Project Vengeance

[VengeanceUK]

The aim of this build is to pack some grunt into a smallish case, it is also my first ever build in over a decade to feature an Intel CPU.

Major "new" components

i7 3770k - ARRIVED

MSI Z77A-GD65 -

Samsung 256Gb 830 Series (Sata3) -

2x Seagate 3Tb 7400RPM 64Mb Cache (Sata3) -

Corsair H100 -

Palit Jetstream GTX670 -

16Gb (4x4) Mushkin Redline Ridgeback 1866 Cas-9 - ARRIVED

Fractal Arc MIDI Case - ARRIVED

Roccat Isku Keyboard - ARRIVED

Corsair Vengeance M60 Mouse - ARRIVED

Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP Blu-Ray Combi - ARRIVED

Transferring from old "retiring" pc

North-Q 850Flex 850W modular PSU

3x Samsung 1Tb F3 Spinpoint (Sata2)

LG M227WDP 22" 1080p monitor

Win7 x64 Pro

I will post pictures as i get components in my hands as not the biggest fan of "stock photos"

 

[SparkleDJackson]

its called project vengeance but no perfectly named corsair items are in use lol

 

[VengeanceUK]

I figured that. Several corsair products very nearly made it into the final build specs.

Such as the aptly named corsair ram, but ttl's mushkin review swayed me in the end. (well that and i got it at half the uk's list price from america, lol)

Also the carbide 500r & obsidian 550d were contenders for the case, but the fractal won out because of the extra width & hdd bays (short of going full tower)

A corsair psu got knocked out of contention due to spunking a big slab of budget on the zotac card as the northq has never been used over half load so should have a few good years left in it yet lol.

At least corsair got the h100 included as there was nothing else even close to it in that particular bracket (imho), but yes agreed maybe vengeance is kinda an ironic name, but has been my nickname for over 2 decades so i call senioroity on it lol.

All my personal rigs have been built with this nomenclature and this will be technically vengeance mk14 lol

 

[Solidarity]

I look forward to pictures.

 

[VengeanceUK]

as i look forward to receiving the parts lol.

theoretically the CPU should arrive today, but i think you've all seen thousands of them in your time

 

[VengeanceUK]

right half the parts arrived today, hopefully the rest will arrive tomorrow so i can get on with the build.

i would have started it today, but typically i am waiting on the mobo, graphics, cooling and hdd's so not really much i could do lol

 

[tinytomlogan]

Spec list says 1866 ram, your sig says 2133...?

 

[VengeanceUK]

ack typing mistake, lets hope the ram will easily push to 2133.

thanks for the heads up ttl

 

[VengeanceUK]

The shell, stripped, ready to goto work.

Corsair H100 Rad mounted in the roof (A bitch of a job)

Mobo and Ram in place and fan controller fitted (Far left)

Look how diddy the SSD is (Only 7mm thick)

Noctua NT-F12's installed on base of H100, cpu fitted and h100 head attached to cpu.

Also SSD + HDD's installed (Look at the size difference, lol)

Graphics card fitted, cabling tidied and UV strip installed

Lights out shot

 

[SPS]

I think you could get some of them cables a bit tighter, but other than that it looks good

 

[VengeanceUK]

i did try that, but i was having issues getting the back side to close when i did lol

i am going to try it again later, having a few difficulties getting it oc'd atm, won't seem to break the 4.1 no matter what i do (must be missing something), doesn't crash, just refuses to clock higher