feedback wanted Building the new Schichtmachine

[MS Eierfeile]

 

 

This my newest build and my first upgrade since 2012. 

 

The theme is "be black and be quiet"

Spoiler

Not sponsored by BeQuiet even though it seems like it. Just like their stuff.

 

 

 

My board of choice was the Gigabyte Z390 DESIGNARE since I am satisfied with Gigabyte boards since 2006. I loved the asthetics of this particular one and the specs fit my needs perfectly. The CPU went to be the Core i9 9900K and as a cooling solution I chose the BeQuiet Silent Loop 360 because I wasn't going to overclock but still wanted cool and silent performance with an 9900K boosting @ 4,7GHz.

 

 

The BeQuiet Straight Power 11 1000W PSU delivers more than enough power for now and future GPU upgrades and the beautiful BeQuiet Dark Base 900 Pro rev.2 tower offers great modularity and options for cable routing as well as many options for radiator placement with up to two 420 radiators(!). Furthermore it came with a built-in RGB and fanspeed-controller as well as two Silent Wings 3 140mm fans in the front and one more in the back. I made the front fans run in performance-mode and the exhaust one in the back in silence-mode since I placed my 360 radiator under the lid and therefore there are also the AiOs three Silent Wings 3 120mm fans in the top pushing warm air out of the case.

 

 

The airflow through the mesh on the sides is good enough and temps look good with slightly more than 80 degrees C after 90 minutes of Aida64 stresstest considering that the AiO fans were running rather quietly with 60% speed @ about 1300rpm all the time while the CPU boosted to 4,7 GHz on all cores.

 

 

 

Since I use my PC mainly for editing 4K footage from my Mavic 2 Pro, I needed a good amount of fast DDR4 and went with 4x16GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz.

 

 

Graphics performance is not my top priority.  So I saved some money here by buying a Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Gaming OC 3x 8 GB instead of an RTX 2080 Ti because the Super offers enough performance for my needs and looks simple but classy, which fits my build perfectly!
As you can see I chose to mount it in the good old show-off-position with a Cooler Master Vertical Graphics Card Holder Kit.

 

 

For storage I went with two Samsung 970 Evo M.2 SSDs. One with 500GB for Windows and apps and one with 1TB for my video files since I wanted great access speeds in Adobe Premiere. As a third drive for games chose a Samsung 860 Evo 1TB SATA SSD and finally for private data, pictures, movies and TV shows I installed a Seagate Ironwolf 8TB HDD under the shroud next to the PSU.

 

 

I really wanted to keep my 5,25" bays for an optical Bluray writer and a monitor for temps and fanspeeds. But looking through the window the side of the 5,25" bay really bothered me. So I researched and found a company that makes custom GPU and HDD covers.

I had one of those made to cover up the 5,25" cage. They do a great job. They are called "V1Tech" and and I can really recommend them.

 

 

Despite the simple plain black style there where the orange accents from the BeQuiet fans. So I decided to add a few more highlights with some sleeved custom cables (also from v1tech.com).

 

 

And of course I wanted at least some of that RGB goodness. And since iCUE is the most advanced and versatile Software imo I added a Corsair Lighting Node Pro and hooked the custom RGB cover and two RGB strips up to it. And maybe just maybe one day Gigabytes "RGB Fusion" software won't suck as much and I will also be able change the color of my GPUs RGB...

 

So finally the lighting of my peripherals will match the lighting of my case. I wonder how I could live without that for so long

 

 

I mean look at that keyboard. It' s gorgeous

 

 

And finally I took my time for an ... acceptable cable management.

 

 

So here it is in all it's glory:

The Schichtmachine 2019

 

 

 

I am looking forward to your questions, feedback, pros, cons and suggestions.

 

Thanks guys and have a good one!

 

Cheers from Switzerland

Martin Schicht

[DoctorNick]

Looking good!

[MS Eierfeile]

Would love a little feedback from you guys. What made sense iyo? What didn't? It's overall only my third build ever ignoring simple replacements. Hit me hard if you must. And let's talk specs, benches and temps.

[Votivee]

Personally I would have went with a 1070 over the dual 970's. Less heat, noise, power consumption, and issues overall. You can grab a used 1070 for around $200 (USD). 

 

From what I've read the 1070 would have had slightly less performance, but that's only if SLI is working correctly. Regardless, with the older and non-demanding games you said you play you wouldn't have noticed a difference anyways and the trade offs mentioned above would have been worth it.

 

Overall, just a small gripe. SLI cards have always looked super badass to me.

 

+1 for be quiet! I love their products. 

[MS Eierfeile]

On 12/27/2019 at 11:23 PM, Votivee said:

Personally I would have went with a 1070 over the dual 970's. Less heat, noise, power consumption, and issues overall. You can grab a used 1070 for around $200 (USD). 

 

Overall, just a small gripe. SLI cards have always looked super badass to me.

 

+1 for be quiet! I love their products. 

Totally right about that performancewise! But like you said I wanted SLi anyways mostly for the great looks. And two 1070 would have been too much for my needs.

BeQuiet does great stuff I'm totally with you there too.

[MS Eierfeile]

So I still had to make a graphics card upgrade. Seems like it`s true what they say after all: we indeed are never finished...

[MS Eierfeile]

Update: Custom sleeved cables (from www.v1tech.com instead of Cablemod) and change of peripherals due to problems with my half a year old Logitech G19s keyboards Rubber dome switches getting stuck and unuseable. Used this opportunity to try out a mechanical keyboard and switched to Corsair completely (keyboard, mouse, mousepad and RGB). Only the Logitech headset was still too new

And I gotta tell you: iCUE is one refined piece of RGB software

I'm talking to you, Gigabyte...

[thrasher_565]

oh i love me some orange and black nice