Rebuild for a friend

[chut03]

I did not choose these parts. PC was originally built by Tiger Direct for "gaming". I decided to rebuild it for him after he was having performance issues in games and wanted to move back to windows 7.

I hooked one of the front fans they left unplugged. I Redid the cabling and flipped the psu since his computer is on the floor with barely any clearance for air intake. Changed thermal compound on the stock cooler (still a terrible cooler). Added fan profile for cpu fan so its a more consistent hum rather than a variable annoying whine.

Parts:
AMD FX 8350 Black edition
Gigabyte GA 970A DS3P
8GB Patriot Viper Xtreme RAM
2GB ASUS GTX 750 Ti
3TB Western Digital Caviar Black
850 Watt Thermaltake ToughPower Grand
Corsair 230T

Before:
Before Rebuild by tchu031, on Flickr

After rebuild:
IMG_20140707_220115 by tchu031, on Flickr

IMG_20140709_045726 by tchu031, on Flickr

 

[Wraith]

You've done a good job there fella, it's always nice when a friend allows you to tidy their rigs for them.

 

[RadeonHDx]

Good job mate, I'm doing a build for one of my friends soon after finally talking him out of getting a 'pro' to do it.

 

[RobCrezz]

Get that CPU cooler replaced. The stock coolers on the FX series are shockingly close to the limit of being able to keep the 8 cores cool. I think the heatsinks are decent enough, its that stupid little fan that has to spin at like 8000rpm to get any meaningful airflow.

 

[chut03]

You've done a good job there fella, it's always nice when a friend allows you to tidy their rigs for them.

Good job mate, I'm doing a build for one of my friends soon after finally talking him out of getting a 'pro' to do it.

Thanks guys

Get that CPU cooler replaced. The stock coolers on the FX series are shockingly close to the limit of being able to keep the 8 cores cool. I think the heatsinks are decent enough, its that stupid little fan that has to spin at like 8000rpm to get any meaningful airflow.

And yes I'm very well aware of it. I'm trying to get him to buy a hyper 212 plus or evo since he doesn't want to spend much.

 

[RobCrezz]

Even the Cheap CM Hyper T4 does a way better job than stock while being quiet too.

Go for the 212 if he wants to overclock though.

 

[RamboOC]

I like the orange/black(or gray) combination as you can probably tell by my sig

I think that the photos would of came out better if you didn't use flash

and the 212 evo is far more than adequate, it will handle very nice overclocks at low cost

 

[JLR]

Crazy how these people can call themselves pro's. Good job on the tidy up.

 

[truesilax]

isnt the visheras supost to come with a stock liquid cooler is is that the select ones?

 

[chut03]

I like the orange/black(or gray) combination as you can probably tell by my sig

I think that the photos would of came out better if you didn't use flash

and the 212 evo is far more than adequate, it will handle very nice overclocks at low cost

The photos were taken while it was rather dark so I had the flash on. The lighting in the room isn't great. I have used the hyper 212 plus, and evo in multiple builds and are hard to beat price to performance. even for those systems that aren't overclocked to keep things nice and quiet.

 

[chut03]

isnt the visheras supost to come with a stock liquid cooler is is that the select ones?

with the FX-9370 and FX-9590 yes. not on this 8350