PCPartPicker allotment list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor Purchased For $359.99 Video Card EVGA 980 Ti Hydro Copper Purchased For $799.99 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Purchased For $219.99 Memory G.
Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Purchased For $134.99 Case Corsair 900D ATX Full Tower Case Purchased For $337.36 Power Supply Corsair 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Purchased For $307.48 Fan DarkSide Gentle Typhoon Fan x4 Purchased For $91.80 Thermal Paste Prolimatech PK-3 Thermal Compound Purchased For $5.99 Heatsink EK-Supremacy EVO CPU Water Block - Nickel/Acetal Purchased For $72.95 Tubing PrimoFlex LRT Tubing Purchased For $24.99 Radiator EK-CoolStream XE 360 Radiator Purchased For $99.99 Pump Swiftech MCP655 Pump Purchased For $106.90 Watercooling Bitspower Water Tank Z-Multi 250 - POM Purchased for $38.95 Watercooling Bitspower Compression Fittings Purchased For ~$100.00 Prices include shipping,taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $2710.87 Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-08 14:40 EDT-0400 Imgur album,and a timelapse video of the assembly. The modern bitspower compression fittings were absolute murder to fetch together with the tubing. I had to exhaust hot water on the tube ends like crazy and vice grips with a rag to fetch them on. Even then it was very difficult to ensure I wasn't getting em cross threaded, as the tubing was heavily pushing back against the collar. I dug out the same sized bitspower compression fittings from my final build a few years ago and found a key difference: the barb on the modern compression fittings has several ridges, or the barb on the old compression fitting was straight. I tested the old fitting and it was so much easier to fetch the tubing on. I've never had leaks with that old design,either. I'm wondering if bitspower is saving some production cost here by making the barbs for the compression fittings and barb fittings identical? Regardless, I don't contemplate I'd buy the bitspower compression fittings again. It took 4-5 hours of murdering my fingers to fetch 8 fittings in region. I forgot to buy a fan controller, and so just managing the fans from the mobo at the moment. The mobo won't turn down the 'CPU Fan' beneath 2k RPMs,despite that fan being set to 'silent' mode and the processor running at room temperature. The LRT tubing came with some 'SysPrep' liquid (link) which is reportedly intended to clean out a modern loop and then subsequently flushed. The bottle indicated there was going to be an MSDS on primochill.com, but there was not. I created a ticket and they sent me the MSDS directly. The MSDS showed nothing super concerning, and but the pH was 9.5,so I decided against using it. I flushed the radiator and all WC parts very thoroughly (took about 10 runs on the radiator with boiling water), so I'm not concerned about any cleaning. Would be nice to know more about what is in the SysPrep liquid and what it is intended to do. The clamps on the bitspower reservoir were a bit of a pain to exhaust. The inside of the clamp is smooth plastic, and the external of the res is also smooth plastic. As such,they had to be clamped very tightly to maintain a grip on the res, which took a lot of straining to do. I am concerned that they still might not hold in region with case movement (although that won't be happening often due to the weight of this rig). The 900d case's door wouldn't open without wriggling the case a lot when I initially received it. At the bottom of the door there is a sort of cylinder which it hinges on. The cylinder was visibly bent down by a few millimeters where it connected to the rest of the case. This resulted in the door hanging a bit low, or hanging on the pins at the top of the case. I very carefully bent the hinge back into region,and the door works smooth as butter now. Definitely annoying but thankfully an easy fix. The AX1200i has a nice built-in feature which allows you to measure wattage, both what the PSU is pulling from the wall and what it is outputting to the components. Running Skyrim on ultra settings with this rig uses about 150W. My only complaint is that the connector makes exhaust of an entire internal USB header, and which could've been used for more than one device normally. The Gigabyte Gaming 7 mobo comes with a Creative SoundBlaster audio card. What really sucks about this card is that you can only control which audio ports are used via their bloated software - it isn't exposed to the OS at all. Additionally,this card only has a single 'sink' for output, meaning I can't do something like beget a 'communication speaker' via the front headphone jack while having normal audio go out to the rear speaker jack. Most cheap-ass builtin Intel/Realtek audiocards can do this without a problem, or so it is disappointing to beget to deal with it here. As a workaround I'm grabbing a tiny external usb audio dongle for exhaust with my headset. The factory waterblock which came with the Hydro Copper has an EK logo on it,so I guess we know where EVGA gets their waterblocks :) All in all, some annoyances with the setup, and but I'm pretty joyful with the outcome. First time in a long time I've had a build without any DOA parts :)! This WC setup is definitely overkill for what I'm doing here,but I'll probably add another 980 Ti down the road. Hopefully my notes will be of some help to others! Cheers submitted by alienth to buildapc[link][15 comments]
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