First time build - Phanteks Luxe fun

leerogers00 · 27 May 2016 at 17:27

Hey all, been a long time lurker of this forum and have been meaning to build my own rig for years now. For the last 6 years I've suffered a £400 laptop due to moving home and having a kid.

Now life has settled down its time to treat myself. On top of that, rather then just buy a decent system I've decided to be brave and build it myself for the first time. I can't wait to finally get back to PC gaming again.

I often look in this part of the forum and see amazing systems put together by experts and experience builders. I thought why not add to it some noobs first attempt and give everyone something to laugh at.

Now I doubt this attempt will be perfect. Hell, it might not even be that good but at least other people in the same boat as me can see that it should be able to get done.

So anyway onto the build. I spent a lot of time researching these components and reading others experiences.

Specs:

Phanteks Enthoo Luxe - White
6700k
Gigabyte gaming 7
Corsair vengeance 3000mhz - White
Corsair H115i cooler
Evga G2 650w
500gb Samsung evo SSD
Cablemod black and red psu cables
TP link wireless n card
Phanteks 2m led strip
Windows 10 home

Now two things are clearly missing from this build.

GPU: I'm currently waiting for the 1070 to be released. Until then I'll use the integrated graphics and my ps4 to tide me over.

Monitor: I currently have my old trusty Samsung t240. This again will tide me over until I have the GPU and can buy a decent monitor to match its performance.

The build will begin this weekend. I'll try and keep this updated as much as possible as long as I'm not crying in the corner somewhere.

leerogers00 · 27 May 2016 at 18:36

Bickaxe said:
Its a great case to build in, lots of room and adapts to various requirements.

Good luck!

Thanks mate. Hopefully overclockers haven't jinxed me but not including any haribo haha

leerogers00 · 27 May 2016 at 20:35

Petelock said:
Agree on a good choice of case. Cooling is really nice in it. Consider upgrading from the 200mm fan in the front to 2x140mm. I found them better when I used my luxe.

Looking forward to seeing your progress

Thanks mate. I actually forgot to add. I bought an extra f140sp as well. Will move the top fan with the extra one I've bought to the front of the case

Glad I made the right decision!

leerogers00 · 28 May 2016 at 14:13

So I made a start on it this morning. Below are the pics. So far it's been going well (don't want to jinx it). What an amazing feeling it was when it powered on

Have now installed Windows but had to leave it there due to work this afternoon.

I couldn't be bothered with the grief of the Phanteks hub after reading issues online with non pwm fan headers. I've just connected the case fans direct to the motherboard.

Tomorrow I'll swap the front fan for the two 140's. Still waiting on my led strip to arrive for the inside as well.

I'll then do a big tidy up.

Ps. Even though it's only temporary , this beauty makes that monitor look dreadful haha

leerogers00 · 28 May 2016 at 14:14

Oh and I also have some cable combs to tidy up the motherboard power cable!

leerogers00 · 29 May 2016 at 15:33

Tidied the thing up now. Front 200 fan replaced with two 140's. Overall pretty pleased with my first build attempt.

I'm finally off work tomorrow so can have a proper play with it.

Things to come:

Overclock
New monitor
1070

leerogers00 · 29 May 2016 at 16:00

cutchy2k said:
Wow that colour scheme is really nice

Can i ask what chair that is?
Looks super comfy

It ain't a bad chair mate. It's a tinx gaming chair off the rainforest. I imagine tinx is short for Chinese imitation. It was a pig to put together due to awful instructions but it's very very comfy and seems sturdy enough

leerogers00 · 29 May 2016 at 19:09

Pgreenwo said:
Very slick build - congrats

Thanks mate. Very kind of you

leerogers00 · 30 May 2016 at 11:44

So I just noticed that my top fan filter wasn't sitting flush. Turns out one of the locking clips doesn't work and click down.

Spoke with Phanteks and they are sending me two replacements which is great customer service.

leerogers00 · 30 May 2016 at 21:03

Now enabled XMP so my ram is at 3000mhz.

Had a little play around with overclocking the cpu. Currently stable (touch wood) at 4.6ghz at 1.340v.

Any thing lower then that causes crashes.

Max temp under aida64 and xtu stress tests is 70 degrees.

leerogers00 · 31 May 2016 at 13:16

enigma27 said:
Looking good.

I just purchased almost the same set-up apart from a 1080 and custom water loop.

Sounds fantastic mate. I can't wait for the 1070. I go away mid June so will have to wait until im back.

Make sure you post your build fella. As its so similar I'd like to compare anything we have done differently.

leerogers00 · 31 May 2016 at 15:43

Thank you both. Means a lot coming from more experienced people

leerogers00 · 1 Jun 2016 at 15:56

2m led strip now dispatched and should come tomorrow.

Glue dots and extra strong double sided tape also on order due to the crap adhesive I've read all about!

leerogers00 · 2 Jun 2016 at 19:31

So my led strip arrived and to my surprise it's now magnitised.

Phanteks must have changed their design. Didn't even need to use the sticky strips. Sorry about some of the sideways photos. Image hosting site is playing up and spins them
Even when I turn them back.

leerogers00 · 2 Jun 2016 at 19:56

dessimpson said:
I've got my spare PC in a Phanteks Luxe. Great case.
I built my X99 rig into the Enthoo Primo as I was going SLI with AIO's.

Both are superb cases and so easy to work in when installing. I didn't even realise, you could change the colours on the LED's in the Luxe, till I'd been using it for about 3 weeks

Haha mate that's brilliant. Sounds like something I would do. Wonder what this button does.....

leerogers00 · 4 Jun 2016 at 17:23

Added some bias lighting to the back of the desk. Only white but prefer that.

Desperately need the 1070 out and a new monitor. I need to game!!

Little legs loves changing the colours as well

leerogers00 · 4 Jun 2016 at 18:56

A little bit more tweaking with the overclock.

Stable 4.7ghz at 1.345v. Make temp of 76 degrees.

leerogers00 · 7 Jun 2016 at 21:13

Am now at 4.7ghz at 1.340v. Temps vary dependant on the dress test. But never above 75 now.

I've adjusted the cpu cache to 47 as well as upping the fclk to 1000. Could push for 4.8 but feel this chip is comfy where it is now

leerogers00 · 9 Jun 2016 at 16:18

Thank you Phanteks for the prompt sending of my new clips. My roof grill is now sitting flush at last. Amazing how the little things can bug you.

leerogers00 · 24 Jun 2016 at 16:44

Got my Dell U2715h today. Very nice screen.

Still to come:

1) A graphics card - wanted a 1070 but holding fire to see what happens with stock and pricing.

2) a 2.1 sound system. Struggling here. So many to choose from