Black " OOPS "

[paulstung]

Over the last couple of weeks I've been gathering all the parts needed for a smaller for factor build, mainly for my daily driver, for browsing, streaming, and some game play sat on the couch on the 50" plasma. 

 

      Well that was the plan, until I took my 4670k out of my main rig, in order to flash the bios of a Z87 motherboard for it to take the Pentium G3258, at that point all was good, so I took the 4670k out and put it back in my main rig. That's where the OOPS comes in, I have no clue how I managed to do this but, it wouldn't boot so I stripped it down again, only to notice that on the cpu's contacts there was 2  pins stuck to it, and upon closer inspection it was bent, so it is buggered. I tried to re flatten but, it still wouldn't boot, so for the sake of a 50 quid chip, I have killed a £130 motherboard, and a 180 quid chip. Hence the name of my new main rig build, Black " OOPS ".

 

 

 

    For the build, cash was tight-ish, so I could of re used 1 or both of my 7950's but they are blocked up, and don't want to fully water cool both he cpu, and gpu, plus the reference blocks are butt ugly, so I went for the Sapphire R9 270X Toxic edition OC, with plans to add a second when either the Corsair air 240,  the Enthoo Primo Mini Xl, or  the Enthoo Evolve, I'm leaning towards the Evolve it looks sweet. The only thing I'm re using is the Koolance PMP 500 pump everything else is brand spanking. Right onto the build.

 

Temp case, Aerocool DS in orange

                Pentium G3258

                Asus Gryphon Armor Edition

                8gb 2 x 4gb, 2400Mhz Teamgroup Vulcan orange

                Sapphire R9 270X Toxic OC

                Bitfenix Fury 550w

                Various SSD's ranging from 256gb to 60gb 

                 

Cooling,

  

          XSPC Raystrom

          240mm Black Ice Stealth Cross flow

          Monsonn 16mm Hardline compression's in orange

          Monsoon 16mm black hardline

          Koolance PMP 500

          Alphacool Light Tower mini res and top combo

          mayhems Gigabyte orange pastel 1ltr

          120, 140mm Alpenfohn wing boost 2 in orange

          Stock 200m Aerocool up front

 

I've got a few mods planed, like boxing in the bottom section below the motherboard tray, to hide the cables and pump, I'm toying with the idea of incorporating a light box, as my original  plan was to light the under side of the motherboard with a 5mm acrylic panel with orange LED's drilled in from bellow, but the motherboards back plate, won't allow for that. I'm also playing around with an acrylic panel on the front of the case, to break up the orange and allowing me to remove a section to allow for better air flow coming in from the front.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    That's it for now, I'm aiming to get everything installed all but the cooling side of things, today, with M- ATX being a new challenge I'm being super anal about cables and there placement tying them down as I go, also I'm stitching them with orange waxed cotton just for a bit more contrast to almost ann all black build. Also this is my first build away from black and yellow, which I've done 6 of... I like going away from the norm...lol        

 

 

  Things are coming along great, all is in bar, the plumbing, which I may or not start today, I can then make a start on the acrylic work, to hide the nasties.