Olaf's "Work In Progress" & NAS build.

OlafTheBeard

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Hello all Nerds! :D

I finally have joined the forum in hope that I will find nice people here to help me with the tips I need to finalize my gamer build.
To make it easier for me to monitor my thread here, I will post my two builds in the same thread.
The "Gamer" and "NAS"

So the specs for my main computer/gamer pc is this:

OS: Win7
MB: ASUS Maximus VI Formula
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.4GHz at the moment
GPU: Dual ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7970 @ Stock clock (reference cards)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 with x2 Noctua NF-F12 iPPC-2000 fans
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 16GB ( 4x4GB )
SSD's:
Corsair Force GS 128GB x2 in Raid0 (For OS)
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB x2 in Raid0 (For Games)
Corsair Force LS 120GB as storages for VM VirutalBox drive files.

HDD: Western Digital Green 1TB (General small storage)
Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540 Cube
CaseFans: Corsair SP120 PWM Quiet Edition x6 (3 front intake, and exhaust 2 roof + 1 back)
PSU: Corsair AX 760 with all Black Individually Sleeved Cables
Screens: Dual AOC 24" LED e2462V
Peripherals:
Qpad MK-85 Keyboard with CherryMX Brown switches, Logitech G700 wireless mouse, Microsoft LifeCam SudioHD, memory card reader and some more crap...

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The Western Digital WD Red 2TB in the pictures are no longer present in this build, they have moved to my little nas build.
 
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The specs for my NAS build:

OS: FreeNAS 9.3 (Build. 9.3-STABLE-201412200530)
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WiFi (with dual GB NiC onboard)
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.40GHz with a vCore on 1.05 volt stable.
CPU Cooler: Intel Stock Cooler
RAM: HyperX Fury 1600MHz 16GB ( 2x8GB )
Case: SilverStone SST-DS380
CaseFans: Corsair SP120 Quiet Edition x2 (side intake) + Corsair 120 PWM from a H55 kit (rear exhaust)
PSU: SilverStone SST-ST45SF-G 450W
USB stick: Sandisk 8GB for OS.
HDD's:
Western Digital WD Red 1TB x5 in Raid Z ~ 4 TB usable storage as backup archive. (RaidZ is comparable to Raid5)
Western Digital WD Red 2TB x2 in Raid 0 ~ 3.6 TB usable storage as media share archive.
Western Digital Caviar 500GB as temp drive for SABnzbd.
etc: SDM PCIe SATA II 300 RAID 2P (SiL3132)

This machine is setup to manage my media archive with Plex Media Server, SickRage for a PVR-function on TV-shows, CouchPotato for updating the movies.
And SABnzbd to handle the "updating-traffic" from SickRage and CouchPotato.
It's a really nice way to auto-manage the system and working right now on a setup for either OwnCloud or Syncthing for the backup solution from my main pc (and laptop). Not 100% sure on what will fit my needs best yet.

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The main story with my thread here is to get tips and inspiration for rebuilding my gamer. This one is WAAAY to loud when gaming. Headphones is not optional, they are required.
With that said I'm looking into finding a good idea for making this bastard more silent... With water cooling as a big option.
So bombard me with tips of silent clean looking cases that would fit this stuff and a possible future water build. :)

The fans on my CPU heatsink is pulling air through the heatpipes, not pushing like the "normal" setup is from Nocuta. This is due to clearance for the memory modules. I actually had to dremel out the lowest 4 fins on the heatsink to make room for the memory modules.

CPU temp never goes over 68 °C (154 °F) under 99% load and the case+cpu fans acually don't make that much of a noise. Well you can hear them but not so "headset mode = ON" is necessary. :lol:
And all fans is PWM modulated from the motherboard via the Asus AI suite/fan expert. So the rear fan only kicks in when the temp inside the case goes over 40 °C (104 °F) and goes from 500-900 rpm, the top fans is temp regulated between 400-900 rpm and front ones are locked speed at 900 rpm. The CPU fans have "free roaming" in speed, but they never goes over 1000 rpm in my logs (it's the iPPC-2000 rpm versions).

So the noise maker in my build is those famous reference AMD blower fans
The GPU's will gladly jump to 75-85 °C (167-185 °F) under load like gaming or folding. That equals to almost 3000 rpm on those blower fans.

My first plan is to change the thermal paste on the cards to see if that will help. As the cards is a year or two now...
 
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The specs for my NAS build:

OS: FreeNAS 9.3 (Build. 9.3-STABLE-201412200530)
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WiFi (with dual GB NiC onboard)
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.40GHz with a vCore on 1.05 volt stable.
CPU Cooler: Intel Stock Cooler
RAM: HyperX Fury 1600MHz 16GB ( 2x8GB )
Case: SilverStone SST-DS380
CaseFans: Corsair SP120 Quiet Edition x2 (side intake) + Corsair 120 PWM from a H55 kit (rear exhaust)
PSU: SilverStone SST-ST45SF-G 450W
USB stick: Sandisk 8GB for OS.
HDD's:
Western Digital WD Red 1TB x5 in Raid Z ~ 4 TB usable storage as backup archive. (RaidZ is comparable to Raid5)
Western Digital WD Red 2TB x2 in Raid 0 ~ 3.6 TB usable storage as media share archive.
Western Digital Caviar 500GB as temp drive for SABnzbd.
etc: SDM PCIe SATA II 300 RAID 2P (SiL3132)

This machine is setup to manage my media archive with Plex Media Server, SickRage for a PVR-function on TV-shows, CouchPotato for updating the movies.
And SABnzbd to handle the "updating-traffic" from SickRage and CouchPotato.
It's a really nice way to auto-manage the system and working right now on a setup for either OwnCloud or Syncthing for the backup solution from my main pc (and laptop). Not 100% sure on what will fit my needs best yet.

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The main story with my thread here is to get tips and inspiration for rebuilding my gamer. This one is WAAAY to loud when gaming. Headphones is not optional, they are required.
With that said I'm looking into finding a good idea for making this bastard more silent... With water cooling as a big option.
So bombard me with tips of silent clean looking cases that would fit this stuff and a possible future water build. :)

The fans on my CPU heatsink is pulling air through the heatpipes, not pushing like the "normal" setup is from Nocuta. This is due to clearance for the memory modules. I actually had to dremel out the lowest 4 fins on the heatsink to make room for the memory modules.

CPU temp never goes over 68 °C (154 °F) under 99% load and the case+cpu fans acually don't make that much of a noise. Well you can hear them but not so "headset mode = ON" is necessary. :lol:
And all fans is PWM modulated from the motherboard via the Asus AI suite/fan expert. So the rear fan only kicks in when the temp inside the case goes over 40 °C (104 °F) and goes from 500-900 rpm, the top fans is temp regulated between 400-900 rpm and front ones are locked speed at 900 rpm. The CPU fans have "free roaming" in speed, but they never goes over 1000 rpm in my logs (it's the iPPC-2000 rpm versions).

So the noise maker in my build is those famous reference AMD blower fans
The GPU's will gladly jump to 75-85 °C (167-185 °F) under load like gaming or folding. That equals to almost 3000 rpm on those blower fans.

My first plan is to change the thermal paste on the cards to see if that will help. As the cards is a year or two now...
Is it just me or you didnt post what GPU you got in it?
 
Good looking builds. Why did you decide to go non-ECC for your FreeNAS build?

The nas build was thrown in the mix after I upgraded to the i7 in my main rig.
And it's a quick build, with the thought to convert it to a media pc later this year when i get a ECC & Avaton/Xeon build for the nas. :)

Nice looking build but I have to say that Noctua NH-D14 kind of ruins it for me, it stands out like such a sore thumb!

Jasper
HAHA! I totaly agree, had a H110 before it.. Sold that one cos it was to loud.. Had some rattling in the pump. :eek:
Water cooling is up in the build plan, but not sure when.. So I usually don't look in my pc at the moment.

Nice rig.
Thanks :D

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The specs for my NAS build:
*snip* ... Not 100% sure on what will fit my needs best yet.

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The main story with my thread here is to g... *snip*
My first plan is to change the thermal paste on the cards to see if that will help. As the cards is a year or two now...

Is it just me or you didnt post what GPU you got in it?

This is a moderator thing .. My second post was actually post 2 & 3, so you might mess the two post together..
So in my NAS I don't run any GPU.. It's only my main rig that run high end GPU's with the thermal-leaf-blower-epicness... ;)
GPU: Dual ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7970 @ Stock clock (reference cards) in my main rig
 
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