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I may have created a monster - Girlfriend is building a serious rig (update 13/12/14)

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Hey guys, 

 

Just joined the forum last night. Here's the latest project I'm working on. 

 

 

My girlfriend recently came into some money and decided she wanted to build a gaming/content creating system. We started the project of with a decent budget, but it's ballooned into something really impressive. 

Check out the specs. 

 

 

CPU: Intel Core i7 5820k 

Motherboard: Asus X99-A

Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 2400

GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 970 SC ACX2.0 

 

Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D

fans: Corsair AF120 and AF140 Purple

Power Supply: Corsair AX760

Cables: Custom sleeved kit (purple and green) - from ebay seller

 

SSD1: Samsung EVO 840 250GB (boot drive)

SSD2: Samsung EVO 840 120GB (scratch drive)

HDD: Western Digital Black 2TB (data, project drive)

 

Cooling: EK-KIT L240  - Monsoon free center compression fittings (green fittings, purple angle adaptors) 

GPU block: when EK launches it, we'll be ordering a full block and backplate for the GPU. 

 

Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB (when we can find one) 

Mouse: Corsair M65 RGB

 

 

This build is happening in 3 phases. 

 

Phase 1: Obsidian 350D, AIO H55 cooler, X99 Micro mobo. 

 

Phase 2: Obsidian 450D, AIO H55, Asus X99-A 

 

Phase 3: Modified Obsidian 750D, EK full loop watercooling with purple fluid. 
 

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Core i7-2600k @ 4.65Ghz - Asus Maximus IV Gene Z - 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Cerilian Blue - Samsung EVO 840 250GB - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB - 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC - Corsair AX850, custom sleaved and length - Silverstone Sugo heavily modified - Full loop with EK blocks and 360 rad, frozenq res. 

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Good job! That PC will be awesome. If I ever have a girlfriend I want her to like PCs. 

Intel 4790k | Asus Z97 Maximus VII Impact | Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16 GB 1866Mhz | Asus Strix GTX 980 | CoolerMaster G550 |Samsung Evo 250GB | Synology DS215j (NAS) | Logitech G502 |

 

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If you don't keep her, one of the LTT Forum guys will for sure :D

CPU: Xeon 1230v3 - GPU: GTX 770  - SSD: 120GB 840 Evo - HDD: WD Blue 1TB - RAM: Ballistix 8GB - Case: CM N400 - PSU: CX 600M - Cooling: Cooler Master 212 Evo

Update Plans: Mini ITX this bitch

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Created a monster? She'll fit right in on LTT, then.

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I can be presuaded to trader her for ddr2 sticks and a fried 60gb maxtor drive, and a gt 330 !

Ill trade 2x 980's

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we need moar pics!

Intel Xeon E5 1650 v3 @ 3.5GHz 6C:12T / CM212 Evo / Asus X99 Deluxe / 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 3000 Trident-Z / Samsung 850 Pro 256GB / Intel 335 240GB / WD Red 2 & 3TB / Antec 850w / RTX 2070 / Win10 Pro x64

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HP Envy x360 BP series Intel 8th gen

AMD ThreadRipper 2!

5820K & 6800K 3-way SLI mobo support list

 

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hahaha! I'm keeping her! 

 

More pics to come. posted this while board at work. 

this is actually a rebuild of the system she currently has, EVGA x99 micro and corsair obsidian 350D with an H60 cooler. 

 

I can post pics of the current build tonight. and of the new case. 

still waiting for the x99-a to arrive this week. 

 

Once I have all the parts here I'll post some pics. 

Core i7-2600k @ 4.65Ghz - Asus Maximus IV Gene Z - 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Cerilian Blue - Samsung EVO 840 250GB - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB - 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC - Corsair AX850, custom sleaved and length - Silverstone Sugo heavily modified - Full loop with EK blocks and 360 rad, frozenq res. 

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hahaha! I'm keeping her! 

 

More pics to come. posted this while board at work. 

this is actually a rebuild of the system she currently has, EVGA x99 micro and corsair obsidian 350D with an H60 cooler. 

 

I can post pics of the current build tonight. and of the new case. 

still waiting for the x99-a to arrive this week. 

 

Once I have all the parts here I'll post some pics. 

2x 980's, a 5930k, and 2 slaves?

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hahaha! I'm keeping her! 

 

More pics to come. posted this while board at work. 

this is actually a rebuild of the system she currently has, EVGA x99 micro and corsair obsidian 350D with an H60 cooler. 

 

I can post pics of the current build tonight. and of the new case. 

still waiting for the x99-a to arrive this week. 

 

Once I have all the parts here I'll post some pics. 

Heard you'd like a nice little hut in the austrian mountains? :D

CPU: Xeon 1230v3 - GPU: GTX 770  - SSD: 120GB 840 Evo - HDD: WD Blue 1TB - RAM: Ballistix 8GB - Case: CM N400 - PSU: CX 600M - Cooling: Cooler Master 212 Evo

Update Plans: Mini ITX this bitch

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X99 watercooling girlfriend! Not always girls are more worth it than 'dream' builds for us! Definitively keep her!

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Looks like it will be an interesting build. Any case modding to match the colour scheme?

I am the one who goes bump in the night... usually making a sandwich.

 

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Primo White - Motherboard: ASUS X99 Deluxe - CPU: Intel i7 5820k - RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance 2666mhz ddr4 - GPU: Dual EVGA gtx 980 SSC - PSU: EVGA G2 Supernova 750w - Cooler: Custom PETG Loop on cpu and gpus - Storage: 500gb Samsung 850 evo ssd, 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 3tb hdd

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At the moment no mods to the case, mostly because she's getting impatient.

I'd like yo paint it purple with green accents. It may still happen.

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At the moment no mods to the case, mostly because she's getting impatient.

I'd like yo paint it purple with green accents. It may still happen.

Do it! It will be so worth it in the end.

I am the one who goes bump in the night... usually making a sandwich.

 

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Primo White - Motherboard: ASUS X99 Deluxe - CPU: Intel i7 5820k - RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance 2666mhz ddr4 - GPU: Dual EVGA gtx 980 SSC - PSU: EVGA G2 Supernova 750w - Cooler: Custom PETG Loop on cpu and gpus - Storage: 500gb Samsung 850 evo ssd, 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 3tb hdd

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Weird. 

I just noticed that on my cell phone I'm logged in with a different account. I must have made one a while back and forgot about it. 

 

 

*Pumcy is also me, which I'll gladly let be deleted* 

Core i7-2600k @ 4.65Ghz - Asus Maximus IV Gene Z - 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Cerilian Blue - Samsung EVO 840 250GB - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB - 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC - Corsair AX850, custom sleaved and length - Silverstone Sugo heavily modified - Full loop with EK blocks and 360 rad, frozenq res. 

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Hey guys, 

sorry I'm late with pictures. the images my phone takes are too large to upload so I had to wait until I had time to resize them. 

There's going to be a couple updates in one as result. 

 

So here we go. This is how the computer was originally built back in October. 

 

 

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Shortly after that we sold the reference design 970 and bought an ACX 2.0 OC edition. 2 were purchased at that time, but one was for a customer. I put it in to test SLI performance, and this is when we found our first issue with the X99 Micro board. 

 

With 2 cards installed, unless you can find a 90degree adaptor, it's impossible to have the front USB3.0 cable plugged in. 

Shortly after that I found out the the EK250L kit that we bought for the system won't fit into a 350D with this Mobo. The 4+4 pin is to close to the edge to fit the radiator + fans at the top, and since we can't relocate the HDD bay in this case without some serious mods (add that to the fact that this case was only used because I got it free. It was damaged in shipping and they reimbursed me the cost and told me I could keep it) Tracy decided that she would pick out her own case. Thus kicking off the rebuild. 

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Core i7-2600k @ 4.65Ghz - Asus Maximus IV Gene Z - 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Cerilian Blue - Samsung EVO 840 250GB - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB - 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC - Corsair AX850, custom sleaved and length - Silverstone Sugo heavily modified - Full loop with EK blocks and 360 rad, frozenq res. 

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And this the tear down begins. 

 

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Core i7-2600k @ 4.65Ghz - Asus Maximus IV Gene Z - 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Cerilian Blue - Samsung EVO 840 250GB - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB - 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC - Corsair AX850, custom sleaved and length - Silverstone Sugo heavily modified - Full loop with EK blocks and 360 rad, frozenq res. 

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Since her sister had ordered pretty much the same computer, and wasn't going to be doing SLI, we sold her the board. I left the CPU and memory in there for her. We'll use the new stuff for this build for simplicity sake, and because Tracy has never installed a CPU or memory before, and she wanted to do this start to finish. 

 

 

 

 

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Core i7-2600k @ 4.65Ghz - Asus Maximus IV Gene Z - 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Cerilian Blue - Samsung EVO 840 250GB - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB - 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC - Corsair AX850, custom sleaved and length - Silverstone Sugo heavily modified - Full loop with EK blocks and 360 rad, frozenq res. 

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Phase 2 begins! 

 

 

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Core i7-2600k @ 4.65Ghz - Asus Maximus IV Gene Z - 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Cerilian Blue - Samsung EVO 840 250GB - Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB - 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC - Corsair AX850, custom sleaved and length - Silverstone Sugo heavily modified - Full loop with EK blocks and 360 rad, frozenq res. 

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