The Great White Buffalo

[nicof909]

Hey guys I'm a first timer on the forums and also new to windows. I've always used Apple products until I tried gaming on an apple in "BOOT CAMP" HAHA I've had the rig about a month and have already made a few upgrades since.

Specs:
CPU: Intel i7-4770k Overclock able edition "to scared to do it."
GPU: ASUS DirectCU II OC 770 geforce GTX
RAM: "upgraded" 32GB Corsair Vengance
Mother Board: Z87 Sabertooth
CPU Cooling: H80i push pull
Power Supply: Corsair HX1050 Modular
Wireless card: ASUS dual-band wireless-N600
SSD: Two Kingston Hyperx in raid 0 I think.
Case: CM STORM Stryker XL-ATX

Ineed a bigger desk but for now it works.

My cable management needs work but its my first.

I have a total of 6 fans on the HDD's

I got the case for 90.00$ USD full atx-x or something along those lines

I did some custom drilling to mount fans in the front there are two 120mm in the expansion slot things. As you can also see Two upright SSD along with the HDD below.

As you can see they stay hid behind the expansion slot fairly well with some zip ties. Im going to be getting better fans soon.

Fairly tidy.

as you can tell by the power supply I did not know what i was doing when purchasing all of the components. I had a lot of help from some Teamspeak friends.

Don't Get me wrong i still use my mac's "Shots fired"

My work area and a better lit side view of the case.

I used paracord to sleeve with. I am still waiting on my neon green to come in on Friday so i can finish the 24 pin and so on.

I liked the seamless look better that having the heat shrink look. Thanks http://lutro0-customs.com/ for the idea.

Here are the temp diode things with sleeve. That im going to run to the power supply, Hard drives and in the Corsair radiator.

 

[Mark3Max]

Hi nicof909, welcome to the OC3D forums.
Nice looking rig , but something doesn't look right on you specs.
How are you putting a I-7 3960x cpu in a Z87 board ?
And whats wrong with a Corsair hx1050 psu ?

 

[nicof909]

Hi nicof909, welcome to the OC3D forums.
Nice looking rig , but something doesn't look right on you specs.
How are you putting a I-7 3960x cpu in a Z87 board ?
And whats wrong with a Corsair hx1050 psu ?

Ya i asked in the moderator apporval if i could change something on this forum without changing it. I had purchased an extreme edition from new egg that they said would work for the the Z87 and had to go to the i7-4770 from frys so that and deal with new egg. I have been asked a few times why I needed that much power and that it was pointless to purchase the hx1050 for what components I already had. I pretty much spent a week or two online researching parts and such which didn't seem to help when it came to purchasing time. Thank you by the way.

Also I have been spending a lot of time Sleeving every single wire. It's taking me a very long time though. The assembly alone took me a few hours I was scared to plug something in wrong or not plugging it in at all. I've never really done anything like this. I've always been on Apple so there aren't really any upgrades that can be done other than Ram and HDD. So far so good no blue screens or fires that's always a plus.

 

[Feronix]

Welcome to the forums!

Please don't double post, if you want to add additional information you can use the

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The rig looks nice, and it's certainly got a nice spec list. Both your PSU and the RAM are well... a lot of overkill (and you make a typo with the PSU as you put HX10150 ) but at least it's erhmm... future proof?

Could also use a bit more cable management to really make it look good from the front! I have the same case (gallery in my signature) and it's really easy to do, even though it looks horrible at the back in my case, but no one will look there.

I see you have a wireless card, which can be good, but if you want to game online you'll really want a proper connection via an ethernet cable or powerline adaptors.

Not bad for a first timer though!

 

[nicof909]

Welcome to the forums!

Please don't double post, if you want to add additional information you can use the

button

The rig looks nice, and it's certainly got a nice spec list. Both your PSU and the RAM are well... a lot of overkill (and you make a typo with the PSU as you put HX10150 ) but at least it's erhmm... future proof?

Could also use a bit more cable management to really make it look good from the front! I have the same case (gallery in my signature) and it's really easy to do, even though it looks horrible at the back in my case, but no one will look there.

I see you have a wireless card, which can be good, but if you want to game online you'll really want a proper connection via an ethernet cable or powerline adaptors.

Not bad for a first timer though!

I have my PC in the only room without cat 6 in it. I'm on Fios business speeds and have never noticed any lag or anything at all. The only issue i've run into is my wireless card will not allow my full download speed. Can I post a couple of my upgrades such as my sleeving I have been doing on here or am I supposed to post those in a different section?

 

[mehere]

post them here mate its the multi posting they dont like
if no one has posted since your last post use the edit button if some one has posted go as normal
and a 10,000w power supply is future proof

 

[SuB]

nice build, would be good to see some better-lit photos of the case itself, perhaps with the screen off so the lighting is slightly nicer on the case And the exposure is a little brighter then too.

If you want to add more, just edit your post and pop a notice at the bottom

 

[nicof909]

nice build, would be good to see some better-lit photos of the case itself, perhaps with the screen off so the lighting is slightly nicer on the case And the exposure is a little brighter then too.

If you want to add more, just edit your post and pop a notice at the bottom

Hey thanks I will take the Pc into the studio tonight and shoot some properly lit photos and replace a few.

 

[SuB]

I look forward to seeing them