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spirit

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Nice looking build Jason! I plan on building a new rig when Skylake comes out.

Cheers. He's happy with it and was very grateful for my help in building it and sorting it out when he was experiencing BSODs! ;) He learned a lot from me, just like I have from him! :good:
 

Geoff

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Cheers. He's happy with it and was very grateful for my help in building it and sorting it out when he was experiencing BSODs! ;) He learned a lot from me, just like I have from him! :good:
Did he give you anything for building it, or was it just something you did for the fun of it?
 

spirit

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Did he give you anything for building it, or was it just something you did for the fun of it?

Just something for fun. I didn't build all of it, quite a few people in the department helped with the build and obviously he bought the parts off people who were selling them to him.
 

WhoX

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A PC I built this weekend for my son's birthday.

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WhoX

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Nice job. Tidy with the cables. Is the CPU fan pointed toward the rear or the front?

Towards the rear.

I've tested a lot of fan builds and found that the most efficient air flow is when the CPU heat sink fan is facing the rear. I've seen a trend though with some builds having the fan face inward. But that only creates a stagnate, rotating circle of air in the CPU case when cool air comes in from the front and meets hot air being blown towards the front away from the CPU heat sink.
 
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Darren

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I always was under the impression pushing air across the cooler was better than trying to pull it through. The cooler itself would restrict the airflow a bit with the fan pulling it and having that exhaust fan where it is would help pull the hot air coming off the cooler that's being pushed through if you put the fan on the other side. Probably makes a minimal difference, but I'd do it differently.

If you mounted the hard drives the other way around you could probably have the data and power cables for the HDD's a bit better hidden.

Not trying to nitpick, just a couple things I noticed. Overall looks very clean. I like the dark aesthetic with flecks of red in places. :good:
 

WhoX

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I always was under the impression pushing air across the cooler was better than trying to pull it through. The cooler itself would restrict the airflow a bit with the fan pulling it and having that exhaust fan where it is would help pull the hot air coming off the cooler that's being pushed through if you put the fan on the other side. Probably makes a minimal difference, but I'd do it differently.

The push and pull methods are both good methods. If the rear case fan was farther away from the CPU fan then I would have used the push method. But, because the rear case fan is so close to the CPU fan I decided to take advantage of that and use the pull method. In principle it's a double pull method that is expelling the hot air out of the case at a very efficient rate.

If you mounted the hard drives the other way around you could probably have the data and power cables for the HDD's a bit better hidden.

True. After doing it the same way for so long I guess it's become an unconscious habit. :D

Overall looks very clean. I like the dark aesthetic with flecks of red in places.

Thanks! :)
 
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NVX_185

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Latest build! Fractal case was a pleasure to work in, and this thing is *dead* silent, not even kidding. I came from the NZXT Tempest Evo case (6 case fans, no controller!) so this is like heaven atm

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Geoff

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Yep will clean it later.

Also guys, I know it looks bad but like I said, I'll get a case soon
So you can afford a GTX 980 but not a $100 case? There is so much wrong with that if you aren't doing it for temporary benching.
 

salvage-this

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All that water cooling is probably an extra $300 as well. Might not need 3 radiators if you added fans to them :p

I would love to see this build cleaned up.
 
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