4000d Airflow build log

[cliffo88]

Have started building my new PC today to replace my ageing gaming PC. Specs will be:

Corsair 4000d Airflow
Corsair H150i Elite Capellix
3x LL120
ASU’s ROG STRIX B550-f gaming Wi-Fi
AMD 5600x
16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600
Corsair RM850
WD BLUE 1TB NVME
Palit 980GTX - for now!

Started today by installing the fans and AIO into the case, general thoughts to follow:

Case
Very impressed with the overall quality, lots of space to work in and lots of places to hide cables. Looking forward to working some more in it.

H150i
Very nice quality and easy to install into the case, fit and finish is good. Comes with a 6 fan/rgb controller as well which is nice.

LL120s
Very similar to the fans on the h150 in terms of look and feel, these have an extra light ring and some rubber ‘feet’ which the fans on the h150 don’t have. They fit nicely in the case and look great.

I’m waiting for delivery from Overclockers of Motherboard and PSU before I can do any more.

 

[cliffo88]

The rest of the parts arrived unexpectedly today (2 days early) so I managed to get the build finished this afternoon.

Thoughts and observations:

the Corsair commander and all the cables from the fans looks daunting but it’s actually really simple to get installed, the 4000d airflow is so well thought out it has holes exactly where you need them for fans and tons of cable tie points, routing cables was actually much simpler than I expected.

This is my first time using AMD (intel for over 20 years of building PCs) and I have to say the mounting mechanism is pretty abysmal, it does the job but it’s so fiddly and easy to mess up, you need 3 hands really, much prefer Intel on this point.

The ASUS Rog b550 oozes quality at every point, the whole board looks and feels premium, very impressed with it. Integrated IO shield is a nice little bonus. I would like to see a post code LCD, my old MSI board had this and was useful for troubleshooting. One thing to note is that this board has no internal USBC header, so I’m currently unable to utilise the USBC port on the front of the case.

On that note, one USB-A port on the front panel is not OK Corsair!!

I used the premium PSU cable kit from Corsair in this build, they look and feel great but overall not really needed, you can barely see the 8 pin connector and the 24 pin is well hidden behind a shroud. The only ones you see are the GPU power cables which do look much better than the included ones.

A couple of things with the motherboard:

when I booted it up for the first time I had no signal on the monitor, no number of reboots fixed it. Turns out I needed to completely remove the GPU, reboot, then shut down and reinstall the GPU, after this it worked fine.

In the bios I turned on DOPC to make sure the ram was operating at the right speed.

I had an issue where the board was refusing to boot straight from the m2 drive (so it seemed) but it tuned out that the option ‘pause on error’ was switched on in the bios, a cpu fan error was triggering this (due to the Commander) so it kept stopping at that point. Switching the setting off solved it.

overall I’m very happy with the build, I think it’s come together nicely and I’m never going to get bored playing with the RGB (if I can fathom iCue (it’s not the easiest). I’ve left room for expansion in the system, I will eventually add a second 2tb NVME and maybe another 16GB of RAM at some point, oh and of course, a new GPU when the world stops falling apart.

Thanks for following!