Arctic Frost

[Pownisher]

Arctic Frost

I usually build a PC every few years, one more ridiculous that the last, and wanted to share my adventure though the process with the community. My last build was red with green, thinking it looked like a monster with green blood. It was over cramped with bad wire routing. It was so bad I couldn't get the panels on and it became what I wanted, a monster and unruly. Wanting to learn from my mistakes clean and ordered while being efficient are my lines I wont cross. My inspiration was ice, cool sometimes white and sometimes blue but always cold. The parts are added below and I will update them as I get them.

 

As of right now I have the ones listed. 

 

This PC will be white and silver, the blue colored water cooling will be hard piped. 

• 1 x AMD RYZEN 7 1700X 8-Core 3.4 GHz (3.8 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 95W YD170XBCAEWOF Desktop Processor
• 1 x MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM AM4 AMD X370 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX Motherboards - AMD 
• 1 x SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V6E500BW 
• 1 x CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Desktop Memory Model
• 1 x SanDisk X400 2.5" 1TB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SD8SB8U-1T00-1122
• 1 x Seasonic Flagship PRIME TITANIUM 750 SSR-750TD Active PFC 80 PLUS Titanium 750W ATX 12V 135mm Fluid Dynamic
•  1 x Windows 10 Home - 64-bit - OEM

Porthos (my cat) decided to make an appearance. 

 

[Crosseyed Sniper]

No GPU? Look at the MSI GTX 1070 Quick Silver GPU. it would look nice in that build. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137046

 

Best of luck with your build!

[Pownisher]

Just in Case

 

Here is a better look at the case. (TheTower Thermaltake 900) I am attempting to figure what route the hard pipes can take. First time I have had enough room and have to many routes to not know the best. There is so much room. All the parts in the case seem to be in place with thumb screws and completely removable. The back of the case are mirrored left to right. 

 

 

[Pownisher]

CPU

The CPU was an easy pick. With the Ryzen release the cost to power was not even close. The processor didn't come with a cooler (expected and not wanted).  What do you think, was this a good choice to go with a Ryzen 1700x?

 

[Pownisher]

Mother of all Boards

(MOAB)

 

The MSI 370 titanium looks like a great board. The silver reminds me of rolled steel, nice and cold. My last board didn't have reinforced PCIe-16x slots and the graphics card sagged. A big red button on the right has a ring around it that allows fast overclocking. There are two m.2 slots on the board and I am filling one of them. I will be going over its install in a later post. 

[Pownisher]

960 EVO M.2

 

The "platter drives" seemed too slow and wont be using it (expect for NAS). The SSDs are getting really cheap ($) but I wanted ultra fast. M.2 is the way to go. As stated before I am showing the M.2 in its slot on the mother board. I will be placing the OS in this memory, maybe a few other programs that I use a lot. Later I plan to run a drive speed test and posting it. 

[Pownisher]

Where is the power?

 

I forgot to get a better picture of the power supply ports. This is a 750W Seasonic PSU. Later, after power up, I will be changing the power cables to a better color. Right now they are just black without sleeves. What do you think of the color baby blue? 

[Pownisher]

GPU up

Decided to upgrade to the gtx 1080 ti. Good choice. Amazingly the GTX970s water blocks are harder to find. At the moment it hasn't been installed and its killing me. 

[Schraufabagel]

On 4/26/2017 at 10:16 PM, Pownisher said:

CPU

The CPU was an easy pick. With the Ryzen release the cost to power was not even close. The processor didn't come with a cooler (expected and not wanted).  What do you think, was this a good choice to go with a Ryzen 1700x?

 

I would've gone with the 1700. Overclocks to around the same frequency and it costs less. Comes with the free cooler too. Although you need a better one for overclocking anyways, so it doesn't really make a difference. 

[Pownisher]

On 4/28/2017 at 0:07 AM, Schraufabagel said:

I would've gone with the 1700. Overclocks to around the same frequency and it costs less. Comes with the free cooler too. Although you need a better one for overclocking anyways, so it doesn't really make a difference. 

I agree, the 1700 would totally be worth it. We will have to see why I went with no cooler.

[Pownisher]

The EK Cooling System

 

The system I ordered was a 480 rad that turned out to be a 560. One 1080 ti block, AM4 socket water block, pump with vertical reservoir. To make draining easier I also got a ball valve and a square T split for easy access. 

[Pownisher]

Filling the System

 

The system I filled the system last night. Just in case I put down the white towel for the blue water to be easily seen. After running the system all night and not seeing a single drip, I deemed the system to be filled and stable. The silver and blue really makes the tubing pop like crystal. 

 

[rockon5622]

Sweet. Tell me your experience with tower 900. I am planning to use it.

[stealth80]

That tubing is pretty damned good!

 

Get the spray paint out, you could really make this look a tonne better, you can easily spray the res/pump combo and buy a white res cap, I did it with mine and the radiators

 

 

Rads - just use old port caps and a piece of card slid in above the fins: