A few of my recent builds...

[The Old School Gamer]

A few of my builds I've done for display in the shop at work.

Spoiler: CLICK HERE for Pretty pictures

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Nice builds, what case did you prefer the fractal or corsair?

At this point I've done half a dozen builds into Corsair 4000D and 5000D Airflow cases.
They are easy to like and recommend tbh, really has been our go to cases over the last 4 months or so.
We quite like the Kolink range of micro ATX cases as well.

This is a budget build I did recently with a 5600G APU.
Popular because you can just bang a 1660 Super or 3060 in for a quick and easy upgrade.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

I'm pretty old school.. before the first wave of RGB in the early 2000's so to me that Fractal build looks really good!

Yes I'm fairly conservative as well preferring plain builds myself.
Saying that I think ARGB can look good if it's done in a tasteful way that's not over the top.
I personally prefer to pick and set a static colour over what we call rainbow puke.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

That top one is a Kolink Citadel Mesh, isn't it? You can move the fans to between the front panel and the mesh front to allow for long GPUs.

Normally yes, but in this particular instance I decided to removed the cross beam supports and mounted the fans behind the bracket to fill the space up a little and make it look a little better when viewed from the side window.
There is still plenty of room to fit a dual fan GPU if required.

You can see the difference it makes in the 4000D picture (next to it).

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Very nice, the water cooling in picture 2 especially tickles my fancy. I would guess the water cooled rig needs a lot regular maintenance.

Probably will need flushing and refilling once a year.
I have fitted a drain tap with a flexi tube at the bottom of the distro block (accessed by removing the rear panel) to make it as 'user friendly' as possible to maintain.

It looks real nice but not really my cup of tea to be honest.
But the boss man wanted a show piece PC to greet people when they walk in the door.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

What fans are being using in the first build?

Corsair QL's

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Hey, nice builds can you give us some info on the Torrent please, are any of the supplied fans PST? reason I ask I'm confused how having 2x180 PWM and 3x 140 3 pins all on the same hub works?

Do the 180s get a signal and the 140s just run full tilt at 12v?, I was thinking i'll run the 3x3 pin 140s off the hub and use voltage control in bios for 7v then have a splitter on the 180s if they not PST but still leaves me with rear fan 140 PWM i want to add with no headers left (only 2 on auros elite and not wanting to share CPU header as I like case fans linked to VRM Mos temp, i'll check if cpu_opt can be used exactly like system headers changing temp source)

Wafflling.... in short how does mixing 3 pin and 4 pin on the nexus 2+ hub work, surely people are not running all their 3pin fans at 12v max rpm?

Cheers

I completely removed the fan hub after it came to light it was potential problem, so never used it.
Think I put the front 2 fans on one mobo header, the 3 fans at the bottom on another and exit fan on it's own.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Here are some more of my recent builds in the last few weeks.
(Sorry about the picture quality on some of them, my phone isn't the best).

Needless to say I've been a busy boy lol.
We are on the run up to Xmas so there are plenty of builds for me to be getting on with that's for sure.

Banged these together to be used at a annual local gaming event / competition (Rocket League).

Another Torrent build...

Thought I'd try out some of those Vetroo budget coolers after seeing GN's review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GXNgPSBq8g

Putting my tube bending skills to good use on this one (done by free hand / just eye balled it, the Jay2cent's way lol).

 

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Another i9 / 3080 build banged out today, with a front mounted 360mm Kraken.

 

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It's still on the bench as I ran out of time last night and didn't have time to update the BIOS.
So I'll take a side view shot without the glass panel today.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Nice but would like a full side view pic please.

Side view as requested (and yup this PC walked out the door today).

Here is today's PC build, another 3080, 5600X, X570 TUF, 2x8Gb, 240mm Capellix, 4000X.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

A couple of Alder Lake builds I've done recently.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

You should try the 180 degree PCIE adapters to route the GPU power cables more neatly.

I can certainly take a look.
Of coarse we are always trying to keep the costs down where we can.
Hence why we very rarely use cable mods or additional adapters etc.
Same with DDR5, we are staying away from it until the price becomes more 'reasonable'.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Couple more 12th gen builds done today.

This one was an high end build done by my mate and work colleague J.
12900K, ASUS Z690 APEX, TridentZ DDR5, EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3, Corsair 5000D Airflow.

This one I did, 12900KF, ASUS Z690 TUF, Corsair DDR4 Dominator, MSI RTX 3080 Ventus, Lian Li O11 Case

 

[The Old School Gamer]

That looks lovely but if you'd used 180 degree connectors on the GPU you could have had the GPU power cables going straight down for an even cleaner effect.

Yeah I have to look into them.
To be honest the glass side panel is a dark tint so does not make much difference (unless you have OCD lol).

 

[The Old School Gamer]

We updated the bossman's personal rig today so I had a bit of a play around.
X670E Hero / 7950X / 4090 Strix / 1600w PRIME

With the CPU and GPU maxed out I was drawing 750w from the wall, GPU temp 63c.
Not too shabby.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

I'd kill to have your job!

Yeah it's a good job, but it's not high end builds all the time.
We are also dealing with a lot of real old and slow rubbish as well lol.

But it is quite varied, one week is never like the last.
Just recently I drained off and flushed a customers loop, and blocked them up a new 3090 to replace a couple of 1080Ti's.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Is the 600w power cable pressed against the glass ?

I am here and I am pretty sure I do not have OCD and I have never cable managed the hidden side of my PCs , stick the wires in and hide them with the side panel and I am

Nah well clear of the glass, those small 12VHPWR connectors are quite fragile so we tend to pre-bend the cables.
Sometimes we go up and across the backplate (like on the O11 below), they is no real right or wrong way, just the way that works.

But as you can see we are not using the included 3 or 4 way adaptors as those things look bloody awful and have very little flexibility.

This is a O11 build I did on Saturday.
7700X / X670 / 3090 Ti Suprim