Devil's Canyon Z97 Build

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This is my very first ever project build for you all.

Still missing a lot of bits yet including the most important 4790k and z97 mobo. If 4790k doesn't come out in early June then I'll be adding 4770k for the mean time until Devil's Canyon release.

Watch this space in the coming weeks.

Half of my stuff here.. Other half getting delivered this Tuesday after bank holiday.





 
wazza300 said:
what board are you thinking of? hero wasn't it?
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Hello wazza. Yes, it's the top of my list so far. Still looking at others but the hero is my favorite so far. I know everyones done a red theme, but I've never done red ever. I've done every colour but red.,but this time I am. Red , white and some dark colour.... I'll just let whatever color I use just happen. I'm always changing things last min sometimes. In the end you never know what the rigs going to look like :D

Also everyone here seems to be into total water cooling there system. I'm not into that at all. I just don't have the time or patience. Too busy most days with my 4 year old son.
 
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Yes. mate, Wallet is very sore :) Also upgrade light bar doesn't come in red, but I've seen it modded red. It's very easy to do. I'm doing a red, white and dark theme. I'll keep the ram white. It looks classy in white I think.
 
Rest of my gear showed up. I also got a BluRay drive and some cables with Corsair Lighting node for some added Bling :D The 2 AF140's white LED are for the front. I'm not doing a LED fan on the back Just a single AF120 with red ring. The Corsair Lighting Node will cover the lighting in the case nicely.

The one thing I'm worried about is fitting the H105 in the Corsair 450D which corsair says the H105 is not compatible with the 450D. I've seen 3 build with a H105 in a 450D. I'll make it fit some how:D I have a H100i also, but the reason I don't install that is because the link software doesn't work well with Wins 8.1?


Now just waiting for Devil's Canyon and a z97 Mobo...????

Cmon Intel! don't let me down?

 
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nashathedog said:
It looks like it'll be a great rig, What monitor are you planning to use with it and did you consider the 6gb 780's and if so why did you decide to stay with the three g models?
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Hello mate. Thanks :).

I use a 1440p monitor. Also a 6gb 780 would be a utter waste. I'm not going 4k any time soon. 4k just isn't worth it atm so 6gb isn't needed. I use my 780's at 1440p and don't have vram issue at all.
 
V4FRP said:
Are you planning to use the stock fans on the H105? I have the H100i on mine and I think the fans are quite noisy even in quiet mode.
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Hey mate. No...I'm using the SP120's with the red ring. I know lot of people have done red themes before, but I've never, never done a red theme ever. Always blue, or white or yellow, but never red. So this will be my first time going red. I'm also looking to buy a corsair k70 red led keyboard too. I have a blue led k70 now and mouse. Looking to change this very shortly:)
 
Hoping to order either board this Friday and I can at least start building without cpu. I really like the MSI Gaming 9 board, but can't seem to find it anywhere? The MSI 9 glows red underneath the board and heat sinks glow red too which is what I'm looking for, but The Asus board looks amazing too. Ill figure it out this friday?
 
nashathedog said:
I like the look of the gaming 9 but I do not like the Z87 G45 gaming board I currently have so I was going to try a brand change.

Is it wise to snatch up a chip asap on release, I read a post somewhere on this forum and the fella said he would be as the first batches are usually good ones, Is that right?
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Why is it you don't like the MSI board. The gaming 9 board is different from g45.
 
nashathedog said:
Its just this total build I'm not happy with and it may be nothing to do with the board but I can't get a decent clock on my 4770k. Anything over 4.1 ends up blue screening and it was my first MSI board so I was thinking about moving back to Asus or trying Gigabyte. I also read something someone wrote about there's not being a great board for overclocking. That corresponds with my experience so I thought I'd cut out all the possible culprits, I realize the g45 isn't an expensive board or anything I just expected more.
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Sorry to hear about your issues. It could be your 4770k I read a lot of the new models of this chip can't oc at all, but it could be your board too, but tbh it's more then likely your 4770k. I would think the 4790k will oc better on the MSI gaming z97 board then a 4770k? Just my thoughts.
 
Kanifee said:
Ive gone form a MSI Z97 G55 SLI to MAXIMUS VII Hero and my new 4670k does the exact same clock with the exact same volts on both boards, the only advantage one has over the other is my chip will do it with the ram at stock speeds with less volt on the Asus than it did on the msi.

Voltages on both was within spec but the msi needed 1.65v on the ram the asus only needs 1.56, be it droop or what ever.
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Which bios did you like more?
 
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