350D green machine

[bnwmuppet]

So my younger sisters are starting to get into pc games and requested a decent computer, so i took the opportunity to start work on something that should get the job done.

The previous machine was a gross OEM dust magnet I built for them about 18-24 months ago for general web browsing.... see below...  :angry:

 

 

I grabbed a 350D because i just really love these cases, especially the capabilities corsair gets out of the form factor.

I kept the gigabyte 78lmt-usb3 despite reservations with the lack of sata3 support, but given they wouldn't know the difference i'm going to roll with it.
It's currently got an old phenom II x4 955 with a stock cooler, 8GB of 1600Mhz GeIL enhance corsa, an XFX bronze semi-modular 650W power supply, and some REALLY poor graphics card from the OEM, a HD6570. I'm using a Samsung evo 240GB SSD for OS.

I grabbed a green 30cm bitfenix alchemy to start the green theme that i'm going to roll through the case

It's got an asus DVDRW for the purpose of installing a heap of sims games  :mellow:

Also has an Asus Wireless PCI card

 

 

 (NOTE: iphone does a horrible job of capturing the green when theres ambient light, will take better photos when finished.)

 

 

Parts to get:

FX-8350 to OC to approx 4.5

H100i (Maybe... or some other AIO cooler, i currently use a h100i in my red theme build and quite enjoy being able to change the corsair logo LED colour)

GTX780 (ASUS directcuii most likely).

Bitfenix green LED fans (would prefer corsair AF series with green LED but dont seem to exist).
Noctua NF-P12's for the AIO cooler, which will be lightly sanded and painted green most likely using can

WD Caviar black 2TB

 

Other jobs:
Taking the heat spreaders off the RAM and painting green.

Getting all black SATA cables and mounting SSD on mobo backplate. + getting longer sata power cables

Painting DVD interior casing if the drive is going to stay

painting coloured 24pin and other power/front panel IO connectors

 

Pondering:
Is it worth fixing the aesthetics of the PSU?

[vern021]

So my younger sisters are starting to get into pc games and requested a decent computer, so i took the opportunity to start work on something that should get the job done.

The previous machine was a gross OEM dust magnet I built for them about 18-24 months ago for general web browsing.... see below...  :angry:

 

Photo 26-07-2014 1 46 45 pm2.jpg

 

I grabbed a 350D because i just really love these cases, especially the capabilities corsair gets out of the form factor.

I kept the gigabyte 78lmt-usb3 despite reservations with the lack of sata3 support, but given they wouldn't know the difference i'm going to roll with it.

It's currently got an old phenom II x4 955 with a stock cooler, 8GB of 1600Mhz GeIL enhance corsa, an XFX bronze semi-modular 650W power supply, and some REALLY poor graphics card from the OEM, a HD6570. I'm using a Samsung evo 240GB SSD for OS.

I grabbed a green 30cm bitfenix alchemy to start the green theme that i'm going to roll through the case

It's got an asus DVDRW for the purpose of installing a heap of sims games  :mellow:

Also has an Asus Wireless PCI card

 

Photo 26-07-2014 1 48 44 pm.jpg

 

 (NOTE: iphone does a horrible job of capturing the green when theres ambient light, will take better photos when finished.)

 

Photo 26-07-2014 1 50 16 pm.jpg

 

Parts to get:

FX-8350 to OC to approx 4.5

H100i (Maybe... or some other AIO cooler, i currently use a h100i in my red theme build and quite enjoy being able to change the corsair logo LED colour)

GTX780 (ASUS directcuii most likely).

Bitfenix green LED fans (would prefer corsair AF series with green LED but dont seem to exist).

Noctua NF-P12's for the AIO cooler, which will be lightly sanded and painted green most likely using can

WD Caviar black 2TB

 

Other jobs:

Taking the heat spreaders off the RAM and painting green.

Getting all black SATA cables and mounting SSD on mobo backplate. + getting longer sata power cables

Painting DVD interior casing if the drive is going to stay

painting coloured 24pin and other power/front panel IO connectors

 

Pondering:

Is it worth fixing the aesthetics of the PSU?

Put a PSU Shroud if you can

[TheSLSAMG]

Parts to get:

FX-8350 to OC to approx 4.5

If you do this on that motherboard, you are asking for that system to die.

[JoshM]

If you do this on that motherboard, you are asking for that system to die.

Yeah that mobo will barely handle having just an 8350 on it. 

[lachyman]

New motherboard should be top priority as stated above, not only it can't handle the FX8350, but it also limits that SSD severely.

[bnwmuppet]

Yeah that mobo will barely handle having just an 8350 on it.

Hmmmm I did chuck an fx-8350 in it (from one of my desktops) to see if it ran and it seemed to run fine for the few hours of fiddling I did.

I was concerned about the 4+1 power initially.

Anyone have any recommendations for mATX boards that are similarly all black and have better power design?

[JoshM]

Hmmmm I did chuck an fx-8350 in it (from one of my desktops) to see if it ran and it seemed to run fine for the few hours of fiddling I did.

I was concerned about the 4+1 power initially.

Anyone have any recommendations for mATX boards that are similarly all black and have better power design?

Not for AM3 they are all horrible. Biggest I would go is an FX 6300