Disquiet V2 Build Log - Ryzen, GTX 1080, Jonsbo W2, Air Cooled

[AngryGoldfish]

I ended up ordering an RGB kit from MNPCTECH for $40 since I was buying their GPU support bracket and shipping wasn't cheap so I wanted to get the most out of it. I asked TantricModZ to build me one out of acrylic, but sadly he's in the Philippines and as of now not shipping internationally.

I don't know whether the RGB kit I bought is any good. I'm not fussed about software control, but the strip is made by Darkside and watshisface from Singularity Computers says Darkside LED's are his favourite so I think it should be decent quality. We'll see how it turns out. It has a remote control that I'll use to dim the lights to my preferred level and to swap between orange and white to see which one I prefer. Or I may not even use them.

I quickly overclocked my GTX 1080's memory to 11700Mhz. I haven't tested how much of a boost it gives me yet, but at 1440p it should really help. That's what I love about the 1080s: they're not held back by the memory like the 980 was at higher resolutions. The Fury was better at 1440p than a 980, but a 1080 is as good as Vega due to the really high speeds of GDDR5X. I can only get it above 60°C with Fire Strike. In Arkham Knight it stays at about 58°C.

I also put down an order from OCUK for the last of the remaining parts. Incidentally, their shipping is ridiculous. For a few small knickknacks—fan splitters, fan grill, tape, etc— worth £40 the thieves tried to charge me £30 for shipping. So I'm using Parcel Motel instead for £10. Even £10 shipping to the North of Ireland for such a small package is high. I just bought a load of PC parts worth far more from Scan for my sister's PC and it cost £12 direct to her door in the South. OCUK are having the micky with that.

 

[Bartacus]

Darkside LED strips are awesome, you will not be disappointed. Daz even sells converter cables if you want to run the strip off the motherboard and set the colors in the BIOS (or use Aura, but I've chosen not to).

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Darkside LED strips are awesome, you will not be disappointed. Daz even sells converter cables if you want to run the strip off the motherboard and set the colors in the BIOS (or use Aura, but I've chosen not to).

Sweet. I'm probably just going to run it with the remote control. I'm trying to limit the amount of cables that I'll have to plug into the motherboard.

A bunch of components arrived this morning from Germany. I now have almost everything to begin testing to see if the components are all working and then installing them into the chassis for the first time and installing Windows. Then when that's done I'll start measuring up cable lengths and emailing Pexon PCs for a custom sleeved cable kit. Hopefully his build time is only a few weeks.

Parts arrived today are:

ASUS Crosshair VI Hero X370
Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT (with included AM4 bracket)
G.Skill memory
New M.2 960 EVO SSD for Windows
1600X

I'll take a few photos at some point and upload them to the build log.

 

[AlienALX]

One must provide one with photos of this ever larger pile of parts

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Had a long day. I passed my driving test, spoke to my hairdresser about my recent early-diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, who had a story to tell herself that I really appreciated being able to listen to. Then I trained arms with my brother-in-law. For me, that's a busy day.

A few pictures. Some of them are really crappy—sorry! I'd love to take a small online course or something on photography. I'm an appalling photographer.

Here is the new GPU installed in my old system. It hasn't been dusted in months (I have no compressed air and was relying on a feather duster and a vacuum, but gave up doing it ages ago) so it looks terrible.

Here are the new components:

Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT. This cooler should be more popular. For €70 you get an awful lot of cooling and quality.

The little yellow-green accent colour on the fan motor housing will be covered over with orange label.

G.Skill TridentZ 16GB 3200Mhz CL14. I'm not 100% sold on the grey and orange, but when the build is complete I think it will come together—I hope!

Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2 NVME SSD. These little guys are so cute and sturdy. I wish all storage could be like this. Imagine never needing SATA cables ever again or storage bays? A man can dream.

The Ryzen 5 1600X. While I think I would have preferred a 8600K, the value of Ryzen and AM4, plus the availability, was too much to ignore. I hope to be able to reach 3.9Ghz on all six cores without too much voltage. Maybe the silicon gods will favour me for once.

ASUS Crosshair VI Hero. I haven't inspected it fully yet, but it's a beautiful board. I personally think the Taichi from ASRock looked a little better—white would have fit the CPU cooler fan nicely—and the Taichi has two m.2 slots, but ASUS seems to be up there with BIOS support and I've never had an ASUS board before, which is kinda weird considering they're the biggest motherboard manufacturer.

 

[Bartacus]

Nice! That orange / black RAM looks awesome! Black and orange are a nice combo, and one you don't see often!

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Thanks! Yeah, orange and black is not very common at all. The inspiration was my desire to use BeQuiet fans. The build will be relatively monochrome, but the orange accents should add a little flare here and there.

I have a few cable ideas I thought I'd throw out there. It's early days yet, but I figure I may as well post them to see what people think. Bear in mind that the second PCI-e cable will be another 8-pin, not a 6-pin as shown below.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I like the 3rd and 4th one. The less white the better imo for this build. White with black and orange just looks off. Just my 2cents.

 

[AverageNinja]

Coming along nicely dude, keep up the good work

As for the cables, I think I agree with NBD here. A hint of white is nice, but you probably shouldn't overdo it. I personally think the third and the fifth ones look best.

 

[Excalabur50]

I like the 5th set myself

 

[Surfie]

I like the 4th.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Thanks for the input lads! The fourth and fifth were my favourites as well. The fourth one is probably the one I'll go for.

 

[AlienALX]

You do know Thermaltake makes a 140mm orange fan yeah?

Like the cable ideas.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

You do know Thermaltake makes a 140mm orange fan yeah?

Like the cable ideas.

Cougar do too, but it's too much orange. I wanted a monochrome look with little orange accents. BeQuiet fans are some of the best in the business for silence and airflow. Not so good with radiators; they'd do the job but they're more about silent air flow for cases.

I'm not a big fan (pun not intended) of Thermaltake.

 

[AlienALX]

Balls sorry dude, I mean Thermalright (ACK sorry for calling you dude I know you don't like that.. Call it an aspie cluster**k of errors and social awkwardness). 'uck is wrong with my head today (fishing until 4am in the freezing cold and rain and a very late start no doubt lol).

I apologise for swearing in your thread. Thermaltake indeed /slaps himself.

With a frame swap onto your black one would look boss IMO. That's if you can frame swap these fans.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Ha! It's all right dude.

Yeah, that fan would be too orange, even if I swapped the frame to a black one. It would look cool definitely, but a little too orange. I'd rather a black frame with black blades, but I'll take white blades.

I considered swapping the stock Thermalright fan with another BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 140mm fan, but I think the fan's dimensions wouldn't be quite right and I'd have to bend the mounting mechanism to get it to fit. Plus I'd wager the included Thermalright fan would perform better than a Silent Wings fan. Reviews for the TR fans show it's easily as good as Noctua's best. That's what I mean when I say more people should be buying Thermalright stuff. Noctua performance and quality, but not brown and tan and not quite as expensive. They are hard to find outside of Europe though.

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah TR fans are awesome. There's a guy I know called Lenny who hangs out on another forum and he's fan mad, and he's tested all of the best and the TR fans are really up there as you say.

TR make lovely stuff indeed. I always liked their coolers, but didn't like their practices BITD. Basically they would make a really nice cooler, then charge you for the retention mech (about £20) and the problem was that you could never find the mechs in stock. I am hoping they've now seen the error of their ways and changed that up.

I had a TR cooler once. It was for X58 and was like smoked chrome. Lovely looking thing and as heavy as balls. Did really well on my 950

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Yeah TR fans are awesome. There's a guy I know called Lenny who hangs out on another forum and he's fan mad, and he's tested all of the best and the TR fans are really up there as you say.

TR make lovely stuff indeed. I always liked their coolers, but didn't like their practices BITD. Basically they would make a really nice cooler, then charge you for the retention mech (about £20) and the problem was that you could never find the mechs in stock. I am hoping they've now seen the error of their ways and changed that up.

I had a TR cooler once. It was for X58 and was like smoked chrome. Lovely looking thing and as heavy as balls. Did really well on my 950

Hmmm I didn't know about that. As far as I know the Thermalright stuff comes with all the necessary inclusions. The Le Grand Macho RT is AM4 ready out of the box, and they were sending out mounting brackets to early Ryzen users who already owned Thermalright stuff. I'm not sure if you had to pay extra for it though.

There's a guy on OCN who's mad into fans and air cooling. I always chat with him about this kind of stuff. He's helped a lot with the build already so far.

 

[g0ggles1994]

Loving the colour scheme with it, just wondering, why are you going back to Air cooling from an AiO?

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Loving the colour scheme with it, just wondering, why are you going back to Air cooling from an AiO?

Pump noise mostly, but there are a few other reasons: Air cooling is cheaper, less common (big air that is), is a challenge to get right, and is obviously more reliable. AIOs have improved greatly since I bought my current Cooler Master Nepton 240M, but you see them in every build now. It's hard to be unique with them everywhere. I considered going with the Corsair 460X and a Fractal Celsius 360 up front, which I haven't seen done yet, but it would cost a lot more for very little performance benefit. Since I'm all about silence, an air cooler fits the job nicely.