New Build Works?

Dougx · 16 Sep 2016 at 12:28

sweet, love it... love the white look xD shame no white PSU's? will need the cables extra or just cause will look better? which im down for.... should i not get water cooling kit tho? as will need to overclock really wont i? or will it be fine stock for now?

stulid · 16 Sep 2016 at 15:43

PSU is hidden in its own compartment in those Phantek cases so you wont see it.

The cables are for looks, the PSU comes with black ones.

The cooler (Alpenfohn or Antec AIO) will be ok for overclocking too, no drama getting the cpu to 4GHz or greater..

Dougx · 16 Sep 2016 at 18:34

ur a start ty so much, oh and once put together how to check everything is running as it should? cpuz, gpuz, and software that comes with or?

stulid · 16 Sep 2016 at 18:56

You can use 3Dmark to check against other setups for overall gfx performance and Cinebench for CPU.

Dougx · 17 Sep 2016 at 23:32

and what about disk drive?

stulid · 18 Sep 2016 at 00:09

What about it?

If you mean DVD drive then they are dying out, Win10 is available on USB, games can all be downloaded.

Having all SSD instead of HDD for storage would be nice but expensive, the Toshiba HDD is ok, I have a 6TB one and its fine.

Dougx · 18 Sep 2016 at 10:38

ahhh ok, naw i meant wouldnt i need a dvd drive and is there a white one? but if you dont think its required then all good xD

Dougx · 7 Oct 2016 at 23:18

ok made my order...

1 x Gigabyte GA-X99-Ultra Gaming Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £249.95
1 x Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K)= £368.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Quad Channel Kit - Red (CMK16GX4M4B3000C15R= £89.99
1 x Samsung PM961 Polaris 512GB M.2-2880 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £199.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower Case with Window - White= £89.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn White CPU Cooler= £41.99
1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £58.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 HOF 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card= £698.99
1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £96.95
1 x Super Flower Braided Cable Kit - Red= £64.99
1 x DELL S2716DG 27" 2560x1440 TN G-Sync 144Hz Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey= £529.99

basically the white and red setup u linked

the case is mid tower? it big enough? hope so...

am excited

oh and added...
Windows 10 USB
Razer Blackwidow Chroma Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Razer Mamba Chroma Tournament Edition
SteelSeries Siberia 800 Wireless Headset

all seem good?

Dougx · 9 Oct 2016 at 22:12

Ok so got my parts and this enthoo pro case has a Pwm hub on the back.... It says to plug into cpu fan but then where do I plug the cpu fan into?

Dougx · 9 Oct 2016 at 22:26

Am guessing I plug 4 pin connector from pwm hub into CPU fan slot, then plug cpu cooler 4 pin connector into the 3 pin slot on pwm hub but in slot 1 so they all run based off cpu temps?

Dougx · 10 Oct 2016 at 16:01

nvm all up and running

sweet

Dougx · 3 Nov 2016 at 05:28

so does a 3DMark11 score of around 21.5k sound alright? with CinbeBench R15 scores of around 1100 for CPU and 145 fps on the OpenGL scan.

Dougx · 3 Nov 2016 at 09:51

however i do get a little whine from GPU when loading up some games etc, it chills out once playing tho... does not seem to affect performance afaik and am happy to put up with it if u think is advisable? i see others with similar issues and the general consensus seems to be RMA or deal with it