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[dempy19]

Here is my first build, built it about a month ago and I'm loving every minute spent on it!! many thanks to this community for all the help in choosing the right parts and with my overclocking after the build was complete!

Inside view

love the blue leds, I put 2 bitfenix fans on my 212 EVO to make it look better

and my basic battle station, does the job though!

Parts list:
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Xwog

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (OC to 4.2GHz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI FORMULA ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory CL9
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 780 DCUIIOC 3GB Video Card
Case: Thermaltake VN300M1W2N ATX Full Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair Professional 850W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro (OEM) (64-bit)
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor
Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow 2013 Wired Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: Mad Catz R.A.T. 7 Wired Laser Mouse
Total: $1994.81
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-25 19:27 EST-0500)

Added case fans: 2 x BitFenix Spectre PWM 120mm Blue LED Fan (surrounding the 212 EVO) , Phanteks PH-F140TS_OR for back exhaust, and took the 140mm fan that was at the back exhaust where the Phanteks is now and put it on the top alongside the 200mm one that came with the case.

Headset seen in pictures: Astro A40

Please feel free to PM with questions about the build if you are interested in it or are building something similar.

 

[mathieub]

Build this a couple weeks ago and all sleeving done by me. (PICTURE IS OLDER IT DOES HAVE 32GB RAM NOW WILL UPDATE PICTURE IF REQUESTED)

CPU: i7-4770
COOLER: H90
MOBO: Asus Z87-K
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 770 2GB
RAM: 32GB Kingston HyperX 1600MHZ
SSD: Kingston 240GB
HDD: WD Blue 1TB
PSU:Xigmatek 750W
CHASSIS: Corsair 750D

Sleeving work done by me.

I heard Moto likes C.M

lower res photo to prove 32GB as requested.

Back of the case to show CM, Also shows how I sleeved a Semi Modular

 

[jimthenagual]

Nice job on the sleeving, it makes such a difference!

 

[jeremyp79]

Here are some updated pics of my system, in the 500r now, with single sleeved cables(mostly) I'll have some pics of the window I'm adding as soon as my little brother brings my dremel back :-/



Almost forgot, specs are: 4670k,gtx 770x2, msi z87 g45 gaming, h100, 8 gigs gskill ripjaws x, corsair force gt 110, crucial m500 120. Rm 850 power supply

 

[hoevito]

Here's mine...which just also happens to be my first ever PC build. Kind of proud how it turned out for a little ol' noob like myself


CPU- 4770k @ 4.9ghz

Motherboard- Asus Maximus Hero

Graphics- MSI Gtx 780 Lightning SLI w/ 2x EK-FC780 GTX Lightning GPU water blocks

RAM- G Skill Ripjaws X Series 16gb @ 2133 mhz

Hard Drive- SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250gb/TOSHIBA PH3300U 3TB/Seagate 2 TB free agent/Western Digital 250 gb

Optical Drive- LG Blu Ray burner

Cooling- XSPC Raystorm CPU block-7/16 by 5/8" hose
-XSPC AX360
-Alphacool NexXxoS 280mm UT60
-Alphacool NexXxoS 140mm XT45
-XSPC D5 Reservoir/Pump combo
-4x Cougar CF-V14HB
-2x Cougar 14CM Blue LED Hydraulic Bearing Ultra
-4x Bitfenix Spectre Pro 200mm fans

OS- Windows 8.1

Monitor- X-Star 27" 2560x1440p @ 110hz

Keyboard- ROCCAT Ryos MK Pro w/cherry brown switches

Power- PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 950W

Case- NZXT Phantom 820

Mouse- ROCCAT Kone XTD

Mouse Pad- ROCCAT Alumic

Audio- Corsair Vengeance 1500 v2

 

[jed]

This was my first watercooled machine, the all in one.

specs. 3770k, Asus Sabertooth Z77 motherboard, 16Gb of Patroit Viper 2000Mhz ram
and of coarse the Corsair H100.

Here's my second attempt with a custom loop and a few modification to the case to
hold the (2) 360 64mm radiators








Specs. 3960X, Asus Rampage IV Extreme, 16Gb of Patriot 2400Mhz ram, EK custom loop.
parts I'm still waiting on a couple of 45 degree elbows and 2 amd 290x's.

 

[Trinitom]

Hi to all

just registered recently but usually i come here a lot searching for help.
I just finished building my 1st rig and this forum give me a great help in putting all together with no problems

i'll leave some pics and setup.

spec:
case- Zalman Z11 Plus Midi Tower Case
mobo- Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
psu- Corsair AX 760w 80 plus platinum
cpu- AMD FX8350 Black Edition
cooling- Corsair Hydro Series H100i
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
ram- G skill Trident 2x 8gb 2400mhz
gpu- Asus GTX 770 Nvidia GeForce
2x 1 TB toshiba dt01aca100 hdd's
samsung DVD-RW Drive

screen:
BenQ XL2411T

OS:
windows 7 PRO

waiting for 2 Noctua NF-F12PWM to arrive tomorrow to replace the stock h100i fans as they are very noisy under load.
i will be fitting another gtx 770 in the near future an go for sli.
at the moment i'm running 4.7mhz stable on the 8350 at 1.4625 V and temps are 54~55c core and 60c socket under load, at room temperature.
so i think a can still push-it a bit more if the noctua fans can an least reduce the core temps under 50c.
i still have to play a bit with the h100 fans as they are blowing air in to the case and i'll try the other way around to see if it makes a big difference in temps.

so i'll leave a few pics:

 

[tiny voices]

Hey guys lets move this discussion to the Member System's Discussion thread here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1980287/member-systems-discussion-thread/page-33.html

 

[jeremyp79]

Got my window cut, and did some painting today. Also got my sleeved 24 pin cable in. Next project is to add a psu shround, and possibly remove the optical drive bay.





4670k, z87 g45, 8g ripsaw x, gtx 770 sli, rm 850

 

[DiverDave]

First and foremost a big thank you to everyone that helped me along the journey of putting together this new system. I really appreciated all the help from the TH community in getting parts answering questions and debugging problems. I never would have put together as good a system without your help
My components
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2400 Memory
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card
Nanoxia Deep Silence 2 ATX Mid Tower Case
Rosewill CAPSTONE-550-M PSU
Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)

Everything has been up and running for more than a week now and while I haven't started to try and OC I'm pretty happy with the build overall.
And a crappy cellphone picture (because they are the only kind I can take )

 

[Rue22]

Been since march 2013 since I posted and showed off my machine, figured I'd do an update of it. Got a new card a peripherals since then, Gaming on my 47 inch Samsung too now, until I get a 1440p monitor I think.

Before:

Now:

Case: Cooler Master HAF 912
Mobo: ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77
cpu: i5 3570k@4.5ghz
Mem: G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 32GB
GPU: gtx780 Galaxy HOF@1241mhz
Psu: Rosewill LIGHTNING-800W gold
ssd: OCZ Vertex 3 240gb
hdd: Seagate Barracuda 2tb

 

[streetsports]

I7 4770k @ 4.8
16gb 2133 corsair
Asus z87 pro
Sli evga super clocked 780 ti's
128gb evo ssd (op & apps)
500gb ego ssd (games)
3tb 7200 HDD (movies)
1.5tb 7200 HDD (3d movies)
3 dell 23 inch 1080p
Qnix perfect pixel 27 inch 2560x1080
Sceptre 42 inch 3dtv
$1,000 custom loop...mcp655 pushing 60mm 280 rad, 60mm 140 rad, 30mm 240 rad, 30mm 140 rad, heatkiller rev3.0 and 2 ek full blocks.
evga top plates and bridge

And I'm sure I've missed stuff

 

[jed]

My little mod
Name: jed
Case: Cosmos 2
CPU: i7-3960X
Motherboard: Asus Rampage Extreme iv 2011
CPU Voltage: 1.45V
CPU Bus Speed/Multiplier: 100*48
Clock Speed: 4.8ghz
RAM: 16Gb Patriot Viper 2400mhz DDR3 11-13-13-3T
Cooling: Custom Watercooling Loop
OS:Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit

http://valid.canardpc.com/f4kk5w







After installing my Sapphire R290X with a XSPC water block

 

[HiTechObsessed]

So I ended up changing to the EVGA Hadron Air. Took a LONG time to get everything setup, but it's worth it!

I spent about 4 hours getting the cables all fixed up, had to cut a bunch down since I decided to use custom white sleeved extensions.

Rig Setup:
Core i5-4670k @ 4.2GHz
GTX 760 HAWK @1350MHz
8GB ADATA XPG V2.0 @ 1600 CAS9
128GB Samsung 840 Pro
1TB Seagate HDD
160GB Seagate HDD
Panasonic Slot-load DVD/CD writer/reader
EVGA Mini-ITX cooler
Gigabyte Z87N-Wifi board
Custom White Sleeved Cabling
And I have my fans setup currently as intakes, because the Cougar's I bought are too thick, and the 24-pin connector rubs the blades when flipped the other way lol Just ordered some Gelid Slims and will see what kind of temps I get. I've been pretty lucky so far with the power supply, it's been pretty dang quiet - at least during idle/general computing lol it gets pretty dang loud at load, but I'm gaming with headphones so I can't hear it

 

[nukemaster]

Love the look of that case.

Nice work.

 

[nukemaster]

If you need any advice on said system create a thread(this is an image thread ), if you want to discuss systems in general, please post Here.

 

[sepnotic]

I love seeing computers that people put a lot of time and effort into. Great looking rigs folks, just want to share mine as well:

This is my first high-end build and I'm really proud of it, I've learned a lot from this site. I know there are a lot of better builds out there but for now this is the best that I can do and afford. I'm sure there are opportunities to upgrade with what I have but it have to wait until I can afford it. Hope you guys like it, I don't want to bore you folks with all the parts as you can see from the part picker list. Sorry for the poor picture quality, my camera took a dump while doing my build so all pix were taken from my phone.

Spent lots of time research and come up with a design and modify the case, color scheme and the lighting system. I want a clean and elegant look for the rig and I think I’m happy with what I have done.
Already have a few people want to buy this rig but I'm not sure if I want to let it go. I created the black hole on the lower right panel to give it a unique look, if you need help on this, I will try to. Mainly using this rig for work, Photoshop, video editing/encoding movies and some games.

Overclocked CPU to 4.7 GHz with 1.32v but I backed it down to 4.3 GHz for the longevity, I don't need that high right now. The dual SLI GTX 760 worked for me but I may upgrade to GTX 780 ti once I can afford it and maybe custom water loop.

Parts list:
http://pcpartpicker.com/b/PkV

More pictures here:
http://sepnotic.imgur.com

 

[nukemaster]

Nice work sepnotic!

 

[tecmo34]

I second nukemaster... Great work sepnotic!!

 

[sepnotic]

Thanks for the comment.

I'm proud of this baby 😉

 

[JuliusJesse]

First of all I didn't build this system my self. I had it build by a company, because my parents thought I was to young to build one (thanks parents). But anyway, two days ago i got the giant package and i most say they did a really nice job off building it. First of all the package was really nice. Bubble wrap everywere. Even in the system. So the system got here in one piece.

http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/JuliusJesse/media/IMG_20140501_112017_zpsa0fbfcb8.jpg.html?sort=3&o=4
http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/JuliusJesse/media/IMG_20140501_114320_zps6657cdb6.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1
http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/JuliusJesse/media/IMG_20140501_112030_zpsced0b831.jpg.html?sort=3&o=3

BTW sorry for the bad pictures. Took them with my smartphone.

System specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8320 (overclocked to 4.3 GHz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master 212 evo
Motherboard: Asus m5a97 evo r2.0
Graphics card: MSI Nvidia GTX 760
Power supply: XFX Pro Series 550W Core Edition
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 60gb (Bad choise, no space left)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Genesis 8gb
Case: Corsair 300r
DVD Writer: Lite-On iHAS124
Fans: 2x Sharkoon System Fan 140mm (cheap, but good enough for me)
Wireless Card: TP-Link TL-WN881ND

As for cooling I have those two extra case fans. First I had one of the two extra fans on the left side as an intake and the other one at the front, but it was horrible. It didn't cool the gpu any better than normal and I couldn't overclock the cpu at all. So I put both extra case fans at the front, the pre-installed fan from Corsair on the top and i removed the included rear-fan from Corsair and put that on the cpu cooler and now I have excellent cooling.

Graphics card: Furmark 15 min. : max. 76* C
CPU (overclocked): Prime95 15 min. : max. 61* C

In gaming the tempatures are even less with the graphics card being around 55* C and the cpu around 50* C.

So let me know what you think of it. This is by the way the first computer were I chose the parts my self.

 

[nukemaster]

Seems good to me.

You may wish to torn off hibernation if you have not already and shrink the page file to free up some SSD room.

Turn of hibernation

Hit Start and type cmd
Hold control + shift and hit enter to run command prompt as an admin(or right click and select run as administrator).
in the command prompt window type "powercfg -h off" without the ""'s
This normally free's up about as much space as you have memory.

Please note this disables the fast startup feature of Windows 8, but will not be an issue for SSD users.

To reduce the page file.
hit start and type "advanced system" you should see an option called view advanced system settings, select it.
On the Advanced tab(should be on this tab already) select settings under Performance.
Select the Advanced tab on the performance options window
Select Change under Virtual memory
Set a new size. I personally use 4gigabytes(4096 megabytes) as my custom min/max without any issues.

Some users disable this, but I do not generally recommend it.

Please PM or start a thread if you have more questions as this is a picture thread

 

[krl2minute]

*Now updated fewer pictures - See full post here*

The goal of the build was to create a completely quiet windows-pc that could function as htpc, download server and web surfing machine. Both the downloading and htpc movies will be stored on a 20TB LAN Synology DS1812+, so there's no need for much local storage.

I figured the best way to make it quiet, was to remove all moving parts and the wall mounted concept was a great idea for letting it "breath". Because without a fan it relies quite heavily on convection.
Primary inspiration from here and here

Parts-list:
ASRock H81M-ITX
Intel Core i3 4130T @ 2,9GHz (Still considering to underclock it)
w/ Scythe Ninja 3 Rev. B
Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB DDR3
Sapphire HD 7750 Ultimate 1GB GDDR5
OCZ Agility 3 60GB
Seasonic Platinum-series 460w
Mixed buttons, switches and temp-monitors
Leftover kitchen counter top

And this is how it turned out 😀

And with the light turned on

The temp monitor is attached to the copper heat pipes and generally shows 7C lower than the internal sensors.
The three buttons are Pwr On (large round), Reset (small round) and Light on/off (flip-switch)

And this is how it fits into our living room

Tempratures
It has been "tested" with AOE III (on high settings) for 2 hours in ambient 23C and the internal temp monitor showed the GPU at close to 80C and the CPU around 60C, which is reasonable in my book. Idle temps are GPU 35C and CPU 45C.

 

[Onus]

That PC looked like it could be on the wall in a museum. VERY nice.

 

[nukemaster]

The goal of the build was to create a completely quiet windows-pc that could function as htpc, download server and web surfing machine. Both the downloading and htpc movies will be stored on a 20TB LAN Synology DS1812+, so there's no need for much local storage.

I figured the best way to make it quiet, was to remove all moving parts and the wall mounted concept was a great idea for letting it "breath". Because without a fan it relies quite heavily on convection.
Primary inspiration from here and here

Parts-list:
ASRock H81M-ITX
Intel Core i3 4130T @ 2,9GHz (Still considering to underclock it)
w/ Scythe Ninja 3 Rev. B
Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB DDR3
Sapphire HD 7750 Ultimate 1GB GDDR5
OCZ Agility 3 60GB
Seasonic Platinum-series 460w
Mixed buttons, switches and temp-monitors
Leftover kitchen counter top

And this is how it turned out 😀
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/front-right.jpg
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/front-left.jpg
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/close.jpg[
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/ram-close.jpg
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/hdd.jpg
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/side.jpg
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/back.jpg

And with the light turned on
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/front-light2.jpg
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/side-light.jpg
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/sound-ligt.jpg
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/temp.jpg
The temp monitor is attached to the copper heat pipes and generally shows 7C lower than the internal sensors.
The three buttons are Pwr On (large round), Reset (small round) and Light on/off (flip-switch)

At the bottom of the white cable sock is the UPS, a Gbit-switch and the logitech sub.
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/bottom.jpg

And this is how it fits into our living room
http://root.exe.pm/wall_pc/workspace.jpg

Tempratures
It has been "tested" with AOE III (on high settings) for 2 hours in ambient 23C and the internal temp monitor showed the GPU at close to 80C and the CPU around 60C, which is reasonable in my book. Idle temps are GPU 35C and CPU 45C.

Looks good.

Your temps are quite good for a fanless system.