BUILD LOG: Quarantine Rig

[qwertyk1d]

So in light of the current situation (and by no means to make fun of it), I've decided to build a new rig to keep me preoccupied and to work from (I'm a graphic designer/motion designer). Main purposes are design obviously as well as 4K gaming (might change to a 2K monitor to push out more FPS).

AMD Ryzen 9 3950x
Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 32GB DDR4 3600MHz
Gigabyte Windforce OC RTX 2080 Super
Gigabyte AORUS X570 Elite ATX Motherboard
Seasonic Focus GX750w PSU with white cable extensions
NZXT H510i in Black
NZXT Kraken X63 280mm AIO
NZXT Aer 2 RGB 120mm & 140mm Case Fans
1TB Samsung 970 EVO M.2 Drive (enough space for now)

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Anything you would have done differently? Ideally I was after the NZXT H1 and to do a mITX build but theres no stock anywhere yet so went for a compact mid build with full ATX instead.

**EDITED POST BUILD**

Heres the final build, with garish retro RGB because why not.

 

[qwertyk1d]

check out some of the Corsair and Sabrent rocket NVME drives.
No worries, it’s a minor refresh of the 200, the chassis are the same. Namely some PSU shroud tweak, CAM 2 and USB type C port on the chassis.

From experience with this build, I'd not rely on having that USB-C port on the front panel as the header jack on the motherboard is directly behind the graphics card and as such can't be plugged in. Also this Gigabyte 2080 Super sits FLUSH (and I mean flush) with the chipset heatsink/fan. Just something to think about.

 

[qwertyk1d]

Thanks! Does that mean you've finished your build then??

Yeah all done. Just finalising overclock now. It’s stable at 4.3GHz at 69 degrees full load so happy with that. Corsair memory isn’t the best for OC I’ve noticed though. Can’t squeeze out any more stable frequency, just timings, down to CL14 currently

 

[qwertyk1d]

Nice! What were the timings on the RAM initially? Are you able to validate what die the corsair stuff is using?

Hopefully we can see a picture of the finished article as well please

Original was CL18. Corsair uses Micron E-Die which I don’t think is as flexible as Samsung B Die if I’m not mistaken.

 

[qwertyk1d]

It’s QUICK. Can’t say much to productivity yet (I’m a graphic designer) as I haven’t used it professionally yet but I’ll report back when I have. Gaming is great reaching easily over 60 FPS in all major titles at 4K. RTX off obviously because why...

Will give a full edit on original post with photos and some build shots at 2am last Thursday...

Quarantine life

 

[qwertyk1d]

Here it is - the final product. Though the RGB is for a laugh, normally its just a plain white.

 

[qwertyk1d]

For the price of a Samsung evo you could get a faster pcie gen 4 SSD or you could get a slightly slower gen 3 drive for half the price.

I realise this now, a Sabrent is about half the price. Oh well, you live and learn. I need another M.2 soon so it'll be one of those I'd say. Cheers

 

[qwertyk1d]

Looks stunning . Just a clean rig
Aorus AIO not in stock ? Same price as the NZXT ?

Registered 4thnyr warranty on the Card ?

I preferred the look of the NZXT one to be fair

I've registered the card for the warranty but for some reason its only issued a 3 year warranty

 

[qwertyk1d]

Windforce is 3 yes, gaming oc is 4 along with Aorus .

Windforce is 2 slot cooler. gaming oc is 2.5 slot

Ah gotcha. Yeah Ive got Windforce OC so guess that wasn't included in the 4 year thing