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| System Name | Black Panther |
|---|---|
| Processor | i9 9900k |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO Wifi 1.0 |
| Cooling | NZXT Kraken X72 360mm |
| Memory | 2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600Mhz |
| Video Card(s) | Palit RTX2080 Ti Dual 11GB DDR6 |
| Storage | Samsung EVO 970 500GB SSD M.2 & 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm |
| Display(s) | 32'' Gigabyte G32QC 2560x1440 165Hz |
| Case | NZXT H710i Black |
| Audio Device(s) | Razer Electra V2 & Z5500 Speakers |
| Power Supply | Seasonic Focus GX-850 Gold 80+ |
| Mouse | Some Corsair lost the box forgot the model |
| Keyboard | Motospeed |
| Software | Windows 10 |
i7 930 @ 4Ghz
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
3 x 2048 DDR3 Mushkin blackline - 2017 UPGRADE TO 12GB GEIL BLACK DRAGON
Scythe Yasya
The above bundle was very generously gifted to me by mjkmike. Without it, I'd never started this build.
Purchased locally:
Zotac 670 4GB - 2018 UPGRADE TO EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1070Ti
240GB Sandisk SSD
Sony BWU-500S-WW Blu ray writer
NZXT Switch 810 White
NZXT HALE90 850W PSU White - (died after 2 years, got a Corsair).
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 - Obviously upgraded to Win 10.
The tiger decal will go on the solid side of the case.
CPU
Motherboard
RAM
CPU Cooler
Building.........
I still have to install the CPU cooler, optical drive and SSD. And hopefully my local seller keeps his promise and delivers the Zotac 670 4GB next week.
16th July Update
Put the Optical Drive in place:
I like the way the drives are secured by clips, with 2 pins which neatly fit in the holes instead of using screws. In the below photo you can see how it looks before I locked the clip in place.
The front:
After I re-inserted the bezel:
Connected sata cable.. I'll connect the power cable after I install the SSD so as to plan out the wire management:
Finally...
I assembled the CPU cooler i.e. put the fan in place, and the push-pins as well.
The next photos would be of the installed SSD and CPU cooler. Hopefully. Unless I entertain y'all with a picture of the cooler slammed and stuck into the wall.....
I can feel it those push-pins are going to be giving me a hard time. Just look at the way they are smirking in glee, all loose and unruly at me!
The back of the motherboard (inside the case) clearly showing the 4 holes where the push-pins should come through:
20th July update:
I received the graphics card
Apologies for the quality of the pictures. I'd be at home during midday work break, take the pics, put them on pendrive and crop and upload them in the evening when I'd be in another place.
23rd July update:
It's ALIVE!!!
To hell with getting help to install the cpu cooler
As soon as I was at home I couldn't bear to wait any longer. So I found two pieces of furniture the same height, laid down the tower like this:
That way I could check the push-pins were properly aligned by looking beneath (like having a car on a jack). And gravity helped a lot!
Powered up, and no problems so far! I was thinking I'd get a bad seal between the cpu but the bios temps seem ok. Or that I'd mess up the tiny power/hdd led/reset switches... but those were ok as well.
[yt]0-OP23KnCTk[/yt]
All that remains now is to install Win 7.
24th July update
Everything is ready, Windows 7 installed, motherboard drivers installed, graphics drivers installed. All that remains is connecting to the net now...
Decal on side of case:
My 27" Dell 2560x1440 is being rma'd....
So now I've got to make do with a huge tower, a graphics card with 4GB Vram.... and a puny little 1680x1050 monitor!
_____________________________
30th July update:
I'm playing Skyrim, adding more and more texture mods than I ever thought existed, yet on the 1680x1050 monitor the fps won't go lower than the 60 fps cap, at ultra settings.
I hope I get the 2560 monitor I rma's on the 20th July soon because this card is overkill right now on a puny 1680x1050
Photo of powered up pc without flash:
And with flash:
I love the motherboard's inbuilt lights.
10th August Update: With my Dell U2711 back in place
I'll be updating this when I get the NZXT hue next, but the motherboard's lights are already nice enough in the dark. The louvres on the top of the case, when open, show up great on the ceiling.
18/2/2017 Edit:
Well I never got the NZXT hue, but what follows is probably the last and final upgrade for this pc before I get a new build.
I was still running with only 3 x 2GB Mushkins, and feeling surprised I was running Skyrim and Fallout 4 quite fine considering the minimum RAM requirement is 8GB.
However, more RAM never hurt anybody and it's time to double that RAM!
So instead of the 3 x 2GB Mushkins now there's 3 x 4GB Geil Dragon RAM:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
3 x 2048 DDR3 Mushkin blackline - 2017 UPGRADE TO 12GB GEIL BLACK DRAGON
Scythe Yasya
The above bundle was very generously gifted to me by mjkmike. Without it, I'd never started this build.
Purchased locally:
Zotac 670 4GB - 2018 UPGRADE TO EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1070Ti
240GB Sandisk SSD
Sony BWU-500S-WW Blu ray writer
NZXT Switch 810 White
NZXT HALE90 850W PSU White - (died after 2 years, got a Corsair).
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 - Obviously upgraded to Win 10.
The tiger decal will go on the solid side of the case.
CPU
Motherboard
RAM
CPU Cooler
Building.........
I still have to install the CPU cooler, optical drive and SSD. And hopefully my local seller keeps his promise and delivers the Zotac 670 4GB next week.
16th July Update
Put the Optical Drive in place:
I like the way the drives are secured by clips, with 2 pins which neatly fit in the holes instead of using screws. In the below photo you can see how it looks before I locked the clip in place.
The front:
After I re-inserted the bezel:
Connected sata cable.. I'll connect the power cable after I install the SSD so as to plan out the wire management:
Finally...
I assembled the CPU cooler i.e. put the fan in place, and the push-pins as well.
The next photos would be of the installed SSD and CPU cooler. Hopefully. Unless I entertain y'all with a picture of the cooler slammed and stuck into the wall.....
I can feel it those push-pins are going to be giving me a hard time. Just look at the way they are smirking in glee, all loose and unruly at me!The back of the motherboard (inside the case) clearly showing the 4 holes where the push-pins should come through:
20th July update:
I received the graphics card
Apologies for the quality of the pictures. I'd be at home during midday work break, take the pics, put them on pendrive and crop and upload them in the evening when I'd be in another place.
23rd July update:
It's ALIVE!!!
To hell with getting help to install the cpu cooler
As soon as I was at home I couldn't bear to wait any longer. So I found two pieces of furniture the same height, laid down the tower like this:
That way I could check the push-pins were properly aligned by looking beneath (like having a car on a jack). And gravity helped a lot!
Powered up, and no problems so far! I was thinking I'd get a bad seal between the cpu but the bios temps seem ok. Or that I'd mess up the tiny power/hdd led/reset switches... but those were ok as well.
[yt]0-OP23KnCTk[/yt]
All that remains now is to install Win 7.
24th July update
Everything is ready, Windows 7 installed, motherboard drivers installed, graphics drivers installed. All that remains is connecting to the net now...
Decal on side of case:
My 27" Dell 2560x1440 is being rma'd....
So now I've got to make do with a huge tower, a graphics card with 4GB Vram.... and a puny little 1680x1050 monitor!
_____________________________
30th July update:
I'm playing Skyrim, adding more and more texture mods than I ever thought existed, yet on the 1680x1050 monitor the fps won't go lower than the 60 fps cap, at ultra settings.
I hope I get the 2560 monitor I rma's on the 20th July soon because this card is overkill right now on a puny 1680x1050
Photo of powered up pc without flash:
And with flash:
I love the motherboard's inbuilt lights.
10th August Update: With my Dell U2711 back in place
I'll be updating this when I get the NZXT hue next, but the motherboard's lights are already nice enough in the dark. The louvres on the top of the case, when open, show up great on the ceiling.
18/2/2017 Edit:
Well I never got the NZXT hue, but what follows is probably the last and final upgrade for this pc before I get a new build.
I was still running with only 3 x 2GB Mushkins, and feeling surprised I was running Skyrim and Fallout 4 quite fine considering the minimum RAM requirement is 8GB.
However, more RAM never hurt anybody
and it's time to double that RAM!So instead of the 3 x 2GB Mushkins now there's 3 x 4GB Geil Dragon RAM:
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but that's highly unlikely because I'm very careful and nothing like that ever happened to me.. I forgot my Arctic Silver 5 at the other place, and am not in the mood to buy another tube knowing that the one I have there is nearly new so I can't attach the cpu cooler for now. 
