Build upgrades n stuff :D

[Vegetable]

Hi all. I got my fancy new pc stoofs today :DDDDDDDDDD

Upgraded my motherboard, CPU, and CPU cooler.

Here goes:

 

Stuff arrived @ house:

 

4790k up close:

 

212 evo up close:

 

aaaand the board up close:

 

Preparing PC to be gutted:

 

Board removed. time to start dusting!

 

Board installed:

 

4790k installed:

 

212 evo installed (it was a bitch to install I have sorta large hands)

 

Because she never got a formal introduction, here's the 390x

 

My old board/i5/cooler. I never did make a build log although it deserved one. Served me well.

 

That's about it. Sorry I'm terrible at this. No decent camera and overall boring.

Anywho yeah I no longer think the 212 evo is a waste (i used to think a cpu cooler that costs $30 is basically a stock intel cooler.)

After a quick recap thanks to Linus' Devil Canyon OC guide, I got it stable @ 4.4ghz at stock voltage. Any higher I was unstable, so I set the voltage on adaptive and it's stable at 4.6ghz!

The temps don't go passed 80*C in Aida64 and in gaming its below 70*C. I'm VERY pleased and couldn't recommend this cooler enough. As for the board, it's fine. It's a simple z97 with normal z97 functions. It handles the overclocks fine and will serve me well for years to come

CPU validation:
 

Thanks for reading

[Axeonelite]

Oh wow. Lots of different colors! Lol. But really thank you for sharing! Looks awesome in that case! Hope it does well for you! Glad no DoA's

[The_Stig]

I'll take that old i5 4460/mobo 

[iNoa97]

What an absolute coincidence. I got my z97 PC mate, i7-4790k, and hyper 212 evo today too

[iNoa97]

oops double post. MOD HELP

[Pitythefool]

Seems solid. I was gonna go with a pc mate, but opted for an asus board instead.