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[ajl2011shooter]

Here is my finally finished game box.

Corsair 400R
ASUS P8Z77-V LK
I7 3770k
Corsair H100
EVGA 670 4GB SLI
Antec 750w PSU
Crucial M4 128GB SSD

 

[amuffin]

Fix up those cables!

 

[ajl2011shooter]

Fix up those cables!

That is fixed. I cant get the gpu cables any tighter. Other than that I was pretty happy with my cable management.

 

[amuffin]

Route them through the holes that the sata cables come from.

 

[ajl2011shooter]

Route them through the holes that the sata cables come from.

I can do that.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

EVGA's are crap cards for C.m. imo, stupid mounting for the plugs but still,
those and the ones in the drive cage are really letting this build down man,
develop an Ocd hatred of cables and get them stashed so we can see your hardware better
Moto

 

[hellfire24]

build log in a new thread please

 

[amuffin]

build log in a new thread please

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/279629-29-build-power-hackintosh

 

[ajl2011shooter]

EVGA's are crap cards for C.m. imo, stupid mounting for the plugs but still,
those and the ones in the drive cage are really letting this build down man,
develop an Ocd hatred of cables and get them stashed so we can see your hardware better
Moto

The ones in the drive cage power the fans on the side panel. I'm not really sure what else to do with them. I need to be able to get at them to unplug the fans if I need to open the case. But i'm totally open to ideas.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Meh, fair enough then, sidepanels need powerz too hehe, I guess they are unseen once the panels on
Moto

 

[Deleted member 362816]

No one here like my new build lol?

 

[nstiver]

Here is my finally finished game box.

Corsair 400R
ASUS P8Z77-V LK
I7 3770k
Corsair H100
EVGA 670 4GB SLI
Antec 750w PSU
Crucial M4 128GB SSD


http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b558/Aaron_Livingston/SAM_0182_zps58859464.jpg

Your build has almost same specs as mine. You could make it look pretty sick with some tight CM and a few LEDs or fans. What are your temps like on those 670s under heavy gaming?

 

[tjosborne]

I can do that.

if your worried about how they look you could get extensions http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l2/g2/c473/list/p1/Cables-ModRight_CableRight_-_Single_Braids.html?id=4mpIT8Ro

 

[ajl2011shooter]

Your build has almost same specs as mine. You could make it look pretty sick with some tight CM and a few LEDs or fans. What are your temps like on those 670s under heavy gaming?

Under heavy load The top card will hit 73 and the bottom card will be 71. They are slightly overclocked but nothing super crazy.

 

[Lutfij]

@ evan20x - nice oldie/vintage build. But Its about what you use the rig to do...don't worry much about us saying OOOOH that doesn't have the 7000BPH engine under that hood. Its your daily driver..or not. Nice build. OFC, you could start tidying up that rig to welcome any new parts into that case

I ran off a Pentium D915. very hot headed chip and saved me on heating during winter 😛

@ snowsniper - mess with cablemanagement...could shoot you some PM's about CM'ing in that case nice parts except for the stock cooler and TT PSU - that unit is very rickety!

regarding your dads bencher - take a look at these pics

before

after

my gripe with your way is the apple flavored snapple you use to take pics... c'mon dude your on tom's hardware not on a hackintosh site like tonymac's.

@ uther39 - nothing but top notch work mate. But 2 things:
1| one of your pics is out of focus
2| if its an ssd then you could chuck the entire caddy out and have the ssd velcro'd to the other side of case.

now the fun part - any one check out the Bitfenix Prodigy Jack O' Lantern case mod ?

@ koulmunky - that is da bomb right there!

@ mochan - use the PCI-E cables to tug the card up a bit. By this I mean routing the cables to come from the point your 24pin mobo connectors peek out of mobo tray. Nice build nontheless!

 

[Lutfij]

update to Rig 2 in member config
before

old specs;
Corsair H50 with Tt silent fan in pull|rad|shroud|push with corsair 50cfm fan
320GB Samsung HD322GJ
HP litescribe DVD+/-RW

new specs;
1x Bitfenix Alchemy 600mm White
2x Noiseblocker M12-P 120mm fans in pull|rad|shroud|push
Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD - boot drive and some games.
320GB crashed so the SSD came in.
White LED mod on HDD+Power
Lamptron Slot Protector SP2
Rosewill HTPC remote RRC-126

after:

gallery here

updated this post of my pals HTPC

* about the very old comments about me not getting an SSD...well after having setup and tried one on for size, MAN, consider me converted!

 

[vanquished]

Dark Room:

In light:

SPECS:

Mobo: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3

Ram: 16GB DDR3 1600mhz, (2) Corsair Vengeance Black. (2) G. Skill Ares Blue

GPU: (2) Ati Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire XFired

PSU: 950 Watt PC P&C Silencer Mk II

Storage:
60GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD (For OS)
2TB Seagate
500GB WD Blue
640GB WD Green


CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

DVD/Blu-Ray:
Lite-On DL DVD/RW w/ Lightscribe
LG WH14NS40 BD-RE

Case:
Antec 300 (I cut a window into it)


Cooling:
Corsair H50
4 Coolermaster SickleFlow Blue LED 120mm
1 Antec TriCool (pull on radiator) 120mm
1 Antec TriCool 140mm
NZXT Sentry Mesh (Sliding) Fan Controller

Monitor: AOC e2243Fw 22inch monitor 1080p

Keyboard: Logitech Illuminated Slim Keyboard

Mouse: Razer Tron Mouse with mouse pad

 

[Lutfij]

^ considering you have antec 300 - I can understand how hard it'd be to route and manage cables. However, very honestly speaking - you can get a bag of black zipties and take a few hours off your schedule to tidy up all, if not, most of them wires from that psu.

I've done this before for other owners of this case, on this very thread - but here are a few examples

or you could always mod it like so

more here
http://www.overclock.net/t/549335/project-kuro-wc-antec-300-3-19-10/0_100

* I really need to get underway with that CM tutorial and write-up...theeeeesssss is an emergency!

 

[vanquished]

^ considering you have antec 300 - I can understand how hard it'd be to route and manage cables. However, very honestly speaking - you can get a bag of black zipties and take a few hours off your schedule to tidy up all, if not, most of them wires from that psu.

No Dice, The back panel is entirely full. (and Yes, velcro and zip ties are in use to manage the cables. Can't even pop them into a spare drive bay because of the HDDs and the placement of the video cards. I don't mind the cables too much, since it always looks like the blue picture its not that bad. That powersupply just has way to many friggin' cables. Definitely going Modular next time.

 

[Lutfij]

or maybe a wider bellied case 😉

 

[amuffin]

How's the Sandisk SSD? I might pick one up soon.

 

[vanquished]

or maybe a wider bellied case 😉

Oh that's a given. Gonna go full tower or the biggest mid I can get. Sick of cramming all this stuff into the 300 😀

 

[Lutfij]

@ amuffin - blazing fast. I'm not into benchmarkings with my bro's rig but I boot into windows in just a lil over 32sec's. Compared to my 5 min sitting time(or in your case...getting warm glass of milk from the kitchen). Shutdown is in 15 sec's flat. If thas high for both startup and shutdown - I got a lot of stratup program's 😛

btw, I followed the optimization guide on sevenforums by Sean. Helped alot! I'd get another Sandisk Extreme If the vintage/AMS builds didn't cost so much...but thas me

@ vanquished - I know how you feel about cramming stuff in. Be sure to give us a holla before gunning for a case 😀

 

[Ickyness]

Some of you guys may remember me from a few months ago when I built my new system and posted it. Since then, a friend of mine and myself have taken to modding another computer that I built: His!

This time, we went all out. The case is a Thor V2, but I'm putting a reference picture up so you could see what it looks like before we started. The contrast in before and after is amazing!



Before.

After.

REinV3nT3d is my buddy's gamer tag, so it made sense to put it on the case. Our inspiration was an old 1960's cherry red sports car with white stripes and small chrome accents. WE actually tried to paint the mesh panels (the ones that are white now) chrome, but it didn't work very well, so we went with white afterwards.


Here's the hardware under the hood:

AMD FX8120 clocked @ 4.6ghz
Corsair H100 cooler
Asus Crosshair V mobo
(I can't remember what his GPU is, but I think it's an ATI 7770 card w/ 2GB's of DDR5 memory)
500GB WD 7200 RPM HDD (boot drive)
2TB 7200 RPM HDD (storage)
Thermaltake 850W

 

[nstiver]

No one here like my new build lol?

No dude your build is sick man!