[Build Log] Dragon Sigil (Name pending)

TriggerWolf · Dec 29, 2012

Hey guys, I finally got all the hardware needed to start building my new rig. This will be somewhat a live update log, as I'll be posting as I build up the computer.

So, without further adieu, here it begins.

All the goodies that I bought.

EVGA GTX 670

Maximus V Formula/Thunder FX

Core i5 3570k

Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3 2133MHz CL11

Corsair Hydro H100i, my first step into watercooling

And last but not least, Corsair Graphite 600T SE

Thanks for watching! I'll keep updating this. :toast:

de.das.dude · Dec 29, 2012

TriggerWolf · Dec 29, 2012

Alright, let's get on with more updates!

Cracked open

Getting hardware in

Already owned stuff that I'll still be using, from left to right: GTX470, Auzentech X-Fi Forte, LSI MegaRAID 9264-8i

Moar hardware in xD

That's all for now, I'll be back in a little.

:toast:

BarbaricSoul · Dec 29, 2012

what are your plans for requiring the GTX 470 and GTX 670 together? You do know you can't run them in SLI?

nevermind, I see in your system specs now.

TriggerWolf · Dec 29, 2012

BarbaricSoul said:
what are your plans for requiring the GTX 470 and GTX 670 together? You do know you can't run them in SLI?

nevermind, I see in your system specs now.

Alright, here's another update. This one took quite a while to get up since it's the most tedious part in building a rig... Cable management.

Here's the PSU I'll be using, it was a royal pain in the rear to take out of the P190, those who know the innards of that case know what I mean.

Partial cable management done. I will need to get some nice braided extensions in order to avoid the bare wires being seen.

These will be the hard drives I'll be using now, I had them laying around for a few months but I never got to use them since I was having some serious write speed issues on my previous rig, I hope these work better on this new one, because I suspect, from everything I did to troubleshoot it is down to the chipset of the SII Extreme.

Cable management from the front is complete. I can't do any better because of the lack braided extensions. The 12v CPU cable got there REALLY close...

Cable management on the back. Quite messy. lol

Taking suggestions on braided extensions. Should I get red, or white, or if there's such, red and white? Any brands I should look for?

Stay tuned for moar

Bo$$ · Dec 29, 2012

TriggerWolf said:
Taking suggestions on braided extensions. Should I get red, or white, or if there's such, red and white? Any brands I should look for?

Stay tuned for moar

NZXT have great extensions try those

de.das.dude · Dec 29, 2012

wow you update fast

TriggerWolf · Dec 29, 2012

Bo$$ said:
NZXT have great extensions try those

Alright, thanks! I'll take a look.

de.das.dude said:
wow you update fast

LOL. I'm in the process of upgrading ever since around 12:30 PM, it's now 6:11 PM over here. xD

TriggerWolf · Dec 30, 2012

Sorry for the late update. Took a trip to the movies xD

Here's the few last shots.

1600RPM Scythe S-Flex for the pull on the rad, since these offer a very nice air flow, I thought they would be better as pull config, leaving the stock H100i fans as push

H100i finally put in place, it was a nice pain in the rear to put it there in push/pull config, I had to place the rad slightly offset to the left of the case as the corsair fans would hit the CPU power connector and the Fusion barbs, so the Scythe fans are not 100% centered with the rad

Finally all put together, after about 7 hours later Oh yeah, I also moved the Zalman MFC-2 to this case to control the temps, the front and rear fan of the case and power usage

After getting home from the movie, I powered on the beast, it screams like a tornado due to the 2700RPM Corsair fans, but it's music to my ears

We got contact! I have to install windows on a spare SATA HDD as somehow I am unable to enter the RAID card boot GUI to configure the 4 450s for RAID, so I need to install the software in windows to do it prior to installing on the SAS HDDs

It's past 1:30 AM, not to mention my room being a mess from taking one computer apart and building another.

Thanks for watching

Xenturion · Dec 30, 2012

That's a really solid build. Didn't skimp on any parts and took the time to fully utilize that case and do the cables right.

TriggerWolf · Dec 31, 2012

Xenturion said:
That's a really solid build. Didn't skimp on any parts and took the time to fully utilize that case and do the cables right.

Thanks! Well, I sure did take my time, just about 7 hours to fully get this rig up and running! I already did some benchmarks too. Games that my last rig ran between 30 and 40 FPS, this one runs at a solid 60!

Also, I never got a computer OCed this fast. Took me about 30 seconds to just set the multi to x45 and 1.285v on the vCore and it was up and running stable (at least gaming stable for a couple of hours). I wonder if I can make it lower on vCore with some other tweaks.

Cheers.

System Name	紅白 [Kōhaku]
Processor	i5 3570K @ 4.5GHz 1.290v
Motherboard	ASUS Maximus V Formula / Thunder FX
Cooling	EK Supremacy Nickel/Plexi + Alphacool 240 XT45 and EK FC670 Nickel/Plexi + Phobya 400
Memory	Kingston HyperX Beast 2x 4096MB DDR3 2133MHz
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX670 SLI Unlocked [GPU1 @ 1320MHz max, GPU2 @ 1220MHz max] [RAM @ 7.2 GHz]
Storage	2x Micron C400 256GB RAID0 [System] / 2x 250GB 7200RPM 2.5" [Data]
Display(s)	Dell u2913WM 2560x1080 21:9
Case	Corsair Graphite 600T SE White
Audio Device(s)	Supreme FX IV
Power Supply	Zalman ZM850HP
Software	Windows 8.1 Pro x64

System Name	Monke \| Work Thinkpad\| J1nnx took Old Monke
Processor	Ryzen 5600X \| Ryzen 5500U \| FX8320
Motherboard	ASRock B550 Extreme4 \| ? \| Asrock 990FX Extreme 4
Cooling	240mm Rad \| Not needed \| hyper 212 EVO
Memory	2x16GB DDR4 3600 Corsair RGB \| 16 GB DDR4 3600 \| 16GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Pulse RX6700XT 12GB \| Vega 8 \| Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB
Storage	Samsung 980 nvme (Primary) \| some samsung SSD
Display(s)	Dell 2723DS \| Some 14" 1080p 98%sRGB IPS \| Dell 2240L
Case	Ant Esports Tempered case \| Thinkpad \| Antec
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 \| Jabra corpo stuff
Power Supply	Corsair RM750e \| not needed \| Corsair GS 600
Mouse	Logitech G400 \| nipple
Keyboard	Logitech G213 \| stock kb is awesome \| Logitech K230
VR HMD	;_;
Software	Windows 10 Professional x3
Benchmark Scores	There are no marks on my bench

System Name	紅白 [Kōhaku]
Processor	i5 3570K @ 4.5GHz 1.290v
Motherboard	ASUS Maximus V Formula / Thunder FX
Cooling	EK Supremacy Nickel/Plexi + Alphacool 240 XT45 and EK FC670 Nickel/Plexi + Phobya 400
Memory	Kingston HyperX Beast 2x 4096MB DDR3 2133MHz
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX670 SLI Unlocked [GPU1 @ 1320MHz max, GPU2 @ 1220MHz max] [RAM @ 7.2 GHz]
Storage	2x Micron C400 256GB RAID0 [System] / 2x 250GB 7200RPM 2.5" [Data]
Display(s)	Dell u2913WM 2560x1080 21:9
Case	Corsair Graphite 600T SE White
Audio Device(s)	Supreme FX IV
Power Supply	Zalman ZM850HP
Software	Windows 8.1 Pro x64

System Name	Barb's Domain
Processor	i9 10850k 5.1GHz all cores
Motherboard	MSI MPG Z490 GAMING EDGE WIFI
Cooling	Deep Cool Assassin III
Memory	2*16gig Corsair LPX DDR4 3200
Video Card(s)	RTX 4080 FE
Storage	500gb Samsung 980 Pro M2 SSD, 500GB WD Blue SATA SSD, 2TB Seagate Hybrid SSHD
Display(s)	Dell - S3222DGM 32" 2k Curved/ASUS VP28UQG 28" 4K (ran at 2k), Sanyo 75" 4k TV
Case	SilverStone Fortress FT04
Audio Device(s)	Bose Companion II speakers, Corsair - HS70 PRO headphones
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x (2021)
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	Logitech Orion Spectrum G910
VR HMD	Oculus Quest 2
Software	Windows 11 Pro 64 bit
Benchmark Scores	https://www.3dmark.com/spy/34962882

System Name	紅白 [Kōhaku]
Processor	i5 3570K @ 4.5GHz 1.290v
Motherboard	ASUS Maximus V Formula / Thunder FX
Cooling	EK Supremacy Nickel/Plexi + Alphacool 240 XT45 and EK FC670 Nickel/Plexi + Phobya 400
Memory	Kingston HyperX Beast 2x 4096MB DDR3 2133MHz
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX670 SLI Unlocked [GPU1 @ 1320MHz max, GPU2 @ 1220MHz max] [RAM @ 7.2 GHz]
Storage	2x Micron C400 256GB RAID0 [System] / 2x 250GB 7200RPM 2.5" [Data]
Display(s)	Dell u2913WM 2560x1080 21:9
Case	Corsair Graphite 600T SE White
Audio Device(s)	Supreme FX IV
Power Supply	Zalman ZM850HP
Software	Windows 8.1 Pro x64

[Build Log] Dragon Sigil (Name pending)

TriggerWolf

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

TriggerWolf

BarbaricSoul

TriggerWolf

Bo$$

Lab Extraordinaire

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

TriggerWolf

TriggerWolf

Xenturion

TriggerWolf

System Name	Desktop \| Server
Processor	Intel i7 2700k @ 4.6GHZ \| AMD 5350 @ 2500MHZ
Motherboard	Asus P7Z77-V Pro \| Asus AM1I-A
Cooling	Corsair H60v2 \| Stock Air
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 2x8GB CL8 1600MHZ \| Corsair Vengence 2x4GB CL9 1600MHZ
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 1060 6GB \| PNY GTX 750Ti
Storage	Samsung 840 EVO 250GB + 4TB WD Red \| 2x Seagate Barracuda 2TB
Display(s)	Samsung S27D390H + Asus VE276Q \| Headless
Case	Fractal Design R5 \| CM Elite 110
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar D1 w/Otone Stilo 5.1 and Creative Fatal1ty headset
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 850 G2\| Corsair CX430M
Mouse	Razer Imperator 2012
Keyboard	Corsair K90
Software	Windows 7 SP1 X64 \| Ubuntu 16.04LTS

System Name	Main Rig
Processor	Intel i5-4670K
Motherboard	ASRock Z87E-ITX
Cooling	Cooler Master Seidon 120M (Push+Pull)
Memory	8GB (2x4GB) G.Skill Sniper 1866 1.5V
Video Card(s)	HD 6870 (Waiting on AIB partner R9 290 Release)
Storage	WD 600GB VelociRaptor (w/ 60GB SSD Cache) / 2x 64GB SanDisk SSD RAID0
Display(s)	3x Acer 20" @ 1600x900
Case	Cooler Master Elite130
Power Supply	Seasonic 450W G-Series (80+ Gold)
Software	Win7 Pro 64-bit