Cougar QBX build & cooler swap

[mr.squishy]

Alright, so this system kills two birds with one stone for me. I have wanted to try an itx build for a while, as well as me wanting to try the Pentium G3258. So, I scrounged up some parts and threw together Iota, the newest addition to my PC family. I'm pretty new to Intel overclocking, so if anyone that reads this has any suggestions or tips, please let me know! This build is interesting, as I got a 560 ti 448 cores for really cheap because the cooler was broken. I realized that the 448 cores is built on a 480 pcb, so I bought a dead 480 off ebay and did a cooler swap. I have plenty of pics of that in my second post.

Specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zqMC23

CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.2GHz w/ 1.31 Vcore

Mobo:  ASRock H97M-ITX/AC

GPU: EVGA 560 Ti 448 Cores Classified with a gtx 480 cooler (more on that later)

Case: Cougar QBX Kaze

Cooler: Cryorig M9i

RAM: 8 Gig stick of Crucial Ballistix

Storage: WD Blue 320GB

PSU: Corsair CX 430m

Here are the finished pics:

 

@tmcclelland455 @MEC-777

[mr.squishy]

So here are a few pics to show my awesome cable management as well as what the GPU and whole computer looked like before the cooler swap:

size comparison with main rig

And here are a few pics with the super ghetto cooler (hey, it worked for the amount of time I needed it to)

[mr.squishy]

And here's the cooler swap. It was quite the interesting job, so I made sure to take a lot of pics.
Dead 480

stripped 560

560 and 480 (480 on top)

480 midplate

560 with 480 midplate

heatsink assembly

finished card (you can't tell the difference)

 

 

[MEC-777]

Nice build and great job with the GPU cooler swap.  

 

How's that Cryorig CPU cooler? What kind of temps on the Pentium under full load?

[flibberdipper]

This is pretty swanky, although I do have to admit I was a little sad when I saw it wasn't actually a 480 in there.

 

If you really want a challenge though, try building in a Node 202. That will be the next step for my PC lmao

[mr.squishy]

17 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Nice build and great job with the GPU cooler swap.  

 

How's that Cryorig CPU cooler? What kind of temps on the Pentium under full load?

It's a pretty awesome cooler, but I'm not sure what my temps are like. I'll get back to you on that. 

[Theguywhobea]

Damn dude, I had a Vulcan once... I want another one so bad but I can't find them anywhere anymore.

[mr.squishy]

3 hours ago, Theguywhobea said:

Damn dude, I had a Vulcan once... I want another one so bad but I can't find them anywhere anymore.

I'm never giving this one up. It's gonna stay with me forever or until NZXT refreshes it.