Lovely Black Box

[Elky72]

It was time to dust out my case again. so Took some pics and did some benches so I could post it finally on here. I mainly use it for gaming, media storage and streaming device.



The System

Intel Core i7 980 @ 3.74Ghz Oc

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7

Mushkin Blackline 12GB, PC3-1600, 2000 MHz 3x4GB

MSI R6970 Lightning

Noctua NH-D14

WD Velociraptor 450GB, 10.000Rpm, 32Mb

WD Aaks 610 GB, 7200Rpm, 16Mb

WD Caviar Black 1TB, 7200Rpm, 16Mb X 3 in RAID 5

Coolermaster Silent Pro 1000W

First of all, I've been a Lian-Li fanboy for a long while. I've only bought like 3 cases in over 10 years. My first case I bougth was a Lian-Li Pc-68, couple of years back I got me a Lian-Li PC-A10B. I love the looks of this case, But will be replaced by my first non Lian-Li case somewhere in the future. Already have it but will be modded first.

So first of all The case

Case exterior looks good but has also quite a few flaws within.

The biggest let down is the cable management. Things like HDDs facing forward and no cable pass trough behind the Motherboard make it difficult to look tidy. Also the Airflow was awfull stock, had to add an extra fan in the drivebay's.

I have been messing with computers quite a while but never had a go with overclocking before I got this rig. So the overclock isn't that amazing.

Here are some benches

It could undoubtfully improved. As for now this will do.

Also here are pics to be found of my entire setup

 

[dugdiamond]

specs please

 

[wassupdoc]

specs please

There on the Post

 

[Goldskis45]

with that cooler in the way, does the top fan really to any good? seems a little obstructed...

 

[AverageNinja]

nice rig! Only I think you could push te overclock further

 

[FTR.4500MHz]

Nice rig !

Clock the hell out of that lightning card !

 

[Elky72]

Oh man, how time flies. Life has sometimes it's weird turns and bends and now we are suddenly couple of months later.

Like I mentioned above I still am doing a build in a non Lian-Li Case. I actually have already most of the components ready, but all in due time. Meanwhile I decided to do some upgrade on this rig. Nothing major tough

I bought a Shinobi case for this rig to complement the Shinobi XL and some storage drives, all other hardware is exactly the same. That's mainly it. The Shinobi case is a complete original case, no window and black logo in front.

Internals

Probably could do the wiring a bit better beneath the graphics card.

Backside wiring

The new HDD's 3TB WD red for a raid 5 config

@goldskis45, Yeah it was probably useless to have it in there, but it was wired in before the cooler got mounted. Would have got it out again to remove it and fix the fan grill back in.

@ AverageNinja Yeah it could probably get pushed further. I'm not that experienced with overclocking, I'm happy the way it is now.

When the other one is done I will get a new post going