My Window 8 300r Pc

[Eric Kazer]

Hi,

Just finished my 300r Windows 8 Build. Appears that my part of the forum was lost. Anyway:

 

M5A78L-MLX PLUS Motherboard

FX-8350 CPU

16 GB of Corsair 1600 MHz Memory

Samsung 840 Pro SSD 128 GB

Toshiba 3TB HDD 68MB Catche 7200 RPM (don't know model off hand)

AX750 PSU

Pioneer Blue Ray Drive BDR-208UBK

Sabrent CRW-UINB Card Reader

Silverstone USB 3 to 2 Adapter

H100 CPU Cooler w/stock fans now

XFX HD 6870 900M 2GB GPU

T650 Logitech Windows 8 Touch Pad

K360 Logitech Keyboard

Windows 8 OEM Disk 64 Bit Edition

Windows XP on 200 GB laptop drive Again don't know model

 

I'll upload pics soon.

[andrevautour]

Looking forward to pictures

[Eric Kazer]

Hi,

Just swapped the GPU for MSI R7970 reference card. As I said I'll upload pics. Oh, also installed my Creative Sound Blaster Recon 3D Fatality Champion Edition sound card too. Hope Pics upload. first time on new forum.

[Eric Kazer]

The second to last pic. has my Black MSI R7970 in it. Having audio issues with the card. have 13.4 catalyst driver installed from AMD. Sound turns on and off with both of the GPUs. Install my Creative sound card to use Digital out instead for Pioneer 7.1 set up. Using height channels. Works well that way. Don't know if anyone else has issues with HDMI audio out. Need to clean it up a little. Rushed to get working.

[Eric Kazer]

Audio works fine on sound card. Can't get it to work properly on the HDMI out on the GPU through monitor speakers. Audio keeps turning on & off with the TV I have. Did not do that when I had my XFX HD 6870 900M 2GB in it. Any advice? 

[Eric Kazer]

Should clarify

Audio problem with R7970's HDMI output. Audio turns on & off at random. Mother board (at least through headphones) and sound card are good. 

[Eric Kazer]

Have some Cougar Vortex 120 & 140mm fans on the way. That should quiet thing up in this build. Have used them in the passed. They are quiet, & can turn slow. Have good CFM too. 70.5 to 119.5 CFM for the 120 mm fan. I'll find out how good they work in this set up. Look forward to uploading more pics.

[Eric Kazer]

Hers some pics of the Cougar fans the I'll be using. I'll be using 2 120mm, & 2 140 mm. 120 PWMs for the H100. 2 140mm for the front intake. Already have a 120 mm Cougar fan on the rear exhaust.

[Eric Kazer]

Wonder what Linus thinks of these fan & any viewer's as well. I know the 120's at least to be almost dead silent. Specs for 120mm acoustical noise is 17.3 dB (a). Spec on 140s is 19.2 dB @ 1200 RPM max. Both flow 70.5 CFM. I'll see how well they work. I can hear the Corsair fans that are installed right now. The 7970 hushed it up allot. But I can still hear the fans. The 650 D build that I did had the same set up except for the front fan. The front fan was a 200 mm Coolermaster something flow. Don't remember the name. I'll next post pics when I get the fans installed, & some cable management done.

[Eric Kazer]

Well,

Installed the Cougar Fans today. Here's some pics of it.

[Eric Kazer]

The 140s in the front are quiet after adding the resister that came in the kit. I also did some wire managing with the sound card. I think it looks a little better. Don't know if this build can be better for spec. Works well so far. Played Bioshock Infinite. Played well. Lowest in 40's, Highest around 120, & average in 90's. It's so hard to tell with that game. No crashing to desktop in middle of something like Windows 7 would do. I mean playing and suddenly stop, minimizes, to desktop, paused. Click game icon every time & unpause game. Window 8 has seemed to work better so far for gaming.

[Eric Kazer]

Sorry,

No front pics of fans. Installed front cover.

[Williamchan87]

Sorry.. not really understanding the build colour, it kinda looks weird to me... but that's just me don't take me to serious

[XiaoPigs]

Don't really get the mix of colors in the build but who am I to judge since it's your build.

 

Looks kinda messy in the back and I can see it but hey the 300R isn't that great of a case for cable management so I say you did your best. So good job!

 

Decently speced for the most part except for maybe the GPU. You might be interested in the 700 series from NVIDIA that might be launching soon.

[Eric Kazer]

Think My Radion Red card would look better. But I swapped them to trouble shoot audio. As for cables, the case is a bit hard to manage in 5 minutes anyway here and there.

[Eric Kazer]

Audio on card was a driver issue. Fixed with a recent revision. Didn't do that on Windows 7 with My Sabertooth 99FX build. Almost identical except for motherboard. Had same issue with the HG 7970 audio on that. Now audio is working fine.