Project: Virgin Enthusiast Build
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Well C300 SSD installed and was planning to upload all the pix but it's causing me a ball ache. Windows 7 keeps freezing and crashing with lots of activity on the SSD. Have updated the problematic firmware to the latest 0002 version but still buggered. Going to try some different drivers when I get home.
WC stuff still not turning up. Stock problems apparantly...
Yeah, cost a fair bit.
Well C300 SSD installed and was planning to upload all the pix but it's causing me a ball ache. Windows 7 keeps freezing and crashing with lots of activity on the SSD. Have updated the problematic firmware to the latest 0002 version but still buggered. Going to try some different drivers when I get home.
WC stuff still not turning up. Stock problems apparantly...
Yeah, cost a fair bit.
The first few boxes arrived...
The photos really don't do justice to just how damn big the Lian Li case is! It really is massive. I;m sure I will appreciate it when it comes to working in the WC stuff, but jeeeez!, its massive!
EDIT: thats my mate who I asked to be in the shot to give a size reference for that case. he's well over 6ft and a bit of a gorilla and it almost comes up to his waist!!!
The photos really don't do justice to just how damn big the Lian Li case is! It really is massive. I;m sure I will appreciate it when it comes to working in the WC stuff, but jeeeez!, its massive!
EDIT: thats my mate who I asked to be in the shot to give a size reference for that case. he's well over 6ft and a bit of a gorilla and it almost comes up to his waist!!!
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Replacing the case's stock fans with the fractal design ones.
Stock rear exhaust fan. Most reports suggest this is very noisy. I personally didn't even bother testing it, so just removed it quick as!
The grille covering the fan on the internal side does not have a huige open area. additionally, the edge finish is very sharp, not high quality at all. Once all the WC kit is in and I have a chance to do some sound intensity probing, I may replace this with a finer grille with rounded edges.
Stock exhaust fan on the top. Blue LEDs on these.. eeeuuugh! dont want no blingy chav PC thanks
supposedly not that quiet either. What I don't get is why it needs the massive shroud above this. Although I like the idea so it protects the PC from spillages above, it just impedes the airflow I would imagine and looks crap. It adds about another 7cm to the height of an already massive case...
Fractal design fan in it's place.
Stock fans in front door. Again, these are chavvy blue LED parts and reportedly not that quiet.
Fractal design ones in their place. It is worth nothing that you will need a fan cable extension for the top fan. The 3 fans connect into a junction box hidden at the bottom of the door, which then connects via one cable into the case. This is then connected to the Lian Li's fan controller.
EDIT: as a note, I have only had the box up and running for about 15 hours maybe (had a company of heroes and cs:source binge until I get to install all the new games!) and the amount of dust already collected on the dust filters is incredible. Additionally, becase the front door is meshed, a lot of the bigger dust gets stuck on the front door, which looks a bit messy. Still, rather it gets stuck on the front door and dust grille than in my shiny new kit
This could be because my room is especially dusty, or it could be because those fractal design fans push a lot of air. I suspect both! however, I have the fractal design fans up full on the Lian Li controller and can report they are inaudible owing to the noise from the graphics cards and CPU cooler. I'll review these once the system is fully WC'd.
Stock rear exhaust fan. Most reports suggest this is very noisy. I personally didn't even bother testing it, so just removed it quick as!
The grille covering the fan on the internal side does not have a huige open area. additionally, the edge finish is very sharp, not high quality at all. Once all the WC kit is in and I have a chance to do some sound intensity probing, I may replace this with a finer grille with rounded edges.
Stock exhaust fan on the top. Blue LEDs on these.. eeeuuugh! dont want no blingy chav PC thanks
supposedly not that quiet either. What I don't get is why it needs the massive shroud above this. Although I like the idea so it protects the PC from spillages above, it just impedes the airflow I would imagine and looks crap. It adds about another 7cm to the height of an already massive case...
Fractal design fan in it's place.
Stock fans in front door. Again, these are chavvy blue LED parts and reportedly not that quiet.
Fractal design ones in their place. It is worth nothing that you will need a fan cable extension for the top fan. The 3 fans connect into a junction box hidden at the bottom of the door, which then connects via one cable into the case. This is then connected to the Lian Li's fan controller.
EDIT: as a note, I have only had the box up and running for about 15 hours maybe (had a company of heroes and cs:source binge until I get to install all the new games!) and the amount of dust already collected on the dust filters is incredible. Additionally, becase the front door is meshed, a lot of the bigger dust gets stuck on the front door, which looks a bit messy. Still, rather it gets stuck on the front door and dust grille than in my shiny new kit
This could be because my room is especially dusty, or it could be because those fractal design fans push a lot of air. I suspect both! however, I have the fractal design fans up full on the Lian Li controller and can report they are inaudible owing to the noise from the graphics cards and CPU cooler. I'll review these once the system is fully WC'd.
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Check this out:
See the light coming through that gap? the grey stuff is the foam that is supposed to be under slight compression once the door is closed. Its not even ******* close with a 1mm gap showing, when the door is firmly shut. very poor and as stated before, lots is not good about this case. certainly not worth the asking price. £170 ish would be more reasonable.
See the light coming through that gap? the grey stuff is the foam that is supposed to be under slight compression once the door is closed. Its not even ******* close with a 1mm gap showing, when the door is firmly shut. very poor and as stated before, lots is not good about this case. certainly not worth the asking price. £170 ish would be more reasonable.
Plenty room for extended ATX i believe. this is the UD7 installed onto the removeable motherboard tray (which IS a very cool feature!)
And the corsais 1600MHz ram installed (just to satisfy the pix whores)
excuse the poor quality pic, the iphone cant take good pics at the best of times, let alone in poor light.
This does show just how much space you have inside this case, which will be a godsend for all the WC I have to fit in!
And the corsais 1600MHz ram installed (just to satisfy the pix whores
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excuse the poor quality pic, the iphone cant take good pics at the best of times, let alone in poor light.
This does show just how much space you have inside this case, which will be a godsend for all the WC I have to fit in!
Light started getting really bad now, or the beer/blood ration increased, not sure which:
This shows the air cooler recommended by OCUK installed, but also the gigabyte hybrid silent heatpipe.
Not done much by teh way of OCing yet. got it up to 3.8GHz stable but didnt do much in the way of checking the NB temps to see how well that silent pipe works. Was going to leave all that effort for when teh serious OC comes when I install the WC kit
This shows the air cooler recommended by OCUK installed, but also the gigabyte hybrid silent heatpipe.
Not done much by teh way of OCing yet. got it up to 3.8GHz stable but didnt do much in the way of checking the NB temps to see how well that silent pipe works. Was going to leave all that effort for when teh serious OC comes when I install the WC kit
And finally, just a teaser for the WC stuff. 1st box arrived on monday, only really had chance to check the inventory.
I did have a quick peak at the EK CPU block and OMFG!!! its the sex!!!
Think I may borrow my girlfriends decent digital camera as the WC stuff will require lots of close ups
I did have a quick peak at the EK CPU block and OMFG!!! its the sex!!!
Think I may borrow my girlfriends decent digital camera as the WC stuff will require lots of close ups
