New SFF-ish monochrome build

[Torand]

My latest SFF-ish build! Love the H210 and amazed that its all metal construction. Really, really solid case - just that glass side panel that difficult to get off.

 

I spent ages on the cable management and really enjoyed building a SFF-ish form factor. I've been really wanting to do a compact-ish build for a long time and finally I saved enough, and with COVID there seemed to be no better time.

 

My previous build was a full tower LGA-2011 build with a 6850K in a Corsair 750D, which, although lovely - was just too big. I sold all that off over a year ago, moved down to London with my partner and after over a year of no PC gaming I couldn't do it anymore and built my dream machine.

 

I had a really strange issue where I got a VGA POST code and had to use an old 660Ti to boot from initially. The 980Ti worked fine in the OS and after putting it back after one successful boot with the 660Ti, but the issue came back after updating the BIOS to the latest 1407 build. Turns out there was a not well publicised firmware patch for nVidia cards back in 2018 that my card required to run on DP1.3/1.4 (which is the default on my monitor). This information was burried in the backend of a ROG forum post, a quick google will reveal the FW patch and it only takes a few seconds. After that, the BIOS splashed correctly and even resolution matched which was nice!

 

Update: Unfortunately, I've had to RMA the Asus ROG Strix X570-I board after just a few days thanks to the lovely magic smoke popping out and it appears the RGB controller has died. Luckily it didn't take anything with it, the system still works fine, just without any RGB on the board or Aura. I don't make use of any RGB strips or anything, was just going to leave them white. But as of tomorrow, its in the post and I assume its going to be a few long weeks until a replacement arrives (as I am within 14 days of purchase).

 

Specs:
- Ryzen 5 3600 (waiting for the 4700X to drop)
- Crucial Ballistix 32GB (16GB x 2) DDR4 3600MHz CAS18 White
- Asus ROG Strix X570-I
- Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black
- Noctua NA-HC2 chromax.white
- EVGA FTW GTX 980Ti (from a previous build)
- NZXT H210 White
- Samsung 850 Pro 512GB (from a previous build)
- Samsung 850 EVO 120GB (from a previous build)
- Corsair 860i (from a previous build)
- LG 27UL850-W (use mainly with my MacBook Pro over USB-C, but now shares)
- CM Storm QuickFire TK (MX Browns, from a previous build)
- Mionix Naos 8200 (MX Browns, from a previous build)

 

Let's hope that board gets RMA'd quickly!

 

 

The completed build!

 

 

The satisfying cable management.

 

 

After the magic smoke

[dizmo]

I like it. Very minimalist but sorted.

[DailyProcrastinator]

Looks good! Hopefully the RMA process is not to bad, I love Asus motherboards but damn... I have had some frustrating dealings with them in the past. 

[Torand]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

I like it. Very minimalist but sorted.

Thank you!

 

1 hour ago, TheDailyProcrastinator said:

Looks good! Hopefully the RMA process is not to bad, I love Asus motherboards but damn... I have had some frustrating dealings with them in the past. 

I really hope it goes well. Overclockers UK are dealing with it as its within 14 days of purchase. Although that board is out of stock everywhere, so I'm thinking I'm going to be without it for a few weeks at minimum. Sad times. Very sad times.

[DailyProcrastinator]

1 hour ago, Othyn said:

I really hope it goes well. Overclockers UK are dealing with it as its within 14 days of purchase. Although that board is out of stock everywhere, so I'm thinking I'm going to be without it for a few weeks at minimum. Sad times. Very sad times.

Ahhh okay at least the seller is dealing with it. I mean in my case Asus did rectify the issue it just took much longer than it should have, and a lot of back and forth nonsense. Also, keep in mind that every step of the way will be delayed because of covid, so yeah.... Hopefully you can get it up and running in a few weeks, honestly it might take months though, but hopefully not. 

[Torand]

On 4/28/2020 at 10:03 PM, TheDailyProcrastinator said:

Ahhh okay at least the seller is dealing with it. I mean in my case Asus did rectify the issue it just took much longer than it should have, and a lot of back and forth nonsense. Also, keep in mind that every step of the way will be delayed because of covid, so yeah.... Hopefully you can get it up and running in a few weeks, honestly it might take months though, but hopefully not. 

Yep, already had shipping delays getting the order initially, so not holding out hope for shipping back soon. OC say 3-5 days that they have to test the board in house. Then beyond that, no idea. Shipped it back yesterday and it arrived at their warehouse this morning, so hope I see some progress by next week. Hopefully it doesn't drag on for months, especially as I only had it built for 3 days. Kinda hope its just a replacement situation, as its within 14 days of purchase it may get treated as faulty goods under EU law (I think, looking at their support page). They also have a 14 day guarentee that they are still upholding, so lets see.

 

After over a year of no PC gaming, I was super excited to get back online with friends and sink into some CS again!

[DailyProcrastinator]

6 hours ago, Othyn said:

Yep, already had shipping delays getting the order initially, so not holding out hope for shipping back soon. OC say 3-5 days that they have to test the board in house. Then beyond that, no idea. Shipped it back yesterday and it arrived at their warehouse this morning, so hope I see some progress by next week. Hopefully it doesn't drag on for months, especially as I only had it built for 3 days. Kinda hope its just a replacement situation, as its within 14 days of purchase it may get treated as faulty goods under EU law (I think, looking at their support page). They also have a 14 day guarentee that they are still upholding, so lets see.

 

After over a year of no PC gaming, I was super excited to get back online with friends and sink into some CS again!

14 days would be nice. Hopefully that's the case. I would think it would need to be replaced as well. 

 

 My TG panel on my FD Meshify C shattered, and it is going to take months to get a new one (already has been a full month). If you are interested you can see that post HERE.