Ignea Machina Mk VII, £2700, Full Build Log with Pictures 30/05/12

Good stuff on the fans, have only good things to say about Specialtech, if you ever have problems with orders they really get it sorted quickly!
 
is there some ugly low profile ram from samsung im seeing? it hurts my heart to see that you are using shitty ram in such a high budget rig ;(
 




Here are some rubbish phone pictures, variously showing the work I have done today. I have removed the cases fan controller, and hot swap sata connector, clipped the front panel Firewire & removed all the stock fans along with the hard drive cages and the lower support for them.

Firstly I installed the PSU, followed by the necessary cables. After that I inserted my drive bays and the bitfenix 200mm fan. I then retached the upper Hard drive cage with the HDD & the SSD installed.

Finally i installed the RAM & CPU on the motherboard before putting it back in it's box. Throughout the build i have been snapping away with my DSLR and will post those pictures later as a more in depth guide to my build (including the bodges and bits that didn't go to plan).

Tomorrow the replacement spectre pro's turn up, I plan to install the motherboard followed by the back fan, then the H100 before finishing off with cable management. Then it is OS/software installation followed by a shakedown.

well anyway enough for tonight.

regards

John
 
I don't understand the ram or it's pricing - other than there is a purpose for the extra low profile. CL11 @ 1600 tho for £100... sheesh.

Thinking along those lines, and considering alot of people are settling for 1600mhz for their own reasons, you'd be better off buy 2x lots of these for £50 and it's 9-9-9-24 @ 1600.

http://forum.overclo...post__p__517698

Buy some sexy cooling covers if you must
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In defence of my ram choice

Model Name: MV-3V4G3D/US

- CAS Latency: 11-11-11-28 1N @1.35v

- Capacity: 16GB (4GBx4)

- Speed: DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800)

1600MHz (7-8-8-24 1N) @ 1.40v

- 1866MHz (9-9-9-27 1N) @ 1.40v

- 2000MHz (9-10-10-28 1N) @ 1.45v

- 2133MHz (10-10-10-28 1N) @ 1.45v

- 2400MHz (11-11-11-28 2N) @ 1.50v

- In our own in house testing we were able to achieve all the above clock speeds on an Asus X79 platform with 4x4GB modules (16GB total) SuperPI Stable too, 32M

if it puts out 10-10-10-28 at 2133 @1.45v that outperforms the redline ridgeback 2133mhz kit putting out 9-11-10-28 at 2133 @1.65v

and considering it cost me £90 rather than £190, I saved myself £100.
 
Some nice performance numbers there, but in real world scenarios it will make little to no difference so I would rather have better looking RAM that doesn't perform as well in benchmarks.
 
yassarikhan786 said:
Some nice performance numbers there, but in real world scenarios it will make little to no difference so I would rather have better looking RAM that doesn't perform as well in benchmarks.
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totaly agree. and think of the peroformance you woul get with som non green non low profile ram D:
 
yassarikhan786 said:
Some nice performance numbers there, but in real world scenarios it will make little to no difference so I would rather have better looking RAM that doesn't perform as well in benchmarks.
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to be honest i was originally looking at corsair dominator GT kit but I wanted to do something different, and benching the samsung ram could be fun for science, if it is a flop, i have said that i would sell it on and drop for the dominator's but its FOR SCIENCE. which is waaay more important than looks,performance & cost. ( plus i don't like the typography on the mushkin ram.
 
Rastalovich said:
Aaaarghhhhh Looks < performance/cost !

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lol, but if the difference is negligible then who cares
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The Scientific Moustache said:
to be honest i was originally looking at corsair dominator GT kit but I wanted to do something different, and benching the samsung ram could be fun for science, if it is a flop, i have said that i would sell it on and drop for the dominator's but its FOR SCIENCE. which is waaay more important than looks,performance & cost. ( plus i don't like the typography on the mushkin ram.
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Fair enough
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The Scientific Moustache said:
so do you see my point? still think it was a bad decision?
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Ah, you mean in terms of them ones looking low-profile ? Yeah that doesn't bother me in the slightest, I got some Kingston ddr2 the same height in some things.

Thing I was reflecting was the £100, well £90 as it turns out, and the ones Aria were selling @ £25.99 for 2x4g. Get 2x of them for uber cheapness.

Still £50 to some £50 to others. I guess I gotta think the budget here is not exactly tight.
 
ok then folks figure this one out. the red led on the 200mm fan when connect stops the machine booting to POST, when disconnected eveything else starts up. i notice the molex connector contacts are the left and right end at the molex 4 pin. on all the other led connectors (such as one from the AKASA baymaster and the H100, appear to be at the two connectors at one side? has anyone else experienced this problem?
 
Ok turns out I incorrectly connected the fan two pin connector for the LED. powered on successfully with no video for the first time last night. turns out my cable management is overzealous, i have threaded all my front IO cables through the hole for the door catch at the front, that will be tonight's job.
 
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