First PC Finished Last Night!

[FosterGuy]

Finished building the PC last night.  I'll take a better picture of the system wholly complete when I get home from work tonight.  I highly recommend the case below, with 2 140 mm fans in the front, and a 140 in the back they are almost totally silent even with the side panels both off.  Also, with the 2 120mm fans blowing air into the h100i v2 radiator it is still silent.  Blew my mind given the PC I had so long ago.  Working on my cable management also, please don't hate~!

 

Here are the specs:

 

Case: Corsair 750D Airflow Edition

CPU: Intel i7 7700k

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2

MOBO: Asus Z270H Gaming

GPU: EVGA 1080ti Superclocked 11GB DDR5

PSU: EVGA 750w G2 Gold Rated

RAM: Corsair 2x16GB Vengeance LPX 32GB 3200

M.2 SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 500Gb

HDD(s): (2) Western Digital Blue 1TB 7200

Extras: TP LINK WiFi 1900, Dell 2560x1440 144hz monitor, Red Dragon Mech Keyboard, BenQ Ambi Wired Mouse, Windows 10 Home Flash, FNATIC XL Mouse Pad.

 

I'll update with complete pics tonight!

[21rkosta]

what raid are the hard drives in/are they in raid?

[FosterGuy]

Just now, 21rkosta said:

what raid are the hard drives in/are they in raid?

I've thought about putting the (2) 1 TB drives into RAID 0, but I don't have experience with that.  

[21rkosta]

thats what i was thinking you should do, it does give a larger chance for data loss but honestly data loss doesn't matter that much if its not your main drive because it will most likely only have games on it (which are easily re downloadable)

[FrankV]

Nice build. Except for minor differences, your build is very similar to mine. 

 

For example, I have the standard 750d case. What's the difference with the airflow edition? Larger opening on the front, I think? 

 

Regardless, cheers to the build.  Don't worry about the imperfections. You'll smooth them out over time. At least, that is how I did it. 

[m0k]

im hoping you connected the 6pin power cable for the GPU as well...in the photo its just the 8pin thats connected

[Zyndo]

15 minutes ago, FrankV said:

For example, I have the standard 750d case. What's the difference with the airflow edition? Larger opening on the front, I think?

yes the airflow version comes with an open front grill, whereas the normal one comes with a solid panel there and draws its air in from the edges around the front.

[FosterGuy]

12 minutes ago, mok said:

im hoping you connected the 6pin power cable for the GPU as well...in the photo its just the 8pin thats connected

Yuuup, figured that one out beforehand.  Thanks man!

[FosterGuy]

24 minutes ago, FrankV said:

Nice build. Except for minor differences, your build is very similar to mine. 

 

For example, I have the standard 750d case. What's the difference with the airflow edition? Larger opening on the front, I think? 

 

Regardless, cheers to the build.  Don't worry about the imperfections. You'll smooth them out over time. At least, that is how I did it. 

Thanks man!  I like your build also, you've given me some good ideas to rework a couple things for cable management, which is nice.  Refer to Zyndos comment about the case differences, seems he knows more than me.

[FosterGuy]

1 hour ago, 21rkosta said:

thats what i was thinking you should do, it does give a larger chance for data loss but honestly data loss doesn't matter that much if its not your main drive because it will most likely only have games on it (which are easily re downloadable)

What kind of performance gains do you get by using RAID 0?