Menthuslayer
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PICTURES COMING SOON! Please bare with me as I create this page over time I don't really know what I'm doing.
UPDATE: Processor, RAM, MOBO, SSD, PSU ARRIVED!
Welcome to my adventure. This is my first PC build. I have been playing computer games since I was a little kid (I'm 25), and I have never built my own computer. I have always played on my parents computers, or a laptop. While in the Army I owned an Alienware M17xR4 which was exactly what I needed at the time, a mobile gaming solution. Now that I have moved on with my life and begun studying computer engineering, I am very ready for a monster build! So..... here we go!
FINALIZED AND ORDERED PARTS LIST
- Caselabs SMA8 Awaiting Shipment
- Intel 4790k: ARRIVED
- Corsair AX1200i ARRIVED
- Corsair Dominator Platinum 4 x 4gb 2400 ARRIVED
- Asus ROG Maximus VII Formula ARRIVED (and oh wow is it beautiful)
- 2x EVGA GTX 980 BACKORDERED
-512 GB Samsung 850 PRO SSD ARRIVED
-I wanted to do 2x 2tb western digital red pro's in Raid 1, but I have hit my budget so that's not happening right now.
-PK-3 Thermal Paste
-Indigo XS Extereme CPU TIM (going to give this stuff a try if I can't get it to flow I will use PK-3.
WATERCOOLING: I am stuck here right now, I need to order this stuff and I was going to use FrozenCPU.com for all my watercooling parts but their constant lack of stock, and the inability to order things that are out of stock may lead me elsewhere.
I don't want to pay shipping twice so I'm not going to order some of it and then some more of it. Getting very frustrated with them.
- 2x Alphacool Nexxos Quad 120 (480mm) MONSTA 80mm thick rads
- Swiftech D5 pump
- Bitspower pump top and pump mod kit (black sparkle)
-Bitspower fittings Carbon Black (I wanted to use a few red anodized fittings in certain places but again frozencpu doesn't carry what I need in this color.
-12mm OD Rigid acrylic tubing
-EK/Bitspower 250 RES I really like how the EK rez looks but I really wanted two ports on the top of my rez this will be a last second decision I'm sure.
-EK CPU and GPU waterblocks! (these things are sexy)
-16x! Corsair SP120 PE Fans for push/pull on both rads
-6x Corsair AF120 QE Fans for case fans.
- white led's
- I am hoping to learn to sleeve cables and do custom cables for this build, but do to budget that is getting pushed for the time being.
Anyway this is where we stand right now, things are slowly trickling in I'm really waiting to figure out where I'm getting all this WC stuff, and obviously 980's are backordered so that could take a couple weeks.
Please feel free to post tricks tips and etc, especially if you have experience with rigid tubing and bitspower fittings or just anything in general!
UPDATE: Processor, RAM, MOBO, SSD, PSU ARRIVED!
Welcome to my adventure. This is my first PC build. I have been playing computer games since I was a little kid (I'm 25), and I have never built my own computer. I have always played on my parents computers, or a laptop. While in the Army I owned an Alienware M17xR4 which was exactly what I needed at the time, a mobile gaming solution. Now that I have moved on with my life and begun studying computer engineering, I am very ready for a monster build! So..... here we go!
FINALIZED AND ORDERED PARTS LIST
- Caselabs SMA8 Awaiting Shipment
- Intel 4790k: ARRIVED
- Corsair AX1200i ARRIVED
- Corsair Dominator Platinum 4 x 4gb 2400 ARRIVED
- Asus ROG Maximus VII Formula ARRIVED (and oh wow is it beautiful)
- 2x EVGA GTX 980 BACKORDERED

-512 GB Samsung 850 PRO SSD ARRIVED
-I wanted to do 2x 2tb western digital red pro's in Raid 1, but I have hit my budget so that's not happening right now.
-PK-3 Thermal Paste
-Indigo XS Extereme CPU TIM (going to give this stuff a try if I can't get it to flow I will use PK-3.
WATERCOOLING: I am stuck here right now, I need to order this stuff and I was going to use FrozenCPU.com for all my watercooling parts but their constant lack of stock, and the inability to order things that are out of stock may lead me elsewhere.
I don't want to pay shipping twice so I'm not going to order some of it and then some more of it. Getting very frustrated with them.
- 2x Alphacool Nexxos Quad 120 (480mm) MONSTA 80mm thick rads
- Swiftech D5 pump
- Bitspower pump top and pump mod kit (black sparkle)
-Bitspower fittings Carbon Black (I wanted to use a few red anodized fittings in certain places but again frozencpu doesn't carry what I need in this color.
-12mm OD Rigid acrylic tubing
-EK/Bitspower 250 RES I really like how the EK rez looks but I really wanted two ports on the top of my rez this will be a last second decision I'm sure.
-EK CPU and GPU waterblocks! (these things are sexy)
-16x! Corsair SP120 PE Fans for push/pull on both rads
-6x Corsair AF120 QE Fans for case fans.
- white led's
- I am hoping to learn to sleeve cables and do custom cables for this build, but do to budget that is getting pushed for the time being.
Anyway this is where we stand right now, things are slowly trickling in I'm really waiting to figure out where I'm getting all this WC stuff, and obviously 980's are backordered so that could take a couple weeks.
Please feel free to post tricks tips and etc, especially if you have experience with rigid tubing and bitspower fittings or just anything in general!