was shopping for a mech keyboard this morning, and of course the ducky shine was on the top of the list, thought heck better check ltt hot deals, what do you know...when this t storm stops gonna grab my wallet outta my truck and order one!
I know its been a while since I've fully updated the log, but finally most of the wait has finally over
90% of the goods are here, and I can finally play and tune around the build as I wish
Lets get to the pictures, pardon me with the bad photos. I'm trying my best to take good pictures but since I have most of the house under renovation I have to move to a smaller working space with bad lighting
It's best to take pictures with daylight but I will be spending most of my time from morning til dawn in the office
I've tested the motherboard, CPU and GPU's with an open test bench with raid 0 ssd's
some people might say you can't tell the difference unless you are benchmarking and I might have the false alarm but
moving from 4 cores to 6 cores I can tell the difference especially with raid 0
I might be wrong
After some testing I cleaned the CPU TIM and leave it as it is
Was planning to put the CPU block on but I want to wait for the Motherboard block to come which will come either tomorrow or the day after
I will be using CLU on all the blocks , yeah I know it's a lot of risk especially on the gpu since CLU can transfer electric current from the board
but no pain, no gain
the 290's are running pretty hot even on the open test bench
I've also replaced my phoebus with an STX, tested it and man I can tell you; an stx can beat phoebus any day
if you have a 7.1 setup than go for phoebus
but for someone like me who enjoy music more, go for STX
I have an AUNE T1 on hand and once I've assembled everything I'll compare the STX with AUNE (am using Shure SH1440 and BD DT880 250ohm for test)
I've received my monsoon bending kit before the new year but I was too busy packing for the short holiday and didn't get the chance to post it here
again, nice packaging by PPCS
And guess what I got today!
This is as much packages I've ever received in a day!
The custom has been slacking during the holiday and told me they didn't want to release all the packages one by one, and I got 120$ of custom duty which is not as bad as I thought
It's a mixture of ummm.... Keyboard stuff...... (again) and some of the stuff for this log
Ordered the active cooling backplate from Aquacomputer straight
The GPU block has also arrived, I was so lucky I get 2 out of 5 stock from frozencpu
I can tell you, you wont go wrong with AC stuff. Quality wise ...
At first I thought there are some flaws in the block as you can see from the last photo, but I've realized its a carving of Hawaii islands inside the block it self :thumb:
Last box for this log came from the sleeving guy!
This is the box I've anticipated the most, it has all the goodies for the build
sleeving wise, it's looking really good
I'm too tired from the holiday and will take proper pictures tomorrow and assembled other stuff including the GPU blocks
jessterbal got a reaction from Heisenbleurgh in [Massdrop] Ducky Shine 3
