Looks a lot like the NCIX PC in right down to the quick disconnect fittings
A while ago I undertook an upgrade to X99 Haswell-E from X79 IvyBridge-E
My old build (Viewable Here) was a 4820k based system, originally with a GTX 780, but has been upgraded over the years as I'm in a position where putting the latest tech into my PC is a good idea.
Firstly I had to decide on the case; was I going to carry over my faithful Corsair Obsidian 750D?
It didn't have much in the way of flaws, but it was a little bit on the plain side and I was artistically drawing a blank when it came to putting a new system inside of it. So I went case shopping. Luckily I've already used almost every case on the market so I knew all the little secret ins and outs of every case and quickly built a short list. I don't much care for oversized cases such as the 900D or larger water cooling oriented cases because I enjoy the "Mid Tower" size range.
The contestants:
NZXT H440 Black/Blue
Corsair 760T
Corsair 780T
Corsair 540 Air (Sideways or upright configs)
Fractal Design R5
After a few days of webbing out the pros and cons of each, and eyeing up a few of my customer's systems virtually imagining my own water loop in them, I decided on the Corsair 760T White.
I normally am not the biggest fan of white cases, but this case was right for what I fan planned, I started putting the base components in and making measurements and calculations for heat and required cooling.
For the CPU I will be going with the 5820k, which was quite an easy choice. The 5930k doesn't have much to justify the extra $300 CAD and the 5690X is $1400 in Canada and not worth the extra 2 cores/40 lanes to me. For the motherboard I went with the X99-A as it fit the bill of required features while not having any useless garbage like Wi-Fi that I didn't ever plan on using, it also looks great. For the power supply I'm using my old-time favourite, the Corsair RM850, it's as close to perfect as you can get, despite the absolute CRAP LTEC capacitors, other than that it's perfect, seriously though screw LTEC.
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After the measurements were all taken I drilled the holes and added minor supports for the XSPC 170ml tube reservoir and made a bigger hole in it for a slightly different shaded LED to fit inside the reservoir, very little clearance between top 360mm RAD and tube reservoir.
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Now it was just a simple matter of plumbing everything together. For GPUs I am using two GTX 980 from EVGA running in SLI, for RAM I will be using Corsair Vengeance LPX and seeing what I can get out of the timings to best suit gaming/code work. Since I will be powering the ASUS ROG Swift with this build the dual 980s really shine here, despite certain games not having the best SLI profiles almost everything will be able to maintain 144Hz with the overclock I know I can get out of these cards. I don't generally like heavy overvolting on my own GPUs so I will be pushing them as far as I can get without touching core voltage, then possible adding a little if to stabilize a more aggressive overclock since I know heat certainly won't be an issue. I am using quick disconnect fittings for the GPU portion of the loop so I can swap out if a decently priced GM200/210 chip comes out, leaving my options open for the future. Cards are running in 16x/8x.
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For the pump I am using a stock Swiftech D5, I've used a lot of these babies and they have never let me down, great flow rates, extremely reliable, and adjustable flow for near-silent operation is perfect. Speaking of silence; for case fans I will be using 3x NF-F12 fans from Noctua on the top 360MM rad, an NF-A14 Grey on the rear exhaust port, and the 2 stock LED fans with noctua low noise adapters running @800-100RPM each for perfect noise control. The choice behind the two Intel 730 SSDs (and 2 more 240GB HyperX Fury for games) is quite simple; both pair of 240GB drives will be running in RAID 0 and the 730s will have business files stored on them so they need to be reliable. I also like the spooky scary skellingtons on them so that helped with the choice.
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Now it's just a matter of putting everything together, all of the planning has been done and the final pieces are falling into place, I'm excited to get to overclock another 5820k and luckily for me I'll be rewarded with an extremely lucky chip easily accepting 4.3GHz at very low voltage (1.165v). Also for tubing I'm using Primochill 1/2 ID 3/4 OD UV Blue reactive tubing, I use this a lot for my builds as with Cold Cathode lights cleverly tucked away they give the system a nice "glowing" aesthetic.
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Finally done! Unlike X79 X99 has so far yielded no complaints out of me.
CPU: Intel Core i7 5820k
Motherboard: Asus X99-A
RAM: 16GB 4x4 Corsair Vengeance LPX Black/Yellow 2400Mhz CAS14 (stock)
Graphics Card: 2x SLI EVGA GTX 980
Pump: Swiftech MCP655
Reservoir: XSPC Photon 170ml tube reservoir
Radiator: 360mm XSPC Raystorm Radiator
Tubing: Primochill FLEX Blue UV 1/2ID 3/4OD
Fittings: Swiftech 1/2 G1/4 Silver Compression Fittings w/ 2x NO-SPILL black quick-disconnect fittings
Solid State Drives: 2x Intel 730 240GB SSDs in RAID 0, 2x Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB in RAID 0
Hard Disk Drives: 2x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM
Case: Corsair 760T White
Power Supply: Corsair RM850 80+ gold 850w PSU
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A while ago I undertook an upgrade to X99 Haswell-E from X79 IvyBridge-E
My old build (Viewable Here) was a 4820k based system, originally with a GTX 780, but has been upgraded over the years as I'm in a position where putting the latest tech into my PC is a good idea.
Firstly I had to decide on the case; was I going to carry over my faithful Corsair Obsidian 750D?
It didn't have much in the way of flaws, but it was a little bit on the plain side and I was artistically drawing a blank when it came to putting a new system inside of it. So I went case shopping. Luckily I've already used almost every case on the market so I knew all the little secret ins and outs of every case and quickly built a short list. I don't much care for oversized cases such as the 900D or larger water cooling oriented cases because I enjoy the "Mid Tower" size range.
The contestants:
NZXT H440 Black/Blue
Corsair 760T
Corsair 780T
Corsair 540 Air (Sideways or upright configs)
Fractal Design R5
After a few days of webbing out the pros and cons of each, and eyeing up a few of my customer's systems virtually imagining my own water loop in them, I decided on the Corsair 760T White.
I normally am not the biggest fan of white cases, but this case was right for what I fan planned, I started putting the base components in and making measurements and calculations for heat and required cooling.
For the CPU I will be going with the 5820k, which was quite an easy choice. The 5930k doesn't have much to justify the extra $300 CAD and the 5690X is $1400 in Canada and not worth the extra 2 cores/40 lanes to me. For the motherboard I went with the X99-A as it fit the bill of required features while not having any useless garbage like Wi-Fi that I didn't ever plan on using, it also looks great. For the power supply I'm using my old-time favourite, the Corsair RM850, it's as close to perfect as you can get, despite the absolute CRAP LTEC capacitors, other than that it's perfect, seriously though screw LTEC.
After the measurements were all taken I drilled the holes and added minor supports for the XSPC 170ml tube reservoir and made a bigger hole in it for a slightly different shaded LED to fit inside the reservoir, very little clearance between top 360mm RAD and tube reservoir.
Now it was just a simple matter of plumbing everything together. For GPUs I am using two GTX 980 from EVGA running in SLI, for RAM I will be using Corsair Vengeance LPX and seeing what I can get out of the timings to best suit gaming/code work. Since I will be powering the ASUS ROG Swift with this build the dual 980s really shine here, despite certain games not having the best SLI profiles almost everything will be able to maintain 144Hz with the overclock I know I can get out of these cards. I don't generally like heavy overvolting on my own GPUs so I will be pushing them as far as I can get without touching core voltage, then possible adding a little if to stabilize a more aggressive overclock since I know heat certainly won't be an issue. I am using quick disconnect fittings for the GPU portion of the loop so I can swap out if a decently priced GM200/210 chip comes out, leaving my options open for the future. Cards are running in 16x/8x.
For the pump I am using a stock Swiftech D5, I've used a lot of these babies and they have never let me down, great flow rates, extremely reliable, and adjustable flow for near-silent operation is perfect. Speaking of silence; for case fans I will be using 3x NF-F12 fans from Noctua on the top 360MM rad, an NF-A14 Grey on the rear exhaust port, and the 2 stock LED fans with noctua low noise adapters running @800-100RPM each for perfect noise control. The choice behind the two Intel 730 SSDs (and 2 more 240GB HyperX Fury for games) is quite simple; both pair of 240GB drives will be running in RAID 0 and the 730s will have business files stored on them so they need to be reliable. I also like the spooky scary skellingtons on them so that helped with the choice.
Now it's just a matter of putting everything together, all of the planning has been done and the final pieces are falling into place, I'm excited to get to overclock another 5820k and luckily for me I'll be rewarded with an extremely lucky chip easily accepting 4.3GHz at very low voltage (1.165v). Also for tubing I'm using Primochill 1/2 ID 3/4 OD UV Blue reactive tubing, I use this a lot for my builds as with Cold Cathode lights cleverly tucked away they give the system a nice "glowing" aesthetic.
Finally done! Unlike X79 X99 has so far yielded no complaints out of me.
CPU: Intel Core i7 5820k
Motherboard: Asus X99-A
RAM: 16GB 4x4 Corsair Vengeance LPX Black/Yellow 2400Mhz CAS14 (stock)
Graphics Card: 2x SLI EVGA GTX 980
Pump: Swiftech MCP655
Reservoir: XSPC Photon 170ml tube reservoir
Radiator: 360mm XSPC Raystorm Radiator
Tubing: Primochill FLEX Blue UV 1/2ID 3/4OD
Fittings: Swiftech 1/2 G1/4 Silver Compression Fittings w/ 2x NO-SPILL black quick-disconnect fittings
Solid State Drives: 2x Intel 730 240GB SSDs in RAID 0, 2x Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB in RAID 0
Hard Disk Drives: 2x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM
Case: Corsair 760T White
Power Supply: Corsair RM850 80+ gold 850w PSU
