Project -Element-

Thanks Tibbz2 :)

Installed the rads and fans today aswell as the mobo, ram, cpu and psu. Got a small amount of sleaving to do and I've got to plan out cable manangement routes.

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Testing the fans to see if I'd broken then whilst sleaving and/or painting

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Thankfully all is well :)

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@Tibbz2, I've had an SSD before but it was SATA2 and half the speed of the corsair, really looking forward to seeing what it can do, great GB/£ ratio aswell :)

@J-FRO, Thanks! One of the main objectives is to create a good looking system


Small update, did some cable work today aswell as fitted the graphics card, SSD and Fan Controller

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Cable manangement hasn't been finalized yet, still seeing how best to route the cables as there's not a lot of room at the back of the mobo for cables.

I can't install the res in the usual place beside the mobo as the screws are M4 and the holes in the mobo tray are M3, as I don't have any long enough M3 screws I looked for alternative mounting positions.

It would look sick with white coolant but its twice as much £ as the oil black I have and so is out of budget just like the quad channel memory, storage drive and decent graphics card lol :P

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The res clips hold the res with ease and seem really strong, I've just never mounted a res like this before, not sure about it :confused:
 
UPDATE

Ok so got some pics of the final tubing layout, decided to stick with the horizontal res as it looks cool :)

Leak test ready!

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Some coolant in the res.

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Some idle temps

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Quick run with prime95 @ 4Ghz

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My 3DMark11 Score is ... erm well horrific

P222 :P
 
Loving this build, have something very similar planned myself once the C2 stepping is out.
Great work there...

One thing that I was reading about when I was researching SB-E is that a couple of reviews mentioned how the chips surrounding the CPU were getting very hot when overclocking a a good air cooler was recomended that would move air over the whole area.
What sort of temps are you seeing with the watercooling, are you seeing any increases in the surrounding chipset?
 
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edgedemon said:
Loving this build, have something very similar planned myself once the C2 stepping is out.
Great work there...

One thing that I was reading about when I was researching SB-E is that a couple of reviews mentioned how the chips surrounding the CPU were getting very hot when overclocking a a good air cooler was recomended that would move air over the whole area.
What sort of temps are you seeing with the watercooling, are you seeing any increases in the surrounding chipset?
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Thank you!

I read some horror stories about gigabytes X79-UD3's VRM's frying, there's a vid on youtube of it happening, Gigabyte then released a new BIOS (F7) that has better OCP and OTP parameters, so before any overclocking I flashed the mobo's BIOS to F7

Not had any issue's with VRM temps, I was priming at 4.7Ghz (1.365V) and the VRM temps hit 45C after about 30 mins and stayed there. Obviously the more you overclock the higher the VRM temps will be, at stock they were about 32C

I do have 3 1200RPM yate loons pulling air away from the VRM heatsink so that obviously helps. Aslong as the mobo has some air flow it'll be fine :)
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
Awesome build log. I am shouting at my screen "You need 7970 trifire" :) :)
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Thanks :)

More memory (for quad channel) and a storage drive are first on the list.

The HD5450 is utter crap for gaming so a 79xx series card is on the wish list, 3 HD7970's would be EPIC :eek:

Wish I could build custom PC's for a living
 
I wish I could build them too. The problem is I don't have the patience mate!

I like your build. Keep the thread updated so that I may continue to drool.

And yes, throw some decent GPUs in there pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease :) :)
 
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