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  Slicer Slicer

  Made for gaming mainly but also general variety of tasks, including streaming movies and TV shows, browsing the internet,... Made for gaming mainly but also general variety of tasks, including streaming movies and TV shows, browsing the internet, and occasionally working on documents and spreadsheets.

  $2,586.94

  Walc A

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  My First Build My First Build

  In total this build took about 10 hours, ignoring time spent waiting for parts to ship. Putting all the electronics together... In total this build took about 10 hours, ignoring time spent waiting for parts to ship. Putting all the electronics together took maybe about an hour of that. The other 9 hours were spent planning and bending and re-bending and re-planning and finally putting together the water loop. Acrylic looks great, but again this is my first ever build, so while I'm happy with the finished product I really did just torture myself trying to learn from scratch (youtube) how to work with the stuff for what in reality is a marginal aesthetic improvement. A quick note on the motherboard, because it's probably the most out of place part on this build, being a mini ITX board in a full size case. I was originally considering a mini ITX build (solely because I fell in love with the Fractal Torrent Nano), but I got smart and realized that there was no way I could do my first build and my first custom water loop and while worrying about such a small case. The ITX board I had already planned for had exactly the right number and generation ports that I needed, and when I looked at full size boards it was about $100 extra for one with the same generation ports. By the time I'll be upgrading the computer I'll be getting the next gen motherboard anyway, so there was just no point in getting the larger motherboard. On the fan configuration: Intake through the bottom with two 140mm fans. Exhaust everywhere else. 2 side radiator fans and 3 top radiator fans all exhaust/push, and one standard rear exhaust. Honestly, with the backpressure from the rads on most of the exhaust fans and the larger 140 intake fans, this system ends up being pretty balanced even before messing with fan curves. Probably could be better, but the corsair fans just look better this way and the total cooling is still great. Even though it was a huge pain in the ass to learn, it was really satisfying once I made it to the finished product, even if all the tubes aren't as perfectly straight and parallel as they could be. I went for a parallel loop instead of a sequential from the GPU to the CPU partially because it made the overall routing a lot simpler with where all the various ports happen to be with the parts in this case, but mostly I just think it looks much better. The only thing I might redo are the tubes between the CPU and the GPU because if you look closely you can definitely tell that they aren't perfectly even with each other, but that's minor. I tried out the EKWB Mystic Fog coolant which gave the whole loop an absolutely amazing RGB glow from how well the coolant diffuses the light, but the coolant ended up starting to fall out of solution in about 3 months and was totally clear by month 4. Had to do a full teardown a little earlier than I hoped, but I was told by a microcenter employee that shipments of the fluid are very intermittent so I might've just gotten an old/expired bottle that was doomed to fail. I took his advice and tried a second bottle (checking the expiration date this time) and it's been going strong and looking incredible for over 8 months now. If you're on the fence about the mystic fog, I'd say go for it. Worst case you get some practice tearing down your loop. I went with a relatively large case so that I don't have to worry about fitment or cooling capacity if/when I decide to start to upgrade the parts, although I shouldn't need to upgrade anything for a while. I use it develop data science and machine learning tools both for work and personal projects. I also use it to run a bunch of games, including Rocket League, Dirt Rally 2, F1 2021, Valorant, Doom Eternal, Witcher 3, and whatever else I'm feeling. I run dual 27 inch 1080p 144 hz monitors, and they look great so I haven't felt the need to upgrade to 1440p yet given the price jump. For me, the value just isn't there unless I decide to go for 32 inch monitors or prices come down significantly. I have yet to find a game that I need to turn even a single graphics setting down on to reach my 144 max fps. This shit rips. Benchmarks and Temps Cooling settings balanced At Idle: CPU - 37C, GPU - 35C FurMark Burn-In test, 1920x1080 (8x MSAA) - Peak GPU hotspot temp 70C, package temp 62C Furmark 1080p default benchmark - 18674 CineBench R23 CPU Multi Core test - 15388 at 90C I'd like to bring the idle temps down a bit and the CPU cooling might be suffering a bit from running the cooling loop in parallel, but I haven't had any issues with thermal throttling on the CPU and I'm very happy with the peak GPU temps. Overclocking might be in this system's future.

  $2,640.87

  Kendall N

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