It's getting real hard!

TechMinerUK · 23 Dec 2015 at 09:31

Damn that's rotten luck

Still though, I'm interested in your new ITX build as I was looking to build a small rig next year as well so I might steal some of your ideas

Out of curiosity, what was the part that leaked in your old rig?

OJ46 · 23 Dec 2015 at 09:36

That sucks mate, hope it didn't do too much damage

Good to see you're using it as an excuse to upgrade again though

savagesam117 · 23 Dec 2015 at 23:17

TechMinerUK said:
Damn that's rotten luck
Still though, I'm interested in your new ITX build as I was looking to build a small rig next year as well so I might steal some of your ideas

Out of curiosity, what was the part that leaked in your old rig?

It was the bottom GPU tube so luckily no damage was done, it just dropped into the bottom of the case.

OJ46 said:
That sucks mate, hope it didn't do too much damage Good to see you're using it as an excuse to upgrade again though

Luckily no damage, and the system was off at the time so was pretty happy when I got home from work the next day.

Indeed, I thought so too!

savagesam117 · 26 Dec 2015 at 03:01

I'm going to change this thread name to "Sam's ever evolving PC build thread"

The Wade household was presented with lots of PC parts this morning.. Mainly because I bought them all.

My brothers PC, on the left, my 3 parts on the right.

Skip the boring building part.. Towards the end of all my troubles that came with this swap I thought i'd do a little cable management, it's not great but it could be worse.

Here she is all done. I need to get a new CPU cooler but I don't know what to go for yet.

Here you can see just how small the Fury X actually is, I was not expecting it to be that small.

Mmmmm.. Preettyyyy..

TechMinerUK · 26 Dec 2015 at 09:09

Looking very nice, your cable management is actually quiet good as the main point is that it looks tidy in the main case area.

I also like the red/black Evolv case colouring but I was wondering as in the photos the red appears to have a pink hue on it but is it actually a pinky red colour?

Still though, great work

faceman123 · 28 Dec 2015 at 01:54

Love it..

savagesam117 · 31 Dec 2015 at 22:39

Just a tiny up date and the build is done. No more tinkering.

I bought the OcUK tech labs 240mm cooler and wow! I'm really impressed, compared to my H105 that I had, this thing is awesome .

But it is bloody close, there is 1/2mm in the gap between the two rads.

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Couple pictures of the finished product.

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TechMinerUK · 31 Dec 2015 at 22:42

That's a lucky fit there, it was as if it was designed to go in snug

How is the airflow in the case as with all the space used up for radiators it must get a bit toasty for the motherboard as any airflow will be taken up by the rads?
Speaking of airflow, how are the temps of the build with the new radiator

savagesam117 · 31 Dec 2015 at 22:45

Airflow is great, i'm really surprised.

As far as temps, i've never seen the GPU top 50c, that's in a firestrike bench with the little OC you can add to these w/o voltage control. The CPU is at 4.7ghz and I haven't seen it go over 65c yet. I don't bother with stress tests, I know this is stable so that's just gaming etc. The whole thing idles around 25c.

TechMinerUK · 31 Dec 2015 at 22:48

savagesam117 said:
Airflow is great, i'm really surprised.

As far as temps, i've never seen the GPU top 50c, that's in a firestrike bench with the little OC you can add to these w/o voltage control. The CPU is at 4.7ghz and I haven't seen it go over 65c yet. I don't bother with stress tests, I know this is stable so that's just gaming etc. The whole thing idles around 25c.

Thats better than what I would have expected it as with all the radiators I wasnt sure whether it would be dumping heat back into the case. Excellent work

savagesam117 · 31 Dec 2015 at 22:50

TechMinerUK said:
Thats better than what I would have expected it as with all the radiators I wasnt sure whether it would be dumping heat back into the case. Excellent work

I'm really happy with it. It's running cooler than my WC loop and has more power, well GPU power anyway.

TechMinerUK · 31 Dec 2015 at 23:11

savagesam117 said:
I'm really happy with it. It's running cooler than my WC loop and has more power, well GPU power anyway.

Powerful GPU's make a greater difference to gaming performance at the moment compared to CPU performance anyway.

savagesam117 · 31 Dec 2015 at 23:14

Yeah tell me about it, I went from a 4690k to the 4790k and well, I don't notice a difference? I do want x99 though. I'll wait for broadwell-E and then go for a 5960x or something with the new GPU's next year.

TechMinerUK · 31 Dec 2015 at 23:18

savagesam117 said:
Yeah tell me about it, I went from a 4690k to the 4790k and well, I don't notice a difference? I do want x99 though. I'll wait for broadwell-E and then go for a 5960x or something with the new GPU's next year.

I was in a similar situation, I went from a 4670K with 8GB RAM to a 5820K with 16GB RAM. I needed the extra power for other workloads but it makes little difference to gaming with the extra cores not being used to their full potential. Hopefull DX12 should help resolve that though

You might be best waiting for AMD Zen as hopefully it might re-vitalise the competition between AMD and Intel