SuB
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Online gaming buddy isn't really super PC savvy when it comes to builds, but he needed a new rig desperately. I offered to help, he bought all the bits and came up from Coventry and we sorted the build out yesterday 
Not 'perfect' by any standards but for a days work, very little time to cable manage, and fairly well matched bits it turned out pretty okay we thought. He's happy, it goes fast and it's pretty darn quiet, surprised me in-fact
He doesn't do overclocking so it's left at stock for now, with the idea being it's quiet, but if he ever needs it, there's plenty of headroom
I forgot to take a pic of the outside, but we left the plastic protective layer on the window for transport back to his house so it wouldn't have looked 'super' anyway lol.
Specs:
MSI Z87-G43 Gaming Motherboard
Intel i5 4670K @ Stock
Corsair H100i
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 DDR3
MSI R9 290x Twin Frozr
250GB Samsung Evo Basic SSD
1TB WD Blue HDD
750w Corsair RM PSU (Very impressed with this)
All packaged nicely into a Corsair Obsidian 750D
Impressed with the passive'ness of the PSU, doesn't even spin up the fan when chucking Valley on it, or games.
The brief was, needs to last a while (2~3 years minimum), play pretty much everything on high/ultra (he's used to low so this was a shock) and have some headroom for future. (I.E run it at stock now) and have space for more stuff if necessary.
All in all, very happy. I haven't done a pure 'air' build in years, the AIO was a breeze to install, apart from getting 2 sets of fans on it was a bit of a pig but I found a way around that, the case was excellent, the psu really is great, never seen one in passive mode before. The UEFI bios is excellent, easy to get everything setup the way it should be. Especially having mouse control, I've used it in mine but when doing other's builds I've never had the pleasure of it before. So that was a nice surprise.
We had to put Windows 8.1 on it, which.. was 'alright' I guess. I'm not converted yet, by any means. I still hate the UI and shit but meh.. it worked, didn't take years to install either.
Cheers
SuB
Not 'perfect' by any standards but for a days work, very little time to cable manage, and fairly well matched bits it turned out pretty okay we thought. He's happy, it goes fast and it's pretty darn quiet, surprised me in-fact
He doesn't do overclocking so it's left at stock for now, with the idea being it's quiet, but if he ever needs it, there's plenty of headroom
I forgot to take a pic of the outside, but we left the plastic protective layer on the window for transport back to his house so it wouldn't have looked 'super' anyway lol.
Specs:
MSI Z87-G43 Gaming Motherboard
Intel i5 4670K @ Stock
Corsair H100i
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 DDR3
MSI R9 290x Twin Frozr
250GB Samsung Evo Basic SSD
1TB WD Blue HDD
750w Corsair RM PSU (Very impressed with this)
All packaged nicely into a Corsair Obsidian 750D
Impressed with the passive'ness of the PSU, doesn't even spin up the fan when chucking Valley on it, or games.
The brief was, needs to last a while (2~3 years minimum), play pretty much everything on high/ultra (he's used to low so this was a shock) and have some headroom for future. (I.E run it at stock now) and have space for more stuff if necessary.
All in all, very happy. I haven't done a pure 'air' build in years, the AIO was a breeze to install, apart from getting 2 sets of fans on it was a bit of a pig but I found a way around that, the case was excellent, the psu really is great, never seen one in passive mode before. The UEFI bios is excellent, easy to get everything setup the way it should be. Especially having mouse control, I've used it in mine but when doing other's builds I've never had the pleasure of it before. So that was a nice surprise.
We had to put Windows 8.1 on it, which.. was 'alright' I guess. I'm not converted yet, by any means. I still hate the UI and shit but meh.. it worked, didn't take years to install either.
Cheers
SuB
