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Black and White Build V1.0

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Black and White Build

 

 

I started off going for an all white build, but ran into some problems.  I couldn't get the Define R5 in white ANYWHERE.  I thought I had found it at one point from Tigerdirect Business, only to order it and wait several days and find out they were waiting for a response from Fractal.  At this point I had them refund my money and went with a black R5.  So I would have to say all in all, it came out to my liking. I recycled the video card and data storage drives from my old rig, other than that everything shiny new.

 

CPU - Intel Core I7 4790K

Motherboard - Asus Saberooth Z97 Mark S 

RAM - Kingston HyperX Fury White 16GB @ 1866Mhz

Case - Fractal Design Define R5 Black Window

Video Card - Galaxy Hall Of Fame edition GTX770

CPU Cooler - NZXT Kraken X61

SSD - Samsung 840 Pro

HDD1 - WD Black 2TB

HDD2 - WD Black 1TB

PSU - Corsair AX860i

Additional Case fans - Noctua NF-A14 PWM

 

 

 

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Black and White Build Photos Continued

 

 

 

 

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Black and White Build

 

 

So in some of the pictures coming up you'll notice I had to remove the optical bay cage and the middle hard drive cage to fit the NZXT Kraken X61 in the R5.  It wouldn't line up right towards the back of the case for some reason and I decided it was best to just mount it towards the front.  Sorry some of the pics are blurry, I don't have a digital camera and my phone is not the greatest (Moto G LTE).  You might also notice at the time I took the pics there is a Corsair AX760i not an 860i in it, the new one hadn't yet arrived so I made do until it got here.  More pics to come

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Is this actually a problem with some people? LOL, I didn't think anybody would actually put a jumper on a fan header 

 

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Very nice build man!

FX-8350 | Asus Sabertooth 990fx r2.0 | 16 GB (2x8 1600Mhz) Corsair Vengeance | EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC Dual | Corsair Vengeance C70 | 120GB Samsung EVO SSD, 1TB WD Black | Corsair AX860i | 2x BenQ XL2420TE | Corsair H110 | Logitech G15 | Logitech G500 | Creative Sound Blaster Z | Windows 8.1

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Black and White Build Continued

 

 

 

 

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Black and White Build Conclusion (for now)

 

 

Here it is with the AX860i and the Noctua fans installed.  I had to do a lot of tweaking in the UEFI to get the Noctua fans to run at 600rpm but I finally got it by connecting them to the cpu_opt header using a Y cable.  Will take some screenshots tonight or tomorrow showing temps @Idle and load and run some benchmarks.

 

Hope you guys enjoy.

 

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Very nice build man!

Thanks! Took a lot of cues from you on this one, some of my own.  It runs absolutely flawless, what an improvement over the i5 2500k with a z68 chipset.  I'm really happy with the aesthetics as well.  

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Why don't you get a white PSU to match the theme of your build?

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Why don't you get a white PSU to match the theme of your build?

I might, I really like the AXi series PSU but I have also considered painting it like Linus did.
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Nice but why no h440?

That was my first instinct, but I decided I like the sleek look of the R5 more
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