Project WaterBoxPro

[Johnhart96]

Introduction

This build was a big upgrade from my last machine "Project Lion". I fancied a bit more power.

This machines was my first custom water cooling build. The last one had a self-contained water cooler.

But this is much better.

 

CPU

I had an i5 in my own machine but fancied a something faster. I decided to get an i7.

My biggest question was 1150 socket or 2011 socket. The first problem with the 2011 is

the price is more. I use my machine for 2 uses. Gaming and video editing. So I picked the 

i7 4770K (1150).

 

Ram

I don't rarely care about buying fancy RAM so I kept the 16GB of Corsair Value Select. Maybe one day

I will upgrade it. I do fancy water cooling my RAM. Even know that it is not a crucial (if you pardon the pun).

 

Motherboard

Humm. This is a sour bit. I was not too worried about the massive specks such as where the PCI slots where

fed from. But I did want things like USB3 and support for loads of RAM. I did get these met but I rearly wanted a board

that supported SLI. I ended up with a Gigabyte H87-HD3. Its a nice board. Looks and technologies. But it was so hard

to build due to the dodgy drivers. I had to find an old PS2 keyboard to install.

 

PSU

I again carried this over from the last machine. I don't rarely believe in spending much money on a PSU.

as I don't rarely see the point. But considering how bad my last ones where I did want to spend a bit of money here.

I chose the Corsair CX500M its a nice size PSU that is semi-modular and matches the build. You can't go wrong with black right?

 

Case

Wow, well I wanted it to look nice. Not saying that the last one did not. But I had to keep in mind that the watercooling would require a lot of space.

In the end I went with the Fractal Design Define XL R2. Mainly because it is huge, silent and good looking.

I love this case but it is so big and dose not fit under my bed very well.

 

Storage

Well this started with my existing dives. A Kingston 60GB SSD and a WD 2TB Green. This is a typical setup using

a bit drive and small SSD. Changed this for a strange drive. I got a Western Digital Black2 Duel Drive. Its a nice

drive but not rarely designed for a desktop. 

 

Cooling

Well for my first watercooling build I wanted a nice kit. I selected the EK 240MM kit. This is a nice

kit for beginners and still has it full customization

 

GPU

Started with my old one. GT 640 It is not a bad card. Gaming on it is quite nice due to the coda cores.

I have now upgraded to a water cooled EVGA GTX 750. Due to more demand required and the temps of

my old card at base clock is mad.

 

 

[Flight1sim]

WELCOME TO LTT FORUMS!!!

[PillowSmoke]

WELCOME TO LTT FORUMS!!!

 

Yes welcome to the sorta humble forums!

[HellaflushMcSwaggins]

Are you going to upgrade to a better GPU down the road or are you going to keep the 750?