First PC Build (900D Plug & Play)

[Ace]

Hey Guys,

This will be my first proper PC build from the bottom up. I have purchased most of the parts and now just waiting on pre ordered parts to come in stock so they can send them to me all at once for cheaper mail rates. I shopped around a bit and source some of my parts from MSY and the rest from PCCG. I hope to have completed this build by the end of next month. I have kind of chosen a Black and red theme but I had to go for the Noctua fans due to their noise level being so low (Brown and Cream colours are great *sarcasm*). Besides these factors I will not be doing any modding... for now. I may consider a full water loop with cpu and gpu in the future. I believe the total expense of my build now is around the $5,800 AUD mark. Any input would be great but remember I have purchased most of these parts already... pretty much all of them.   :P

 

Specs:

Case - Corsair Obsidian 900D (Purchased)

PSU - Corsair AX 1200watt (Purchased) with replacement corsair red sleeved cable kit (Purchased waiting on part)

Motherboard - ASUS Maximus V Extreme (Purchased)

CPU - Intel core i7 3770K (Purchased)

RAM - 32GB Dominator Platinum (4x8GB) DDR3 (Purchased)

GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB Superclocked (Purchased)

SSD - 512GB Samsung 840 Pro (Purchased)

HDD - 3TB Seagate Barracuda (Purchased)

Sound - ASUS Xonar Essence STX (Purchased)

Headset - Sennheiser HD 650 (Purchased)

Fan Control - Lamptron FC5 V2 (Purchased)

Optical Drive - Pioneer 15x Blu-Ray Writer (Purchased)

WiFi Card - TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 (Purchased)

 

Peripherals:

Monitor - ASUS 27" PB278Q 6ms 2560 x 1440 PLS (Purchased)

Keyboard - Razer Blackwidow Ultimate T1 (Purchased)

Gaming Keypad - Razer Orbweaver (Purchased)

Mouse - Razer RZ-TAIPAN (Purchased)

MousePad - Razer RZ-Vespula Dual-Sided (Purchased)

Webcam - Logitech C920 HD (Purchased)

Receiver - Pioneer VSX-521 (Owned)

Speakers - Wharfedale WA-S4 Speaker pack (bar the rear speakers) (Owned)

Microphone - Blue Yeti Pro (Not yet purchased)

 

Fans & Cooling:

CPU Water Cooler - Swiftech H220 (Purchased Waiting On Part)

Rad Fans - 4x NF-F12 PWM (Purchased)

Case Fan - 1x NF-A14 FLX (Purchased)

 

Odds & Ends:

Artic Silver ArctiClean (Purchased)

Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (Purchased)

BitFenix Alchemy Connect 60cm Red LED Strip (Purchased Not Yet Arrived)

 

Sorry for the crudity of the pictures I definitely a camera man. Plus I was just too excited to get it up and running.

Setup proir to the system build. Bought some parts from local PC retailer so I could have a temp work station.

The Case =)

The rest of the parts from Online order.

My Husky sussing out what is happening

The Build

[Ace]

More to come as I get the rest of the parts. I will improve the cable management once I get my sleeved cables.

[SirReallySam]

More to come as I get the rest of the parts. I will improve the cable management once I get my sleeved cables.

awesome :)

[Genecidalic]

More to come as I get the rest of the parts. I will improve the cable management once I get my sleeved cables.

Awesome peripherals i love my orbweaver i couldnt play without it at this point

[Ace]

Awesome peripherals i love my orbweaver i couldnt play without it at this point

Thanks man I also recently bought Sennheiser HD 650's and they make it pretty much complete... Just need bigger bookshelf speakers ;)

[Mac69]

i wish noctua fans wernt such a wierd colour they could sell way more ifthey had black nd blue/ red ones

[enRodjavel]

well the Transformers logo was nice, but now WE wait for the Custom LOOP =D

[nickpc]

looks good

[everything count to life]

Looking good so far mate :d

[Ham1234]

At first i thought you were insane for using the awesome components then using the stock intel cooler.  

Then i read that you were waiting for your cooler to arrive.

 

Looks great.

[Ace]

At first i thought you were insane for using the awesome components then using the stock intel cooler.  

Then i read that you were waiting for your cooler to arrive.

 

Looks great.

 

 

Looking good so far mate

 

 

looks good

 

 

well the Transformers logo was nice, but now WE wait for the Custom LOOP =D

 

 

i wish noctua fans wernt such a wierd colour they could sell way more ifthey had black nd blue/ red ones

 

 

Awesome peripherals i love my orbweaver i couldnt play without it at this point

 

 

awesome

Update:

Taken the Titan out and put in a EVGA Hydro Copper in due to some complications. Running 2x480 Coolgate rads with a pull configuration with the Noctua NF's. 700ml EK res and a EK CPU waterblock and primo chill 3/8 ID 5/8 OD tubing with bitspower compression fittings. The pump is a D5 with EK fitting for the 1/4 fittings. After a lot of frustration with my H220 pump shitting itself I had to water cool sooner then I thought I would have to. I love the 780 and it seems to work alot better with games than the titan and the 3gb less vram has no side effects. All in all I love my build but I would never advise someone going into water cooling unless they have someone there with experience to guide them through it. I made plenty mistakes but I can't take them back now but I like the end result. Next build will be a titan steam machine haha.

 

 

 

 

 

[Ace]

sorry for the quality of the photos as it was taken from a iPhone and in hindsight I should have turn the leds to white but this week in Adelaide (Australia) there is a heat wave and I'm currently melting in 45 degree Celsius... Upstairs!!!

[Ace]

Oh and I have replaced the Wifi card with an asus red heat-sink with magnetic antenna after my dog chewed up the antenna on my TP-Link and I took the fan controller out and replaced it with corsair link for a more slick look.