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Kurald Galain: A full custom watercooled x99 blackout build.

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What custom watercooled pc is complete without true custom cables?!?!

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A huge shoutout over to Joey at Ensourced Custom Accessories!

 

The one man cable machine did me up 4 8pin cables and my 24 pin cable.

They look absolutely better than any Teleios-like plastic sleeving I have ever seen, and the paracord quality is without equal. @W-L Mentioned fraying QC issues with the CableMod custom cables, and I've always been rather afraid of Paracord for that reason. These are truly immaculate.

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Additionally, when I went to ask him about tying the two 8 pin together and making sure I could make the bends in my case, he answered within 8 hours (even taking into account I sent the email at midnight his time) and was quite professional and accommodating. 

 

Order to installation of the cables took a mere 2 weeks (including Memorial day weekend).

 

Without the custom length pcie cables (400mm) there is no way I could have managed the excess without going completely nuts.

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10/10 Completely recommended. 

 

Oh, I also took the downtime to remove some excess cabling (from the days when I was using 2 3.5 HDD's), flush my loop, and trim some over long tubes, so that is why bubbles are everywhere for now.

 

Feast your eyes!

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Oh, sorry my phone camera is kinda crappy (the above picture in particular is quite blue shifted, the light is a much darker grey with a slight yellow tone). I'll try borrowing a better one soon enough.

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LINK-> Kurald Galain:  The Night Eternal 

Top 5820k, 980ti SLI Build in the World*

CPU: i7-5820k // GPU: SLI MSI 980ti Gaming 6G // Cooling: Full Custom WC //  Mobo: ASUS X99 Sabertooth // Ram: 32GB Crucial Ballistic Sport // Boot SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Mass SSD: Crucial M500 960GB  // PSU: EVGA Supernova 850G2 // Case: Fractal Design Define S Windowed // OS: Windows 10 // Mouse: Razer Naga Chroma // Keyboard: Corsair k70 Cherry MX Reds

Headset: Senn RS185 // Monitor: ASUS PG348Q // Devices: Note 10+ - Surface Book 2 15"

LINK-> Ainulindale: Music of the Ainur 

Prosumer DYI FreeNAS

CPU: Xeon E3-1231v3  // Cooling: Noctua L9x65 //  Mobo: AsRock E3C224D2I // Ram: 16GB Kingston ECC DDR3-1333

HDDs: 4x HGST Deskstar NAS 3TB  // PSU: EVGA 650GQ // Case: Fractal Design Node 304 // OS: FreeNAS

 

 

 

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Got a decent-ish close up finally to show what I mean about quality....

 

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LINK-> Kurald Galain:  The Night Eternal 

Top 5820k, 980ti SLI Build in the World*

CPU: i7-5820k // GPU: SLI MSI 980ti Gaming 6G // Cooling: Full Custom WC //  Mobo: ASUS X99 Sabertooth // Ram: 32GB Crucial Ballistic Sport // Boot SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Mass SSD: Crucial M500 960GB  // PSU: EVGA Supernova 850G2 // Case: Fractal Design Define S Windowed // OS: Windows 10 // Mouse: Razer Naga Chroma // Keyboard: Corsair k70 Cherry MX Reds

Headset: Senn RS185 // Monitor: ASUS PG348Q // Devices: Note 10+ - Surface Book 2 15"

LINK-> Ainulindale: Music of the Ainur 

Prosumer DYI FreeNAS

CPU: Xeon E3-1231v3  // Cooling: Noctua L9x65 //  Mobo: AsRock E3C224D2I // Ram: 16GB Kingston ECC DDR3-1333

HDDs: 4x HGST Deskstar NAS 3TB  // PSU: EVGA 650GQ // Case: Fractal Design Node 304 // OS: FreeNAS

 

 

 

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39 minutes ago, Smooth Bunz said:

Awesome build man! 

Thanks a lot! It's been a blast to build and keep up and play with (duh).

LINK-> Kurald Galain:  The Night Eternal 

Top 5820k, 980ti SLI Build in the World*

CPU: i7-5820k // GPU: SLI MSI 980ti Gaming 6G // Cooling: Full Custom WC //  Mobo: ASUS X99 Sabertooth // Ram: 32GB Crucial Ballistic Sport // Boot SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Mass SSD: Crucial M500 960GB  // PSU: EVGA Supernova 850G2 // Case: Fractal Design Define S Windowed // OS: Windows 10 // Mouse: Razer Naga Chroma // Keyboard: Corsair k70 Cherry MX Reds

Headset: Senn RS185 // Monitor: ASUS PG348Q // Devices: Note 10+ - Surface Book 2 15"

LINK-> Ainulindale: Music of the Ainur 

Prosumer DYI FreeNAS

CPU: Xeon E3-1231v3  // Cooling: Noctua L9x65 //  Mobo: AsRock E3C224D2I // Ram: 16GB Kingston ECC DDR3-1333

HDDs: 4x HGST Deskstar NAS 3TB  // PSU: EVGA 650GQ // Case: Fractal Design Node 304 // OS: FreeNAS

 

 

 

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  • 2 months later...

A new edition to the computer finally making this system 100% complete (for now)...

 

Super overkill amazeballs system meet the best monitor on the market today: The ASUS  PG348Q. Man this this is amazing for games and movies... It does have some fairly intense IPS glow on the corners on a pure black screen (very visible on startup/shutdown), but literally even the darkest wallpaper I have (A deep space image) shows literally no glow (which is better than my old monitor which showed relatively poor black perf all the time.) So I'm keeping it. Also I love this stand so much.

 

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Images have been compressed and decompressed by google photos, but still point remains.

LINK-> Kurald Galain:  The Night Eternal 

Top 5820k, 980ti SLI Build in the World*

CPU: i7-5820k // GPU: SLI MSI 980ti Gaming 6G // Cooling: Full Custom WC //  Mobo: ASUS X99 Sabertooth // Ram: 32GB Crucial Ballistic Sport // Boot SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Mass SSD: Crucial M500 960GB  // PSU: EVGA Supernova 850G2 // Case: Fractal Design Define S Windowed // OS: Windows 10 // Mouse: Razer Naga Chroma // Keyboard: Corsair k70 Cherry MX Reds

Headset: Senn RS185 // Monitor: ASUS PG348Q // Devices: Note 10+ - Surface Book 2 15"

LINK-> Ainulindale: Music of the Ainur 

Prosumer DYI FreeNAS

CPU: Xeon E3-1231v3  // Cooling: Noctua L9x65 //  Mobo: AsRock E3C224D2I // Ram: 16GB Kingston ECC DDR3-1333

HDDs: 4x HGST Deskstar NAS 3TB  // PSU: EVGA 650GQ // Case: Fractal Design Node 304 // OS: FreeNAS

 

 

 

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  • 4 weeks later...

Hello everyone, this will be a super short update... but around the release of Pascal GPU's, we saw each gpu maker come out with their own prototype HB bridge (which for the record are 100% supported on Maxwell cards).

 

 

 

Well when MSI showed theirs off most people's comments were really negative.

 

This was the original prototype:

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Well let me tell you, I rather liked the original one, but man this final version... she is one hell of a looker. By far the nicest looking sli bridge I've ever seen, built like a tank (while people like EVGA's many people have complained about shoddy build quality on the new ones), the only caveat being unless you are rocking an all black system, you might need to mod the color of that dragon to make it match.

 

Light on (note this light is pure red, not yellow). Take a look at that sick ass discrete underglow....

 

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And now light off:

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Almost looks lit just from the reflections of the case lighting huh?

 

 

So you are probably asking yourself what did they change? Well they gave the dragon section a really nice 3d raised effect when off (I will leave mine off from here out because I think it looks so good), and replaced the lighted flanges on the top and bottom with really deep metallic ones (far darker than the image here suggests).

 

Overall, I couldn't have been more pleased to find an SLI bridge that finally completely matches my pc, way to go MSI!

 

OH, if I had to find a critique, it would be so nice if I could separately control the under glow lighting, but maybe I'll just have to mod the thing to make that work.

 

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LINK-> Kurald Galain:  The Night Eternal 

Top 5820k, 980ti SLI Build in the World*

CPU: i7-5820k // GPU: SLI MSI 980ti Gaming 6G // Cooling: Full Custom WC //  Mobo: ASUS X99 Sabertooth // Ram: 32GB Crucial Ballistic Sport // Boot SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Mass SSD: Crucial M500 960GB  // PSU: EVGA Supernova 850G2 // Case: Fractal Design Define S Windowed // OS: Windows 10 // Mouse: Razer Naga Chroma // Keyboard: Corsair k70 Cherry MX Reds

Headset: Senn RS185 // Monitor: ASUS PG348Q // Devices: Note 10+ - Surface Book 2 15"

LINK-> Ainulindale: Music of the Ainur 

Prosumer DYI FreeNAS

CPU: Xeon E3-1231v3  // Cooling: Noctua L9x65 //  Mobo: AsRock E3C224D2I // Ram: 16GB Kingston ECC DDR3-1333

HDDs: 4x HGST Deskstar NAS 3TB  // PSU: EVGA 650GQ // Case: Fractal Design Node 304 // OS: FreeNAS

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Froody129 said:

So next is 1080ti SLI? 

Probably not. the gen after 1080ti I'll do it, but I'm pretty good for now.

LINK-> Kurald Galain:  The Night Eternal 

Top 5820k, 980ti SLI Build in the World*

CPU: i7-5820k // GPU: SLI MSI 980ti Gaming 6G // Cooling: Full Custom WC //  Mobo: ASUS X99 Sabertooth // Ram: 32GB Crucial Ballistic Sport // Boot SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Mass SSD: Crucial M500 960GB  // PSU: EVGA Supernova 850G2 // Case: Fractal Design Define S Windowed // OS: Windows 10 // Mouse: Razer Naga Chroma // Keyboard: Corsair k70 Cherry MX Reds

Headset: Senn RS185 // Monitor: ASUS PG348Q // Devices: Note 10+ - Surface Book 2 15"

LINK-> Ainulindale: Music of the Ainur 

Prosumer DYI FreeNAS

CPU: Xeon E3-1231v3  // Cooling: Noctua L9x65 //  Mobo: AsRock E3C224D2I // Ram: 16GB Kingston ECC DDR3-1333

HDDs: 4x HGST Deskstar NAS 3TB  // PSU: EVGA 650GQ // Case: Fractal Design Node 304 // OS: FreeNAS

 

 

 

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