My new rig, finally complete :)

[Streamline]

After running on an i5-760 for almost 4 years I decided to finally do an upgrade. Not much to say here, just that I went for the highend stuff this time. My last build had a 5770 as a first graphics card, which I later upgraded to a 7850. The only thing I regret about this build is that I spent so much money on the beautiful RAM, just to remove the heatsinks later to fit the CPU cooler. My old cooler allowed me to keep the heatsinks on the RAM, but the i7 did run a bit too hot, so I decided to upgrade.

 

Partlist:

- i7-4770k

- bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 2 CPU cooler

- Asus Maximus VI Hero

- Corsair Vengeance Pro 8Gb (2x4) 1600Mhz

- EVGA GeForce GTX780 SC ACX

- Samsung 840 Pro 128Gb SSD

- A-Data XPG SX900 128Gb SSD

- WD Caviar Black 750Gb HDD

- WD Caviar Green 1TB HDD

- Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD

- NZXT Switch 810

- XFX 750W Pro Black Edition

- Windows 8 hue

 

And the pictures

 

The Box

 

The Old

 

The new - well. Almost all of it.

 

The rest of the new, finally checking in

 

Old vs. new

 

My ikea-hue

 

Hidden cablemanagement - I tried

 

The guts

 

Closeup

 

And finally the station

 

 

 

[defunkt]

Tips: Improve cable management. boom. done.

[CoolBeans]

That is so sexy just needs better cable managment.

[everything count to life]

Amazing!!

[panfriedpuppies]

Very, very nice job. I love your sleeving on your cables, not to mention the fact that I'm totally jealous of those specs.

[Coombzy]

Love the ACX cooler on that 780 its so shiny!

[ProGearUk]

Dat rig. I liek it a lot. I would love something like this including the hue effect in a Corsair Obsidian 350D

[DudeWazap]

My face while looking at your build.  :o

I LOVE red and black my favorite 2 colors and my favorite color themed builds. Awesome PC man I really do like it.

Also You have the G510 as well as the G500 2 of my favorite peripherals. ^_^

If you allow me to I have one small tip to improve the look of your PC is to buy some red or black cable ties and zip tie together the cables going onto the back of the case. So all the PSU cables zip tied together and the front IO cables together and last the sleeved cabled from the GPU tied together.

That way they won't look all spread out everywhere and keeping it looking nice and tidy. Other than that that is a great looking build.

[helping]

Came out looking pretty nice, what LED strips are those?

 

Also, why two different SSDs?

[Kerplex]

Looks nice with the lighting.

[Xelithium]

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do lightning. Finally someone who uses white lightning to bring up the main color theme of their build.

I'm tired of people going with a themed build, for example black and red. And using red LED's that totally overpowers every color in the rig, making it look stupid.

[AraSarkisyan]

that looks GOOD. 

[Nicktrance]

Looks really nice and clean, nice choice of parts and that DR2 is a BEAST!

[Coombzy]

Just thought I would say NZXT just featured this on their facebook! 

[itslegendddd]

When I saw that full set up pic my jaw hit the floor!

[anthonytran7757]

The white led's make it rig look really really nice! Good work

[a1015n]

Neat build buddy. I have a Q. What kind of LED are you using? thanks

[Streamline]

Came out looking pretty nice, what LED strips are those?

 

Also, why two different SSDs?

Those are the ikea multicolor LED strips as seen here: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50192365/

Two different SSDs because the Samsung 840 is new and solely for OS and productive software, while the AData is from my old rig and now holds all of my games. 

 

 

 

Neat build buddy. I have a Q. What kind of LED are you using? thanks

Those are the ikea multicolor LED strips as seen here: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50192365/

[azzo]

The white led's in the last photo looks so amazing :o

[Lil Chillbil]

The Gpu is my favorite part of the build

 

 

One of the 1st non-refrence 780 builds posted to the forum

[Kiwiandapple]

Taken away from NZXT facebook, but your 2nd top fan is not spinning, most likely not connected? 

Love the build myself! 

[Streamline]

The Gpu is my favorite part of the build

 

 

One of the 1st non-refrence 780 builds posted to the forum

I actually ordered the reference 780 first, but it was out of stock. After waiting for a week and looking up some performance differences between the reference cooled 780 and the ACX cooled 780 (ACX gains ~10% advantage from cooling due to GPU Boost 2.0) I decided to go for the ACX version instead, which I then received two days later Had to pay more money for it though. 

 

Taken away from NZXT facebook, but your 2nd top fan is not spinning, most likely not connected? 

Love the build myself! 

That is because it's the stock fan and all of my fans are connected to a fancontroller which has two main groups with four channels. Both groups can be completely shut off seperatly. On the first group I have four bequiet fans, which are always on on minimum RPM. The second group has two of the NZXT stock fans, but they're mostly off.

[Caito]

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do lightning. Finally someone who uses white lightning to bring up the main color theme of their build.

I'm tired of people going with a themed build, for example black and red. And using red LED's that totally overpowers every color in the rig, making it look stupid.

I totally agree. I will be starting a similar build soon and at first I thought I'd buy some red LEDs but after seeing this White is definitely the way to go

[Flechette1866]

Are those AKG Q 701 Quincy Jones Reference headphones? What have you got them plugged into?

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

Cable management looks great