heard of such a thing. Case fans Color test Dark backlight On 11/20/2012 at 8:54 PM, AMI CUSTOMS said: Turned mine up today at a light, guy next to me his steering wheel started moving and he looked over at me like I was a magician lol. On 5/9/2012 at 8:45 PM, skittlesRgood said: fuck the plating. look at what the main metal used is. you could buy unicorn blood plated terminals but if its just covering up dog shit, whats the point On 4/10/2013 at 12:26 PM, mrd6 said: I'll admit, half way through sanding that fiberglass in the rain and cold while I was all itchy I was definitely starting to question why i was doing this haha Soon To Be '04 Ford Escape US Alternator 280A Hairpin D4800 Under the Hood (6) XP3000's in Rear 1/0 SHCA & XS Power 4 runs to back TORK2 kit from Tony @ CE Auto Supply Pioneer DEH-80PRS DD AW6.5 (2) per door *Tweeter Unkown* DD SS4a & C3d (2) SCV4000 @ .5Ohm (2) 15" Sundown Zv5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RooTxBeeR Posted May 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 This was the biggest of all the shipments right here. Last of the case fans PSU Monitor solo Was talking earlier about how I had to remove the left side tray, barely 2 inches of room lol Side panel Both top fans won't fit :/ need to do some modding! Ended up having to mod my monitor stand so that they could slid as close up to my walls to make the gap between the monitor bezels as small as possible. Before After Sexy GFX card time x2 that shit lol Mobo On 11/20/2012 at 8:54 PM, AMI CUSTOMS said: Turned mine up today at a light, guy next to me his steering wheel started moving and he looked over at me like I was a magician lol. On 5/9/2012 at 8:45 PM, skittlesRgood said: fuck the plating. look at what the main metal used is. you could buy unicorn blood plated terminals but if its just covering up dog shit, whats the point On 4/10/2013 at 12:26 PM, mrd6 said: I'll admit, half way through sanding that fiberglass in the rain and cold while I was all itchy I was definitely starting to question why i was doing this haha Soon To Be '04 Ford Escape US Alternator 280A Hairpin D4800 Under the Hood (6) XP3000's in Rear 1/0 SHCA & XS Power 4 runs to back TORK2 kit from Tony @ CE Auto Supply Pioneer DEH-80PRS DD AW6.5 (2) per door *Tweeter Unkown* DD SS4a & C3d (2) SCV4000 @ .5Ohm (2) 15" Sundown Zv5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RooTxBeeR Posted May 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Ram it up biatch!!! Heatsink on the CPU. Now I have built computers in the past, but for some reason. This time was nerve wrecking putting on this heatsink lmfao. Err thang is in Dual GPU's stacked. Fully together and running. Also, if you pay attention to the case while it's closed up, you can see the top part of the side panel isn't fully on. The CPU heatsink sticks out so far, that if I pres the side panel fully closed, the mounted on the CPU heatsink hit the side 200MM fan and stop it from moving. So until the water cooling kit comes in then it will stay like this. The desktop set up TV is not functional yet. I need 1 more power cord slot availible for it, and I need a longer coaxial cable for my cable to reach to it. Here is the new gaming mouse And here comes probably the most expensive keyboard I will ever buy. You can take all the money I spent on keyboard since I was a kid, and they don't even add up to this thing lol These area all the pictures I have for now. If you have any questions comments please don't hesitate. Also if you want to see some pictures of something specifcaly I will get it for ya. On 11/20/2012 at 8:54 PM, AMI CUSTOMS said: Turned mine up today at a light, guy next to me his steering wheel started moving and he looked over at me like I was a magician lol. On 5/9/2012 at 8:45 PM, skittlesRgood said: fuck the plating. look at what the main metal used is. you could buy unicorn blood plated terminals but if its just covering up dog shit, whats the point On 4/10/2013 at 12:26 PM, mrd6 said: I'll admit, half way through sanding that fiberglass in the rain and cold while I was all itchy I was definitely starting to question why i was doing this haha Soon To Be '04 Ford Escape US Alternator 280A Hairpin D4800 Under the Hood (6) XP3000's in Rear 1/0 SHCA & XS Power 4 runs to back TORK2 kit from Tony @ CE Auto Supply Pioneer DEH-80PRS DD AW6.5 (2) per door *Tweeter Unkown* DD SS4a & C3d (2) SCV4000 @ .5Ohm (2) 15" Sundown Zv5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Maxim Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Do 2 things for me please: Spread the GPU's apart so there's a slot between them. It'll help the top card get more cool air and maintain it's boost clock easier. Manage the cables behind the motherboard tray. It looks like a bomb went off in there. With a bit of effort you can clean up the whole inside and get better airflow for all of your components. wtf is lolcats? I'd def get a fat hooker if i had to resort to that kinda thing. I feel like they'd be grateful and work harder. Also its more bang for my buck, more real estate for my dollar if you catch my drift. its like the Costco of streetwalkers. I was hoping for 150 . I was hoping she would let me put it in her butt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RooTxBeeR Posted May 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Do 2 things for me please: Spread the GPU's apart so there's a slot between them. It'll help the top card get more cool air and maintain it's boost clock easier. Manage the cables behind the motherboard tray. It looks like a bomb went off in there. With a bit of effort you can clean up the whole inside and get better airflow for all of your components. Step ahead of you, I didn't take any pics of it but I already dropped the second card down and noticed a 20C difference in the first cards temps. About the cable. All the ones that are seen, have to be, I have no way to make them go behind the board. They are either to big to fit through any of the holes, or either to short. Trust me, there's a SHIT ton behind the mobo, only a little is seen in front of it. When I go to try and mod the second fan to the top of the case, I will see if I can work something out to get more behind it, but I tried pretty hard with a lot of them. On 11/20/2012 at 8:54 PM, AMI CUSTOMS said: Turned mine up today at a light, guy next to me his steering wheel started moving and he looked over at me like I was a magician lol. On 5/9/2012 at 8:45 PM, skittlesRgood said: fuck the plating. look at what the main metal used is. you could buy unicorn blood plated terminals but if its just covering up dog shit, whats the point On 4/10/2013 at 12:26 PM, mrd6 said: I'll admit, half way through sanding that fiberglass in the rain and cold while I was all itchy I was definitely starting to question why i was doing this haha Soon To Be '04 Ford Escape US Alternator 280A Hairpin D4800 Under the Hood (6) XP3000's in Rear 1/0 SHCA & XS Power 4 runs to back TORK2 kit from Tony @ CE Auto Supply Pioneer DEH-80PRS DD AW6.5 (2) per door *Tweeter Unkown* DD SS4a & C3d (2) SCV4000 @ .5Ohm (2) 15" Sundown Zv5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Do 2 things for me please: Spread the GPU's apart so there's a slot between them. It'll help the top card get more cool air and maintain it's boost clock easier. Manage the cables behind the motherboard tray. It looks like a bomb went off in there. With a bit of effort you can clean up the whole inside and get better airflow for all of your components. Step ahead of you, I didn't take any pics of it but I already dropped the second card down and noticed a 20C difference in the first cards temps. About the cable. All the ones that are seen, have to be, I have no way to make them go behind the board. They are either to big to fit through any of the holes, or either to short. Trust me, there's a SHIT ton behind the mobo, only a little is seen in front of it. When I go to try and mod the second fan to the top of the case, I will see if I can work something out to get more behind it, but I tried pretty hard with a lot of them. Gotcha. Sounds good. I wound up grabbing cable extensions for a lot of things so that I had more slack to route the cables all around. The Phantom is a big case and sometimes the stock cables are just too short. wtf is lolcats? I'd def get a fat hooker if i had to resort to that kinda thing. I feel like they'd be grateful and work harder. Also its more bang for my buck, more real estate for my dollar if you catch my drift. its like the Costco of streetwalkers. I was hoping for 150 . I was hoping she would let me put it in her butt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RooTxBeeR Posted May 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Do 2 things for me please: Spread the GPU's apart so there's a slot between them. It'll help the top card get more cool air and maintain it's boost clock easier. Manage the cables behind the motherboard tray. It looks like a bomb went off in there. With a bit of effort you can clean up the whole inside and get better airflow for all of your components. Step ahead of you, I didn't take any pics of it but I already dropped the second card down and noticed a 20C difference in the first cards temps. About the cable. All the ones that are seen, have to be, I have no way to make them go behind the board. They are either to big to fit through any of the holes, or either to short. Trust me, there's a SHIT ton behind the mobo, only a little is seen in front of it. When I go to try and mod the second fan to the top of the case, I will see if I can work something out to get more behind it, but I tried pretty hard with a lot of them. Gotcha. Sounds good. I wound up grabbing cable extensions for a lot of things so that I had more slack to route the cables all around. The Phantom is a big case and sometimes the stock cables are just too short. I was looking at doing that for my wires. This thing has barely been running for a week so there is still lots of tweaking to be had. Plan on starting my CPU OC this weekend. I know haswell chips aren't the best for OCing but I want to have some more power availible lol. The only real problem I have, the two cables coming from the top left of my mobo. Literaly have no spots for them to route behind the mobo other then directly on the right where everything is, which would still make it go over part of the mobo. I have a question for you though, The radiator for your water cooling, how is it mounted? I plan to run water at some point, and this case is BIG, but I just don't see how a radiator would fit, or even two. On 11/20/2012 at 8:54 PM, AMI CUSTOMS said: Turned mine up today at a light, guy next to me his steering wheel started moving and he looked over at me like I was a magician lol. On 5/9/2012 at 8:45 PM, skittlesRgood said: fuck the plating. look at what the main metal used is. you could buy unicorn blood plated terminals but if its just covering up dog shit, whats the point On 4/10/2013 at 12:26 PM, mrd6 said: I'll admit, half way through sanding that fiberglass in the rain and cold while I was all itchy I was definitely starting to question why i was doing this haha Soon To Be '04 Ford Escape US Alternator 280A Hairpin D4800 Under the Hood (6) XP3000's in Rear 1/0 SHCA & XS Power 4 runs to back TORK2 kit from Tony @ CE Auto Supply Pioneer DEH-80PRS DD AW6.5 (2) per door *Tweeter Unkown* DD SS4a & C3d (2) SCV4000 @ .5Ohm (2) 15" Sundown Zv5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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