So many of you have helped me with my PC over the past year when I built it, so I thought I would do a full documentation of it.
It started off looking like this:
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The specs where: CPU: I5 3570K
CPU HEATSINK: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro V2
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z77 D3H
RAM: 4GB of some random Kingston stuff.
SSD: Crucial 30GB boot drive.
HDDs: WD 2TB green plus some other small capacity ones that I had lying around.
PSU: OCZ CoreXtream 500w.
CASE: Casecom 6788.
I constantly did little maintenance to it, just when I had some spare time, until it looked like this:
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Not alot of difference I know, main thing was I rotated the CPU cooler. Wire management was so hard in this case.
This was when my uncle gave me some of his old watercooling stuff. He gave me a 360 radiator and a pump and res combo unit ( but not a bay one ). Because he gave them to me I don't know what make/model they are, sorry guys.
I also got a GTX 660 for Christmas, which was great, it was a big performance boost from my 550ti.
My first job was to change the case as there was no way I was getting water cooling in that tiny thing, so I bought a Switch 810.
I also bought some bitfenix alchemy blue cable extenders, but I didn't buy a CPU 8 pin extender because the switch 810 came with a black one. Unfortunately, this was faulty, when I changed the case and turned on the PC is would turn off again after a few seconds, so I changed the 8 pin extender to an old, non sleeved one I had from before, and it worked. I never got round to buying another bitfenix one.
Anyway, here's a bad picture from when I first transferred it over and replaced the GPU with the 660:
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Now time for watercooling. Before you get to the pics, take not, I know I could have routed the tubing a bit better, but I wanted to make sure I could still remove the graphics card if I needed to. I also had limited options when mounting the pump/res unit, and it didn't have screws to do so.
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I had to find adapters for the pump/res, because the threads where not g1/4:
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I also changed the ram and SSD, so the final specs are:
CPU: I5 3570K
CPU COOLING: 360 radiator with EK-Supreme LTX CSQ Intel CPU Waterblock and EK EKoolant UV blue coolant.
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z77 D3H
RAM: 8GB Crucial Ballistix
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 120GB boot drive., which is behind the motherboard tray.
HDDs: WD 2TB Green, which lives in the hotswap bay, screwed in of course.
PSU: OCZ CoreXtream 500w.
CASE: NZXT Switch 810.
Again, thanks for all the help I have recieved from many of you
It started off looking like this:
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The specs where: CPU: I5 3570K
CPU HEATSINK: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro V2
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z77 D3H
RAM: 4GB of some random Kingston stuff.
SSD: Crucial 30GB boot drive.
HDDs: WD 2TB green plus some other small capacity ones that I had lying around.
PSU: OCZ CoreXtream 500w.
CASE: Casecom 6788.
I constantly did little maintenance to it, just when I had some spare time, until it looked like this:
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Not alot of difference I know, main thing was I rotated the CPU cooler. Wire management was so hard in this case.
This was when my uncle gave me some of his old watercooling stuff. He gave me a 360 radiator and a pump and res combo unit ( but not a bay one ). Because he gave them to me I don't know what make/model they are, sorry guys.
I also got a GTX 660 for Christmas, which was great, it was a big performance boost from my 550ti.
My first job was to change the case as there was no way I was getting water cooling in that tiny thing, so I bought a Switch 810.
I also bought some bitfenix alchemy blue cable extenders, but I didn't buy a CPU 8 pin extender because the switch 810 came with a black one. Unfortunately, this was faulty, when I changed the case and turned on the PC is would turn off again after a few seconds, so I changed the 8 pin extender to an old, non sleeved one I had from before, and it worked. I never got round to buying another bitfenix one.
Anyway, here's a bad picture from when I first transferred it over and replaced the GPU with the 660:
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Now time for watercooling. Before you get to the pics, take not, I know I could have routed the tubing a bit better, but I wanted to make sure I could still remove the graphics card if I needed to. I also had limited options when mounting the pump/res unit, and it didn't have screws to do so.
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I had to find adapters for the pump/res, because the threads where not g1/4:
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I also changed the ram and SSD, so the final specs are:
CPU: I5 3570K
CPU COOLING: 360 radiator with EK-Supreme LTX CSQ Intel CPU Waterblock and EK EKoolant UV blue coolant.
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z77 D3H
RAM: 8GB Crucial Ballistix
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 120GB boot drive., which is behind the motherboard tray.
HDDs: WD 2TB Green, which lives in the hotswap bay, screwed in of course.
PSU: OCZ CoreXtream 500w.
CASE: NZXT Switch 810.
Again, thanks for all the help I have recieved from many of you
