i7 920 Asus Gene Noctua NH-C12P in a lian li v350B

SolarFlare

SolarFlare

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Hi Everyone,

Went to OCUK at the weekend, thought i'd build my self a very cool system.

The idea Being to get a powerfull machine in a small case with rapid boot times, good overcloking and less noise, a bit difficult i admit, but hey thats half the fun.

The Spec
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping
Asus Rampage II Gene Intel X58
Asus GeForce GTX 275
Corsair HX 750W
OCZ Agility Series 30GB (x2 in Raid strip set, that raid 0 from what i can remeber)
Lian Li PC-V351B
Patriot Viper 6GB
Noctua NH-C12P

discussed with the guys in OCUK that the cooler and the PSU are not likely to fit together (we all agreed it would not), so off to laser cutting or so i thought, putting it simply did not need to it all fits together a nit tight in places but rather well

Temps (according to speedfan)
Idles around 30 c
max i've seen it hot about 40c

so far so good

Windows 7 loaded and it boots in about 10 seconds (that's not a typo)

Overclocking

not done much, time is not on my side..but used the AI thing and went straight to 3.2 without batting an eyelid.

I'll be posting pics & details of the build shortly !
 
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further description of the how, the what & the where will follow
 
Nice :D

Looking at the pics, the cooler fan is almost on the psu. Does it line up with a the psu fan? just thinking about airflow.
 
The cooler sits slightly offset about and inch and bit at about a 45 degrees from the back right handside of the psu fan looking at it from the back.

I was concerned about airflow and turbulence, but as its offset seems to be ok, i forgot to take a picture of the fan on, did my head in getting it on was very fiddly, but worth it in the end, there's about a cm or so between the two fans..so it's very close, a bit too much almost!
 
The rest of the build.

The cables are fairly tight and some are short, the firewire cable wont reach if i route it round under the fans but the others do.

I cabled the drives up and fed the power and sata cables to the CD Drive bay up through the cage, you can hide most of the cable mess in there.

If you cable it right theres little blocking the airflow, just the fat cable to the board.

I've just cable tied the SSD's for now, until i can be bothered to get a cage.

The heatsink fan needs to be removed before you put the board in, as described in the previous post.

The Heatpipes on the cooler just slide past to allow the board in (you have to jiggle it around), any bigger and ...... You can mount the heatsink the other way round so its sittings over the memory chips, think this may be worse for the air flow though, but i could be wrong

The PSU is massive but fits too, a bit tight though.

Really thinking about watercooling, but will see how much i OC it and how much it heats up !

Haven't done this stuff in about 5 years last time i was playing around was in the days of the IC7-G, so will have some reading to do.
 
Nice build mate, it's very similar to the spec I'm upgrading to at the end of the month.
Enjoy :)

p.s. it looks like you took the pics in a smoky or steamy room :p
 
Hey solarflare,

Nice setup, I really like that case but wondered an i7 would cope in such a small home! Been considering something very similiar today, my mind changes from small cheap HTPC to uber games machine, and then something inbetween!

Its great you list the spec and temps, that helps me consider stuff.

How do you find the noise of the system, as I will create a partition to install Linux XBMC to watch media on.

Again, a cool system, I guess that will handle anything you throw at it?
 
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