PC Show-and-Tell

You are misinformed, unfortunately.

 

Well, mine has worked fine so far, but unless someone gives me actual stats on how good each of those companies' SSD are, I'm just going to listen to what I was told.

 

Just grab an M.2 bracket and an M.2 drive, whack it in a PCI-E slot and away you go

 

Not gonna bother taking pictures unless people ask for 'em, but a while ago I got:

• Samsung SSD 850 EVO (120 GB)

And then today for whatever reason, my brother insisted on buying me:

• Corsair Hydro Series Cooling H75 Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

 

You're running an FX-6300, right? (Too lazy to scroll back and check.) AMD's stock coolers are not great, and if you're overclocking you'll definitely want to replace it. The Hydro is the most popular recommendation I've seen just because (iirc) it's like $30 and will help you to not kill your CPU.

 

Personally I would have gone with the 100 or 110

 

FX-6100.

Hydro is just the name of a series of liquid coolers from Corsair, which my H75 is part of. What you may be thinking of is this thing.

Wasn't my money, so I'm not complaining.

 

Oh my bad, I didn't realize you were liquid cooling. Did you build yourself? I know it's quite safe if you do it right but water cooling always makes me nervous.

 

The Corsair lines are AIO's. It's a presealed pump, waterblock and radiator.


Went to buy motherboard. $40 short. Gotta wait until next week. Might kill myself.

 

My brother and I built the PC I'm using (since we originally shared it until I got a laptop and he built his own system last year.)

As Nate puts it

We basically just switched one of the old fans I had out for the radiator, put on the braces (think that's the right word) that secures the system atop the CPU (after wiping the original thermal paste and using the pre-applied amount,) and plugged it into the power. Super easy and safe.

Which mobo? I considered upgrading mine, but for now I don't really see much benefit for my system.

 

Asus X99-Deluxe

Basically, I'm being a huge ****** and doing a RWBY themed build. White motherboard, Red RAM, Black fittings and Yellow coolant. Probably do some decals on the front on the case, and a few small mods, mainly for the watercooling side of it.
While the 900D is an amazing case for watercooing, I feel like the SMA8 would have been a better choice for me, had I known it existed.

Update: Bit the bullet and got the X99-Pro instead of the Deluxe. It begins.

 

System build as of 10/12/2015 [PC Part Picker link]

Spoiler

• CPU: AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz
• CPU Cooler: Corsair H75
• Motherboard: MSI 970 Gaming ATX AM3+
• Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1600
• Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 120GB + Seagate Barracuda 1YB 7200RPM
  
• Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC
• Case: NZXT H440 White
• Power Supply: Cooler Master RS 650W 80+ Bronze ATX

Spoiler: Just a few general pics of the insides

 

PC Part Picker

There's a whole tonne of watercooling stuff that I couldn't be bothered dealing with, and it's still a huge W.I.P, but this is it so far

Spoiler

see if you can guess the theme

 

That's some lovely cable management you've done. Are you overclocking at all? With a liquid cooler it shouldn't be a heat issue and you can probably push yr CPU a bit further.

 

Holy shit your specs are godly. Someday I want to go with an Intel CPU and board. Got any benchmarks or recorded gameplay?

And it's RWBY.

Nope, I prefer not to overclock personally, though you do have a point about doing it with my CPU a little. And my brother helped with the cable management and installing the liquid cooling.

 

Average Firestrike score of 18140
Average Firestrike Extreme score of 9065
Highest Valley Benchmark of 4427
CPU Stable at 4.8Ghz (100.2 base clock 48 multiplier)
GPU Stable with +300 on Core Clock and +240 on Memory Clock (Maxed overvolt for reference card 87mV)

That's everything I could get together in 15 minutes

 

While I visited my girlfriend, we kinda impulsively decided to JUST DO IT and make her first PC build that she was planning to just wait on for however long.

PC Part Picker list.

Spoiler: Parts

• CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
• Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1600
• Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
• Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card
• Case: Enermax OSTROG ATX Mid Tower Case
• Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2 500W ATX Power Supply

Spoiler: Only took these decent pictures of it. Forgot to get an internal shot.

And my own system was unexpectedly upgraded when I got home, via a trade with my brother for some RC stuff and a replacement CPU.

PC Part Picker

Spoiler: Parts

• CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
• CPU Cooler: Corsair H75 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
• Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
• Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
• Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
  • Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
  • Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
• Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card
• Case: NZXT H440 White
• Power Supply: Cooler Master RS 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

Spoiler: Same external look, main things to spot are the new MOBO and RAM

Eventually gonna upgrade the GPU, but I'm waiting for Pascal so I can cash in on the price drops on like a 970.