Corsair 800D Build

nick_000000 · 1 Oct 2009 at 15:10

Right made up my mind and decided to go for the Corsair 800D a new I7 build everything has arrived apart from this beast of a case (can't see postman being happy :eek:

). Should arrive early next week I will put up some images of the finished build when all finished.

Specs:

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping - Processor

Corsair H50 - Cooling

Asus P6T Deluxe/OC Palm Edition - Motherboard

Nvidia 280GTX - GFX

2x1TB Hitachi HDD Raid 1 - OS Drive

Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 x2 - Memory

Corsair HX 750W - PSU

nick_000000 · 3 Oct 2009 at 17:43

800D arrived yesterday

system is all up and running, so nice and easy to setup and install. Very nice build quality and so much room to work with, I will take some pics and post them after recovering all my data. The Asus P6T Deluxe weally has some serious issues with the stupid sas controller I wasn't being silly at all and it removed the partition of my raid1 1.5TB storage drives :eek:

nick_000000 · 4 Oct 2009 at 07:58

Haven't quite finished yet but all that I am going to do is tidy up the cables a bit more (braiding & heat shrink) & swap those red sata cables over for black ones. Will also be using a SSD when ever the crucial ones eventually turn up.

Need to sort out the cables out a bit as they can tend to make the side of the case buldge out a bit.

I like the simplicity of this case the only things that I can say it lacks is incoming airflow and no front panel eSata. These won't be huge issues for me though as I rarely use my Esata hard drive and I won't be heavily overclocking my system as I want it to stay fairly quiet.

Lots of room too, if I decide to overclock further I can always invest in a custom watercooling loop in the future.

nick_000000 · 5 Oct 2009 at 02:29

RIZZEE said:
looking good, that case is actually massive
any plans in the future for a WC setup?

Rizzee - It's bloody huge :eek:

, bigger than the Coolermaser Cosmos & the Coolermaster Stacker cases.

ejr22 said:
A couple of questions for you as I am planning a build using this case.

1. Could you post the temps that you are getting at idle and under load? (CPU & GPU)
2. Do you have the H50 intaking air into the case or exhausting it out?
3. Does the case come with black SATA cables & 4/8 pin CPU cable extension?
4. Have you considered one of these to help cool the GPU, do you think it would be necessary considering the airflow?
5. Are the 3 x 120mm fans at the top exhausts or intakes?
6. Did you replace the stock 140mm fans? If so, what brand?
7. Finally, would you recommend me getting one?

Sorry for all the questions but I really want to make sure with everything.

Thanks

ejr22 - Haven't done any heavy testing on GPU yet as I am still sorting out my OS and hard drives will let you know on this though.

1 - CPU idles at on all four cores from 47 - 53, Mobo idles at - 45 - 46

2 - Intake as advised by Corsair

3 - The case comes with 4 black sata cables for the hard drive hot plug bays and comes with the 4/8 pin cpu cable extension in black braiding

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4 - I was looking at that but I think the GPU should be ok haven't tested it yet but I can always just turn up all the fans to max when gaming

. What I have done though is used the 140mm rear fan which I removed for the H50 120mm fan and used some eletrical tape and one of the PCI bracket plates and taped the 140mm fan to the plate and attached it above the graphics card. This should hopefully push the hot air away from the gpu and away from the northbridge and memory.

5 - They are exhausts as hot air rises, infact they are the only exhasts :eek:

better not put anything ontop of the case.

6 - I didn't replace the 140mm fans but have used one of these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BB-001-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=189 which I can use to turn everything up when I want to do some heavy gaming or turn down the fans when idle so not so noisy. Noisy PC's are one of my pet hates :mad:

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7 - Depends if you have the room for it and can afford it. It was exactly what I was looking for, but looking at the reviews I don't think it has the greatest airflow with the stock configuration of the fans, so thats something you have to think about. Also if you want to go Crossfire or SLI then you would probably have to go on the custom watercooling route with this case as I can see things getting pretty hot with the fact there is only one intake fan.

But all in all I think it's an awesome case and would definately recommend it!

nick_000000 · 5 Oct 2009 at 17:17

I was also looking at getting the COOLERMASTER ATCS 840 but it didn't have a black interior which I was looking for, but looks like a good case though I have to say I was tempted

. It's out of stock at OCUK though

nick_000000 · 7 Oct 2009 at 14:06

It's not removable in the case of the 800D. Unless you want to start de riveting the case, but after paying £200 for a case I don't really want to start de riveting my case

. The 800D really doesn't require a removable motherboard tray though seeing as there is so much room to work with in the case, also the fact that there are so many holes in the case for cable managment would probably cause issues (vibration/flimsyness) inside the case if the motherboard tray was removable.

Leviathan may be talking about the COOLERMASTER ATCS 840 which does have a removable motherboard tray.

nick_000000 · 7 Oct 2009 at 18:26

madindehead said:
I have to say, even though my Coolermaster ATCS 840 is amazing, I'm quite jealous of people with this case. Looks amazing.

Really nice cable management you got going on there nick.

Thanks I haven't quite finished the cable managment yet going to tidy up behind the scenes a bit and I need to do a couple more things to get it all perfect. Will post some more pictures when it's all finished

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It's the best case I have ever owned, nice to work with easy cable managment

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I haven't finished the build off completly yet and will be installing Windows 7 when I get my SSD :eek:

and when it actually gets released haven't bothered with the RC or any of that yet.

Think I just found out why my hard drives were cutting out on me, seems that the Corsair 4x sata power extension cable for the hard drive hot swap bay was either not getting enough power through to the hard drives from the one connection or was not connected properly so I am just using the normal power cables from the PSU now. No big problem but just a bit frustrating I spent so much time troubleshooting what was wrong with my hard drives and the problem turns out to be not such a genious idea from Corsairs end of things :mad:

. Oh well I forgive them

nick_000000 · 7 Oct 2009 at 18:58

Leviathan said:
Ys soz false alarm i jsut noticeed this to when i coudl c the tray can slide and 3 screws i thaught that woudl work sadly it dont . false alarm soz bu should the 3 rivets at the back b removed u can

You can remove the rivets from your case, I'm not touching mine with any drill. Anyone comes near mine with a drill and I'll drill tehm right in the head! :mad:

nick_000000 · 10 Oct 2009 at 18:13

bogbrain said:
My first build! One question. Is the front panel power light meant to remain on all the time even after shutting down? Mine does!

Nope maybe you have something wired up incorrectly or there is something going on with your psu?

nick_000000 · 11 Oct 2009 at 23:34

Check your motherboard case wiring headers to make sure they are all plugged in correctly. Check this in the Gigabyte manual. If that isn't the issue try updating the motherboard BIOS sounds like an issue with the mobo or wiring to be honest.