Project Blitz - Kingzogan's Salvaged Build (Minor Updates)

[Guest]

Well, I have the worst luck. I get the replacement GTX 780 today only to find its dead on arrival. Not buying from PNY again.....

[simson0606]

are you sure it isn't a driver problem?

[Guest]

are you sure it isn't a driver problem?

I really doubt a bad driver can cause a card to not even power on, the LED doesn't even turn on. I am running the latest drivers though, and my GTX 650 works just fine in the exact same slot.

[AMaleWhale]

sucks with the card :I But build is looking really cool ;D Can't wait to see it finished n stuff.

[PhantomChevron]

Awesome build! I plan on doing something like this with my Acer pc in the later year, need cash , anyways great build/project 

 

Edit: Why did you use a Z77 board for a non k cpu? Should have maybe just used a H77 board, like the H77 Pro4/MVP.

        also just for the GPU thing, try to go with Asus/EVGA for gpus, Gigabyte and MSI are great choices too.

[Guest]

Awesome build! I plan on doing something like this with my Acer pc in the later year, need cash , anyways great build/project 

 

Edit: Why did you use a Z77 board for a non k cpu? Should have maybe just used a H77 board, like the H77 Pro4/MVP.

        also just for the GPU thing, try to go with Asus/EVGA for gpus, Gigabyte and MSI are great choices too.

Thanks for the feedback =D I kept with a Z77 board for what I thought was a reason: to keep my options open to upgrading

-but now that I realize that there are these things called NEW RELEASES, I see that is kinda pointless. I'd say the real reason is because I didn't know what H77 was at the time and what the difference was =P

 

I've learned my lesson about GPU's. Next card I'm getting will be an Gigabye or EVGA card >.>

[PhantomChevron]

Thanks for the feedback =D I kept with a Z77 board for what I thought was a reason: to keep my options open to upgrading

-but now that I realize that there are these things called NEW RELEASES, I see that is kinda pointless. I'd say the real reason is because I didn't know what H77 was at the time and what the difference was =P

 

I've learned my lesson about GPU's. Next card I'm getting will be an EVGA card >.>

Good the hear! My friend bought a EVGA card, all went well, he had no problems till today

[Guest]

Third 780 arrived today, working well =D Will post pics and finalized build soon.

[Guest]

Build Complete! See first page for all the glorious pictures.

 

Future Changes:

 

RMA my power supply as it makes a horribly annoying noise

Fix up cable management a bit

Fix the slightly crooked CPU cooler (Kudos if you could see it =D)

 

Thanks for following!

[NerdNinja]

Nice job man!

[Guest]

Nice job man!

Thanks =D

[Monti]

I really love the cooler changing LEDs. Also how did you like working in that case?

[Guest]

I really love the cooler changing LEDs. Also how did you like working in that case?

I don't really have any experiences working in any other cases, except for prebuilt cases from Dell. It's a little cramped, could use those cable managing grommets, but it's nice to build in. Window is just the right size and hides my mediocre cable management

[Guest]

UPDATE: For several reasons that I will explain in the following spoiler, I returned the 780 and got a Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB (It CAN use most of it's memory even though it has a 256-bit bus, so stop whining) and a Corsair RM 750 PSU.

 

I swapped the Power supply because the TX PSU had a horrible amount of coil whine that was getting worse by the day, I needed to do something so I sent it back and got a nice super-quiet RM series PSU that appears to be VERY quiet as of now.

I swapped the Graphics card for the following reasons:

• Even though I am running games at 5760x1080, the games I play aren't VERY GPU intensive. I realized I didn't need the full performance of a GTX 780.
• I needed some of the money back, I can't afford a GTX 780 >.>
• The PNY card burned out after 2 days....... yep. Thankfully I was able to get store credit to get these guys =D

I trust Gigabyte, bought a card from them before and It was amazingly silent, no issues either. 

 

 

And the Power supply of course:

 

 

Mounted it into the system. The cables aren't sleeved but are all black, which made for quite easy cable management.

 

 

(The lighting in that picture is so.... god-like)

 

The fans on the 770 are smaller than I thought. I had expected the fans to be the size of the one on my GTX 650:

 

 

After an hour: (Bad pictures due to the fact that I couldnt fit the tripod in that space, and poor lighting)

 

 

View from the window, can't see any of the cables =D

 

 

 

 

 

Now the machine is more silent than ever.... except when you want it to sound like a 700km/h monorail (Just turn up the GPU fan speed all the way and you should be good  )