BWR - my new personal PC (again)

[r3loAded]

Hi everyone. So today I'm back with a new personal build. Not that I wasn't happy with my previous one (see signature) but I kind of got bored and even though I like those ring fans, there's too much light. So I had in hands a couple of components and there was a colour idea that kept coming in my mind. So I gave it a try. It's not yet my personal build but will most definitely will be as I'm quite excited about it and eager to finish it

 

The colour combination will be BLACK WHITE and RED. I think I might've went a little bit too far with the combination and it might look a little bit too much mixing of colours, but that can be changed. That's the SSDs and cable extensions. nothing that cannot be tweaked to look better:)

 

Please do remember that I build only with used components and I don't get to choose their colour. So I do my best to keep everything in colour.

 

Components list:

- i7-4790k

- Asus Z97 Sabertooth Mark S (Sabranco)

- 16GB Avexir White DDR3 2400MHz

- Asus GTX 1080 Strix Gaming (from my current build)

- NZXT X41 AIO

- Corsair CX750M (grey)

- 128GB Hynix SSD + 128GB Sandisk Z400s SSD (new) + my old 320GB HDD (will have to replace this one at some point)

- NZXT S340 Elite

- 3x140mm + 1x120mm fans

 

For now I got only 3 pics where you can see current progress and the cable extensions that I ordered.

 

Cable extensions:

- WHITE for the GPU - the PSU cover is RED and the GPU is BLACK, so you guessed it, WHITE it is

- BLACK for the 24PIN extensions - the mobo is white and the flat "thingy" that covers that cable is RED. SO BLACK it is

- 8PIN CPU extension - the mobo is white again and the surrounding area is black, so RED is left to fill in the picture

 

Edited February 22, 2018 by r3loAded

[R3ep3r]

Nice mobo tho'.

 

[r3loAded]

Just now, R3ep3r said:

Nice mobo tho'.

 

I know. I love it. I was very close to sell it but it came back to me :)). (soarta a vrut sa fie in favoarea mea. vandusem build-ul la in client dar a avut probleme si l-a returnat. problema erau niste extensii pt gpu si cpu care in full load faceau ca PC-ul sa se restarteze. easy fix)

[r3loAded]

@TVwazhere @NMS This is what I was talking about :). It's gonna happen for real now

[NMS]

This looks good so far, but why do I NOT see some RGB?:) Can be only R or just white. I think white lights would look great. And I believe CableMod offers RGB strips with dedicated white lights on them. If you were to mix and match a bit with red and white.

https://cablemod.com/product-category/led-strips/hybrid/?filter_color=white

[r3loAded]

12 minutes ago, NMS said:

This looks good so far, but why do I NOT see some RGB?:)

Thanks

 

To be honest I kind of had enough with all this RGB thing. But hey, if I ever decide to do so it's easy to add them later. I just want plain colours now. Simple, clean build. Unfortunately there is a light I wish to stop it but not sure if possible, the RAM light. It's white, which is fine but it so awful because it has a strobe effect on it. And I wouldn't want to change them as they are high performance ram and only got in stock corsair vengeance pro gold 1600MHz and some Kingston 1600MHz light blue heatsink.

 

EDIT: There's also red light (I will set them to red) from the Strix GPU and X41 aio.

[NMS]

4 minutes ago, r3loAded said:

Thanks

 

To be honest I kind of had enough with all this RGB thing. But hey, if I ever decide to do so it's easy to add them later. I just want plain colours now. Simple, clean build. Unfortunately there is a light I wish to stop it but not sure if possible, the RAM light. It's white, which is fine but it so awful because it has a strobe effect on it. And I wouldn't want to change them as they are high performance ram and only got in stock corsair vengeance pro gold 1600MHz and some Kingston 1600MHz light blue heatsink.

If that is a Corsair kit, then you can use Corsair Link utility to remove that light, you rebel scum:D

 

Honestly, for a case like that, you need at least one LED strip.

[r3loAded]

5 minutes ago, NMS said:

If that is a Corsair kit

Avexir "Sabranco" Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit - White Light -  no luck with controlling them

 

5 minutes ago, NMS said:

you rebel scum:D

:))))))))))

 

5 minutes ago, NMS said:

Honestly, for a case like that, you need at least one LED strip

Not necessarily, I would say, but I have 2x30cm white LED strips and could add them at any point. 

 

If there is anything to do for the case, it's the tempered glass - I would totally add a tint to it, it's wayyyyyy to clear for my taste :)))

Edited February 22, 2018 by r3loAded

[NMS]

1 minute ago, r3loAded said:

Avexir "Sabranco" Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit - White Light -  no luck with controlling them

That's debatable as there might be a wire connected to the PCB itself on the RAM if you were to remove the heatsink.

[TVwazhere]

For a second I thought that was the new NZXT motherboard  

[r3loAded]

Cable extensions are in. Let the "therapy" begin ?

[r3loAded]

All done. I would say it looks exactly as I planned it to look. But I have some software issues:

- aura sync doesn't want to work, no matter what, and I cannot control the RGB on the GPU (I want to set it on red)

- the USB 2.0 header for the X41 AIO is not recognized in Windows (might be faulty). I tried both USB 2.0 headers on the mobo, no luck (and they are not faulty as the fron USB 2.0 works)

 

That being said, I might buy the new NZXT AIO with the halo effect (I always wanted to own one). Also, I might add another SSD in the case, just to fill in the 3rd 2.5" slot :).

 

I might look for RED heatsink ram, as the current ones piss me of with thier blinking light. Might go for 4x4gb to fill in all the slots.

 

All I need now is to rent a bigger room and have a proper desk where to put all this beauties.

 

Enjoy they photos

[r3loAded]

@TVwazhere @NMS thoughts?

[NMS]

2 minutes ago, r3loAded said:

@TVwazhere @NMS thoughts?

In my opinion, that green light from GPU and white NZXT AIO just clashes with the colors too much:/ You gotta make them at least same color.

NZXT Cam software for the AIO and Asus Aura for the GPU.

[r3loAded]

2 minutes ago, NMS said:

In my opinion, that green light from GPU and white NZXT AIO just clashes with the colors too much:/ You gotta make them at least same color.

NZXT Cam software for the AIO and Asus Aura for the GPU.

Read my comment on the post, above pictures

[NMS]

5 minutes ago, r3loAded said:

Read my comment on the post, above pictures

Yeah, I jumped straight to the pictures. You know, PC porn and whatnot>.>

 

And I think you forgot to remove the Tempered Glass Caution sign.

[r3loAded]

Just now, NMS said:

Yeah, I jumped straight to the pictures. You know, PC porn and whatnot>.>

No worries...I totally get you.

 

Just now, NMS said:

And I think you forgot to remove the Tempered Glass Caution sign.

You little.....I left it there to piss off the OCD out of people :))

[NMS]

3 minutes ago, r3loAded said:

You little.....I left it there to piss off the OCD out of people :))

Oh really? Well then, why in a world would you use two different types of cable combs for the PCI-E cables?!

No. Just no. I can't take this.

[r3loAded]

10 minutes ago, NMS said:

Oh really? Well then, why in a world would you use two different types of cable combs for the PCI-E cables?!

No. Just no. I can't take this.

Mission accomplished!

[TVwazhere]

7 hours ago, r3loAded said:

@TVwazhere @NMS thoughts?

If you' need red ram (which I agree would look nice) go fore something like G.Skill Ripjaws V, they have a very nice full red

[r3loAded]

Time for an upgrade. Yeah, I know, already? Well the CX750M doesn't really like to ve stressed and makes a little bit if noise. So founf this PSU for just a tad more over half price. And it's brand new with 10 years warranty. £90 was the purchase price. Considering that I bought a better PSU, I decided to up the AIO with the Corsair H110i V2, as I intend to do some overclock to the CPU. While I'm at overclocking will go for the GPU as well, because free performance :).