Elkwood
12-05-2015, 10:56 AM
I decided to rebuild my old system for tink and buy me a new setup.. 2.5k later its done !!!
I picked up a 850 evo 512g,970evga,corsair 105 cooler for my old system. Which is a 8320 amd with 32gigs of ram. I been
having this strange issue with the system for years where i get no video output on start up. After replacing the mb/ps
i finally came to the conclusion it was the video card. Which was a 7970. The card was wc and had lived
a hard life as a bitminer in its early months. Still though only 3 years out of it left me really ticked off.
After i got that sorted out and stuck together for tink i started gathering my pieces.
I was really torn on how i wanted to go with this build. Did i want to go with the 6core stuff that intel has or
strike out with the new skylake setup. In the end i went with the skylake setup. Mostly over MB selection.
System consists of
Gigabyte z170x Gaming 7
32gigs of memory
950 nvme ssd 512g -- sucker fast !!
980 gtx evga hydro card which i brought used
Phanteks Enthoo primo case to stuff it all in -- HUGE case
Dell s2716d 27" 1440p -- So impressed with this monitor
I wanted to purchase all new wc parts but i was running low on funds so just
moved my old wc parts over.
The WC parts with new tubing went on so smooth. Generally it can take a lot of time to figure everything out
and then run the tubing burp/bleed it/leak test it
I spent less then 4 hours from start to finish on the tubing then burping the system. To put that into perceptive
i normally figure 24 hours for all that. The bay/pump setup i have was a nightmare to use the first time i ever
did a system with it. This time around it was unreal how easy it was.
Its ok cause when i turned the system on for the first time it wouldn't post. Just a cycle of reboots. Code was 55
and it was 5 beeps when i plugged a speaker in. To make a long story short. Turned out the bios was faulty. Lucky for me
gigabytes have a secondary one and i was able to flip a switch and the system booted up. We just not talk about all
the BS i went thru before i remembered about the secondary bios. :) Also had sound issues. Turned out to be a bad sound
card + amp lost a channel.
The only issue i not resolved is a very slow boot up from bios to when windows finally starts loading. I have a few
suspicions on that but i going to let it slid for now. Its super fast load from when windows logo appear till i am on
desktop Like 5 secs or less. Just sets at a flashing cursor after the bio screen for about 15 secs. Driving me nuts.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/Radocon/wb_zpsh2loncxp.jpg (http://s531.photobucket.com/user/Radocon/media/wb_zpsh2loncxp.jpg.html)
Back side of the mess of wires. Really nice wire management options if i wanted to take the time. At some point i might pull it apart and
really wire it up with idea of having a super clean install.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/Radocon/IMG_20151127_085550848_HDR_zpsuqiu5xzn.jpg (http://s531.photobucket.com/user/Radocon/media/IMG_20151127_085550848_HDR_zpsuqiu5xzn.jpg.html)
Topside pick of the Res/pump combo. I love compression fitting !! U can just make out the fill port. I used a long piece
of tubing and a funnel. Way easier then it was on my silverstone tj09 case.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/Radocon/IMG_20151127_193017622_zpso5et6xyr.jpg (http://s531.photobucket.com/user/Radocon/media/IMG_20151127_193017622_zpso5et6xyr.jpg.html)
Lost one of the monitor setup. 27inch/21 inch. Both running 1920x 1080p. I not tried out the 1440p in anything yet.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/Radocon/IMG_20151202_091118606_zpsrfw2fi2a.jpg (http://s531.photobucket.com/user/Radocon/media/IMG_20151202_091118606_zpsrfw2fi2a.jpg.html)
I picked up a 850 evo 512g,970evga,corsair 105 cooler for my old system. Which is a 8320 amd with 32gigs of ram. I been
having this strange issue with the system for years where i get no video output on start up. After replacing the mb/ps
i finally came to the conclusion it was the video card. Which was a 7970. The card was wc and had lived
a hard life as a bitminer in its early months. Still though only 3 years out of it left me really ticked off.
After i got that sorted out and stuck together for tink i started gathering my pieces.
I was really torn on how i wanted to go with this build. Did i want to go with the 6core stuff that intel has or
strike out with the new skylake setup. In the end i went with the skylake setup. Mostly over MB selection.
System consists of
Gigabyte z170x Gaming 7
32gigs of memory
950 nvme ssd 512g -- sucker fast !!
980 gtx evga hydro card which i brought used
Phanteks Enthoo primo case to stuff it all in -- HUGE case
Dell s2716d 27" 1440p -- So impressed with this monitor
I wanted to purchase all new wc parts but i was running low on funds so just
moved my old wc parts over.
The WC parts with new tubing went on so smooth. Generally it can take a lot of time to figure everything out
and then run the tubing burp/bleed it/leak test it
I spent less then 4 hours from start to finish on the tubing then burping the system. To put that into perceptive
i normally figure 24 hours for all that. The bay/pump setup i have was a nightmare to use the first time i ever
did a system with it. This time around it was unreal how easy it was.
Its ok cause when i turned the system on for the first time it wouldn't post. Just a cycle of reboots. Code was 55
and it was 5 beeps when i plugged a speaker in. To make a long story short. Turned out the bios was faulty. Lucky for me
gigabytes have a secondary one and i was able to flip a switch and the system booted up. We just not talk about all
the BS i went thru before i remembered about the secondary bios. :) Also had sound issues. Turned out to be a bad sound
card + amp lost a channel.
The only issue i not resolved is a very slow boot up from bios to when windows finally starts loading. I have a few
suspicions on that but i going to let it slid for now. Its super fast load from when windows logo appear till i am on
desktop Like 5 secs or less. Just sets at a flashing cursor after the bio screen for about 15 secs. Driving me nuts.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/Radocon/wb_zpsh2loncxp.jpg (http://s531.photobucket.com/user/Radocon/media/wb_zpsh2loncxp.jpg.html)
Back side of the mess of wires. Really nice wire management options if i wanted to take the time. At some point i might pull it apart and
really wire it up with idea of having a super clean install.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/Radocon/IMG_20151127_085550848_HDR_zpsuqiu5xzn.jpg (http://s531.photobucket.com/user/Radocon/media/IMG_20151127_085550848_HDR_zpsuqiu5xzn.jpg.html)
Topside pick of the Res/pump combo. I love compression fitting !! U can just make out the fill port. I used a long piece
of tubing and a funnel. Way easier then it was on my silverstone tj09 case.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/Radocon/IMG_20151127_193017622_zpso5et6xyr.jpg (http://s531.photobucket.com/user/Radocon/media/IMG_20151127_193017622_zpso5et6xyr.jpg.html)
Lost one of the monitor setup. 27inch/21 inch. Both running 1920x 1080p. I not tried out the 1440p in anything yet.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/Radocon/IMG_20151202_091118606_zpsrfw2fi2a.jpg (http://s531.photobucket.com/user/Radocon/media/IMG_20151202_091118606_zpsrfw2fi2a.jpg.html)