Father & Son build

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 20 Jan 2022 at 06:32

My son moved home last year and has gotten into his gaming and video editing. He's been using an Intel i7 3770 rig and wanting to upgrade for a while.

We are transferring his GFX an PSU across. These will be upgraded latter when he’s in a position to do so.

Together we have spec'd this rig up, been shopping and the last few parts are arriving so we can build. Thought I'd document it here

Craig_d1 · 20 Jan 2022 at 08:35

As you have all the bits, not a lot to say really but enjoy and have fun building. You could consider my build the big brother to yours

I got the gaming e board rather than the f. Wanted wifi and also it came with a usb-c header for the front i/o. Gaming F didn't have the usb-c header..but can't argue with the price you paid.
Also got the 5800X also(£310 so you beat me, though bought mine 6 months ago), the 5000X case, so slightly bigger, bought the standard Vengeance rgb ram rather than the SL(which is a lower profile...did that so could buy the 2 dummy ram sticks for £28 and have all 4 slots filled), and I opted for QL120's rather than LL120's so have the rgb on the rear of the fan as well as the front...oh, and seeing as 5000x, went for the 360mm aio on top rather than 240...got the 150i XT Pro from someone stripping out a pc for the gpu for £66. Bought 2tb SN850 for my nvme. You're going to have a great system once built. Looking forward to seeing some pics when done. I managed to snag a 3080Fe for the gpu..only way to get a card at a decent price.
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Craig_d1 · 20 Jan 2022 at 08:42

Oh, forgot...remember to take your time. Also, I was so focused on getting the wires in the right place for the fans, forgot to check orientation and put some back to front :cry:

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 20 Jan 2022 at 10:04

Few parts have arrived. It’s been a while from me doing a build, use to do ten a day at one stage. Things have moved on loads.

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 20 Jan 2022 at 10:26

Craig_d1 said:
As you have all the bits, not a lot to say really but enjoy and have fun building. You could consider my build the big brother to yours
I got the gaming e board rather than the f. Wanted wifi and also it came with a usb-c header for the front i/o. Gaming F didn't have the usb-c header..but can't argue with the price you paid.
Also got the 5800X also(£310 so you beat me, though bought mine 6 months ago), the 5000X case, so slightly bigger, bought the standard Vengeance rgb ram rather than the SL(which is a lower profile...did that so could buy the 2 dummy ram sticks for £28 and have all 4 slots filled), and I opted for QL120's rather than LL120's so have the rgb on the rear of the fan as well as the front...oh, and seeing as 5000x, went for the 360mm aio on top rather than 240...got the 150i XT Pro from someone stripping out a pc for the gpu for £66. Bought 2tb SN850 for my nvme. You're going to have a great system once built. Looking forward to seeing some pics when done. I managed to snag a 3080Fe for the gpu..only way to get a card at a decent price.
You are signed up for FEPartAlert to try and get a card?

Craig_d1 said:
Oh, forgot...remember to take your time. Also, I was so focused on getting the wires in the right place for the fans, forgot to check orientation and put some back to front

He found the mobo via Facebook Marketplace. I didn’t think about the USB C option. Have checked and he doesn’t use anything with it so nothing lost but I see he could use a USB 3 internal adapter for it.

AIO was a hard one. I would have gone 360 and front mounted it but then I saw a post about the heat etc and looking at opted builds they fitted the rad atop. So idea being cooler air comes into the case and then heat is out inc that CPU heat. 240 I think will be fine. The fans are nice and powerful.

Card wise he’s got a 980Ti for now. He’s got to earn and save some before he can get anything.

Some more parts arriving today fact all of it. We’re going to build mobo, cpu, ram, ssd, outside of the case. Along with the AIO. This can be fired up on the bench and tested to make sure it’s working, if BIOS needs to be flashed which I am expecting it will. Might install windows at this stage just to the point it’s installed and reboots.

Craig_d1 · 20 Jan 2022 at 10:38

212.159.5.208 said:
He found the mobo via Facebook Marketplace. I didn’t think about the USB C option. Have checked and he doesn’t use anything with it so nothing lost but I see he could use a USB 3 internal adapter for it.

AIO was a hard one. I would have gone 360 and front mounted it but then I saw a post about the heat etc and looking at opted builds they fitted the rad atop. So idea being cooler air comes into the case and then heat is out inc that CPU heat. 240 I think will be fine. The fans are nice and powerful.

Card wise he’s got a 980Ti for now. He’s got to earn and save some before he can get anything.

Some more parts arriving today fact all of it. We’re going to build mobo, cpu, ram, ssd, outside of the case. Along with the AIO. This can be fired up on the bench and tested to make sure it’s working, if BIOS needs to be flashed which I am expecting it will. Might install windows at this stage just to the point it’s installed and reboots.

Yup, did the same...took mobo out of static free bag and placed it on top of it, on the mobo box..attached cpu, ram and nvme from there. Then did the fans etc. Plugged psu into wall and touched every so often as a grounding point, though glass table on tiles so doubt there was any static around. tested fans etc by hooking up to psu, then installed mobo, attached cables etc, realised put 2 fans wrong way round on radiator for aio, swore, took offrad and changed to correct orientation :cry:

and reattached, slotted psu in back and cable managed....closed up and plugged into monitor and booted up, fingers crossed...luckily didn't need bios update or anything, worked straight out the box. my pic on 2nd page of this forum thread under 5000X build...you can see the fans back to front on the aio :cry:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/5000x-build-2021.18937759/
last time I did a build, no rgb and 1 fan, already installed...psu sat at the top of the case and gpu had no big double/triple fans/giant heatpipes

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 20 Jan 2022 at 13:04

DELIVERY!!!!

That’s everything required now delivered. Now to start the build.

Nor · 21 Jan 2022 at 18:42

Fantastic! Hope you both enjoy it. Would love to do this with my son one day. He's 2 though, so might be a while!

Craig_d1 · 21 Jan 2022 at 21:46

Looking forward to seeing it built

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 22 Jan 2022 at 08:49

Todays the day. Once I’m back from fixing my car.

so a very quick question is the mobo. Any settings in BIOS to apply or is default everything okay?

Craig_d1 · 22 Jan 2022 at 08:59

212.159.5.208 said:
Todays the day. Once I’m back from fixing my car.

so a very quick question is the mobo. Any settings in BIOS to apply or is default everything okay?

I left everything as is, apart from enabling xmp for Ram, which you can do after installing everything as it needs the ram in to see timings.
I installed windows 10..win 11 requires diff setting i think, as when thought about it, went to windows upgrade page and said my pc not capable if installing win11 as doesnt meet criteria. It obv does, but does mean i would have to alter some settings. I forget which at mo am afraid and out and about
https://www.pcmag.com/news/to-upgrade-to-windows-11-prepare-to-dig-into-your-pcs-bios?amp=true
Tpm and secure boot... Some youtube vids about it also

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 22 Jan 2022 at 09:06

Craig_d1 said:
I left everything as is, apart from enabling xmp for Ram, which you can do after installing everything as it needs the ram in to see timings.
I installed windows 10..win 11 requires diff setting i think, as when thought about it, went to windows upgrade page and said my pc not capable if installing win11 as doesnt meet criteria. It obv does, but does mean i would have to alter some settings. I forget which at mo am afraid and out and about
https://www.pcmag.com/news/to-upgrade-to-windows-11-prepare-to-dig-into-your-pcs-bios?amp=true
Tpm and secure boot... Some youtube vids about it also

Morning Craig, thank you. Will be bench building mobo etc on the box and installing Windows to make sure it’s working. I’ll enable XMP right away before the install. Hopefully the default BIOS supports the CPU. If not then we got to flash it

Craig_d1 · 22 Jan 2022 at 09:25

My gaming e supported 5800x straight out the box.. Think u s/b ok fingers crossed

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 22 Jan 2022 at 18:10

Okay it’s booted so not bad to flash but where is XMP.

Craig_d1 · 22 Jan 2022 at 19:31

212.159.5.208 said:
Okay it’s booted so not bad to flash but where is XMP.

when you go into bios, go to AI Tweaker, then enable D.O.C.P (for some reason call it different thing on AMD...means Direct Ocerclocking Profile), then save and exit..bios will take reading from Ram modules and adjust accordingly..if you go back into bios you should see new timings

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 22 Jan 2022 at 23:03

Craig_d1 said:
when you go into bios, go to AI Tweaker, then enable D.O.C.P (for some reason call it different thing on AMD...means Direct Ocerclocking Profile), then save and exit..bios will take reading from Ram modules and adjust accordingly..if you go back into bios you should see new timings

Perfect that worked thank you. Wow this things quick! Very very impressed.

Not sure if temps are right. Jumps around a bit and high. What would be the proper way to check temps, then stress the system out.

Craig_d1 · 23 Jan 2022 at 10:29

212.159.5.208 said:
Perfect that worked thank you. Wow this things quick! Very very impressed.

Not sure if temps are right. Jumps around a bit and high. What would be the proper way to check temps, then stress the system out.

Hw monitor for temps. The icue software shows it also.. I used Cinebench r23 for stress test

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 23 Jan 2022 at 20:32

Craig_d1 said:
Hw monitor for temps. The icue software shows it also.. I used Cinebench r23 for stress test

We ow you a beer or two for all your help thank you. So I ran R23 and here are the results. The only changes we have made was as advised to go into bios, go to AI Tweaker, then enable D.O.C.P. This has set the ram to 3600mhz. Everything else is stock.

So would I be right in saying this hit 81.1c at the max on the core?

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 23 Jan 2022 at 20:36

Here is a photo of how it looks.

mickyflinn · 23 Jan 2022 at 21:23

212.159.5.208 said:
Here is a photo of how it looks.

Nice.

What psu did you reuse ?