Project: Red Torpedo

[nicehat]

@Lozi Sweet parts. One thing though. Good luck getting that AC68 to work with Windows 8.1. I tried it myself and the latest drivers for it are fubar. That was a few months ago though so maybe they've updated them? Let me know if you get it working properly. 

[Lozi]

@Lozi Sweet parts. One thing though. Good luck getting that AC68 to work with Windows 8.1. I tried it myself and the latest drivers for it are fubar. That was a few months ago though so maybe they've updated them? Let me know if you get it working properly.

Will do

[Lozi]

Ok so I have got cracking with this, I'm new to building and saw you should test outside the case first. If I'm doing it wrong calm down I'm a noob lol

CPU and ram fitted, notice the mark on the hero part of the heat sink which I'm not happy about

Stock cooler fitted

780's

Opened the power supply, love the velvet bag lol

Gave it a test, sorry about the crap picture it's a dark room

More to come

[Lozi]

Some pics of bits starting to go in the case

Horrible flash pic, look at the front base cable which is way to short so it's ruining my setup

[Lozi]

More pics

The H105 is a tight fit in the 450D

Struggling to get these cables to sit nice

LED fan on the floor

Found a home for the corsair link, don't even know what this does but it's there lol

Got the red ring fitted

Wifi card

Upside down 850 Pro

[Ceatra]

Dat is so smexy *meow*.

Sorry for that my cat wrote it. Man (or girl) that is a really nice machine, your Acer laptop shouldn't see that pc or she begins to cry. Just don't go to LTT with her or don't put her on the same table as your new computer

[Ceatra]

More pics

The H105 is a tight fit in the 450D

Struggling to get these cables to sit nice

LED fan on the floor

Found a home for the corsair link, don't even know what this does but it's there lol

Got the red ring fitted

Wifi card

Upside down 850 Pro

I think the corsair link is to monetize you voltage or something like that

[nicehat]

Looking good! Anyway you could get your hands on a smaller SLI bridge? If not, it still looks awesome 

[Lozi]

Dat is so smexy *meow*.

Sorry for that my cat wrote it. Man (or girl) that is a really nice machine

 

Thanks! And yes it's man lol

 

Looking good! Anyway you could get your hands on a smaller SLI bridge? If not, it still looks awesome

I got a smaller black one with the mobo but it doesn't clear the plastic on the graphics card, it's pretty annoying as I hate the one I've had to use!

[CJPowell27]

It would look a lot better if the rad was flipped around IMHO

[CaffienatedBovine]

Can we see a finished pic that isn't a blurry close up? With the side panel and such.

[mcmad358]

I am loving the looks of it! Cant wait for the final outcome!

 

Ill take that mechanical key switch sampler off your hands!

[mcmad358]

I think the corsair link is to monetize you voltage or something like that

You just had to done go do quote all of his pics 

[Kryptyx]

I have pretty similar build to this, I went with red/black silverstone sleeved extensions. x2 AF140 led red in the front and 120AF in the back exhaust. I also put a Logisys Sun Stick at the top near the radiator to cast down a nice red glow. It casts a nice glow on the back of the ASUS plates. Its a shame the video cards cover all the sexiness of the motherboard.

[nicehat]

@Lozi, Did you end up getting the wifi card to work in windows 8? Any issues with it or the drivers? 

[Polyvalent]

Welp this beats out my 450D by a long shot.  Can we get some delicious final pictures?

[Lozi]

its been a while since I updated this as I just haven't had the time so here's some more pics (unfortunately they are crappy iPhone pics)

Ugly SLI bridge

Also this beauty arrived

@Lozi, Did you end up getting the wifi card to work in windows 8? Any issues with it or the drivers?

 

Initially it messed me about a little but then I updated the drivers and it works perfect now really fast aswell

 

 Its a shame the video cards cover all the sexiness of the motherboard.

This really bugs me they cover up so much!

[MourningSouls]

This really bugs me they cover up so much!

IMO, it looks so much better like this. Asus has always overdone the red.

 

Very nice build. Just needs heatshrinkless cables.

[Lozi]

IMO, it looks so much better like this. Asus has always overdone the red.

Very nice build. Just needs heatshrinkless cables.

To be honest I'm really not that into red I wanted a blue and black build but lack of choice forced me to go red

[-TesseracT-]

Dat motherboard box tho

[Lozi]

Dat motherboard box tho

You can probably imagine my joy when that turned up looking like it does lol

[asusfan]

Very nice, i like this build.

love what you done with the memory with 2 red and 2 black modules.

[ArkAngel.exe]

Also. Did you plan on putting the PSU drawing air from the GPU?

[Eddprzz]

This is my first gaming pc build so I have got a lot to learn, the last pc I built was an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ with 1GB of ram about 12 years ago and things have moved on a lot since then.

I have recently been using an old Core 2 Duo Acer laptop with an overheating problem, an old Samsung monitor and bargain basement keyboard and mouse to just about play minecraft on really low settings

Here she is mounted on 4 drinks cans to aid cooling lol

I have been keeping my eye on YouTube Tech channels to get to grips with current hardware and have been waiting for the next big thing to happen, a few weeks ago I came to the realisation that the industry is always changing and so I would be waiting forever so I took the plunge and ordered all the components to make my rig.

I have taken delivery of most of it so here goes my attempt to build a gaming pc.

I want to build so etching that looks good and I also want to have a go at overclocking for the first time.

The obligatory components arranged on a table pic

Stuff I have:

Intel Core i7 4790k

Asus Maximus VII Hero Z97

32GB Kinston Hyper X Fury 1866mhz

Asus GeForce GTX 780 Direct CU II 2 way SLI

Corsair AX860i

Corsair Obsidian 450D

Corsair H105

Samsung 850 Pro 512GB

Western Digital Black 4TB

Asus PCE-AC68 wireless adapter

Samsung external Blu Ray writer

Corsair individual braided cables

Corsair AF120 LED Fan

Asus ROG Frontbase

Windows 8.1

Stuff I'm waiting for:

Asus ROG Swift 2560x1440 G-sync gaming monitor

Corsair SP120, AF120 and AF140 LED fans

The opportunity to pre order Corsair RGB keyboard and mouse

Some more pics of stuff

good choice on GTX 780 I made the stupid choice of going GTX 780 tis and really not much performance gain for 200 dollars extra at the time so I commend u

[MourningSouls]

good choice on GTX 780 I made the stupid choice of going GTX 780 tis and really not much performance gain for 200 dollars extra at the time so I commend u

Dude, delete the images or use a spoiler tag.