Caporegime
I was bored with my system and decided I wanted a new build and this is how it looked.
Secondary PSU was for clean power when benching my Titans, as it required a fair amount of juice. Plenty of dust and I just couldn't be bothered to clean it knowing I was going for a new build.
The old Switch case was nice but all a bit cramped and I wanted to go from 360+240 rads to 480+360 and I bought the XSPC H2 case/480 rad off Tonester. Nothing special in the build and just using a pair of Titans - 3930K - 16GB Avexir 2133 ram - Asus RIVF - EVGA G2 supernova 1300W.
It went like this.
This is the start with just the PSU in and mobo being in. That was nice and easy
Next up, it was a nice easy case of connecting fans to the rads and rads to the case. Plenty of room to work, so no issues here.
I decided whilst the computer was being rebuilt to redo the TIM on both GPUs and I thought I had missed off some thermal tape from the VRMs but I hadn't. Still, nice to have new TIM
Pipe fitting time and again, nice and easy. So much room to work, it was a pleasure.
Leak testing time.... No probs
I had some red and purple Mayhems left over, so decided to mix that with the De-ionized water and it is a nice pink (my feminine side likes).
No leaks, so time to start connecting drives. 2 SSDs (1x480GB and 1x 120GB - 2x2TB and a 500GB mechanical drives)
Everything connected and on testing everything, I have lost sound for some reason. Can't seem to get it back either so pretty miffed at that but does look like a fail on the onboard.
And finally my most hated job....Sorting cables out. I used duct tape to secure the cables and will be a pig to change but I will worry about that at that time
All done. i have 2 sets of PCI-E braided blue cables but can only find one set. I will have to look down the shed with all the other crap but for now, red will do. All in all, I am pleased with it.
Took me around 10 hours moving and cleaning everything up and about 5 hours to do all the cable tidying.
Secondary PSU was for clean power when benching my Titans, as it required a fair amount of juice. Plenty of dust and I just couldn't be bothered to clean it knowing I was going for a new build.
The old Switch case was nice but all a bit cramped and I wanted to go from 360+240 rads to 480+360 and I bought the XSPC H2 case/480 rad off Tonester. Nothing special in the build and just using a pair of Titans - 3930K - 16GB Avexir 2133 ram - Asus RIVF - EVGA G2 supernova 1300W.
It went like this.
This is the start with just the PSU in and mobo being in. That was nice and easy
Next up, it was a nice easy case of connecting fans to the rads and rads to the case. Plenty of room to work, so no issues here.
I decided whilst the computer was being rebuilt to redo the TIM on both GPUs and I thought I had missed off some thermal tape from the VRMs but I hadn't. Still, nice to have new TIM
Pipe fitting time and again, nice and easy. So much room to work, it was a pleasure.
Leak testing time.... No probs
I had some red and purple Mayhems left over, so decided to mix that with the De-ionized water and it is a nice pink (my feminine side likes).
No leaks, so time to start connecting drives. 2 SSDs (1x480GB and 1x 120GB - 2x2TB and a 500GB mechanical drives)
Everything connected and on testing everything, I have lost sound for some reason. Can't seem to get it back either so pretty miffed at that but does look like a fail on the onboard.
And finally my most hated job....Sorting cables out. I used duct tape to secure the cables and will be a pig to change but I will worry about that at that time
All done. i have 2 sets of PCI-E braided blue cables but can only find one set. I will have to look down the shed with all the other crap but for now, red will do. All in all, I am pleased with it.
Took me around 10 hours moving and cleaning everything up and about 5 hours to do all the cable tidying.
