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Frankie's modded Air 540 Build

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Hello and welcome to my build log! :)

 

To make long story short my current system is C2D E8400 + 9800GTX+ soooo I'm long overdue for an upgrade. 

 

Color scheme I am planning for this build is mostly black and white with maybe some orange accents to make it alive a little bit.

 

Parts:

  • CPU - Intel 6600K
  • Cooler - NZXT Kraken X31
  • Motherboard - MSI Z170A Krait
  • RAM -Kingston HyperX Fury Black DDR4 8GB (2x4GB) - 2017 added another 8GB kit.
  • SSD - Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB
  • HDD - Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM
  • GPU - Sapphire R9 390 Nitro
  • Case - Corsair Air 540 (duh)
  • PSU - EVGA G2 750W
  • Fans - Corsair AF120 Quiet Edition

Vague plans for the future (can't spoil everything right now, that wouldn't be fun ;) ) 

  • Getting the parts - hopefully tommorow if everything goes well, depends on the shop.
  • System validation - Testing the parts, building the PC, stress tests, benchmarks all that good stuff.
  • Painting part of the case - you'll see. :)
  • Cable extensions - Getting sleeving supplies is also not exactly easy in my country, mostly not much sleeving to choose from. I am open to sleeving sponsor offers though. :D

 

Huge shoutout goes to @1Scotty1 and @QueenDemetria that helped me consult some HW choices. Honorable mentions for people that knew about this way before I had the money @AlexStriz @Nup

I'm really sorry if I forgot about somebody, don't scream at me please. :D

 

I hopefully add some pictures tommorow if everything goes well, thanks for reading folks. :)

 

Little teaser of things I done so far. :)

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Started on your 1500Th post too :P

 

Oh yeah, that didn't even occurred to me. :D

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Can I suggest you get a larger SSD as a boot drive, I really struggled with, my 120GB Agility 3.

 

Looking forward to the build though ,will be a massive jump!

 

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Welcome, thanks for reading. :)

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Can I suggest you get a larger SSD as a boot drive, I really struggled with, my 120GB Agility 3.

 

Looking forward to the build though ,will be a massive jump!

 

I don't have any problems with suggestions, but the parts are ordered and I should be fine with the 120GB. Even now I only have 86GB on C: drive. 

 

Massive jump indeed. :)

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Thanks, welcome. :)

 

Frankie B4DA$$ lol

 

That's probably my first rap nickname I ever got. :D

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Woot. Gettin' us some pictures :P

Bleigh!  Ever hear of AC series? 

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Small update.

She posts :)

Can't wait to see![emoji2]

  • CPU i7 4790k - 4.5 Ghz | Motherboard Asus Z97-E/USB3.1 | RAM G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) | GPU MSI GTX 980 GAMING 4G - 1520 core/1811 memory | Case Corsair SPEC-03 Red | Storage Sandisk Ultra II 480GB | PSU Enermax 650W 80+ Bronze | Display LG 22MC57HQ-P | Cooling Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

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AIr 540 build??? yes please!! I love the air 540 as an idea but not 100% as an execution. I suggest going with a 2.5 inch 1tb drive if you can. believe me it looks about a trillion times better to remove the hard drive sleds and just put drives in the back. I'm subbed for sure!!

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I'm really sorry guys, I had some OS problems. Let me tell you, Skylake reeeeally doesn't like win 7 and I didn't know that. But I figured it out and everything seems to be in order now. I will get you all some pictures today. :)

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It's just from my phone, in not so great light conditions. It will hopefully do for now. :) At some point in time I try to find and charge our point and shoot camera to see if it's any better. :) Meanwhile I really need to set this thing up and play with it for a while (there is a joke somewhere)   :D

 

I will probably post some temps under stress test and benchmarks for you folks later. :)

 

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wut phone do you have? Just curious as pics aren't too incredibly good. :P

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AIr 540 build??? yes please!! I love the air 540 as an idea but not 100% as an execution. I suggest going with a 2.5 inch 1tb drive if you can. believe me it looks about a trillion times better to remove the hard drive sleds and just put drives in the back. I'm subbed for sure!!

 

I get what you mean, I plan to hide the HDD to the back and to do something creative with the SSD. But for now I really just want to play with my new toy. :D

 

wut phone do you have? Just curious as pics aren't too incredibly good. :P

 

 

HTC Desire X, not a bad phone but camera sucks ass. It can take decent looking photos in daylight though. :)

 

I posted at least these for you because it's already dark and I had to get the OS going. Plus my room looks like battlefield. :D

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Do you plan on getting some cable extensions?

 

Yep eventually, but for now, no money... :)

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Yep eventually, but for now, no money... :)

Thats cool. Pc looks really cool by the way. Sorry if I copy your colour scheme.

 

 

 

 

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Thats cool. Pc looks really cool by the way. Sorry if I copy your colour scheme.

 

Thanks man. Sure, go for it. :) I will add some orange accent in the future though. :) 

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Thanks man. Sure, go for it. :) I will add some orange accent in the future though. :)

I might do teal or something.

 

 

 

 

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