MrEB

Hey @MrEB and thank you for the kind words!!!!! I am glad that you finally came back to LTT and checked back on my TJ07 project I have already had an extreme amount of success since this project was completed, and I have my readers to thank for that as without their (and your support) then I wouldn't have the drive to continue perfecting my art!
 
Thank you once again for reading, and I hope to see you at any of my other projects!
 
/J

Beautiful man! Just beautiful!

I haven't been on Linustechtips forum in ages, it has nearly been a year.

Amazing build, I still remember following this post ever since you first published it, and now, look at where you're at!
Awesome build MetallicAcid! This is by far, the most amazing build you've done in my opinion! Great success!

I can't wait to see your future builds! I'm looking forward to see more. I wish you good luck and hope for success.
Peace.

 

Trust me when I say that this is not Mid-Grade. It's high end

seasonic doesn't make the I series powersupplies another company does

Painting PCBs?

I'm glad somebody understand that this WILL make money. Everybody else is just calling me stupid. Trust me, I have spent days looking over this, making sure that I'm not screwing myself over with this investment. 

I am pants and this is my not really a build log build log.....I should explain a bit shouldn't I? ok
 
 
When I built my first PC (this one) I wasn't a member of the LTT community, I watched LTT video's and I knew about the forum but I hadn't signed up so I missed the chance to post a build log of my first PC build. Now however I would like to do that...or something like it so when I decided there were a few minor changes that I wanted to make and some serious cleaning that needed to be done I thought it would be cool to make a pseudo build log of it since I didn't make one before. Before I begin I will apologize for the picture quality, my new phone is somewhat defective as the flash will not turn off and the camera will not completely focus, my replacement hasn't arrived yet and I didn't want to put this off any longer because it was bugging me, so lets begin.
 
The Bellerophon
Initially I wasn't going to name my PC but after seeing that practice being commonplace here on the forums(I was a lurker) I decided to name it. I had problems sorting out a good name that wasn't cliche or had been used a hundred times and eventually I settled on Bellerophon or to put it correctly "The Bellerophon" as I wasn't naming my PC after the Greek hero but more after the Royal Navy Dreadnaught HMS Bellerophon which I had read about in a book years ago. The fact that the name was actually that of an ancient Greek hero that killed monsters and went on bitchin adventures was a nice coincidence that I was unaware of at the time but after I found out I thought it was fitting seeing as I would be exploring various digital worlds and punching all sorts of things in the face on this PC. The name stuck and it seemed to match the aesthetic I as trying to achieve with my build very nicely, I wanted something that looked refined but had a strong presence and radiated barely restrained menace, hence the black/silver/white color scheme and the Obsidian 550D(which is intimidating to say the least). I was never a fan of bright, flashy, ostentatious, or gaudy things so the idea that I would be able to build a PC that fit my tastes and let me exercise my OCD thrilled me greatly. After about a zillion different parts lists I finally settled on the following.
 
Obsidian 550D, Asus Sabertooth Z77, i7-3770k, 32GB Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz, x2 EVGA GTX 680 Classified, AX 1200, ODD&BRD, Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium, 256GB Boot SSD, 1TB Velociraptor, and an H100i.
 
The real life poked it's ugly head in and I had to choose whether to cut the build down and get it immediately or wait and get it at some later unknown time, so I cut it down some. I dropped the i7 for an i5, the RAM stayed the same but dropped to 8GB, the GPU's turned into a single EVGA GTX 660 Ti Signature 2 FTW, the BRD and the sound card went away as did the H100i which was replaced by a CMV8. The AX 1200 turned into a CM Silent Pro M 700w and the drives dropped to 120GB for the SSD and a standard 1TB barracuda. I wasn't as happy as I would have been had I gotten everything I intended on getting but eh I still got a PC.
 
Later the second round of upgrades came in the form of another 8GB of RAM, 660 Ti, the Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium, an AX 750, an H100i and another 1TB Barracuda because I wanted to try a RAID 0 array for my games. The H100i was defective and I decided that instead of sending it in for a new one I would just get a different cooler because the H100i is a bit of a pain to install in my case due to the thermal armor on the motherboard. About two months after the second round of upgrades both of the 1TB drives completely died, initially I thought the array had just went belly up but both of the hard drives just straight up kicked the bucket, so they were replaced by a 2TB Barracuda. The cooler problem was still going on though, at first I though I would just put the CMV8 back on but it was huge and a pain in the a** to install without removing the motherboard so I just bought a 212 Evo but after I got it installed I hated how cheap it looked, it completely ruined the aesthetic of my build so that got put in the closet. After browsing Amazon, NCIX, and Newegg endlessly I had the idea to use an 120mm adapter plate on an NH-L9i so I could mount one of the awesome looking Corsair fans facing upwards on it, I looked at the CM Gemin but it wouldn't have cleared my RAM now that I had all four slots filled. I got the NH-L9i only to find that the adapter plate was shorter than I thought I was and it wouldn't clear my RAM, I ended up making a quick trip to Ace hardware (which is basically across the street from my house) for some screws and I used the 92mm fan that came with the cooler as a spacer for the adapter plate to make it tall enough to clear my RAM and it worked "just" then I solved the "Noctua problem" with some electrical tape.
 
Now onto what I did just recently,
 
Aside from the cleaning I wanted to re-route my cables because my 3rd try at managing the mess behind the mobo tray still produced a noticeable bulge on the back panel, this annoyed me greatly. Another thing I wanted to change was what slot my sound card was in, I would have put it on the top PCIx1 slot but the assist fan on my motherboard made that impossible so I just put it between my GPU's, this subsequently made my primary GPU run 7c hotter than my secondary but I dealt with it because I didn't want to remove that assist fan. That changed and it's now gone, with the sound card in the top slot my primary GPU runs at the same temp as my secondary. Another thing I did was to remove three of the fans I had in the case, two on the top as exhaust and one on the bottom as an intake, this was to remove some wire clutter and clean up my build.
 
Now PICTURES!!
 
Here's my dirty dirty case stripped down, time to break out the alcohol and Q-tips

  Gross

  Dirty nasty grungy motherboard


  All fixed YAAAY!
 
Assembly of my "Custom" NH-L9i
The parts

  It's just like a sandwich...sortof

  Topped with a good looking Corsair fan
 
And finished off with some electrical tape to fix the "Noctua Problem" you can't see the tape at all and you can't really see the noctua fan unless the blades aren't spinning and you're looking in at an angle.

  Here is the cooler actually on the motherboard

  You can see how close "just" actually is, and why I had to use the original Noctua fan as a spacer
  Now to do the wiring, the wires may look like a bit of a mess behind the HDD cage but the footprint is a lot smaller than it was before
  Now just the GPU's and sound card left
    All done, dis-assembled cleaned, rewired and put back together in about 1 1/2 hours
        That's it, my not really a build log build log   Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bellerophon_%281907%29  
 
Got my new phone, took some new pictures.
 



      I found some pictures from when I first built The Bellerophon, excuse the quality they are cellphone pictures taken with an old basic phone.   This was taken right after I put the mobo in my case and ran some cables, they are the only pictures I took during the initial assembly

 
 
If any of you have OCD you guys can see why I was constantly trying to deal with the cables, the crappy cable sleeving on the CM PSU was dealt with by using some NZXT cable extensions that had some beautiful sleeving.




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

First of all.... IT'S HIS FREAKING BUILD LOG, NOT YOURS.
 
So why bother with all that "uhhh do diz and do dat" ? He's building a rig with the best parts available... His money. Not yours. Deal with it.

If people have +3000k to spend on a pc, let them. Wouldn't you? I would.

So PLEASE HailAlistar, do the build you want, because obviously you're aware of the potencial of that build.

 

If you want to spend a lot of money on a good quality 1440p monitor then get the ASUS PB278Q. Otherwise get a QNIX QX2710 Evolution II.

The Original:
My favorite case of all time is that of the Connection Machine II (CM-2).
This is a supercomputer from 1987 it takes the form of a cube 1.5 meters on a side, divided equally into eight smaller cubes.
In each of these cubes you would find 16 PCB holding 32 CPU's each.
And all of those CPU's had their own activity LED on the front of the case giving you this amazing matrix of flickering LED's:
 
 

 
 
The LED's:
Sadly my computer wont have a 4096 core CPU, so I needed to think of another way to have the LED's.
I ended up going fot 64 8x8 LED matrix boards that will be controlled by 4 Arduino UNO micro controllers.
The LED's will still be influenced by the PC as I will use the HDD activity pin change the LED's as randomly as possible.
 
 
The Case:
I will construct my case out of MDF and it will be 60CM x 60CM.
It will take a while for me to start working on the case as I want to make the LED panels first.
I have however made a rough design in SketchUp:
 
 

Front of the case with its glorious 4096 LED's
 
 

Closeup on the I/O, 2 of the knobs will be for power and reset and 2 will be for the LED's.
 
 

Another awesome feature of the case is the grill between all cubes.
 
 

The top of the case will also be ventilated.
 
 

I don't really care about the PC hardware (its all about the case), so I will have a section that can slide out on rails which should offer enough place for all the PC hardware.
 
 
Planning:
Again, this build will take a while, I just ordered some of the LED panels and a Arduino so I can start on that soon.
Once I'm happy with the LED panels and the design I will start on the actual case.
I'm also constantly getting new ideas, my most recent one was to use a RFID receiver to start the PC by simply dropping my key-chain (containing a RFID) on my desk where the reader will be

Does this person do proffessional work as well as game? I guess it could be justified but it does seem like they clicked on the Highest to Lowest filter and just added to cart

Why is he getting a 3970X when Ivy-E is out? *facepalm*

Very rarely do amazon deliveries get damaged unless you use third party shipping.
I don't post here for rewards, if that game reward was directed at me, keep it for yourself.
I use what is called a 'parcel forwarder'
I use Shipito, though I've heard MYUS are good too.
A while ago on whirlpool, there was several bad reviews about comGateway, so I would go with either of the two above.

2x 7850's cost me $72.75, but I saved $140 on the actual price of the gpu's so I still made a ~$70 saving. It took 3 days to get here (minus the time the shop took to initially send it in the first place.).

get a 900D and put a mITX motherboard in it.

I buy from PCCG mostly, but will always check Mwave for pricings. Mwave is good but PCCG usually has level or lower pricing, and i don't like how MWave artificially makes their prices seem lower then they are , Eg for a r9 280x atm they say 
$399.00Don't Pay $499.00

​Thats blatant false marketing

I've never used CAPS LOCK and only the titles are big. 
But for the sake of ending it here, your point taken, mate.

start a computer just by thinking! (start computer start! )

As long as they don't take advice from Tony Abbott

What 50GB!
BF4 is 30GB

Considering the specs were on a Nvidia page I am not surprised that Nvidia is pushing for a 780 to increase incentives towards buying their expensive cards. 

That's cute.
 
 
Although, I've heard the new cod is comparable to Frostbite 2. Even then, gtx780?

Absolutey Silence
Its quiet with fans NEVER SILENT..

Just beautiful!
Love the quality shots of the computer