Hi everyone, some people may remember my old build that is still on here somewhere from last year. It was a x99 system inside a custom cube case with black and orange detailing
The specs were
Custom cube case
X99 sabertooth mobo
5960x running 4650 at 1.29v
16gb ddr4 dominator champion ram running 3000mhz
Titan x overclocked to 1475mhz SLI X2
13 thermaltake 120s in orange
1x360 1x240 1x120 radiators
Ek copper water blocks on CPU and GPU
Nzxt lighting kit
D5 water pump and bay reservoir combo by ek
Custom water hoses with compression fittings
On board m.2 950 hard drive for the OS
850 1tb SSD for games
2tb HDD for photos videos etc
3tb HDD as a backup drive.
Asus rog pg27a monitor
Asus strix keyboard and mouse
Lg blue ray drive
Scythe fan controller.
This was my first big watercooled build and i learnt a lot about PC building from it. At the start of this year i decided i wanted to give it a little refresh.
I changed my desk last year for an L shaped one and now had a lot more room to play with so the footprint of a cube case was no longer a neccesity so i ordered one of these!
The plan was to reuse as much as i could from the old case but use 2x 420mm rads for increased cooling potential. I started to get to work
At about this point as i was bleeding the loop i decided i didnt like the way i had laid it all out and came up with a neater solution
Now this is where the build takes a bit of a turn... for the worst
This is also the inspiration for the name!
The motherboard was dead.
Not really sure how it happened but i must have damaged it somehow in the move.
So i had a decision to make, buy another x99 board and plug it all back in £££. Or sell my good 5960x chip and go for a Kaby lake setup?
I made my decision.
Maximus 9 code and an 8 pack binned delided 7700k.
This is how it currently stands.
I will be getting some trident z RGB ram soon to finish it off but apart from that is pretty much done!
Some benchmarks:
1116 cinebench 5.0ghz @1.344v
23424 fire strike score
I will get some better quality pics with my camera when the new ram gets here.
Thanks for reading!
The specs were
Custom cube case
X99 sabertooth mobo
5960x running 4650 at 1.29v
16gb ddr4 dominator champion ram running 3000mhz
Titan x overclocked to 1475mhz SLI X2
13 thermaltake 120s in orange
1x360 1x240 1x120 radiators
Ek copper water blocks on CPU and GPU
Nzxt lighting kit
D5 water pump and bay reservoir combo by ek
Custom water hoses with compression fittings
On board m.2 950 hard drive for the OS
850 1tb SSD for games
2tb HDD for photos videos etc
3tb HDD as a backup drive.
Asus rog pg27a monitor
Asus strix keyboard and mouse
Lg blue ray drive
Scythe fan controller.
This was my first big watercooled build and i learnt a lot about PC building from it. At the start of this year i decided i wanted to give it a little refresh.
I changed my desk last year for an L shaped one and now had a lot more room to play with so the footprint of a cube case was no longer a neccesity so i ordered one of these!
The plan was to reuse as much as i could from the old case but use 2x 420mm rads for increased cooling potential. I started to get to work
At about this point as i was bleeding the loop i decided i didnt like the way i had laid it all out and came up with a neater solution
Now this is where the build takes a bit of a turn... for the worst
This is also the inspiration for the name!
The motherboard was dead.
Not really sure how it happened but i must have damaged it somehow in the move.
So i had a decision to make, buy another x99 board and plug it all back in £££. Or sell my good 5960x chip and go for a Kaby lake setup?
I made my decision.
Maximus 9 code and an 8 pack binned delided 7700k.
This is how it currently stands.
I will be getting some trident z RGB ram soon to finish it off but apart from that is pretty much done!
Some benchmarks:
1116 cinebench 5.0ghz @1.344v
23424 fire strike score
I will get some better quality pics with my camera when the new ram gets here.
Thanks for reading!
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Good work