New build - Black Box

[r3loAded]

Hi everyone.

 

So, my friend decided he needs to go overkill for his Flight Simulator. We had build previously a PC with 7700k, 32gb ram, GTX 1080 in a Thermaltake P3 case. He sold that PC as he said he needs more cores for the sim. So off he went and bought an i9-7900x and as it wasn't enough he also bought an ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB ROG POSEIDON Watercooled and some 32gb of Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz of course alongside with a decent motherboard, Asus ROG OC X299 Rampage VI Apex. Everything will be housed in the Thermaltake The Tower 900.

 

It will be a watercooled build, black and white with some orange accents. This would be my first one so expensive and also my first watercooled one.

 

No hard tubing but soft one with 90 and 45 degree elbows in order to look neat.

 

Hopefully we will start this weekend but we'll see. Will post pictures with future components soon.

 

And some pictures (or else it didn't happened - don't mind my nerdy face):

[3rrant]

When you have too many money and too few reason in your life to spend them on lol

[Jurrunio]

Dont try watercooling on a PC as expensive as that as your first. Get the cheapest PC you can find, watercool it to make sure you get familiar with the whole thing. Even if things go wrong (usually in the form of water leaking everywhere) you lose a small amount of money per try.

[r3loAded]

4 minutes ago, ErrantNyles said:

When you have too many money and too few reason in your life to spend them on lol

Not necessarily, as he is really passionate about Flight Simulator and on the other PC it didn't run as he wanted to. True, as I stated in my opening phrase, he did went overkill with that i9, but then again he said that he wants to see something with the money he's got to spend, not just spending a few every day and then not knowing where they gone.

[r3loAded]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Dont try watercooling on a PC as expensive as that as your first. Get the cheapest PC you can find, watercool it to make sure you get familiar with the whole thing. Even if things go wrong (usually in the form of water leaking everywhere) you lose a small amount of money per try.

Pretty confident in my ability to learn fast and in my attention to detail. Don't forget that there will be 2 brains and 2 pair of eyes building it.

[Angusticlavii]

7 minutes ago, r3loAded said:

Pretty confident in my ability to learn fast and in my attention to detail. Don't forget that there will be 2 brains and 2 pair of eyes building it.

soft tubing should be no problem

my first loop was on a 2k+ PC

never had any leaks with soft tubing/compression fittings

[r3loAded]

Some of the expenses:

 

- graphics card - new - £899

- motherboard - new - £419

- cpu - used (you can call it binned as 4.7GHz stable has been achieved on it and it's on 3 years warranty) - £680

- case - new - £200

- ram - used once at gameshow (what the seller said) - £200

- fittings - new - £170

- cpu block - new - @£60 (not sure about this one - need to double check with my friend)

- 1x240 XSPC rad + 1x360 XSPC rad - used - £80

- corsair RM1000i - used 1 moth - £110

- 960gb Sandisk SSD - used - £150 

- 2xAIGO C3 fans (3per set) - new - £60

[Steemax]

This will be a fun build, following along.

[r3loAded]

That's quite a big case. Banana for scale :))

[r3loAded]

Build day has arrived. Let's do this bad boy.

[Nicnac]

On 9/13/2017 at 12:00 PM, r3loAded said:

Some of the expenses:

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- 1x240 XSPC rad + 1x360 XSPC rad - used - £80

 

Who buys a used rad?

[r3loAded]

9 hours ago, Nicnac said:

Who buys a used rad?

As long is in very good condition I don't see why not. Half the price, so why not cut a little bit down with some expenses. I know this build wasn't to be cut down to expenses but it was local and just collected.

[r3loAded]

So, time to add some pictures from the building time. Will add final photos once will be ready for them. 

 

P.S. Don't mind the all over the place colours as nothing was set up. Just quick photos.

 

1st photo: had to fit the display in the 3.5" hard drive bays.

[r3loAded]

And some more pictures. 

 

Still work to do with aesthetics. At the moment the overclocking is in progress.

 

[R176]

sorry just. 

Let me wipe that drool. 

[r3loAded]

So after a little break, he managed to completely finish the build (which is up for sale now)

 

[srmarkovic]

Nice components. 

[EnergyEclipse]

On 19 September 2017 at 8:04 AM, r3loAded said:

As long is in very good condition I don't see why not. Half the price, so why not cut a little bit down with some expenses. I know this build wasn't to be cut down to expenses but it was local and just collected.

Why is anything in this build used, considering that the to be owner clearly has apenough money to spare already?

[r3loAded]

9 hours ago, EnergyEclipse said:

Why is anything in this build used, considering that the to be owner clearly has apenough money to spare already?

He does have enough money to spend but then again we found the reservoirs locally and they were in very good condition. So why not?

 

The only used parts in this build are the CPU, the reservoirs and the 960GB Sandisk SSD. Also he changed the Corsair Rm1000i PSU with a brand new EVGA 1000 GQ as the corsair one had a really bad coil whine (even though the seller on eBay stated that the PSU is only 45 days old)

 

Regarding the CPU, a pre-binned one at 4.7GHz at overclockers is @£1000. He paid £680 which I think it's worth for a pre-binned CPU and with 3 years manufacturers warranty.