Blue Build

[tk2392]

I was planning on saving this build for the holiday season, but my 15" Retina MacBook Pro decided that it was just going to stop working one day and left me without a computer for school. I already had most of the parts so after a quick trip to the local Micro Center in New Jersey, I was ready to start building. The build process went fairly smoothly, my only issues being that my liquid cooler did not fit where I wanted it originally (top exhaust), and that Windows did not initially recognize my WD Blue drive(given time, the issue resolved itself). For under $1000, I'd say I did pretty well.

 

I marked this as both "completed" and "in-progress" because while the system is fully functional and working wonders for me, I would like to make a couple more custom mods.

 

Parts list:

 

CPU: Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.2GHz

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120 AIO

Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary

RAM: 8GB Hyper X Fury DDR3-1866 (Blue)

SSD: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB

HDD: WD Blue 1TB

Video Card: Nvidia GTX 970 Reference

PSU: Corsair CX600

Wireless Adapter: Intel 7260AC

Case Fans: Corsair SP120, 2x SP140

Case: NZXT S340 Black/Blue

 

GPU Story:

I found the 970 brand new on eBay originally going for $329 with a "best offer" option. Seeing that I could get a 970 for $329 at Best Buy (employee discount ftw), I decided to low-ball the guy by offering $275 and try to get the price to around $300... He accepted the low-ball...

 

Pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

Plans:

• Custom sleeved cables
• Painting the GPU (I'm thinking painting it black with a blue painted led logo)
• H100i GTX
• Spectre Pros

 

[Killervolt]

Get rid of the CX PSU as soon as you can! Apart from that, nice build! Looks amazing.

[Drackeo]

.....that looks very similar to mine

[OAcesync]

Would have been perfect apart from the PSU oh well

[AresKrieger]

To bad you don't have a windforce card to match the blue, but I can't argue with a $275 GTX 970

[Snooli]

Wait what? 970 has a reference?

[Ceatra]

.....that looks very similar to mine

Coincidence???

 

 

 

I tink nawt...

 

 

 

Also @tk2329 get a H105 instead of the H100i GTX, unless you want Corsair Link and a shiny LED

[Drackeo]

snip

 

the only differences being the GPU and the cooler

 

 http://imgur.com/a/PkOHc

[tk2392]

.....that looks very similar to mine

Haven't seen yours at all until just now

[Drackeo]

Haven't seen yours at all until just now

 

yah i know lol. i was just remarking on the similarity 

[Sir Asvald]

 

I was planning on saving this build for the holiday season, but my 15" Retina MacBook Pro decided that it was just going to stop working one day and left me without a computer for school. I already had most of the parts so after a quick trip to the local Micro Center in New Jersey, I was ready to start building. The build process went fairly smoothly, my only issues being that my liquid cooler did not fit where I wanted it originally (top exhaust), and that Windows did not initially recognize my WD Blue drive(given time, the issue resolved itself). For under $1000, I'd say I did pretty well.

 

I marked this as both "completed" and "in-progress" because while the system is fully functional and working wonders for me, I would like to make a couple more custom mods.

 

Parts list:

 

CPU: Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.2GHz

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120 AIO

Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary

RAM: 8GB Hyper X Fury DDR3-1866 (Blue)

SSD: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB

HDD: WD Blue 1TB

Video Card: Nvidia GTX 970 Reference

PSU: Corsair CX600

Wireless Adapter: Intel 7260AC

Case Fans: Corsair SP120, 2x SP140

Case: NZXT S340 Black/Blue

 

GPU Story:

I found the 970 brand new on eBay originally going for $329 with a "best offer" option. Seeing that I could get a 970 for $329 at Best Buy (employee discount ftw), I decided to low-ball the guy by offering $275 and try to get the price to around $300... He accepted the low-ball...

 

 

 

Plans:

• Custom sleeved cables
• Painting the GPU (I'm thinking painting it black with a blue painted led logo)
• H100i GTX
• Spectre Pros

 

I would change the PSU ASAP. 

[Snooli]

guys, what is a 970 reference?