Leviathan - X99, SLI 980ti's and watercooling! Final Images up!

[the pokemon kid]

Hello all and welcome to update number two. Unfortunately no one guessed what the picture was so the 980ti which was the prize will just have to be given away another time... There isn't really a give away!

 

None the less it is update time for you all! The picture was of the EK titan block which are going onto the GTX 980ti's! 

 

I think that EK has updated their packaging since last time I got their parts. The boxes do look pretty swanky! However the block boxes do weigh more than you might expect!

 

EK Titan X Block by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

I had the choice between going for black blocks and the plexi ones and I could help but choose the stealthy look, these blocks just look amazing! and also, they have Titan X on the blocks so I can make out that I have got two Titan X's

EK Titan X Block by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Had to take the sexy close up of the engraving job they have done onto the inside of the block. It is so shiny! the amount of times I needed to clean this was annoying though! It is a complete finger print magnet, especially when I split my mountain dew and had to touch it with my Dorito encrusted hands.

 

EK Titan X Block by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Another close up, but this time the full picture of the one, none of you could guess... If only someone had guessed, they would be a 980ti better off now... There isnt really a giveaway, who would just give away a 980ti! If I had another one I would put them in three way SLI!!

 

EK Titan X Block by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

 

"Dont look at me! I am naked!"

Watercooling the 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

A nice closeup of the GM200 core powering this monster of a graphics card!

Watercooling the 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Watercooling the 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Catching the rays, side by side... Naked

Watercooling the 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Not the best technique but we got there in the end! Got the blocks onto the GPU's and everything was looking sweet!

Watercooling the 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Backplates are on and installed onto the cards, however they dont seam to have used the same metal as last time, these seam a little sticky to the touch and real finger print magnets. The other issue is, I had to really scrub to get my finger prints off the cards as they were almost imprinted in!

EK WB on GTX 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

EK WB on GTX 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

The cards looking skinny!

EK WB on GTX 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

A little close up on the power delivery!

EK WB on GTX 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Another close up on the GPU's

EK WB on GTX 980ti by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Now I wanted to do a little mod to the SLI bridge, It was very easy actually! I thought I would be taking things apart! But hope I have done you proud Jay!

EVGA SLI Bridge Mod by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

It may not look as blue here but in person it looks spot on with what I was going for! Very happy with the colour!

EVGA SLI Bridge Mod by Mathew Teague, on Flickr


Well guys, that concludes another build log update... I hope you have enjoyed so far! Make sure that you subscribe to the thread and most of all, get involved! You might win an imaginary GTX 980ti! Til the next time!

TPK awayyyyyy

[Maverick5500]

 

It may not look as blue here but in person it looks spot on with what I was going for! Very happy with the colour!

EVGA SLI Bridge Mod by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

Well guys, that concludes another build log update... I hope you have enjoyed so far! Make sure that you subscribe to the thread and most of all, get involved! You might win an imaginary GTX 980ti! Til the next time!

TPK awayyyyyy

 

 

omg that looks soo good!!

[the pokemon kid]

Hey all and here is update number three of this build log!

The build is now in full swing and the updates are going to be coming hot and heavy! I am stoked on all the stuff I have done so far and looking forward to getting this build completed! I have now got all the parts I need to the build except for some of the smaller bits like the spray paints I am going to need...

Well here is the first look at the 5930k! I have had it booted already and a quick prime95 run just to make sure it wasn't a dead chip!
 

Intel i7 5930k by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 
I dropped the CPU into the motherboard to make sure it was in a safe spot! The retention arms on the CPU socket were kinda scary! It felt like I was putting a lot of pressure down on it! However everything was fine and it was just me being overly scared about killing a £400+ processor!
 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr
 
The only thing that is killing my OCD is that the CPU is actually upside down in the CPU socket. I spent like 20 minutes making sure it was correct and then dropped it into place! but WHHHHYYYY do you have the socket upside down! It is killing me a little inside right now! 
 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr
 
Here is a little close up of the CPU in situe! It is one big CPU and one big socket!

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Here is a little closeup of the Asus Sabertooth! I absolutely love this motherboard! It is strong as heck but they have got these little dust covers! It is a really great though as as it cleans the look of the motherboard so much! I have the Z87 version of the Asus Sabertooth motherboard and I really only had one choice for my X99 motherboard. The thing is an absolute tank!

 

Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

A quick closeup of top thermal armour!

 

Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

ARGGGGHHHHHHHHH! This upside down socket is killing me!

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Another little closeup of the CPU in its socket!

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Here is the 8 pin EPS and the 4 pin EPS in the background! After a little researching I was able to find out that I can use both so the cabling of is going to be looking awesome! However, if anyone has anymore information other than just me making it look pretty I would be interested to know!

 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

The good old X99 plate to show off the Sabertooth board!

 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Another tasty little closeup of the dust defenders on the internals of the motherboard, however I do wish they made enough for all the ports/ pins on the motherboard as there isnt enough for all of them!

 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Some more shots of the dust defenders, just the externals of it! These things are so strong. I think that they actually need to make the sound dust defenders a little less rigid! They are really difficult to get them out of the ports!

 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

The back of this looks so sexy! 
 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Here are the dust defenders for the PCI-E Sockets. Again these things are great! My previous build got filled with dust because of negative airflow and these saved the extra PCI-E sockets because I can pretty much garuntee that it would have killed them! There was a serious amount of dust!

 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Yes, this truly is the Ultimate force!

 

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Thanks for checking out me putting the processor in the motherboard and doing an overview of the CPU socket and motherboard! I am really really happy with this motherboard! I cannot wait until it is in use because it has a tonne of features! Also, my last overclock on my 4770k was awesome and I can put that down to an awesome CPU but also a brilliantly made motherboard!

Well this is TPK out again! It is Friday night and it is beer o'clock! Stay tuned for more updates for this as I have some stuff in the works for this weekend! The case might even make an appearance if the weather is as forecast tomorrow!

 

Weekend - beer time! by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Thanks for checking out my build log and make sure you get involved! I am interested to know of your thoughts on the build so far!

TPK Awwwwwaaayyyyy!

[the pokemon kid]

omg that looks soo good!!

Thanks man! It does look way better in person! Matches the colour I want for the coolant and the thumbscrews! 

[ConnorDahne]

Are you going to be offended if I use the picture of the reference cards as my phone wallpaper? lol
Really though, it looks awesome man!

[the pokemon kid]

Are you going to be offended if I use the picture of the reference cards as my phone wallpaper? lol

Really though, it looks awesome man!

Go right ahead man! I am humbled that someone would want to use my photo as their wallpaper!

Thanks man! make sure you are subscribed to see all the thread updates!

[ConnorDahne]

Subbed! 
Everything looks awesome, excited to see where this goes.
The quality of the photo is better than most stock photos on google, really whole build is one of the higher quality ones I've seen.

[the pokemon kid]

Subbed! 

Everything looks awesome, excited to see where this goes.

The quality of the photo is better than most stock photos on google, really whole build is one of the higher quality ones I've seen.

Welcome aboard!

Thanks man, I do try to make the components look as good as they are!

Thats good to hear! Well enjoy your new background and stay tuned for more updates!

[Maverick5500]

Thanks man! It does look way better in person! Matches the colour I want for the coolant and the thumbscrews! 

 

 

i bet it does!!

 

i want one!

[the pokemon kid]

i bet it does!!

 

i want one!

The mod itself costs nearly nothing. The film cost me like 50p from my local craft store and I used a small dab of glue to hold it in place.

[Maverick5500]

The mod itself costs nearly nothing. The film cost me like 50p from my local craft store and I used a small dab of glue to hold it in place.

 

 

2 problems

 

i only have 1 gpu and the sli bridge is $45AUD

[the pokemon kid]

2 problems

 

i only have 1 gpu and the sli bridge is $45AUD

Damn! Well when you get a second GPU you know what you need to do!

 

yeh, they aren't cheap at all. it was like £20 over here for mine! I had just had enough of the bendy orange SLI bridges!

[Maverick5500]

Damn! Well when you get a second GPU you know what you need to do!

 

yeh, they aren't cheap at all. it was like £20 over here for mine! I had just had enough of the bendy orange SLI bridges!

 

 

[the pokemon kid]

Yeh, I saw this mod a short time ago. I bought the SLI bridge last year though... Albeit, this EVGA SLI bridge is awesome! Looks amazing!

[rpellumbi]

This is stunning 

[the pokemon kid]

This is stunning 

Cheers man! Glad you are liking it so far!

[koehler]

This is gonna be AMAZING! 

[the pokemon kid]

This is gonna be AMAZING! 

Thanks man! New update is coming very shortly (I am waiting for images to finish uploading!)

[the pokemon kid]

Hey guys and it is update time yet again! This is update four of the build log!

This update is focusing on the CPU/ RAM and the watercooling associated with the CPU/ RAM!

 

Here is the EK Supremacy EVO that is going to be used in the build! It was used in my last build and it did a great job in that!

EK Supremecy Evo by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Hello guys!

Hello! by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Not the cleanest it has been but it was as clean as I could get it after 4 cleans with Isoproplyn... Again, this has been used before and would be the reason it isn't a complete mirror.

EK Supremecy EVO by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

 

Now its the RAM's time to shine!

 

I bought a 32gb (4x 8gb) DDR4 set for the system! It is a 2400mhz kit but I intend to overclock this to at least 3000mhz! I had the choice between the value RAM or paying a little more for the Ripjaw branded ones. I went for these as the heat spreaders were going to be coming off anyways...

G.Skill 32gb DDR4 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

I am glad that they chose to have the PCB black! It makes it a lot easier to hide under the EK heat spreaders unlike previous RAM I used which was blue...

 

G.Skill 32gb DDR4 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

I gave the system a boot with the RAM in before putting the heat spreaders on to make sure that they werent bricked on arrival or that I had bricked them while putting the EK heat spreaders on...

 

I just love the aesthetics of RAM with the monarch kit attached! It just looks amazing compared to all this super aggressive looking RAM. I love a minimalist style and this fully ticks the box for me!

EK Monarch by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

A little look at the outer packaging of the Monarch RAM waterblocks! 
 

EK Monarch by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Here are the RAM waterblocks for the system! These things again tick the box for looking so sick!

EK Monarch by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

One of these came from my last build but I have also got a new one! 

EK Monarch by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Here is the RAM installed into the motherboard! It looks so amazing! I am loving it!

5930k + Asus Sabertooth X99 by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

I did a little research and found that the best method for applying thermal paste for 2011 CPU's is to use the X shape on the processor. It allows the thermal paste to be spread out evenly and not have any air bubbles within it...

X marks the spot by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

The CPU waterblock has landed! I have installed it up side down because I am going to have the CPU/ RAM pointing one way as you will usually view it from the left side and will look the right way up.

The block has landed! by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

I had to look at this picture/ computer multipe times after installing the blocks onto the RAM as it just didnt look straight! I had the spirit level out many times and I can confirm that they are straight and it is just the lens distortion causing the bend!

RAM, CPU and Motherboard by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

Here is another angle for the RAM and CPU blocks! I am so happy with how this is looking! I cant wait to be putting the fittings/ tubing in place to make this look awesome!

 

RAM, CPU and Motherboard by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

 

Finally here is a look at the fittings I will be using. These are the 16mm Barrows fittings. These things look great!

 

Realistically these are just copies of bitspower multi link advance fittings. However these don't cost an arm and a leg!

16mm Barrow fittings by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

16mm Barrow fittings by Mathew Teague, on Flickr

 

 

Thanks guys for checking out this fourth update of my build log! There is loads more stuff coming so make sure you subscribed to the thread but also make sure you drop a comment in! Its always nice to talk to you guys! I am always open to ideas!

Thanks again guys!

TPK Awwwwaaayyyyy

[Robdiecus]

Im excited to see pictures!

[the pokemon kid]

Im excited to see pictures!

Make sure you are subscribed to the thread to see the upcoming images!

[beach_boy98]

Make sure you are subscribed to the thread to see the upcoming images!

Why are you watercooling you only have a 5930k.

 

 

 

 

 

/JK

[the pokemon kid]

Why are you watercooling you only have a 5930k.

 

 

 

 

 

/JK

 

I am trying to make watercooling accessible to the masses, not just the owners of the 5960x

[beach_boy98]

I am trying to make watercooling accessible to the masses, not just the owners of the 5960x

Totally not worth the price to performance.

 

/jk

[the pokemon kid]

Totally not worth the price to performance.

 

/jk

If you say so, time to send it all back! Thread is now closed

Better upgrade to a 5960X!