My Upgraded Build

[XCalinX]

Oh boy where do I even begin...

This system started in 2004 when I was 3 as a prebuilt system, was upgraded several times by the friend of my dad who built it then when I got into computers I started upgrading it myself and as my passion for computers has grown, so did the system. We went from a Sempron 2300+ with 128MB of RAM to the beast it is today and it will continue to grow until I die I guess. (sorry for the gruesome joke :P). This post was originally made in October 2014 but I'm completely rewriting it 3 years later, so that's why the first replies might have nothing to do with the first post. After many hardware changes today it's running a Ryzen 1800x with 2 GTX 1080s in SLI and 64GB of 3000MHz Dominator Platinum, custom watercooled in a sexy Caselabs SMA8 case. I plan to upgrade to Threadripper or X299 and Volta, when Volta gets released next year and make some changes to the watercooling loop. You can see the full list of parts after the pictures. I will also likely need a higher wattage PSU for the upgrade, I'm looking at the Cooler Master V1200 and the Seasonic Prime 1200W platinum. Here are some glorious pictures

 

Specs as of 19th of October 2017:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1800X 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor  ($439.78 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AX370-GAMING 5 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($155.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair - Dominator Platinum 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($349.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair - Dominator Platinum 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($349.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Corsair - Force MP500 240GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($129.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($98.94 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Seagate - SV35.5 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $49.06) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($74.82 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Founders Edition Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($751.89 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Founders Edition Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($751.89 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair - 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($144.99 @ Amazon) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF140 Quiet Edition 67.8 CFM  140mm Fan  ($18.99 @ Amazon) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF140 Quiet Edition 67.8 CFM  140mm Fan  ($18.99 @ Amazon) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF140 Quiet Edition 67.8 CFM  140mm Fan  ($18.99 @ Amazon) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF140 Quiet Edition 67.8 CFM  140mm Fan  ($18.99 @ Amazon) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition 62.7 CFM  120mm Fan  ($15.29 @ OutletPC) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition 62.7 CFM  120mm Fan  ($15.29 @ OutletPC) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition 62.7 CFM  120mm Fan  ($15.29 @ OutletPC) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition 62.7 CFM  120mm Fan  ($15.29 @ OutletPC) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF120 Performance Edition 63.5 CFM  120mm Fan  ($17.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF120 Performance Edition 63.5 CFM  120mm Fan  ($17.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF120 Performance Edition 63.5 CFM  120mm Fan  ($17.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case Fan: Corsair - Air Series AF120 Performance Edition 63.5 CFM  120mm Fan  ($17.88 @ OutletPC) 
Monitor: Acer - XB280HK 28.0" 3840x2160 60Hz Monitor  (Purchased For $699.99) 
Mouse: Logitech - G502 Wired Optical Mouse  ($49.95 @ Amazon) 
Other: Alphacool Nexxxos 480 XT45 (Purchased For $108.78)
Other: EK D5 X-Top (Purchased For $131.10)
Other: ASUS ROG Whetstone Mouse Pad (Purchased For $48.08)
Other: Various fittings for soft tubing (Purchased For $40.00)
Other: 3 x Bitfenix Molex to 3x 12V Fan headers (Purchased For $120.00)
Other: EK Supremacy Evo Acetal + Nickel (Purchased For $77.00)
Other: EK Pastel White x3 (Purchased For $49.50)
Other: Pexon PCs custom cable set  (Purchased For $69.50)
Other: Primochill Advanced LRT Black/White Tubing 16/10 (5/8") 1m x3 (Purchased For $34.45)
Other: EK FC 1080 GTX Acetal + Nickel x2 (Purchased For $234.00)
Other: EK Res X3 250 (X2) (Purchased For $140.00)
Other: Caselabs Magnum SMA8 Gunmetal + rad mounts (Purchased For $885.00)
Other: Alphacool XT45 560 (Purchased For $126.00)
Other: 2x Akasa Vegas M Strips White (Purchased For $27.00)
Other: EK FC 1080 GTX Backplate Nickel x2 (Purchased For $75.00)
Other: Primochill 12 Pack 90CM Rigid PETG tubes and 8 Revolver Silver Nickel fittings  (Purchased For $87.95)
Other: EK M.2 Heatsink Nickel (Purchased For $15.23)
Other: Mayhems Ocean Blue dye x2 (Purchased For $11.90)
Other: Mayhems Blue Dye (Purchased For $15.80)
Other: MDPC-X SATA Heatshrink x2 (Purchased For $3.30)
Other: MDPC-X Riviera Blue SATA sleeve x2 (Purchased For $3.40)
Other: EK D5 X-Top Revo (Purchased For $130.00)
Total: $6688.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-19 12:47 EDT-0400

 

Thanks for reading and have a nice day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 19, 2017 by XCalinX
update

[Shd0w2]

Blue+Black? more so intel IMO lol. So far so good, but sucks you couldn't do red+black for amd.

[AnnoyedShelf]

Blue+Black? more so intel IMO lol. So far so good, but sucks you couldn't do red+black for amd.

I personally think the Red+Black AMD builds have gotten a little stale. Nice to see someone changing that up for once.

[VincentiusIV]

4 enormous radiators for just a CPU and one GPU? You must be adding more cards in the future right?

If not, four of those monsters Will be overkill.

[XCalinX]

I agree with Annoyed. This was the best mobo I could afford back then and it happens to be blue But I will never do red because of the known red coolant issues.

[XCalinX]

So I came out with 4 loop orders for the 900D. I will have a 360 on the top, the other one on the front, the 480 and 240 in the bassement. Here are the 4 orders:

1. Res-Pump-Bassement radiators (probably 360-240-480)-Top 360-CPU-GPU-Res (GPU-Res via 2 90c fittings)

2. Res-Pum-Bassement radiators-GPU-Top 360-CPU-Res

3. Res-Pump-Bassement radiators-GPU-CPU-Top Rad-Res

4. Res-Pump-Bassement radiators-GPU-CPU-Top Rad-Res VIA the back of the case

 

I know that they don't matter but I'm pecky on which will look better, what would you chose and why?

Thanks.

[XCalinX]

UPDATES!!!! Ordered my CPU block yesterday, and rethinked the rad config: st30 480 up top, 480 monsta and gts 360 in the bassement and xspc ex360 in the front. i cant find the phobya in my country ffs

[GloriousPain]

seems like a nice project...  

Blue+Black? more so intel IMO lol. So far so good, but sucks you couldn't do red+black for amd.

Isn't intels color scheme Blue and White? if anything this is an in between AMD is Black+Red and Intel is Blue+White... Also he does say he's considering hopping to Intel...

[XCalinX]

Thanks guys! I got more stuff for the watercooling, got the first 480 (for the top) which is the XT45, the reservoir, CPU block and some more SP120s... The 900D will be here in April! Luckily, I was able to find Phobya radiators in my country so I'm going for that extreme 5bar radiator, but will get the 240 version of it. I know someone who tried to fit a 360 in the front of the 900D and he said it does not fit. Gonna edit the first post too. I also think I will be able to mod the case to fit a 560 in the bassement... Photos of the new parts!

[XCalinX]

Just another quick update: I decided to go woth acrylic tubing. Will edit the pcpartpickwr later. Should be here in January

[XCalinX]

Alright, new update.... again lol. I got more money so I'll go for the CaseLabs SMA8 that way I can

-Have a 560

-Copy @JayzTwoCents even more

But I don't have enough money fot the radiator mounts so I will only get the 240 mounr for the front and custom mount the others... (the 480 for the top is supported without them)

PCPartpicker for now: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xQhdt6

[kkpatel87]

I like your case choice, i just bought a SMH10 to mod!

[XCalinX]

Another quick update

Decided to go with better cables. I ordered some from icemodz.com

[Benji_w]

@XCalinX

Good luck overclocking on that board, you should of saved more and bought either a gigabyte UD5-7 or an ASUS sabretooth or the crosshair...

 

Why?
 

 

 

Industry leading Digital 6 + 2 Phase CPU Power Design

 

Recommended 8+2 phase or more, these chips are power hungry monsters and lower tier boards don't have the muscle, you'd prolly be best off with just a 360 rad on its own or with a 240 but your board will limit you before your thermal limit is met.

[XCalinX]

@Benji_w JJ from ASUS said it's OK and even if it isnt I can still OC the 980

[Benji_w]

@Benji_w JJ from ASUS said it's OK and even if it isnt I can still OC the 980

 

True you could clock it 400mhz over it's stock boost speed (8350) but I would be tempted to watercool the VRM and NB etc to get the most overclocking out of it. You're fitting a lot of radiators to the rig but you won't be generating a lot of heat on the cpu and the gpu.

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Nice motherboard! I got the same one haha. Working on a watercooled build too.

 

 

[XCalinX]

@Benji_w Well I have a hard time finding VRM blocks that don't look crappt

@ Nice. But that looks like the evo not the pro

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@Benji_w Well I have a hard time finding VRM blocks that don't look crappt

@ Nice. But that looks like the evo not the pro

 

Yeah it's the evo, didn't know a pro version existed.

[XCalinX]

@ it's the M5A99FX Pro. The evo is 990X not 990FX.

[Benji_w]

@Benji_w Well I have a hard time finding VRM blocks that don't look crappt

@ Nice. But that looks like the evo not the pro

Universal ones will work fine...

Mounting a Koolance MVR-100 to my sabretooth this weekend I hope and a Heatkiller NSB Rev 3. Both Koolance and Watercool (Heatkiller) do universal VRM coolers with DIY mounts (Heatkiller) or Heatplates (koolance) should the mounts be slightly off from the included mounting soloutions. You have 6+2 phase VRM, these are going to get extremely warm as you start to really use that CPU, the socket will also heat up as a result and you will end up with thermal throttling on air without strapping fans to the heatsink and behind the motherboard. If you intend on overclocking that CPU don't expect to hit over 4.7ghz without loads of additional fans inside the case to the point where you should of just stayed on air. Just my 2 pence from what I've seen over on Overclock.net.

[XCalinX]

@Benji_w the OCN AMD Community sucks, I had someone insult and call me a 'noob' for running single channel RAM...

Anyway

[Benji_w]

@Benji_w the OCN AMD Community sucks, I had someone insult and call me a 'noob' for running single channel RAM...

Anyway

 

I've had no issues while there, I had a spat with someone over their confusion with IBT AVX giving them a false positive result but we're cool now and I've learned some stuff from him and vice versa.

 

Regardless, you will struggle with that board as you'll need to keep thermals down, lower tier boards tend to have heavy thermal throttling from what I gather reading through many posts so either watercool the rest of the motherboard as you have major radiator space to accomodate doing so or start strapping upto 16 fans inside your rig lol, there's a guy on OCN who has done this for 5ghz+.  :lol:

[XCalinX]

@Benji_w Can I see that??

[Benji_w]

@Benji_w Can I see that??

http://www.overclock.net/t/1318995/official-fx-8320-fx-8350-vishera-owners-club/41760#post_23055551

There you go, Mike the Owl, can't remember how many exactly now, but I know for sure it's double figures! Also in that thread they say your board is capable of 4.8ghz but 5ghz is really difficult to achieve and I would imagine that if you have been unlucky with the cpu silicone lottery and it requires a lot of vcore then its a no go.