First i7 Build pics

capriboy1978 · 19 Sep 2009 at 21:24

hi all

thought i'd take my suspension like a man and actually build my pc rather than yak about it. 'Borrowed' some Kingston RAM to build her as the ballistix i've ordered is coming from Mars.

It's my first build in over 15 years and the first I've done solo. Comments greatly appreciated, I must say the 'cable management' of the zalman is worse than I feared but boy is she purty. Will post more pics later if interested. Thanks to OcUk for all the bits, they supplied everything in their except the RAM and psu, inc the case for £100

ok 1st pic of everything laid out..

initial testing with the stock hsf

H50 mounting from inside

2nd fan mounting on rear of case

both fans side on, rad is nicely sandwiched

capriboy1978 · 19 Sep 2009 at 21:36

oops terrible gramma. Tres tired. Just the case for a £100.

everything depended on the quality of that sandwich

capriboy1978 · 19 Sep 2009 at 21:43

updated for tonight, off to fight the horde.

capriboy1978 · 19 Sep 2009 at 23:40

capriboy1978 · 20 Sep 2009 at 00:04

unfortunately said sandwich is long gone.....leftover pork from sun lunch, heated up and smothered in apple sauce. Not the best but not bad

Pics are off Nokia N97 so pretty shabby unfortunately. It was too much grief at the time to go to the studio for a camera so thats what I used. Once the RAM and monitor... arrives I'll get some better pics. Not that I'm completely that way inclined but the red fans look pretty amazing, it's amazingly quiet at idle, under load the gpu is audible but not bad imo. Pity my netgear dongle hates 64bit OS or I'd have had it online and been using it now.

capriboy1978 · 20 Sep 2009 at 00:21

considered this. gt900 has 2 x 80mm intakes on the front. The hdd bays are behind them faffing the airflow somewhat. Decided to run these two as intakes at full pelt (pretty quiet anyway thanks to the case construction) and use two slower 120mm to exhaust.

If this proves no good I've got a template ready to cut the roof and mount the H50 their as an inlet. As things stand I'm concerned that the psu / gpu fans are robbing a fair whack of the flow from the intakes.... temps seemed pretty good on quick check. Don't have SS but cpu was running 10 degrees cooler at idle inside the case than when I tested the system outsied using the stock HSF.

capriboy1978 · 20 Sep 2009 at 00:30

nope, itching to give the bloodrage a whizz. Tbf though this machine needs to work for a living so will go for the 4ghz and see how temps / mem runs there and maybe drop back to mid to high 3's if needed.

waiting for a monitor before I do much else, will prob need to crossfire the gfx but at this rate the 5xxx will be here and this 4890 will end up in one of the gaming dual cores.

capriboy1978 · 20 Sep 2009 at 08:14

thanks ppl. At the moment this beast makes a good paper weight! 2 days off work next weekend so will get time to tinker. !

capriboy1978 · 20 Sep 2009 at 11:31

demonfatality said:
what about posting some 3d mark vantage scores
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1427267

oh...nice sandwich

benching...that sounds addictive

it's no where near ready yet. Waiting for ram and then will move onto flashing the bios, patching the os and then maybe clocking her a little.

Built this rig to use day to day... Might run a few tests, just to prove the oc's metal

capriboy1978 · 20 Sep 2009 at 13:25

working on tidying cables a bit better as i wasn't entirely happy. May have some ram on route today too...

Will take a few quick ones using this phone if the ram turns up.

capriboy1978 · 20 Sep 2009 at 14:08

who said guys only like to look at purty ladies...

capriboy1978 · 20 Sep 2009 at 15:36

Sayso said:
MORE PICS NEEDED

ask and you shall recieve (this time anyway!)

pic of gt900's extensive cable management features

internals after re-tidying some of the cables I wasn't happy with

and

ta da, got some RAM sorted today and after swinging some favours here she is

Unfortunately RAM not from OcUk, they had / have 1 set showing in stock but when I rang thurs but I was told it had just been sold by the nice lady.

capriboy1978 · 27 Sep 2009 at 20:25

well it's alive and running nicely at stock....

capriboy1978 · 27 Sep 2009 at 21:07

i really wanted the ballistix in red, unfortunately c@@@@@l are a pos and despite claiming the contrary when i ordered had no satock of any colour and kept putting the delivery date back and back.

Way back when I specced this system I picked this reaper but had to change my mind due to the mobo layout. Thanks to the H50 i've been able to fall back to my original plan. Got to get my head round setting the speed and timings yet, too used to xmp profiles..

capriboy1978 · 13 Oct 2009 at 09:57

mr dbl post strikes again

Here are the final pictures of my build until monitor / keyb / custom desk arrives.

Internal shot showing push pull intake config of h50 mounted into new roof blow hole:

all internal cables now braided, pita but worth it - recommeded to anyone - if can do it so can you-

new blow hole:

Quick leak test tonight as the h50 took a hammering and then back to using it on an ancient 15" crt...