** A Day at OcUK - Stelly's New System - EPIC CUSTOM BUILD **

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Hi Guys

I thought I would post this build up for you guys on the forums to check out.

Its not often that customers are invited to OcUK, but this build was a little bit special and we wanted to invite Stelly from our forums to OcUK HQ so he could see exactly what goes on when your system is built by the experts!

Stelly is a long standing forum member and a regular OcUK shop customer and has spoken to me on many occasions seeking advice on what products to purchase. He has been discussing a system build with me for some time and it has evolved into an incredible personal computer.

He wanted silence coupled with huge performance and I have spent the last few months finalising his hardware so that he got something that was totally bespoke and suited his requirements perfectly. We were aiming to have the motherboard filled with hardware, because "you only have a good system when you cant see the motherboard" :p

This was not going to be a run of the mill build and there was a lot of talk of raid controllers and enterprise class motherboards, all of these things were very relevant to my interests so I was really excited to be a part of this build.

So this weekend OcUK invited Stelly to our HQ to spend the day with us in the office and watch his PC get built by myself.

Our technical team did a great job of overclocking the cpu and memory and had the bundle on test overnight to ensure that it was nice and stable before we even installed it! 4.6GHz easily achieved with temperatures looking really good. Perfect for an ultra high spec system.

enough of my rattling on. Here is the spec list for this beast!

  • Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor
  • OCZ RevoDrive3 120GB PCI-E SSD
  • Asus P9X79 WS Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard
  • Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit
  • XFX 1050W Black Edition Pro '80+ Gold' Certified Modular Power Supply
  • Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card
  • Samsung 256GB SSD 830 SATA 6Gb/s
  • Xigmatek Elysium Full Tower Windowed Case - Black
  • 4x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
  • 2X EVGA SUPERCLOCKED GTX 680
  • Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x
  • 5X Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM - 3 Pin
  • IcyBox IB-555SSK 5-Bay SATA/SAS Hard Drive Backplane
  • Aqua Computer Aquaero 5 PRO LCD Fan-Controller
  • Intel® RAID Controller RS25DB080

pretty impressive, I'm sure you will agree

and then the watercooling...
  • EK Supreme HF CPU Waterblock - Full Nickel
  • 2X EK-FC680 GTX Full Cover Waterblock - Nickel Acetal
  • Alphacool Laing D5 Vario Pump 655
  • EK-D5 X-Top V2 Acetal G1/4" - Pump Top
  • Hardware Labs Black ICE SR-1 240 Radiator
  • Hardware Labs Black ICE SR-1 360 Radiator
  • EK Single Bay Reservoir - Acetal
  • 14x OcUK 1/2" G1/4 - FatBoy Style - Black Nickel - Barb Fitting
  • 6x EK-PSC Adapter Rotary 45° G1/4 Black Nickel
  • 3x XSPC 7/16" ID [16/11mm] High Flex Hose - Clear
  • 2x Mayhems Pastel - Blueberry Blue Coolant 1L


Starting at 9am in the morning and finishing just past 5, myself, Stelly and Ace Modder went to the pub for lunch but made it quick so that we didnt lose valuable building time :cool:

The whole build was a joy to put together and looked even better than myself and Stelly thought it would. I am really looking forward to hearing his thoughts when he gets a chance to use it for a few days. I know if I was in his shoes, I would be like a kid at Christmas!!!

Our photographer wasn't in this Saturday so my less than epic photography skills have been called in ;)

Here are the build pictures

Enjoy your new system Stelly :D

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How much are these worth ? No photo of Stelly with OCUK team ?

Very nice built! Lovely big case with water cooling.

Stelly was shy. plus I was in my scruffy clothes for doing the build. Stelly is practically a male model and is extremely handsome and good looking but we get complaints about my beard whenever pictures of me go live on the forums :p

£5,000 my godness me! I will never spend more than £1,000 for a pc unless if I win the lottery can try OCUK PC built up to £12,000! :)

except that time when you spent £800+ on an Intel CPU :o

Very nice. :D

as if you would expect anything less from me :D
 
That is pretty epic and nice to see a system build in action especially the untidy clutter of wires at the back that we're rarely get to glimpse as I never know quite what to do witth them! One question though, why did Stelly need a Revo drive if he has the SSD boot drive?

because there was an empty slot on the motherboard.

and empty slots just look silly.
 
What's the 5 bay HDD hot swap thing?

this.

we are expecting a few more some point this week :)

in honesty. I am not a huge fan of the case. the looks don't do it for me, but different tastes and all that.

after actually getting to build a big system inside it, I would say it rivals even my own TJ11 for easy of use. there is so much room to work in.

only downside for me is there wasn't enough cable management points on the rear of the motherboard tray.

other than that, it is very well built and you would really struggle to get more in a case :p
 
Would a 420 rad fit in the roof and been better option?

I think it would. but the fan options for 140mm rads are poor.

this is something I will be looking to change now I am in control of our cooling and modding content.
 
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