Project Requilary

[JValen_KenjiMG]

Like lightning, creativity can hit a person from any direction. Inspiring them to take a new path. Project Reliquary is that path for for me. As a student of Engineering, and a Gamer I need the tools to stay successful and be able to create when I need and be a refuge in my down time. This build is an expression more to myself than to others but like every person every build has its story.
- Jan 9, 2015



The first pc I ever worked on was when I was very young in 1997. I was just helping my mother put in a 5” floppy drive and a Creative sound blaster sound card into her upgraded Windows 95 Packard Bell. Now its 2015 and I am beginning to upgrade from a 7 year old windows Vista laptop to my first enthusiast build. I have been slowly working up to this point since late 2012 when I realized I wanted to do my college projects from home. Very quickly I discovered that I would either need to buy a new machine or build one from scratch. Buying a new machine outright would have been fastest but there is no way I could have afforded it at the time in 2012. By January 31 of 2013 I had saved enough to just buy some parts and I got really excited and thought that by that time next year(2014) I would have a new pc. Yet life had some other crazy plans for me. December 27, 2013 was the beginning of a very strange journey. I was looking to buy a car for my mom it was something she really wanted and at the time I had a much better line of credit that she did. So we looked at a few and she really wanted the first one we looked at but we never bought it because by January 11 I began my one week hospital stay as I got really sick the week before. I was diagnosed with ADEM or Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. As the doctors told me it would take some time for my brain to heal about six months to a year. A few months roll by I got better and I noticed something scary. I was totally broke with only 50 dollars left to my name. Medical bills ate up almost all of my families savings in such a short time. By August my computer funds that I saved away disappeared.
That did not deter me; by the end of September a friend of mine helped me out and I started working full time for a small security firm and I have been working almost non stop to recover both my health and my funding for the pc. Then a few days ago I finally saved up enough to have a cushion and bought the rest of the parts I needed and wanted to at least get the rig up and running.

Parts and Random Thoughts:

CPU: i7 3820 - * it was given to me in 2013. / I’m sure it will work well.

PSU: HX 1050 - * this was also given to me in 2013. / Kinda overkill on power.

Motherboard: Asus P9 X79WS / Asus hasen’t failed me yet.
GPU: Asus GTX 970 Strix / It sags on the motherboard.

I might need a support bracket; as I doubt fishing line might not be the best choice to hold it up with.

Memory: Corsair Vengance 4X8 / Runs well so far.

CPU Cooling: Corsair H100i / I need to buy 2 PWM fans for push pull config.

Case: NZXT 810 Switch / Its a case with a nice amount of room.
Case Cooling: 4x140 NZXT Fans / They are plugged into the NZXT Fan Hub that came with the case.

 

Future Upgrades | Reason | Expected Date
HDD Storage 4TB Total (2x2) / Content Creation Storage / Q1 - 2015
Monitor ultra wide or decent Color correction / Will replace 7 year old monitor / Q3 - Q4 - 2015

Intuos-pro tablet small. / Would like to use for Ps & IL / Q3 - 2015
Fan controller / Not sure about this one / N/A

 

Reliquary Case Mod:
Wood Casing and Accenting | Q4 - 2015/ Q1 - 2016

Description:

Design and create an exterior shell/shroud  for the NZXT 810 Switch and matching support bracket for the 970 Strix out of a light colored wood material. The final product should look and feel like furniture and blend naturally into the home while keeping a somewhat enthusiast look.
Requirements:
Material must be lightweight.

Material must be a wood or veneer.

Material must be stain/sealable and or be painted over.

Material must be easy to be etched and laser cut.
Gap/Space Tolerance +/- ¼” for panel behind Motherboard tray.

The Old And Tired Lappy:


The Goods:

 

 

 

 

 

More random updates to come.

Also noticed I spelled my own topic wrong lol. Its Reliquary. Feel'n derp.

[nj4ck]

looks good, but change the font color so the night theme users can see it 

[JValen_KenjiMG]

looks good, but change the font color so the night theme users can see it 

I set the font to automatic I hope that fixed that.

[JValen_KenjiMG]

Noice... tho I don't like that PSU

Thanks! I didn't want to waste my friends charity and not use it. lol

[ALXAndy]

Here's me looking at the photos....

 

970 ! YES !

X79WS, YES !

H100i, YES !

CASE, YES !

32GB RAM, WOW !

 

I7 3820.. Awwwww.......

 

Why, dude? why spend all that on a board just to run a lame CPU? Get a 3930k or better in there

[ALXAndy]

 

That doesn't make it better, so back at you.

 

This board was designed to run a hex core.

[JValen_KenjiMG]

That doesn't make it better, so back at you.

 

This board was designed to run a hex core.

At some point I might swap it out. But for now its 1000% better than the laptop I had

[JValen_KenjiMG]

More shiny pictures of things!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More to come as soon as I can get a day off.