Hey Vent,
No I wish! That was just for the last couple of bits, like the graphics card, CPU, HDD and OS.
My First Ever 'From Scratch' Build!
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Hey Vent,
No I wish! That was just for the last couple of bits, like the graphics card, CPU, HDD and OS.
*UPDATE*
Hey folks,
I just finished work on another Machinima video. I hope you guys like it!
F1 2011 Machinima Video
Hey folks,
I just finished work on another Machinima video. I hope you guys like it!
F1 2011 Machinima Video
Hey John thanks a lot! Glad the video helped, I hate cable management so much! lol
Nice build
Great sleeving, I never had the patience!
Thanks, some companies sell extension cables pre sleeved. I don't know if the finish is up to the same standards as when you do it yourself but it will sure save some time. Bitfenix have their alchemy line of pre braided cables and so does Akasa.
Thanks GTO! They are pretty quiet, they only run at about 1500RPM most of the time. They are certainly audible but not to a level that is offensive. The LED's in them are pants though, not very bright at all. If you want a quiet fan that runs LED's I recommend these. Used them in one of my friends systems, the LED's are very bright and these fans shift a lot of air!
Glad you enjoyed it! Great sig btw, Pac-Man for the win!
Looks great, very neat too. Interesting read
Hey Simon, thanks!
*UPDATE*
Hey everyone,
Been a while since I posted on here, but I just wanted to share a upgrade to my rig with you guys.
It's my Birthday today and the postman was kind enough to bring me this!
SSD Goodness!
So far I've got the Synapse all installed in her new home with the Dataplex software installed and enabled. Just finishing off some benchmarking and I should know how much of a performance increase I've gotten. I'm report back when I know more!
Hey everyone,
Been a while since I posted on here, but I just wanted to share a upgrade to my rig with you guys.
It's my Birthday today and the postman was kind enough to bring me this!
SSD Goodness!
So far I've got the Synapse all installed in her new home with the Dataplex software installed and enabled. Just finishing off some benchmarking and I should know how much of a performance increase I've gotten. I'm report back when I know more!
Happy Birthday
Interesting to see the benchmarks on that beast.
Hey Rhys,
Thanks man, I hope to have the benchmarks up later this evening!
*UPDATE*
Hey guys,
I've been quiet on the OC forum of late but plan to change that over the next few days. Now if you've read this thread in its entirety you will no doubt know that the colour scheme of my rig is black, red, gold and silver. This is the colour scheme of the inside however and I've always felt as though the outside was a little plain...
The mesh of my Shinobi case is black and the Bitfenix badge has a brushed aluminium look to it. I have wanted to liven up the outside but didn't really fancy dipping my toes into the modding scene, however the other day I was window shopping on the overclockers main site and came across some pretty awesome Bitfenix accessories.
This is one of the reasons I love Bitfenix so much, they really stand behind their products. They sell their alchemy pre-braided cables, case LED's, stealth drive covers and a front USB 3.0 upgrade kit! Now though they also sell replacement mesh strips and Bitfenix case badges!
So I purchased myself some to make my case truly unique! They are still on their way to me at this point but I started stripping down my case today in eager preparation.
The old mesh strips aren't too tricky to get out, you just need to bend some tabs and they pop off fairly easy (some bending may be required to get them straight again). The case badge also just pops out, its almost like they planned it!
I will leave the colours of my accessory bits a secret for now but here are some shots of my Shinobi stripped down ready for her posh bits:
The Old Plain Jane Mesh & Badge
Hey guys,
I've been quiet on the OC forum of late but plan to change that over the next few days. Now if you've read this thread in its entirety you will no doubt know that the colour scheme of my rig is black, red, gold and silver. This is the colour scheme of the inside however and I've always felt as though the outside was a little plain...
The mesh of my Shinobi case is black and the Bitfenix badge has a brushed aluminium look to it. I have wanted to liven up the outside but didn't really fancy dipping my toes into the modding scene, however the other day I was window shopping on the overclockers main site and came across some pretty awesome Bitfenix accessories.
This is one of the reasons I love Bitfenix so much, they really stand behind their products. They sell their alchemy pre-braided cables, case LED's, stealth drive covers and a front USB 3.0 upgrade kit! Now though they also sell replacement mesh strips and Bitfenix case badges!
So I purchased myself some to make my case truly unique! They are still on their way to me at this point but I started stripping down my case today in eager preparation.
The old mesh strips aren't too tricky to get out, you just need to bend some tabs and they pop off fairly easy (some bending may be required to get them straight again). The case badge also just pops out, its almost like they planned it!
I will leave the colours of my accessory bits a secret for now but here are some shots of my Shinobi stripped down ready for her posh bits:
The Old Plain Jane Mesh & Badge
Thanks man! I think braiding your cables make your cable management look so much neater, not to mention that it looks sweet! There are lots of videos on Youtube showing you how to sleeve or if you don't fancy the DIY route Bitfenix sell pre braided cables that will go in any PC. I actually made a guide on Youtube showing you how to de-pin the 6-pin PCI-E connector (you use the same method to de-pin the 24 pin and the 8 pin CPU connector), check it out:
http://m.youtube.com/#/my_subscriptions&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Yeah I really like BitFenix, their accessories are great and the coloured mesh for the Shinobi is a great idea. Looking forward to seeing more
I will upload some new pics when the postman arrives! Stupid Bank Holiday!
I think the DIY route is better if you are like yourself building from scratch or have done in the past.
I will have a watch of the video now, need to find where to get the tools for the psu. Wish ocuk sold them (Hint Hint Gibbo)
your link didn't work is this the video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5_5...DvjVQa1PpcFMWvr_cRsjXn_sBtDmhFu9oYKuRn_s9o3U=
Yeah that's the video sorry about that.
Well if you go down the DIY route I would suggest getting your sleeving, heatshrink and pin-removal tool from MDPC-X (I believe OCUK don't sell the parts on their own and so I'm not breaking forum rules!). Nils is the chap who single handedly runs, owns and ships all the sleeving gear so his website is only open at certain times! 10:59pm this evening is the next time its open!
Practice makes perfect with sleeving however so give it a go on some random cables before committing yourself!
Great stuff! I suggest heading over here to get you motivated!
The only pics I have are the ones on here I'm afraid! I'm thinking of getting on of the new Z77 boards though so If I do that I will strip my case and photograph everything properly!
*UPDATE*
We'll it seems as though the parts I ordered for my case are out of stock for now, so whilst I wait for them I thought I might buy some high quality TIM and see if it makes a difference to my CPU's temps.
I have a corsair A50 cooling my CPU at the moment, and I'm using the TIM that was supplied with it. So I purchased some Artic Cooling MX-4 compound and decided it might be interesting to run some tests and see how much of a difference I get with the high end stuff.
So first off I tested the generic Corsair compound under idle and full load conditions using Prime95 and RealTemp. I recorded the max temps of each core then took a mean average of these four temps and repeated the process five times, in order to get some consistency.
Then after I had finished testing the Corsair TIM I removed my A50 and removed the thermal compound, then I applied a grain of rice sized blob of MX-4 to my 2500K and reattached my CPU cooler. I then repeated my temp measurements as before. Below are some pictures for your guys followed by some tasty graphs!
Rig Specifications:
Intel Core i5 2500K - 4.5Ghz
8GB Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 1600Mhz
ASRock P67 Extreme 4 GEN3
MSI GTX 560Ti Twin Frozr II 1GB - Core Clock 950Mhz
BitFenix Shinobi (Windowed)
Corsair A50
2x 120mm BitFenix Spectre Intake Fans
3x 120mm BitFenix Spectre Exhaust Fans
The Results Are In!
So as you can see from the graphs above the Artic Cooling MX-4 does indeed make a difference! It's not quite the 3-4 Celsius difference I was hoping for but it is definitely helping my CPU run cooler. For me the most interesting results are in the third graph, comparing the temperature difference of the five runs. It clearly shows that the MX-4 compound is keeping the CPU temps a lot closer together and reduces the heat difference between the four cores.
Well I think that wraps that one up for now, this is certainly not the most scientific experiment ever carried out but I tried to make it fair for both compounds and I think my results reflect that. Maybe I will run another group of tests in a few months and see if the heat dissipation properties of the TIM increase or decrease over time.
So I hope you found this marginally interesting and educational feel free to leave any comments and questions!
We'll it seems as though the parts I ordered for my case are out of stock for now, so whilst I wait for them I thought I might buy some high quality TIM and see if it makes a difference to my CPU's temps.
I have a corsair A50 cooling my CPU at the moment, and I'm using the TIM that was supplied with it. So I purchased some Artic Cooling MX-4 compound and decided it might be interesting to run some tests and see how much of a difference I get with the high end stuff.
So first off I tested the generic Corsair compound under idle and full load conditions using Prime95 and RealTemp. I recorded the max temps of each core then took a mean average of these four temps and repeated the process five times, in order to get some consistency.
Then after I had finished testing the Corsair TIM I removed my A50 and removed the thermal compound, then I applied a grain of rice sized blob of MX-4 to my 2500K and reattached my CPU cooler. I then repeated my temp measurements as before. Below are some pictures for your guys followed by some tasty graphs!
Rig Specifications:
Intel Core i5 2500K - 4.5Ghz
8GB Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 1600Mhz
ASRock P67 Extreme 4 GEN3
MSI GTX 560Ti Twin Frozr II 1GB - Core Clock 950Mhz
BitFenix Shinobi (Windowed)
Corsair A50
2x 120mm BitFenix Spectre Intake Fans
3x 120mm BitFenix Spectre Exhaust Fans
The Results Are In!
So as you can see from the graphs above the Artic Cooling MX-4 does indeed make a difference! It's not quite the 3-4 Celsius difference I was hoping for but it is definitely helping my CPU run cooler. For me the most interesting results are in the third graph, comparing the temperature difference of the five runs. It clearly shows that the MX-4 compound is keeping the CPU temps a lot closer together and reduces the heat difference between the four cores.
Well I think that wraps that one up for now, this is certainly not the most scientific experiment ever carried out but I tried to make it fair for both compounds and I think my results reflect that. Maybe I will run another group of tests in a few months and see if the heat dissipation properties of the TIM increase or decrease over time.
So I hope you found this marginally interesting and educational
feel free to leave any comments and questions!
Hey Buddy, yeah let me know how you get on! I'm surprised your on here, I thought you'd be playing APB