Cooler Master HAF 912 Advanced i7 2600k SSD Build 56k Death

[Pittster]

Hey all first post,

Great forum and also love the Tiny Tom's you tubes vids

Thought I would put the build up that i started in October last year, So where to begin

So parts so far as of 04/2012

As follows

i7 2600K@4.5 1.31V

Noctua NH-D14/Thermalright TY-140's

Asus P8Z68-V Pro

2x4GB GSKILL 8-8-8-24 F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM

SLI GTX 280's (Reused)

Corsair Force GT 120Gb

Seagate Barracuda 2Tb

2x 2Tb Seagate Green Raid 1 (Reused)

CoolerMaster HAF 912/NF-P14 FLX & NF-P12

CoolerMaster 850W Power Pro (Reused)

Audio Technica ATH-AD700

Asus Xonar DX

Begin build Oct 2011

Scope for the Build was:

$1000 Budget (went over by 180)

Get best hardware for money possible

Get a quiter case with better cooling

Re-use my 2x GTX 280's (roughly equal a GTX 570 they get a 3dMark Vantage Score of 23,000)

So my old setup was a Q9550 790i Ultra setup in Lian Li case which was good quality but a little noisy.

And put it together trying to be neat

As you can see i reused a 140MM fan i had. I was running all fans from a 12V Connector (molex) and while all the new fans were quite my 140mm fan was annoyingly noisy.

So I needed a new 140mm fan. So i went and bought two Thermalright PWM TY-140's, put them on my cooler and put the original noctua fans in my case, using the 140mm for the side. Also ran all of the case fans off the Motherboard fan headers so they can be controlled via the Fan Xpert software from ASUS. I run them at 40% when surfing the net and ramp them up to 100% when in game, this is based on a CPU temperature Setpoint.

Original fans on the Noctua

New Fans on the Noctua

Outside shot

Rear

Tidyed up the cabling a little

Mounted the SSD on top of the case SSD bracket (just drilled 4 new holes)

Believe it or not that took about 5 hours before i was happy with how the cables were I really hate not having a Modular power supply Ohh well at least you dont see that side of the case )

So yeah it does everything i wanted, neat , quite, tons of grunt Happy days

 

[Pittster]

Minor Update.

So the case never had a filter for the side fan, I ordered a Ebay special, Aluminium frame 140mm filter for like $5.

The holes are for 140mm fans but the Noctua NF-P14 FLX holes are 120mm so i drilled clearance holes in the mesh, and it all worked sweet.

Filter stops dust and quietened the air noise getting sucked through the standard perspex bars with minimal air flow loss.

I also had a spare 120mm cooler master fan from the rear of the case, so i decided to Velcro it to the side of my GPU's this bring temps down 5deg on the top card and 1 deg on the bottom.

I also have this fan running off a fan header via another Gelid Y-Splitter.

Set-up has been really stable cannot complain bring on the GT6XX/GT7XX

 

[Pittster]

Update:

So after a bit of dremel loving (don't mind the slight grinds on the flat surface the light makes it look bad but its smooth) opened up the exhaust ports and get 1-2 deg coolers in bf3, Alan wake, metro 2033, 3d mark etc there is alot more air coming out and less air noise when it had to go through the vents.

Good stuff I could take more metal out but this is fine for now It's good retaining the rear bracket in one piece anyway.

 

[dandaman123456]

looks nice and clean, and the noctua fans are awsome proforming but wish they had an option for different colors, but all and all awsome job, and nice cable management

 

[Pittster]

looks nice and clean, and the noctua fans are awsome proforming but wish they had an option for different colors, but all and all awsome job, and nice cable management

Thanks for the comment, the noctuas are good performers if I was really worried about the colours I would paint them all black but it doesn't worry me to much I can always do that later on.

I tried my best with the cable management but it was difficult with a non-modular P/S but it is very quiet. I was thinking of getting some Black Bitfenix cable extension for the sleeved look then maybe paint the fans.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Welcome to the fun house and nice rig

 

[jonnyfgm]

Love this! Did the exact same thing when I had dual 450s sandwidged together lol, i also strapped a 60mm fan to the end to blow air straight down the cards too lol

 

[SieB]

Well, thats the first time I have seen Thermalright fans on a D14

nice rig though.

 

[Pittster]

Welcome to the fun house and nice rig

Cool thanks some good info on this forum been reading it for years just never joined

Love this! Did the exact same thing when I had dual 450s sandwidged together lol, i also strapped a 60mm fan to the end to blow air straight down the cards too lol

Yeah it works well get some Air rammed in there. I did try from the front and it was a little worse I found this spot worked best on this setup

Well, thats the first time I have seen Thermalright fans on a D14

nice rig though.

I actually saw it on Overclock.net someone did it and thought hey I can do that, the PMW feature is nice & it adds to the massive look of the cooler lol

 

[Solidarity]

I may have missed it in the thread. Why'd you change the fans on NH-D14?

 

[Pittster]

I may have missed it in the thread. Why'd you change the fans on NH-D14?

On my first post

"S[font=Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans]o I needed a new 140mm fan. So i went and bought two Thermalright PWM TY-140's, put them on my cooler and put the original noctua fans in my case, using the 140mm for the side. Also ran all of the case fans off the Motherboard fan headers so they can be controlled via the Fan Xpert software from ASUS. I run them at 40% when surfing the net and ramp them up to 100% when in game, this is based on a CPU temperature Setpoint."[/font]

 

[Solidarity]

I read the rest, I somehow missed that.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Top notch rig mate

 

[Liarma]

2 words; me gusta

 

[Pittster]

2 words; me gusta

 

[Liarma]

Hahahha touche

 

[lemonpledge]

Really nice rig ! Nice to see peeps modding components for the sake of performance . I have to admit , taking a dremel too the back of the gpu's would have been a white knuckle affair for me but kudo's to you and I love the dedicated fan on the cards .. keep up the good work

 

[garih]

On my first post

"S[font=Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans]o I needed a new 140mm fan. So i went and bought two Thermalright PWM TY-140's, put them on my cooler and put the original noctua fans in my case, using the 140mm for the side. Also ran all of the case fans off the Motherboard fan headers so they can be controlled via the Fan Xpert software from ASUS. I run them at 40% when surfing the net and ramp them up to 100% when in game, this is based on a CPU temperature Setpoint."[/font]

am i missing something here? what was wrong in keeping the noctua fans on the d14, and just buy 1 fan for the side?

 

[Pittster]

Really nice rig ! Nice to see peeps modding components for the sake of performance . I have to admit , taking a dremel too the back of the gpu's would have been a white knuckle affair for me but kudo's to you and I love the dedicated fan on the cards .. keep up the good work

Yeah I like stuff to look good but if something can be done to improve performance, looks is second in line. Thanks for the comment.

am i missing something here? what was wrong in keeping the noctua fans on the d14, and just buy 1 fan for the side?

The standard Noctua fans on this model D-14 (non 2011 Model) fans are not PWM and my Motherboard has 2 4pin CPU fan headers to control fan speeds so I got the Ty-140's cause they could ramp down via PWM they are also quiter and perform the same.

Also the Asus software controls fan speeds for cpu and case fans on there own in the Fan Xpert II software.

I was going to buy one TY140 for the side and thought of the above, plus it looks like overkill every time I look at it

Again my main objective was silence when browsing the web & maximum efficiency when on load in games etc. all on Air all within a budget. Hope that explains it better

 

[Pittster]

UPDATE:

Got me a Gigabyte GTX 670 OC running 1310 Core & 7000 Mem Good times

PCI E 6-8 Pin Extension on Order