Stop, Look, Listen, New Computer Build

Av8tortoo

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Hello.

Over the last few years I have been buying computers, instead of building them. This time, its time for a DIY project.

The was brought about by my current computer a DELL XPS 720, starting to give the death rattle in the form of the a super high pitch sound about every three starts, and the only way to stop it was to pull the power cord. (Its 5 years old now, it started life as a DELL 710 XPS).

So about a month ago I started looking at MB and Cases and thinking heck for what I want to build it would cost $5,000. to $7,000 USD if I had someone else build it. (Way to much money to spend).

So I started looking for parts and items and drives monitors...etc...

I ordered just about everything the other day and the parts have arrived (most of them).

From Top to Bottom:

Obsidian Series 800D. DOH found out I couldn't make it work it doesn't support the XL-ATX MB (you think it would). Returned.

CollerMaster HAF X RC942. (Case)

Gigabytes G1.Assassin (Motherboard)

Corsair (2) P128 SATA III SSDs

Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10,000 RPM SATA II

Western Digital Black 1TB 7200 SATA II

Intel i7 990X

Corsair AX1200 (PSU)

XSPC Rasa 750 RS360 Universal CPU / Triple Radiator Water Cooling Kit (Back Ordered)

Video Cards: Waiting for Nvidia to drop the BOMB GTX 590s

The past two days, have been working on and off on the project, just making sure the parts fit and work. (Like the case problem)

But have the rig up and running on air cooling at the moment.

As I was building the rig, ran into an issue with SSD and the Marvell 88SE9182 SATA Controller card.

The Marvell wasn't so marvell, it would not see the drives or even show up in BIOS, but was turned on. only after a hard boot and power cord removed did it come back on and see them. The second problem was getting Windows to install on the new RAID-0. This is my first time working with SSDs and I managed to some how lock the cards and Windows 7 could not install to the drives. Found the fix after about 3 hours of research and trial and error.

Remember this... CTRL-F10 Command shell for the install for Windows 7. And DISKPART command.

After that everything with the prebuild build went smoothly.

Right now the rig is up and running doing tests with the drives. I'll be really building the computer when the water cooler comes in and fingers crossed when NVIDIA release the new cards this coming week.

But to give you a taste of the BEAST.

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Not a build log, dude. Get pics up
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BTW Tom only had his 990 delivered to him on Friday. I'm starting to think pics or it didn't happen.
 
Its up, its running. On air at the moment.

I have some pictures up this evening when I get home from work.

Haven't start to overclock it yet. (ducks)
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Just using the Intel heat sink, still waiting on the XSPC Kit to arrive. Its back ordered from FrozenCPU.
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I did want to throw it out the window last night. When I installed my OLD OLD Video cards in it. The Nvidia driver 266.58 caused BSOD on every reboot.
 
Its up, its running. On air at the moment.

I have some pictures up this evening when I get home from work.

Haven't start to overclock it yet. (ducks)
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Just using the Intel heat sink, still waiting on the XSPC Kit to arrive. Its back ordered from FrozenCPU.
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I did want to throw it out the window last night. When I installed my OLD OLD Video cards in it. The Nvidia driver 266.58 caused BSOD on every reboot.

If u do want to throw it out please throw it into a mail truck with my address on it.
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Looking forward to the awesome build and get some green coolant.
 
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The Boxes.

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The G1.Assassin installed in the case with the PSU

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The front of the case with the Gigabyte front face plate installed. I did that because I like having the 3.0 USB on the motherboard. With case one you have to attach the cable to the back of the motherboard to get 3.0 on the front. So I just took those cables out.

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Not sure whats going to happen when the XSPC Rasa 750 RS360 comes in and I get to install it. The case just covers the holes for easy install.
 
The water kit came in yesterday.

I wanted to wait until this weekend to install it, but urge was over whelming....so it was installed last night.

I am some what unhappy with the Molex power connector on the pump. It’s very loose and the pump didn’t start until repeatedly push on the wires.

Everything went smoothly UNTIL...the filling. The outlet on the CPU Block had a few drops of coolant leak! It was coming from the fitting not the hose. I think I had it on to tight and tried my best to correct it without having to drain the system. I had just about a whole roll of paper towels in the system to catch anything that might have leaked. I loosened the fitting and retighten it and its sealed as of right now. It ran all night from 1 a.m. until 6:30 this morning DRY.

So like an anxious little boy, this morning I hooked everything back up to see what the results would be with the water cooling kit in place.

WOW!

But I think the thermal paste didn’t spread correctly, with one core being cooler than the others by about 10C.

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