mates coolermaster wavemaster gaming rig

[Tripp]

this is my mates rig that i have been putting together for him, the case is horrid to work with but i have done what i can. what do you guys think?

specs:

Asrock 990fx extreme 3
AMD 6300
8gb Patriot viper
Artic cooling freezer 13
AMD MSI 280x gaming
WD blue 1tb and old 360gb sata 2(crucial m500 120gb to be added over the next few days)
Creative sound blaster audigy 4
Coolermaster igreen 600w
Coolermaster Wavemaster

 

[tinytomlogan]

I still think with a bit of time you could have made the cables better dude

Dont see many of the wavemasters around anymore though!

 

[barnsley]

to me that looks like it could turn into an oven in summer :L. I'd have personally gone for a 8320 and a 270x but still, nice parts . Those GPU power cables are annoying me though...

 

[Tripp]

I still think with a bit of time you could have made the cables better dude

Dont see many of the wavemasters around anymore though!

yeah i probably could get the cables a bit tidier, i have done it well enough for good airflow, an as there's no window i cant be bothered on making it look too pretty.

an yeah my mate already had the wavemaster case, so we decided to just use that. i am really not a fan of i though think its a combination of top mounted PSU, and front an rear 80mm fans :/ an flimsy side pannels. pleasing to look on from the outside but thats about it.

to me that looks like it could turn into an oven in summer :L. I'd have personally gone for a 8320 and a 270x but still, nice parts . Those GPU power cables are annoying me though...

yeah they annoy me too mate, not much i can do with them though

 

[Wraith]

From what I remember the wave master had nice looks but that's probably due to CM using all the case design budget on the alloy front facia and it suffered as a result on the interior.

 

[Tripp]

From what I remember the wave master had nice looks but that's probably due to CM using all the case design budget on the alloy front facia and it suffered as a result on the interior.

yeah it does suffer on the inside, the only thing i like about the innards is the removable motherboard try

 

[MadShadow]

Not bad, but yeah, the cables...

 

[Tripp]

Not bad, but yeah, the cables...

yeah i know its not a modular power supply though, i have managed to get most of the cables out of the airflow zones, an there really isn't a lot of space behind the motherboard tray. theres no window so am not arsed about it not being super tidy, its airflow is unrestricted an thats what matters

 

[MadShadow]

yeah i know its not a modular power supply though, i have managed to get most of the cables out of the airflow zones, an there really isn't a lot of space behind the motherboard tray. theres no window so am not arsed about it not being super tidy, its airflow is unrestricted an thats what matters

Fair enough, I suppose. So if this is of no matter to you, what are you asking our opinions on?

 

[Tripp]

Fair enough, I suppose. So if this is of no matter to you, what are you asking our opinions on?

just generally like peoples opinion on the build mate thats all

 

[FoxCruiser]

Hey there. First post on these forums; I hope folks don't mind me jumping into this right off as well as bumping a thread that's a few weeks old.

Like the OP's friend, I managed to get my hands on an old Wavemaster case several months ago. It was a cast off at work(I'm IT for a large regional healthcare provider) that housed an old MRI imaging server which was being upgraded to a much more modern unit(they were looking to virtualize it, but that's a story for another day). Not knowing what it was(I hadn't done a desktop build for quite some time; I've been using primarily laptops for the past several years) I took it home to see if I could build a desktop out of it.

This case is known for pretty abysmal airflow, and considering I was planning on putting some fast hardware in the old Wavemaster I decided to upgrade the fans. The best balance I found were 80mm Lepa 70D fans; they're almost twice the airflow of the stock Cooler Master ones and comparatively quiet. Also(and this might not be feasible to most folks building in one of these) I moved all the drives to the 5.25" bays on top in order to keep the intake as unrestricted as possible. Two 3.5" hot-swap bays came with the case, and I added a quad 2.5" hot-swap bay for my SSDs and two older laptop HDDs I had laying around. I also installed a front panel card reader/USB hub for added connectivity options.

The result is an i7 3770k with a Noctua NH-U9B 92mm cooler and a 4.3GHz overclock running at idle temps in the 35C range and Prime95 temps in the 65-68C range over a 12-hour stress test. I currently have an Asus-branded ATI HD5850 that idles in the low-40s with Furmark stress temps of 81C. These aren't optimal temperatures by any means, but out of a classic, unique-looking case like this I'm not complaining too loudly. Some folks might call me insane but I'm going to be shoehorning a GTX 780 in this case once it reaches my doorstep.

Glad to see there's someone else out there putting modern hardware in one of these. Most of the info I've dug up about the Wavemaster's over a decade old. I'll post up pics once everything's been completely built and done with, but I still need to figure out cable management. It's kind of a bear to deal with in a case that wasn't really designed for very tidy setups in mind.