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Okay so I always wanted to build my own PC, and go back a year, or even 6 months, and I didn't have a clue about how to go about it. I started watching Linus' build videos on Youtube and I was confused with modular this, LGA that etc, However I was inspired. I started my research, and to stop myself from giving up before I even started, purchased a Corsair C70 in August 2013. I spent the next few months watching Linus and Carey Holzman whilst researching parts.

 

I knew from the outset that if I was going to do it, I was going to do it properly and not set myself a budget, but with that said I was not going to go crazy! Before starting this project, the most I had done was replace RAM and a bad PSU, the build itself did not worry me, I had watched enough videos, but the software side of things did; see I had this idea that PC builders have to set up and configure the BIOS - voltages, fan speeds, all that kinda stuff. I didn't realize that mobo manufacturers did it all (to a certain extent) for you.

 

Anyway here's what I ended up with;

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CPU:  Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£238.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler:  Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£86.50 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard:  Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£172.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory:  Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£212.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage:  Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£111.13 @ Amazon UK)
Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£77.44 @ Amazon UK)
Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£77.44 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card:  EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£419.98 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card:  EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£419.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case:  Corsair Vengeance C70 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£88.46 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan:  Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition 37.9 CFM 120mm  Fan  (£12.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case Fan:  Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition 37.9 CFM 120mm  Fan  (£12.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case Fan:  Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition 37.9 CFM 120mm  Fan  (£12.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply:  Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For £148.85)
Operating System:  Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro (OEM) (64-bit)  (Purchased For £106.99)
Monitor:  Samsung S27B970D 27.0" Monitor  (Purchased For £659.99)
Keyboard:  Ducky DK9008 Shine 3 White LED Backlit (Brown Cherry MX) Wired Standard Keyboard  (Purchased For £139.99)
Mouse:  Razer Mamba 2012 Elite Wireless Laser Mouse  (£170.05 @ Amazon UK)
Other: Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 120mm Case Fan (Purchased For £19.99)
Other: Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 120mm Case Fan (Purchased For £19.99)
Other: Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 120mm Case Fan (Purchased For £19.99)
Other: Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 120mm Case Fan (Purchased For £19.99)
Other: Corsair Generation 2 Sleeved Cable Kit (Red) (Purchased For £64.99)
Other: Corsair Generation 2 Sleeved 24 Pin Cable (Red) (Purchased For £14.99)
Other: EVGA GTX 780 Classified Backplate (Purchased For £12.00)
Other: Lamptron FC5 V2 5.25" Bay Fan Controller (Black) (Purchased For £34.99)
Other: Corsair Dominator Platinum Light Bar Upgrades (Arctic White) (Purchased For £19.87)
Other: Corsair Dominator Platinum Light Bar Upgrades (Arctic White) (Purchased For £19.87)
Other: EVGA Pro SLI Bridge (2 Way) (Purchased For £29.99)
Other: Razer Goliathus Extended Control Mouse Mat  (Purchased For £29.98)
Total: £3471.86
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-21 23:57 GMT+0000)

 

 

 

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Corsair C70 Black Windowed | Asus Sabertooth Z87 | i7 4770k | Corsair H100i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 4x4GB 1866Mhz | SLI GTX 780 Classified | Corsair AX860 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 2x2TB WD Green


Corsair 350D Windowed | Asus Gryphon Z87 | i5 4670k | Corsair H75 | Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 2x4GB 1600Mhz | Corsair RM550 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 4TB WD Green.


Bitfenix Phenom ITX White | Asus Z97i-Plus | Pentium G3258 | Noctua NH-L9i | Kingston HyperX Fury White 2x4GB 1866Mhz | Silverstone Strider 550 | Crucial M.2 120GB SSD | 4x5TB WD Red. (work in progress)

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MOAR MOAR PICTURES!

Hope I could help!

Specs: CPU: AMD FX-8320 @4.0ghz GPU: ASUS DCUII GTX 770 PSU: EVGA Supernova 750g CASE: Fractal Define R4 RAM: 8 Gigabytes ADATA 1333 Mhz MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3

 

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Love the individual sleeving and fans.

CPU: Intel i7 8700K | CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 | RAM: Kingston HyperX 2x8GB | Motherboard: Asus ROG Z370-E | GPU: MSI GTX 970 | HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB & 2TB | SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB & 970 EVO M.2 500GB | Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X | PSU: Silverstone Platinum Strider 1100W | Monitor: AOC i2367Fh | Headphones: ATH-M40X | Mic: Antlion ModMic 4 | Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB w/ MX Browns | Mouse: Logitech G502 HERO

 

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I appluad you and your build. Very nice....kinda speechless though I'm typing all of this >_>

I would guess that PS4 is only for Show....next to some giantantic 90" inch tv in your room :D hahaha or it's for putting coffee on

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I approve, very nice.

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Desktop CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 @ 4.4GHz cooled by a Corsair H105 | Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X79 | RAM: 32GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1600 | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 SC3 Ultra Gaming | SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 1TB + Crutial M500 240GB + Samsung 840 120GB | HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM + WB Black 4TB 7200RPM | Case: Fractal Design Meshify C | Mouse: Logitech G402 & MX Master | Keyboard: Poker II  MX Blue & Leopold 10-key pad Box Royals | Monitor: LG 34UB88-P | Audio: Audio-Technica ATH-M50 + FiiO E5 DAC + Rode NT-USB Mini

 

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Corsair swag everywhere... man that awesome cool red accents BOSS :D

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I'm jealous of your Classys >:c

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Love your build!

Very clean and has a great color pallet. 

Well done!

|CPU: Intel 5960X|MOBO:Rampage V Extreme|GPU:EVGA 980Ti SC 2 - Way SLI|RAM:G-Skill 32GB|CASE:900D|PSU:CorsairAX1200i|DISPLAY :Dell U2412M X3|SSD Intel 750 400GB, 2X Samsung 850 Pro|

Peripherals : | MOUSE : Logitech G602 | KEYBOARD: K70 RGB (Cherry MX Brown) | NAS: Synology DS1515+  - WD RED 3TB X 5|ROUTER: AC68U

Sound : | HEADPHONES: Sennheiser HD800 SPEAKERS: B&W CM9 (Front floorstanding) ,  B&W CM Center 2 (Centre) | AV RECEIVER : Denon 3806 | MY X99 BUILD LOG!

 

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MOAR MOAR PICTURES!

 

I'll take some more tomorrow, (I'm working on my second build anyway so it'll be a good excuse to get the camera out) I only recently got the second 780 backplate installed and swapped the pigtail PCI cables over for 6+2 ones. It meant running 2 extra cables but they look much neater now IMO

 

I appluad you and your build. Very nice....kinda speechless though I'm typing all of this >_>

I would guess that PS4 is only for Show....next to some giantantic 90" inch tv in your room :D hahaha or it's for putting coffee on

 

 

Thanks, PS4 is for when my buddies text because they want to play COD Ghosts :D

Corsair C70 Black Windowed | Asus Sabertooth Z87 | i7 4770k | Corsair H100i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 4x4GB 1866Mhz | SLI GTX 780 Classified | Corsair AX860 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 2x2TB WD Green


Corsair 350D Windowed | Asus Gryphon Z87 | i5 4670k | Corsair H75 | Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 2x4GB 1600Mhz | Corsair RM550 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 4TB WD Green.


Bitfenix Phenom ITX White | Asus Z97i-Plus | Pentium G3258 | Noctua NH-L9i | Kingston HyperX Fury White 2x4GB 1866Mhz | Silverstone Strider 550 | Crucial M.2 120GB SSD | 4x5TB WD Red. (work in progress)

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Nice, be cool if you did a custom paint job, like painted the top of the ram red, and did an airbrushed finish on the outside, like some sort of two tone (but yeah they cost a lot). but still very cool indeed. 

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Looks Sweet, have you changed the corsair logo to red? it has a rgb color chooser for the LED

CPU: i7-4770k CPU Cooler: NH-D14 RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8gb GPU: EVGA Superclocked 780 ti MOBO: ASUS Maximus VI Gene PSU: Corsair RM 850 Case: Bitfenix Prodigy M

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Looks Sweet, have you changed the corsair logo to red? it has a rgb color chooser for the LED

 

 

on the H100i? yeah.

Corsair C70 Black Windowed | Asus Sabertooth Z87 | i7 4770k | Corsair H100i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 4x4GB 1866Mhz | SLI GTX 780 Classified | Corsair AX860 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 2x2TB WD Green


Corsair 350D Windowed | Asus Gryphon Z87 | i5 4670k | Corsair H75 | Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 2x4GB 1600Mhz | Corsair RM550 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 4TB WD Green.


Bitfenix Phenom ITX White | Asus Z97i-Plus | Pentium G3258 | Noctua NH-L9i | Kingston HyperX Fury White 2x4GB 1866Mhz | Silverstone Strider 550 | Crucial M.2 120GB SSD | 4x5TB WD Red. (work in progress)

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I absolutely love this build! the corsair C70 is my guilty pleasure case

I sometimes use the pen from my wacom tablet to type cuz i'm too lazy to set it down :P

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would be great to get more pics but that shot of the pc on the desk is really nice imo

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thanks guys.

 

have some lighting arrivung this week and a day off wednesday so hopefully i can get it installed

Corsair C70 Black Windowed | Asus Sabertooth Z87 | i7 4770k | Corsair H100i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 4x4GB 1866Mhz | SLI GTX 780 Classified | Corsair AX860 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 2x2TB WD Green


Corsair 350D Windowed | Asus Gryphon Z87 | i5 4670k | Corsair H75 | Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 2x4GB 1600Mhz | Corsair RM550 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 4TB WD Green.


Bitfenix Phenom ITX White | Asus Z97i-Plus | Pentium G3258 | Noctua NH-L9i | Kingston HyperX Fury White 2x4GB 1866Mhz | Silverstone Strider 550 | Crucial M.2 120GB SSD | 4x5TB WD Red. (work in progress)

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Got my lights installed

 

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Corsair C70 Black Windowed | Asus Sabertooth Z87 | i7 4770k | Corsair H100i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 4x4GB 1866Mhz | SLI GTX 780 Classified | Corsair AX860 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 2x2TB WD Green


Corsair 350D Windowed | Asus Gryphon Z87 | i5 4670k | Corsair H75 | Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 2x4GB 1600Mhz | Corsair RM550 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 4TB WD Green.


Bitfenix Phenom ITX White | Asus Z97i-Plus | Pentium G3258 | Noctua NH-L9i | Kingston HyperX Fury White 2x4GB 1866Mhz | Silverstone Strider 550 | Crucial M.2 120GB SSD | 4x5TB WD Red. (work in progress)

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Nice build! I'm really jealous. :P (I have a AMD FX-6100, so yeah)

 

How's the cable management in the C70? I was looking in to that case, and I have a non-modular PSU...

 

EDIT: Also, did you change the side panel window? All the ones I see have the fan mounts. 

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Nice build! I'm really jealous. :P (I have a AMD FX-6100, so yeah)

 

How's the cable management in the C70? I was looking in to that case, and I have a non-modular PSU...

 

EDIT: Also, did you change the side panel window? All the ones I see have the fan mounts. 

 

 

cable management is good.

 

yeah I changed it, didn't like the fan mounts in the original.

Corsair C70 Black Windowed | Asus Sabertooth Z87 | i7 4770k | Corsair H100i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 4x4GB 1866Mhz | SLI GTX 780 Classified | Corsair AX860 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 2x2TB WD Green


Corsair 350D Windowed | Asus Gryphon Z87 | i5 4670k | Corsair H75 | Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 2x4GB 1600Mhz | Corsair RM550 | Samsung EVO 250GB SSD | 4TB WD Green.


Bitfenix Phenom ITX White | Asus Z97i-Plus | Pentium G3258 | Noctua NH-L9i | Kingston HyperX Fury White 2x4GB 1866Mhz | Silverstone Strider 550 | Crucial M.2 120GB SSD | 4x5TB WD Red. (work in progress)

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great job.  Would also like to see more pics :)

 

Any plans to OC?

 

Edit - i see the new pics.  awesome!

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