Pc of death.

[Grim_Reeper]

G'day mateys.

I thought it was about time I got some photos of the new rig! Please keep in mind that this is not finished totally yet, I have ALOT of pc case to fill and not sure which way to go about it yet, I just needed something that ran that was better than that other potato I was using.

So this is a parts list first of all, it also includes what may be going into it in the future:

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Primo Ultimate Black Green Edition
http://www.phanteks.com/Enthoo-Primo-SE.html

Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme9 LGA1150 Socket
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97%20Extreme9/

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=187_1490&products_id=27940

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW+ ACX 2.0+ 4GB (Will be buying another one of these to run in SLI)
https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=31472

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 850W
https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=27993

RAM: Kingston HyperX 1866MHz DDR3 Quad Channel Kit (4x4gb)
http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/HX318C9T2K4_16.pdf

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO Series 250gb M.2
https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=31355
(This will likely be replaced with Samsung SM951 NGFF SSD, so as to be able to experience M.2 Ultra slot on motherboard)

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB (This is from old computer)
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=210_344&products_id=19692

Notes:
At the moment CPU is running stock fan, will be replaced with Fractal Design Kelvin S24 AIO or go custom and build own water cooling.
Case needs lighting will sort that out some way or another.

Photos:

http://imgur.com/gtAynzz
First attempt at clean wiring.

http://imgur.com/giXmKY4
Looking really empteh.

http://imgur.com/xCOLo7t
Please excuse my messy table.

Had quite alot of fun putting it together, learned alot about the newer sorts of tech (SSD's, fan hubs and the like)

[DemonSeed]

Nice PC man, about time you updated from that calculator

[Sexmaniac]

Ye, better than the ZX81 

Btw, on the monitor I see a Idle temperature of 50 or 59 (not clear on the picture) I hope it's in fahrenheit and not Celsius, but it looks Celsius 

[Giuvannaru91]

Nice pc dude

[Grim_Reeper]

Funny story about that Sex, I took this photo not 5 mins after I found that upon first boot someone from intel or whoever put the wires in the holders around the fan, actually put them in there so tight that the fan got caught on the wires and was not able to move. I noticed this when the CPU temp in the bios reached 90 degrees centigrade, I looked in the case nearly fainted, shut it off then undid the wiring so the fan could function lol, it sits at a comfortable 35-38c now.

Btw I had a ASRock P67 Pro

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/P67%20Pro/

[FalcoN]

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=187_1490&products_id=27940

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW+ ACX 2.0+ 4GB (Will be buying another one of these to run in SLI)
https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=31472

I will take my i3 4160 and 750ti with me to cry in the corner of sadness

[Grim_Reeper]

I will take my i3 4160 and 750ti with me to cry in the corner of sadness

Ouch. I feel for you sir.

Demon, 1v1 benchmark me.

[asablic]

Awesome computer  .

[Giuvannaru91]

I will take my i3 4160 and 750ti with me to cry in the corner of sadness

Ouch. I feel for you sir.

Demon, 1v1 benchmark me.

I buy chips and pop corn 

[DemonSeed]

I will take my i3 4160 and 750ti with me to cry in the corner of sadness

Ouch. I feel for you sir.

Demon, 1v1 benchmark me.

Is your CPU overclocked?
And you don't have SLI yet, so until you do I will still beat you in benchmarking

[Sexmaniac]

Why you guys don't do a Geekbench test?
It fun for us to see some good sore's
Easy to install and to remove afterwards.

Download it here:

http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/

[Grim_Reeper]

Hehe no it's not overclocked and probably will stay that way for a while, I wasn't expecting to beat you in benchmark scores I thought it might be interesting to see the difference :>

I will do Geekbench thursday night.

Just noticed in the photos there is a missing tab at the end of my gfx card (gfx card was .5mm too long for case bahaha, I actually have that piece installed in the pc, I took to it with a die grinder and cut out a section of it also made it long enough so if I was ever to install a second gfx card it too would fit. Will be able to see work in next pics.

Also have installed Fractal Design Kelvin S24, had some drama's installing, the ultra huge fittings for the hose on the pump/block wouldn't fit straight due to the RAM being in the way, so I side mounted it and plan to cover the sideways logo'd fractal design pump in something that will not cause it to heat.

Pics to come soon.

[Sexmaniac]

Just of curiosity, isn't it pointless installing the Fractal Design Kelvin S24 if you don't overclock?

[Grim_Reeper]

Thanks for your question Sex,

All I really feel at the moment is not worth the hassle to overclock yet as nothing I do on this computer really pushes it (GTA V runs at 8-10% cpu usage). The watercooling will be there when i'm ready to push it up a bit higher i.e when higher CPU/GPU intensive games come out. For the moment it's mostly for the summers here, which have been really frigging nasty lately lol.

I built this rig to be futureproof for a while and wasn't willing to go with LGA2011-3 because of the price and problems associated, so the overclocking comes later

[Grim_Reeper]

Back again finally ran a benchmark in NovaBench (because freeware)

Here is results:



BTW absoloutely annoyed, whenever I seem to buy hardware when waiting for the next stuff to come out I always buy it then the stuff gets released a few weeks later!

Much want:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9306/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-review

So may sell current vid card to fund that one