Quicksilver

patrickjp93 · December 14, 2015

Like everything else my family builds, it's way over the top for the use case, but hopefully that means it just lasts 7+ years doing that same thing like all of our other builds have

All pics taken with an iPhone 6 in a room with no good lighting (sorry in advance).

The case is a vintage Lian Li PC-G70

Up front we have a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray reader and writer courtesy of LG, a reservoir courtesy of AquaComputer, and the NZXT Sentry Mix 2 fan controller. The floppy is there for no other reason than the 2.5" drive bay face plate has gone missing.

For cooling we went silent as a church mouse while maintaining potency.

Custom Watercooling Loop:

EK Supremacy Evo

Hardwarelabs Black Ice Nemesis GTX 240mm

2x Gentle Typhoon 2150 RPM

Swiftech MCP655 Pump

Case Intake/Exhaust:

Phanteks PH-F120MP_BK_PWM

CPU: Intel Core I7 6700K (Stock)

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200MHz 2x8GB

GPU: EVGA GTX 970 FTW (Stock)

MOBO: ASUS Z170 Deluxe

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO M.2

PSU: EVGA Super Nova 1000W 80+ Platinum w/Eco Quiet Mode

Monitor: ASUS PB258Q

Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Core

Keyboard: Microsoft Media Keyboard (no idea why my mom likes these...)

Headset: Sennheiser PC363D

Is this way too little equipment for a full tower case? Yes. However, we don't throw away anything in my family until its usefulness is totally up, so the cases stay. Is this way too powerful of a computer for someone who only plays Guild Wars 2, Civilization 5, and Medieval II Total War, and then browses the internet? Yes, yes it is. This was complete and total overkill, but still a beautiful build for me personally. Originally the motor resonated with the case, badly. Using a thin block of Styrofoam, that was cancelled out, and now it's totally silent. Huzzah!

I may overclock this at a later point, but currently I'm not interested.

PlayStation 2 · December 14, 2015

Even for low light those pics look eh

Hopefully you get better pics soon

Not a bad rig at all, if at most, a bit cliche but eh what can you do about it

patrickjp93 · December 14, 2015

Even for low light those pics look eh

Hopefully you get better pics soon

Not a bad rig at all, if at most, a bit cliche but eh what can you do about it

It's not so much low light as I have yellow walls and an off-white chandelier to deal with. Not much I can do until it's moved to its final resting place

Stability could have been better in some, but when I have better light I'll get better pics.