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I love these photos.

It's been long enough already, lets save the writing until the very end...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Right, writing, some thanks are definitely in order! As always the Parvum crew for being down with whatever wild idea we gotta get done yesterday and Noctua for getting the best PC fans in the world on the way to me faster than I could type an email. Things have moved on somewhat since I started this project but I’m extremely grateful for all of OverclockersUK's input especially Ian '8Pack' Parry. I will bring it over to see you guys one day! Not forgetting Corsair either, I probably wouldn't of picked this project back up for a long time had they not been gracious enough to sub in the SSD.
 
Since I drew the first R1.0 I wanted one for myself, I must have built 20 or 30, everywhere I went I just built R1.0's but now I finally have one distinguished enough to call my own. What I’ll do with it I don't know yet but it sure looks good next to LIGHTNING. It was a long journey particularly with the entire PSU debacle that put me off for so long. However now it has prevailed and 1600W+ of Fury can be unleashed at a moment’s notice it all seems to be worth it. The change of coolant and gold CPU block take it to a different level, I know I didn't show it before but the clear is a much better fit for the spirit of this build. Like a lot of things I was uncertain but when it started to perplex people at LAN as it appeared to have no coolant at all then it was obviously right.
 
XFX Radeon Pro Duo x2
ASUS X99-M WS
Intel i7-5960X Haswell-E
Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200C15 4x4GB
Corsair Force Series MP500 480GB
Western Digital Black 1TB x2
EVGA Supernova 1600T2
Parvum R1.0 INDUSTRIAL
 
Aqua Computer Aquaero 6 LT
Aqua Computer Aquaero 6 Passive Heatsink - Black
EK-Supremacy EVO X99 - Goldl Plexi
EK-FC Radeon Pro Duo - Nickel Plexi x2
EK-FC Radeon Pro Duo Backplate - Black x2
EK-XTOP Revo D5 PWM - Plexi (incl. pump) x2
EK-CoolStream PE 360 (Triple) x2
EK-CoolStream CE 280 (Dual)
EK-HD Adapter 10/12mm - Black x30
EK HD Tube 10/12mm 2-Slot (2 pcs) x2
EK-AF Angled 90° G1/4 - Black x4
EK-AF Extender Rotary M-M G1/4 - Black x2
EK-CSQ Plug G1/4 - Black x2
Noctua NF-F12 IndustrialPPC 2000RPM IP67 PWM x6
Noctua NF-A14 IndustrialPPC 2000RPM IP67 PWM x2
Noctua NA-SAVP1 Chromax - Black x4
MDPC-X sleeving - Shade 19
 
Now I’m on an absolute streak of finishing builds it might just be time to start more! See you all soon.
 
Quad GPU be praised.
 
JR

Right, let’s get this done before 2018!!! I made some crazy progress before Christmas and with FTW and i1.0-II out of the way it's time to get it posted. The first stage of attack, take every single thing apart!
 

 
The system had been used for a few months (with huge stock GPU power cables trailing around the case) and then just sat for the best part of year full of it's Aurora silver + X1 black mixture. And actually despite common internet 'wisdom' nothing was clogged in the slightest, all fins clean, just a reservoir full of sediment and the usual traces of dye everywhere.
 

 
With the very top of the loop drained the reservoir lifted off so I could take out the PSU and it's special support cube. Definitely don't want that getting wet.
 

 
Then back end of the case removed to get at the cards.
 

 

 
Subsequently repeated with the front end, very glad I opted to stash a 4-pin to 4-pin ATX style connector between the rads!
 

 
After that the top lifted off the base, board came off, pumps off etc etc. I won't show all that stuff as it's been done in the thread once before and I also need to rebuild it.
 

 
So lets skip ahead to the good bit where everything is clean and ready to go...
 

 
While editing the above photos I fell in love with the gold hue to the CPU block, except it was regular nickel just with some oil leached out of the o-ring.
 

 
So I ordered a real gold plated Supremacy, and immediately took it apart to swap in the neat little 2011 mounting bracket. All gold hardware was too much.
 

 
But this was just right...
 

 

 
...perfect fit for the WS.
 

 

 
Fast throwback to the 10th.
 

 
Now I just needed all the other blocks up to the same standard, cleaning the plexi was easy, nickel less so.
 

 
Just some aurora m80s
 

 

 
All refitted, greased and torqued down.
 

 
<3 AMD POWER!
 

 

 
Time to commence rebuild, the EPS stayed in, 24-pin discarded as it just wasn't quite consistent enough.
 

 
All the D5 work remained, except they now utilize a spare VGA connector on the 3rd row instead of individual peripheral connectors on the Silverstone.
 

 
The WD Blacks switched from 2x6TB to 2x1TB, reason being I lived without them for a whole year and most likely will never use the HDD's at all in this build, so losing 10TB is no big deal. £500 of swag saved for another build.
 

 
Board is back in black.
 

 

 
Powerful vibes even before the GPU's hit. Pixels kneel before your God.
 

 

 
With one push and one clip the bottom rads are back in the game.
 

 

 

 
Extra 280, check.
 

 
Now it's time to the ridiculous task i'd been putting off for so long. I feel like I need to explain. The original Silverstone was 1:1, the 24-pin was at the bottom near the hole in the midwall and the PCI were all up top. The EVGA on the other hand, weird pinout, completely swapped layout so every single thing had to overlap.... AND THEN.... just as if all those obstacles were somehow easy to overcome this 1600W is 20mm longer, which when there was about 40mm to play with kinda made a difference.
 

 
Neatness wasn't optional here, it was completely mandatory if everything was going to fit inside the case hence I took a new approach to the problem.
 

 
First up instead of cutting wires to a rough length everything was excessively long to start out then layered out of the PSU in the most efficient order.
 

 
But to keep the pinout correct I had a cunning strategy.
 

 
I took an old 24-pin connector and drilled out each hole to a close fit on the 3.1mm OD wire, then I could poke it from the correct pin on the PSU to the corresponding pin at the 24 end.
 

 
So then all that remained was to trim each wire to the appropriate length, pretty easy when they were all held in the correct position and I could push/pull them through as needed on either side.
 

 
PSU out it was just time to sleeve.
 

 
Wire by wire I removed the PSU end, inserted the white wire to mark its exact route, then crimped the 24 end. Sleeved in Shade-19 and replaced back into its original position.
 

 
Several hours or maybe days later (I don't really recall early December) all 24 were done.
 

 
Such an improvement from my original EVGA set and moreover greatly reduced bulk in the back.
 

 
Time for the angery power bois!
 

 
They cleaned up purtty good too.
 

 

 
Best to get the toobs in early.
 

 

 
All the 8-pins would be a little more relaxed relative to the 24-pin, with a uniform layout not unlike the Silverstone each wire was a consistent increment longer than the previous. So once I got 4 wires to sit neat it went pretty speedy.
 

 
One 8 down, completing the set was just a case of continuing the progression, working up and across.
 

 

 
The entire set complete for the primary card. All layered over each other and stacked in, the next set was a repeat to the front row of VGA connectors. CPU1 squeezed between and then CPU2 tight over the top of everything.
 

 

 

 
And there we have them all, absolutely colossal ratio of power to size.
 

 

 

 
Screw what you guys think, I’m absolutely overwhelmed with the form of the cables as it stands now, in fact I think they may even be prettier than the first set.
 
The SATA's aren't connected yet, I’m going to check that out tomorrow, but I’m really not fussed about ever using them. So unless the additional cables are going to make an improvement to the overall look I may leave them out. Aesthetic drives are fine with me, at least they won't make any noise lol. Buuut if they fit in just right, could be even more epic.
 
JR

Well, it's been nearly a year now and I still haven't just quite done those cables, there were a few things I wasn't quite happy with, other more pressing projects came along (like that Ultimate GeForce PC thing) and no progress was made. I stole the HyperX Predator for ALUMIA and left R1.0 INDUSTRIAL in a bad way. But Corsair stepped in, graciously combining my Bit-Tech prizes and gave me reason enough to resume action! So maybe, just maybe it will be complete for this Christmas, now the disheartening feels of sleeving every cable for the second time have been forgotten.         I had some serious studio upgrades, new 3x8m vinyl backdrop all hung on brackets and rollers ready for more colours to be added. Covered my table with a sheet of acrylic so the vinyl stays super flat instead of being pressed into particle board texture. New lights too with a boom arm instead of a ghetto stack of boxes. Pretty legit all in all which is saving me a huge amount of time on the editing front, the background hasn't been artificially smoothed like before just dialed in and individual dusts spot healed out.           Here he comes, a 480GB MP500 rated at 3000mb/s read and 2400mb/s write!       Shortly after the NVMe arrives in his new habitat a wild EK M.2 Heatsink appears...       Because the MP500 is kinda fat with a chip on the reverse side thermal pads didn't fit exactly as anticipated by EK, with a 1mm pad to fill out the the exposed PCB area it clipped over with just the right amount of tension, any more would be broken NAND territory.     But still looking super tidy and helping out thermals, not that a life of benching Firestrike and occasionally running GTA V was going to upset the M.2 that much.         So plans for R1.0 INDUSTRIAL now are to strip everything down, clean all wet components, fit the M.2, swap the 6TB WD Blacks for 1TB WD Blacks and then build everything up completing the cables along the way!   JR

the story in both is fantastic.
but honestly, the first one is shit and unplayable, and the second one, while not as bad, doesnt really hold up imo.
 
read the books if you want the story

Hmm, possible, didn't play it when it first came out and bought 1 and 2 in a bundle later, around 2013 or so and 1 felt a little dated graphics wise so I just moved on to 2. OP might feel differently and may want to play the first 2 before jumping into 3. You're right about the combat in 3 though, not very challenging at all, more so if you spend your skill points wisely.

Witcher 1 has the best combat system and skill tree of all 3 Games. As much as i love WItcher 3, its combat was dumbed down and waaayyyyy to easy. No challenge at all.

Yes you should, because why not, Witcher 2 was pretty damn awesome story wise and was a pretty good looking game while at it. However, it is not required in too big a way to play in terms of the story ark. It was also not a full blown AAA experience like Witcher 3, almost eurojank even, with a real tough learning curve and janky combat, still very well done story wise, but not essential.
 
The first one is unplayable, it'll feel a little too vintage, not great graphics, weird combat etc
 
Maybe watch a youtube cutscene story clip compil of the past 2 games if you want, but that's not required either. Enjoy the game, one of the best RPGs ever, been playing for a couple years, and still have the DLCs to finish.

You will experience witcher3 different if you know the first two Games.

You don't need to play 1&2.
That said, the 3 definitely has ties with previous games and books but it does a good job introducing all characters and mentions to the new players.
 
The first game has an amazing story but graphics was really dated even when it released and gameplay is really, really bad.
The second game is a lot better gameplay wise but not as good as the 3rd game.
 
Alternatively, you can watch YT videos of summary from the 1st and 2nd game and I highly recommend you to read the novels if you like books.

I would recommend playing the two previous games but it's far from essential. 
The Witcher 3 does a pretty good job at explaining the story so far and the story itself is pretty self contained. 
You can also import your saved games from previous games, so that the choices you made carries over, but the changes are pretty minuscule.
 
Although, I will say that the first Witcher game is pretty terrible and should really only be played to get a sense of the story and characters. 

You have gone and done the right thing friend! - Love love love this game and I'm the same, not a huge fan of PvP games, normally get left way behind. This is arguably one of the best western action RPG's around. If you are new to action RPG it might take a bit of getting used to - more so that adventure RPG's like Skyrim etc, but its definitely worth it. Enjoy!

I play during the night (UTC+8)
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198061543944/ 

Thank you guys for the responses, I appreciate it.
 
After loosing the gamble, I always think that it should be better if I just bought some nice skins that I can afford instead of trying my luck. Even though I know that in every gambling site, the house wins. But this is the start to change things.
 
I’ve been playing PUBG alot lately but sometimes the network is against me. Maybe play offline games instead?
 
Anyway, I thank you again for your comments. Have a nice day. 

Gambling can be fun, i think anything in moderation is fine as long as nobody is getting hurt.  If you make $105 and only gamble $5 and routinely stick to your limits i don't see a problem. Having said that, if its making you feel shit then you should probably call it quits 
 
When i was in my late teens and early 20's i blew 300k or so at the casinos over a few years, i know what its like to bottom out and walk away, i found it to be like giving up cigarettes or drugs, even now many many clean years later i still feel like a piece of me is missing. 

Thank you guys for the responses, I appreciate it.
 
After loosing the gamble, I always think that it should be better if I just bought some nice skins that I can afford instead of trying my luck. Even though I know that in every gambling site, the house wins. But this is the start to change things.
 
I’ve been playing PUBG alot lately but sometimes the network is against me. Maybe play offline games instead?
 
Anyway, I thank you again for your comments. Have a nice day. 

Thank you guys for the responses, I appreciate it.
 
After loosing the gamble, I always think that it should be better if I just bought some nice skins that I can afford instead of trying my luck. Even though I know that in every gambling site, the house wins. But this is the start to change things.
 
I’ve been playing PUBG alot lately but sometimes the network is against me. Maybe play offline games instead?
 
Anyway, I thank you again for your comments. Have a nice day. 

After a week of searching and even creating a thread in the forums, I've bought this chair.
 
 

maybe the HDD is dead and causing this problem. Or your boot priority is wrong.

That is good enough to run Microsoft Office 2016 fine. While I was in school the BCA class I was in had an All-In-One HP that ran on an older Pentium and had 4 GB of RAM and it worked flawlessly with Office 2016.

shouldn't be an issue at all, i would pick up the 128gb SSD version and then buy an external drive for extra data, office isn't that demanding and the pentium should cope fine as long as you don't flood it with simultaneous programs

To add on to what @Ben4wolves said, You could do some light multi-tasking with it as long as it was some research on a browser or having Excell and Word/PowerPoint open at the same time.

Sadly no. That is why I would get the 502usb

for Dark Souls, each game stands on its own. they're loosely connected in terms of lore but it shouldn't be too difficult. however Dark souls 3 references the 1st quite a bit, and i think you'll appreciate the lore/story a bit more if you played the 1st. nowadays dark souls 1 plays pretty well once you install fixes like Dsfix 

Most of the games you mentioned are pretty self contained. GTA V is a no. Play the earlier ones sometime if you feel like it, but there's no real reason to.
Witcher. I'd recommend witcher 2, but not witcher 1 (completely different combat style in 1, and I didn't enjoy the gameplay)
Elder scrolls. No, not needed, and oblivion just feels really clunky after the more fluid skyrim. (if they finish skyblivion I'd recommend it because it was a decent story, it jut isn't needed to play skyrim)
Dark souls, not needed, but there's a lot of nods to the earlier games that you just won't understand without having played the earlier souls games, but no it's pretty self contained otherwise.