"black magic"

[Scott17818]

building a new Computer for myself and the family. so far I have:

 

thermaltake Chasar A71 case (full tower)

EVGA G1 750W PSU (yes I know it's a G1... (will try it for now, then possibly upgrade to the G2, or bigger should the SLI980 need it)

Gigabyte Z170A UD5 mobo

Cooler master H212 cpu cooler

 

still to order (waiting on tax return.

Sm951 256gb M.2 SSD in RAID 0, or I may just go with 1 Samsung 950 PRO 256gb.

i7 6700K

16GB of corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB sticks (black), leaving upgradeable to 32GB.

1 500GB SSD scratch drive (dunno which one, doesnt have to be lightning fast, just a scratch drive for editing/short term storage before going onto my 4TB+ NAS, or getting burned.

 

this will comprise the system and will run with onboard graphics until I build up a little scratch to buy either a 980ti (future SLI), or Titan X(single) with a decent 4k monitor. waiting on new releases from AMD/NVIDIA.

[Aytex]

reading your title, i thought the spammer was back

all they spammed was a phone number saying voodoo black magic

 

 

[IsaacDaGrazin]

that
is

the

best

fucking

name

ever

why did no one else use it!?

[Scott17818]

Just ordered:

 

Intel i7 6700k, due here in the 1st.

Corsair vengeance 16gb (2x8gb) 3000mhz

 

Waiting till wednesday and ill order the m.2 drives still debating the sm/pm951, or 950 pros... thinking pros will go with my black/blue scheme.

[Scott17818]

Nearly finnished, i7 and memory showed up this morning. Ordered the m.2 got the samsung 950 pro 256gb. Liking the lighting, and had no idea about the orange on the audio section of the mobo..

[idalejan_KM]

Nice build man..

[Scott17818]

thanks.. still adding parts as I get the $$$ for them. thinking a gigabyte G1 gaming 980Ti. as well as a few scratch drives.. main storage will remain on the FreeNas until I can devise a way to transfer 3TB off the ZFS drives in the system now.

[Scott17818]

got my Samsung 950 Pro 256GB M.2 drive.. this thing is BLAZING fast.. here's a crystal disk screenshot. now to setup windows on this machine to my liking.. lots of work to come.

 

install was super simple. other than the tiny screw used to screw down the drive. (also very close to my CPU cooler.. I definitely recommend installing an M.2 before you install the CPU cooler unless you have a good magnetic screwdriver (small). 

[Scott17818]

ok so I'm lost. system is running great, have been able to do a mild overclock for 4.6gightz. and have been attempting to enable XMP on the memory, but am not able to get the rated 3000mhz out of the system. was only able to get 2600-2800mhz. not a huge deal, but am a bit puzzled. I'm assuming I'll have to attempt timing changes, but a little leary about delving into that right now.

 

I attempted to load an old HDD into the top Sata hot swap port on the case (hooked into SATA port 0 on the MoBo (M.2 uses the PCI bus, second M.2 slot disables/shares bandwidth with PCIX4 slot). and I have enable ACHI on SATA ports as well as hot swap on 0. windows will not recognize it. it has an old windows install on it, planning to wipe it and use it as a scratch drive.

 

any ideas.

[Scott17818]

little more tweaking on the CPU/RAM.. up to 4.56ghz and stable... decent cinebench considereing running onboard graphics, and the mild OC. 

 

 

[Scott17818]

got new RAZER deathadder chroma mouse, and a Roccat mousepad (mid sized). this is SMOOTH..... should do better in DOTA2 until I upgrade the vid card to a 1080...