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The mod I have been planning needs to be a proper scratch build. That was what I always planned on. It will take me months, and I don't want my rig continually out of action because of that.

So yeah, some patience required haha.
 
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Roll on tomorrow when I can do loads more.

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That's a GPU LOL.

I bought the board and CPU second hand. I hadn't tested it at all (couldn't, I had no cooler) so I decided to fire it for POST last night on the block. I didn't want to take my 2070S out yet, so I just used an old GT610. Less aggro, it doesn't need power.

Any way rig fired up fine so it's also been tested now too. The order from OCUK should be here tomorrow. Not much more I can do now, given I need to remove the whole vertical mount again to get to the RGB wiring and etc and I don't have the hubs yet.

With any luck a marathon tomorrow ought to do it. Obviously I can't install Windows on it yet either because the NVME drive is in the order from OCUK, which again is coming tomorrow. It's on an umbilical Molex ATM running from the rig I am on. Will leave the loop running whilst I am awake but I don't think it will leak given the only untested thing in there was the distro and that was new.
 
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I prefer the original GPU. :p Much more old-school and definitely nostalgic! :-D You not got one with a VESA bus?!
 
Got the panel running last night. Still need the adapter for the pump top. Will cover the red and white LED on the board with black vinyl.

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Sadly at some point the LEDs in the CPU block have died. I noticed in earlier pics they were very dim. Now they don't work at all. Chased them down and tried other sockets and so on but yeah, seems they are brown bread.

There's no way I am bloody taking it out again now, even though I have a spare EK strip. Sod that.

I ran into a ton of stability issues also. It kept booting straight into the BIOS (which my X99 used to do it's friggin annoying) so I flashed the BIOS last night. The BIOS on there was from 2017, god knows how the previous owner put up with that they are truly awful on early BIOSes.

Any way, that fixed the stability issues I was having. Turns out my RAM is 2666 not 2400 which was nice. I thought the XMP was wrong at first. Then I had tons of issues with PUBG. I play with a few chums during the week. Every time I tried to launch it it would black screen crash, then continually go back to desktop and black screen until you shut down the PC. I was worried this was a hardware issue, but I played Doom Eternal for four hours last night without a single hiccup. I tried verifying it (one corrupt file) but same. Ripped every trace of it out and reinstalled it, same. I was beginning to worry I would never get it working, then I took a look into what was running.

"MSI Dragon App gaming mode !!!1111oneoneeleven". So disabled everything MSI and what would you know?

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So I christen the Gigabyte app AIDs for your PC, this one is Ebola.

Oh yeah I also bought a 1tb SATA SSD on another site they were having a certain type of number day. So I fitted that last night also and moved a couple of games over to it so the mechs can spin down when I am gaming.
 
ALXAndy said:
Got the panel running last night. Still need the adapter for the pump top. Will cover the red and white LED on the board with black vinyl.

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Sadly at some point the LEDs in the CPU block have died. I noticed in earlier pics they were very dim. Now they don't work at all. Chased them down and tried other sockets and so on but yeah, seems they are brown bread.

There's no way I am bloody taking it out again now, even though I have a spare EK strip. Sod that.

I ran into a ton of stability issues also. It kept booting straight into the BIOS (which my X99 used to do it's friggin annoying) so I flashed the BIOS last night. The BIOS on there was from 2017, god knows how the previous owner put up with that they are truly awful on early BIOSes.

Any way, that fixed the stability issues I was having. Turns out my RAM is 2666 not 2400 which was nice. I thought the XMP was wrong at first. Then I had tons of issues with PUBG. I play with a few chums during the week. Every time I tried to launch it it would black screen crash, then continually go back to desktop and black screen until you shut down the PC. I was worried this was a hardware issue, but I played Doom Eternal for four hours last night without a single hiccup. I tried verifying it (one corrupt file) but same. Ripped every trace of it out and reinstalled it, same. I was beginning to worry I would never get it working, then I took a look into what was running.

"MSI Dragon App gaming mode !!!1111oneoneeleven". So disabled everything MSI and what would you know?

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So I christen the Gigabyte app AIDs for your PC, this one is Ebola.

Oh yeah I also bought a 1tb SATA SSD on another site they were having a certain type of number day. So I fitted that last night also and moved a couple of games over to it so the mechs can spin down when I am gaming.
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Did you get the Crucial BX500 1tb drive? It was a bargain yesterday, i ended up getting the 2TB drive to replace the mechanical drives so its dead silent. Delivery on Saturday :D
 
Nope I went with a Sandisk because it was £3 cheaper. I use several Sandisk and none of them have failed yet.

My other rigs are all SSD. This one however I would need to spend about a grand in SSDs to replace them. It's much more of an office PC than the others, though TBF the Area 51 has around 7tb in SSD storage in.

This is my "cheapest" PC. Hence why I used all of the stuff I had lying around and spent as little as possible really.
 
It's a HP Envy 32. The original came with Beats audio, this was the much classier Bang and Olufsen version. Years old now, but still a very good screen.
 
nice :)

beats audio is overpriced rubbish imo bang and olufsen are class but its probably the same thing with a different app to download and a different sticker on it haha
 
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Nope I went with a Sandisk because it was £3 cheaper. I use several Sandisk and none of them have failed yet.

My other rigs are all SSD. This one however I would need to spend about a grand in SSDs to replace them. It's much more of an office PC than the others, though TBF the Area 51 has around 7tb in SSD storage in.

This is my "cheapest" PC. Hence why I used all of the stuff I had lying around and spent as little as possible really.
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Ah fair enough, i didn't even spot that drive i don't think. Saw some samsungs but decided i didn't need all that performance for storage drives that probably don't get used all that much if im honest. Just hate that mechanical drive spin up when you wake them up from idle lol.

That's a serious amount of SSD storage you have and to say thats not even your main rig!
 
It was my main rig for many years. Hence why when I got around to putting SSDs in it I went a little crazy lol. I suppose in a way it is still my main rig at home, because the new one "only" has about 2.5tb of SSDs in it. Meaning most of my data is on the other one still with all of the drives in.

One day I will get around to doing this one, but I will need a windfall or I won't bother.
 
OK so the RGB is finished. The adapter for the pump top arrived yesterday.

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However I am having issues. Sometimes when I launch a game the rig freezes. Sometimes when I exit a game and go back to the menu it freezes. This morning it was random freezing.

Normally I would be perplexed. However, yesterday when playing SOTTR I got an error message that said "Your graphics card driver crashed etc". I am 90% it's the Cooler Master ribbon. I had issues with it before. They seem to be a one shot deal. IE, if you start bending on them etc they break. They are the early type, and a bit crap. So I ordered this.

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Because that is the best way of doing it. Not only are the cables encased in rubber and split (so it bends easy without putting stress on the wires) but the ends are both reinforced too.

If that doesn't solve it? then it is the RAM. Which I have already decided I am not replacing any time soon so I will just have to live with it. Oddly in the 14 hours I gamed yesterday I only had the one crash in game. However, like I said I've seen dodgy ribbons before so I am pretty certain that is what is going on.
 
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