[Build Log] Rustic Wooden PC [in progress]

[Christophe Corazza]

12 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Sorry, I guess my wording wasn't clear. I meant that water cooling and these wooden blocks don't really fit the theme of my build. So yes, you're right.  

 

Your build has an incredible wheathered feel to it. Therfore using these liquid cooling blocks would indeed not really fit this theme 

[MEC-777]

Ok, so the mystery FX CPU arrived in the mail today. Sure enough, I found one single bent pin. With tweezers and a steady hand, I straightened it out, put it the socket and tested it out. IT WORKS!!!  $20 for a working FX 8350. I'm still going to test the Phenom II X4 960T and see if I can unlock it to 6 cores, but the FX is going to be in the final build.  

 

 

 

 

And there's another update I'll be posting a bit later. The "special treatment" products for the metal parts also arrived today.

[TekRed]

Awesome that the 8350 works.... After remembering the base clock for the 8350 is 4.0 it got me thinking, so I went and pulled out my extra fx chip and well I was mistaken, it's the fx 8320 not 8350. Either way like @DildorTheDecentmentioned if its pre 9590 they overclock very well

 

[MEC-777]

1 hour ago, TekRed said:

Awesome that the 8350 works.... After remembering the base clock for the 8350 is 4.0 it got me thinking, so I went and pulled out my extra fx chip and well I was mistaken, it's the fx 8320 not 8350. Either way like @DildorTheDecentmentioned if its pre 9590 they overclock very well

 

The IHS says 2011, not sure if that's the manufacture year, but the 9590 was launched in 2013, so it could be a pre-9590? Will do a little research to find out for sure. The motherboard I'm using isn't a crazy overclocker (no VRM heatsinks), but I'll see what I can get out of it regardless.  

[Christophe Corazza]

8 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

The motherboard I'm using isn't a crazy overclocker (no VRM heatsinks), but I'll see what I can get out of it regardless.  

 

Who would say no to free performance ;-)

[TekRed]

1 hour ago, MEC-777 said:

The IHS says 2011, not sure if that's the manufacture year, but the 9590 was launched in 2013, so it could be a pre-9590? Will do a little research to find out for sure. The motherboard I'm using isn't a crazy overclocker (no VRM heatsinks), but I'll see what I can get out of it regardless.  

Yup just noticed that in your photo, same year as mine. You should be able to crank it up plenty, like I said I had mine up to 4.4 stable while the base clock for the 8320 is only 3.5

[MEC-777]

Here's the main element of this build that I've been both hyped and nervous about. This paint kit allows you to paint any material in iron, copper or bronze and then corrode it (for real) using the two (green or blue) Patina sprays. There's also a primer to protect the underlying material from corroding as well. 

 

All the metal components in this build, from the motherboard tray, to the HDD brackets, heat spreaders, CPU and GPU coolers, and even the fans, will all be treated with a variety of these paints and given a natural corroded look using a range of application techniques. The idea is to make this PC look like some kind of contraption or forgotten invention someone pulled from the damp basement of a century-old building.  

 

The effects are pretty cool. Made a quick sample board just to see what the different combinations would look like. 

 

 

 

Iron and bronze with the green spray: (The rust looks awesome  ) 

 

Copper with the green spray:

 

Copper with the blue spray: (it's a very light blue effect)

 

And bronze with the blue spray:

 

Will take better pics tomorrow. The rust already look more rusty after just a few hours since these photos were taken. I'll have to be SUPER careful though, not to let any of the Patina spray get on any of the bare PCBs or other components. Its extremely corrosive.  

 

Pumped to see how this will all turn out.  

[8uhbbhu8]

Oooo I like!! Followed!

[Christophe Corazza]

2 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

The idea is to make this PC look like some kind of contraption or forgotten invention someone pulled from the damp basement of a century-old building.  

 

This is going to look soooo incredibly sick!

 

I didn't knew these paints + patina sprays combinations actually existed. That's amazing.

I have looked on their website but apparently they don't ship to the EU. So that's a bummer 

[Christophe Corazza]

6 minutes ago, Pangea2017 said:

Use a forward service. They ship the item to a US destination and the service relabel it and send it to Europe. Some services offer that they pack multiple small packages into one larger to reduce shipping cost.

Customs never opened one of my packages. If you live some where else this can very (just one district away can change everything).

 

You have experience with this principle?

[Christophe Corazza]

16 minutes ago, Pangea2017 said:

Used it once. You either pay a fee (what i used) or a abo but not a fee per parcel (plus normal shipping cost). The process is simple. You register, get a address with a identifier so they know it is yours and you can just use it like a normal address for the shop. The last past is to tell the service how and where they have to ship it.

The downside i only got a notification with a tracking number but no check or photo if the product is damaged before they ship it to Europe. I think this is not a concern with paint. The customs at my district don't care much at all. Other take the rules more serious (most parcels still pas trough unseen) and check for CE, instructions or send it to the Federal Network Agency. With paint i don't think this is a problem. I guess CLP and REACH is also not a problem since this is a complex topic and they are just normal officer with way to much work.

 

It’s not only the paint though. Most of the time I want to buy something from the US the store/seller simply doesn’t ship to the EU. On top of that, the import taxes are insane. If you buy for more than about € 25, you need to pay taxes on the product and taxes on the shipping cost as well. If it is more than ?? € 250 ?? or so you also need to pay import duties!

 

What forward service have you used?

[MEC-777]

3 hours ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

This is going to look soooo incredibly sick!

 

I didn't knew these paints + patina sprays combinations actually existed. That's amazing.

I have looked on their website but apparently they don't ship to the EU. So that's a bummer 

They don't ship to Canada either. My wife ordered it for her antique furniture restoration business from a friend who has connections with someone in the US who was able to get it up here for us. So we kinda got lucky. I know, it sucks when there's a product or products that you can only get from a specific company and they don't ship to your country.  

 

[thall320578]

Love the overall look of this rig!

 

Also love the use of the FX8350. I still rocking mine and after building the wife's Ryzen system last Christmas, I kept telling myself I want to build a new Ryzen system for myself, but the 8350 just keeps performing and I can't bring myself to get rid of the old girl lol. Oddly enough Windows 10 didn't seem to take too well to overclocking it... very unstable with constant lockups and restarts. Wasn't the case with Windows 7. But I've resorted back to stock speeds and it's stable, and 8350 still performs great. Multitasking kills the wife's Ryzen even though the Ryzen's single core performance puts the 8350's single core to shame

[MEC-777]

Bleh! The motherboard just died!!! Was just roaming around the BIOS and it suddenly shut off. After that it now powers on and all the fans spin, but no display signal. I think the north bridge or PCIe slot is done. Tried another GPU, CPU and swapping out the ram. No dice. 

 

Good thing I only paid $20 for the board.  Time to find another... 

[Christophe Corazza]

2 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Bleh! The motherboard just died!!! Was just roaming around the BIOS and it suddenly shut off. After that it now powers on and all the fans spin, but no display signal. I think the north bridge or PCIe slot is done. Tried another GPU, CPU and swapping out the ram. No dice. 

 

Good thing I only paid $20 for the board.  Time to find another... 

 

Did you do anything special to it? Or did it just simply decided to die on you?

[DildorTheDecent]

3 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Bleh! The motherboard just died!!! Was just roaming around the BIOS and it suddenly shut off. After that it now powers on and all the fans spin, but no display signal. I think the north bridge or PCIe slot is done. Tried another GPU, CPU and swapping out the ram. No dice. 

 

Good thing I only paid $20 for the board.  Time to find another... 

oof.

[TekRed]

2 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Bleh! The motherboard just died!!! Was just roaming around the BIOS and it suddenly shut off. After that it now powers on and all the fans spin, but no display signal. I think the north bridge or PCIe slot is done. Tried another GPU, CPU and swapping out the ram. No dice. 

 

Good thing I only paid $20 for the board.  Time to find another... 

I have a gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P, although shipping might cost more than buying one used locally. Decent board and easy to overclock if you can find one cheap

[MEC-777]

3 hours ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

Did you do anything special to it? Or did it just simply decided to die on you?

Nope. It was running fine and I was in the BIOS checking things out (I changed nothing) and it just shut off on it's own and no display output since. 

[Christophe Corazza]

1 hour ago, MEC-777 said:

Nope. It was running fine and I was in the BIOS checking things out (I changed nothing) and it just shut off on it's own and no display output since. 

 

At first I thought you had messed up your motherboard with the Patina sprays:

 

18 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

I'll have to be SUPER careful though, not to let any of the Patina spray get on any of the bare PCBs or other components. Its extremely corrosive.

 

But apparently Murphy visited your build  

[MEC-777]

Alright, so I got a new board - a much better board, but I also discovered what killed the old board; I did. By running it without a heatsink on the north bridge chip - which apparently gets incredibly hot. I had no idea they get THAT hot.  

 

While testing out the new board, I touched the NB heatsink and holy shit was it hot! lol. Lesson learned the hard way I guess.  

 

Excuse the clutter. Need to do some spring cleaning... lol

 

 

 

[TekRed]

Lol now that you mentioned it I remember you saying you took it off for special treatment awhile back 

[MEC-777]

The VRM heatsink also got pretty warm as well. Hadn't even tried overclocking yet. Can't imagine how hot they'd get without any heatsinks. Will be keeping the fan I added to blow down over the VRMs and will probably add another smaller fan just for the north bridge heatsink as well. Don't want another dead board, especially since this one cost a bit more ($60). 

 

Some of the USB ports on the new board don't line up with the cutouts on the back since the I/O layout is a bit different than the first board. Time to break out the dremel again... 

[DildorTheDecent]

6 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

The VRM heatsink also got pretty warm as well. Hadn't even tried overclocking yet. Can't imagine how hot they'd get without any heatsinks. Will be keeping the fan I added to blow down over the VRMs and will probably add another smaller fan just for the north bridge heatsink as well. Don't want another dead board, especially since this one cost a bit more ($60).

You're going to want the fan. 100W+ TDP processors and 970 chipset boards weren't always the greatest combo. 990FX boards with all the bells and whistles will generally have better VRM and could take the beating better but good luck finding a reasonably priced board (even if it's used).

 

You should be fine if you keep the clocks low though (4.2GHz - 4.4GHz).

[MEC-777]

8 hours ago, DildorTheDecent said:

You're going to want the fan. 100W+ TDP processors and 970 chipset boards weren't always the greatest combo. 990FX boards with all the bells and whistles will generally have better VRM and could take the beating better but good luck finding a reasonably priced board (even if it's used).

 

You should be fine if you keep the clocks low though (4.2GHz - 4.4GHz).

This board has a much beefier VRM design than the other board. So I'm not too worried about aiming for about 4.5GHz. Will definitely be keeping the fan blowing down on the VRM heatsink though. 

 

 

I did find an ad for a sweet Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 rev 4 for $60, but it already sold a few days prior and he forgot to take the ad down. But again, the one I got now is already much nicer than what I had, so I ain't gonna complain.

[TekRed]

I have a 970 with the 8320 (125w TDP) and had it running stable at 4.4 for years, though anything past 4.4 it became unstable