Rainbow Rig
by capntypo Posted on: 7/28/2020
Build Description
I built this computer for gaming and running virtual machines for work/study (I'm in Cyber Security studying forensics). I wanted something that could do it all, so when the wife set me loose with the credit card for my birthday and said "Build what you want" I built this beast (though I will say I was going to go with the MEG or Ace, but thanks to the current apocalypse situation the only thing in stock was the Godlike). I don't currently have much in the way of upgrades planned for this system, but I will likely upgrade the video card once I see what this next generation has to offer from intel and amd.
I currently I play Wow, Battlefield, Just Cause 4, Farcry 5, TombRaider, and I pop on Apex Legends and Fortnite from time to time.
I wasn't able to list a few of my parts on the builder so here's the extras:
Sabent Rocket 2TB NVME Gen4
Deepcool's Castle cooler
4 Noctua black fans
Conductonaut thermal compound
I currently I play Wow, Battlefield, Just Cause 4, Farcry 5, TombRaider, and I pop on Apex Legends and Fortnite from time to time.
I wasn't able to list a few of my parts on the builder so here's the extras:
Sabent Rocket 2TB NVME Gen4
Deepcool's Castle cooler
4 Noctua black fans
Conductonaut thermal compound
Favorite Feature
This case (O11 Dynamic XL) was a joy to build in, open, roomy, ample case management, and tons of options. But I think the most fun I had building this was working out the airflow. First I set it up with the 360 rad vertical pulling air from the outside, top fans were exhaust, bottom and rear fans intake. It was fine, but I didn't like how the water line ran, and felt like the cables on the front of the motherboard were cramped. So I moved it to the top. At this point I had 9 RGB fans, 3 on the bottom, 3, top and 3 side, but I found that I didn't like the bottom fans because the RGB kept flashing at the corner of my eye, my angle was such that it wasn't a glow but more of a laser. so I shifted those three fans to the top going push/pull on the rad and added 3 more noctua black 120s on the bottom. with the fans set to auto it runs between 55c and 65c consistently, I've never seen it hit 70.My favorite novelty is the gaming mode, where a game takes over the RGB to match the game.
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