Rogster
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Now that i have pretty much finished building my rig & cant really justify spending much more money on it apart from some mesh lights & new red side panel fan controller... XD here it is By the name of rogy
Started out as a £200 buy on ebay, AMD 8150 missing 2 cpu pins it worked okay but did not recognize dual channel memory.. , 4 GB Geil Memory, 1GB zotac GPU, & 2 250 hdd's raided into raid 0.
Had it a week at most before i overclocked it & it went bye bye!!
so i replaced it with: an AMD 8350 Piledriver & Akasa Venom Voodo Cooler
Just about cleared the side panel!
the upgrade bug had bitten now...
Stayed like that for a few weeks, happy playing the games & then in one hit: Crosshair V Formula z, Corsair 750W Bronze psu, NZXT Switch 810 Gun metal, NZXT Kraken X60, Some Bit Fenix Fans here & there! The case choice was heavily influence by the review that was posted up by this lovely website! love the case so much potential in it!
Now by this time that upgrade bug had really bitten!!! & along came a bargain of ebay another Asus 7950 Direct CU2 V2
For months it stayed like that & i bought hundreds of steam games trying to find a game it would not play XD during november i decided to move towards a new gpu so set about after a psu that could handle it well! and of course some BLING: NZXT HUE RGB lights, i chose the Be Quiet 850w Platinum powersupply!
I came across a gpu on scan gigabye r9 290 with bf4 for £310 & well out came the 2 7950s sold them to fund it
i had 2 140mm fans in the front & 1 blowing up from the bottom + another aiming at the intake the temps ARE CRAZY on this thing 95c all the time, watercooling was the only option that i could see, was looking heavily into that NZXT G10 & using the kraken i had to cool it! but i stummbled on a gem of a deal a week ago on ebay!!!
a well wrapped GEM at that KUDOS to the guy who posted it!!
a complete 360 watercooling setup for £127!!!
i was chuffed to pieces with it sold the case lights & few other peices to fund such an oppotunity, off to scan again im not a fan of scan as they mucked about with my R9 order but they are cheap , if overclockers had it in stock i would have gone to them & asked to price match! they have done for 75% of my build! but a r9 290 refrence block was ordred!!
i waited what felt like an agonising 3days to install all this!! but planned & re-planned the loop to iron out any problems, (paid off)
temps before
now the fun part, i watched your review video again the other night & ran into the part where the fan was almost touching that un-movable plate & well actions speak louder than words 1 solid wack on each rivet ! hey presto!!
notice i the missing front panel that was taken to ram even more air at the jet engine!
test run.. snug fit
a freind of mind did this & i pooped a brick when it made a crack sound never turned round so fast in my life!
left the tissue in after leak testing as i am abit of worrier first full watercooling loop i have ever done!!
and the results are better than any of us expected!!
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/furmark_192_score.php?id=163765
BOOM!!
Comments welcome!
oh & on the review about being no cables holes at the top being a pain there is a medium opening under the top plastic you can cut into & run cables down behine the rad & out into the sidepanel thru the top rubber gromet
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l298/1stFreakyfred/ROGY/PICT0124_zpsa7d46f0c.jpg
Started out as a £200 buy on ebay, AMD 8150 missing 2 cpu pins it worked okay but did not recognize dual channel memory.. , 4 GB Geil Memory, 1GB zotac GPU, & 2 250 hdd's raided into raid 0.
Had it a week at most before i overclocked it & it went bye bye!!
so i replaced it with: an AMD 8350 Piledriver & Akasa Venom Voodo Cooler
Just about cleared the side panel!
the upgrade bug had bitten now...
Stayed like that for a few weeks, happy playing the games & then in one hit: Crosshair V Formula z, Corsair 750W Bronze psu, NZXT Switch 810 Gun metal, NZXT Kraken X60, Some Bit Fenix Fans here & there! The case choice was heavily influence by the review that was posted up by this lovely website! love the case so much potential in it!
Now by this time that upgrade bug had really bitten!!! & along came a bargain of ebay another Asus 7950 Direct CU2 V2
For months it stayed like that & i bought hundreds of steam games trying to find a game it would not play XD during november i decided to move towards a new gpu so set about after a psu that could handle it well! and of course some BLING: NZXT HUE RGB lights, i chose the Be Quiet 850w Platinum powersupply!
I came across a gpu on scan gigabye r9 290 with bf4 for £310 & well out came the 2 7950s sold them to fund it
i had 2 140mm fans in the front & 1 blowing up from the bottom + another aiming at the intake the temps ARE CRAZY on this thing 95c all the time, watercooling was the only option that i could see, was looking heavily into that NZXT G10 & using the kraken i had to cool it! but i stummbled on a gem of a deal a week ago on ebay!!!
a well wrapped GEM at that KUDOS to the guy who posted it!!
a complete 360 watercooling setup for £127!!!
i was chuffed to pieces with it sold the case lights & few other peices to fund such an oppotunity, off to scan again im not a fan of scan as they mucked about with my R9 order but they are cheap , if overclockers had it in stock i would have gone to them & asked to price match! they have done for 75% of my build! but a r9 290 refrence block was ordred!!
i waited what felt like an agonising 3days to install all this!! but planned & re-planned the loop to iron out any problems, (paid off)
temps before
now the fun part, i watched your review video again the other night & ran into the part where the fan was almost touching that un-movable plate & well actions speak louder than words 1 solid wack on each rivet ! hey presto!!
notice i the missing front panel that was taken to ram even more air at the jet engine!
test run.. snug fit
a freind of mind did this & i pooped a brick when it made a crack sound never turned round so fast in my life!
left the tissue in after leak testing as i am abit of worrier first full watercooling loop i have ever done!!
and the results are better than any of us expected!!
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/furmark_192_score.php?id=163765
BOOM!!
Comments welcome!
oh & on the review about being no cables holes at the top being a pain there is a medium opening under the top plastic you can cut into & run cables down behine the rad & out into the sidepanel thru the top rubber gromet
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l298/1stFreakyfred/ROGY/PICT0124_zpsa7d46f0c.jpg
especially that you went from almost nothing to everything
. Dude this is a pretty awesome little story you've got. I was also surprised to see that you've kept a pretty much constant red theme since you started the new build!
