Over the last couple of weeks I've been gathering all the parts needed for a smaller for factor build, mainly for my daily driver, for browsing, streaming, and some game play sat on the couch on the 50" plasma.
Well that was the plan, until I took my 4670k out of my main rig, in order to flash the bios of a Z87 motherboard for it to take the Pentium G3258, at that point all was good, so I took the 4670k out and put it back in my main rig. That's where the OOPS comes in, I have no clue how I managed to do this but, it wouldn't boot so I stripped it down again, only to notice that on the cpu's contacts there was 2 pins stuck to it, and upon closer inspection it was bent, so it is buggered. I tried to re flatten but, it still wouldn't boot, so for the sake of a 50 quid chip, I have killed a £130 motherboard, and a 180 quid chip. Hence the name of my new main rig build, Black " OOPS ".
For the build, cash was tight-ish, so I could have re used 1 or both of my 7950's but they are blocked up, and don't want to fully water cool both he cpu, and gpu, plus the reference blocks are butt ugly, so I went for the Sapphire R9 270X Toxic edition OC, with plans to add a second when either the Corsair air 240, the Enthoo Primo Mini Xl, or the Enthoo Evolve, I'm leaning towards the Evolve it looks sweet. The only thing I'm re using is the Koolance PMP 500 pump everything else is brand spanking. Right onto the build.
Temp case, Aerocool DS in orange
Pentium G3258
Asus Gryphon Armor Edition
8gb 2 x 4gb, 2400Mhz Teamgroup Vulcan orange
Sapphire R9 270X Toxic OC
Bitfenix Fury 550w
Various SSD's ranging from 256gb to 60gb
Cooling,
XSPC Raystrom
240mm Black Ice Stealth Cross flow
Monsonn 16mm Hardline compression's in orange
Monsoon 16mm black hardline
Koolance PMP 500
Alphacool Light Tower mini res and top combo
mayhems Gigabyte orange pastel 1ltr
120, 140mm Alpenfohn wing boost 2 in orange
Stock 200m Aerocool up front
I've got a few mods planed, like boxing in the bottom section below the motherboard tray, to hide the cables and pump, I'm toying with the idea of incorporating a light box, as my original plan was to light the under side of the motherboard with a 5mm acrylic panel with orange LED's drilled in from bellow, but the motherboards back plate, won't allow for that. I'm also playing around with an acrylic panel on the front of the case, to break up the orange and allowing me to remove a section to allow for better air flow coming in from the front.
That's it for now, I'm aiming to get everything installed all but the cooling side of things, today, with M- ATX being a new challenge I'm being super anal about cables and there placement tying them down as I go, also I'm stitching them with orange waxed cotton just for a bit more contrast to almost ann all black build. Also this is my first build away from black and yellow, which I've done 6 of... I like going away from the norm...lol
Well that was the plan, until I took my 4670k out of my main rig, in order to flash the bios of a Z87 motherboard for it to take the Pentium G3258, at that point all was good, so I took the 4670k out and put it back in my main rig. That's where the OOPS comes in, I have no clue how I managed to do this but, it wouldn't boot so I stripped it down again, only to notice that on the cpu's contacts there was 2 pins stuck to it, and upon closer inspection it was bent, so it is buggered. I tried to re flatten but, it still wouldn't boot, so for the sake of a 50 quid chip, I have killed a £130 motherboard, and a 180 quid chip. Hence the name of my new main rig build, Black " OOPS ".
For the build, cash was tight-ish, so I could have re used 1 or both of my 7950's but they are blocked up, and don't want to fully water cool both he cpu, and gpu, plus the reference blocks are butt ugly, so I went for the Sapphire R9 270X Toxic edition OC, with plans to add a second when either the Corsair air 240, the Enthoo Primo Mini Xl, or the Enthoo Evolve, I'm leaning towards the Evolve it looks sweet. The only thing I'm re using is the Koolance PMP 500 pump everything else is brand spanking. Right onto the build.
Temp case, Aerocool DS in orange
Pentium G3258
Asus Gryphon Armor Edition
8gb 2 x 4gb, 2400Mhz Teamgroup Vulcan orange
Sapphire R9 270X Toxic OC
Bitfenix Fury 550w
Various SSD's ranging from 256gb to 60gb
Cooling,
XSPC Raystrom
240mm Black Ice Stealth Cross flow
Monsonn 16mm Hardline compression's in orange
Monsoon 16mm black hardline
Koolance PMP 500
Alphacool Light Tower mini res and top combo
mayhems Gigabyte orange pastel 1ltr
120, 140mm Alpenfohn wing boost 2 in orange
Stock 200m Aerocool up front
I've got a few mods planed, like boxing in the bottom section below the motherboard tray, to hide the cables and pump, I'm toying with the idea of incorporating a light box, as my original plan was to light the under side of the motherboard with a 5mm acrylic panel with orange LED's drilled in from bellow, but the motherboards back plate, won't allow for that. I'm also playing around with an acrylic panel on the front of the case, to break up the orange and allowing me to remove a section to allow for better air flow coming in from the front.
That's it for now, I'm aiming to get everything installed all but the cooling side of things, today, with M- ATX being a new challenge I'm being super anal about cables and there placement tying them down as I go, also I'm stitching them with orange waxed cotton just for a bit more contrast to almost ann all black build. Also this is my first build away from black and yellow, which I've done 6 of... I like going away from the norm...lol
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