Prometheus Project (PC Gaming Rig)
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Well the new case I bought got destroyed on delivery. So I had to send it back which has taken ages.
This new PC building I have gone all out on Liquid cooling, motherboard, CPU and GPU. I will make all the pipes myself. Should be interesting.
I haven't taken a photo of all the bits I have bought just yet but here is how it looks thus far.
Got myself a Corsair Griphite 760T case.
GTX 970 and an EK Water cooling block.
New CPU cooler
360Mm Radiator
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No I know it is not a 980. To be honest I don't really play games I just couldn't be bothered to find a decent liquid cooler for my 770.
The new case is nice. I am going to need to do some custom fabrication on this build.
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hat other case was ruined.
I haven't got any fouling issues here. It even clears the radiator surprisingly
This is quality, I managed to fob off the second HDD rack, have a look why
It turns out you can mount 4 SSD's here so that means I can make more room for the reservoirs.
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Hhmm, may have underestimated the difficulty of this part.
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Don't mind the cable ties, they are simply there whilst I do the install. Once the final pieces are done I can remove them.
Some pieces in this shot are off. I will be redoing them. And some need trimming down a little bit.
But it's quite difficult actually. Getting it spot on is probably above my skill sets
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Getting there. This especially is not my forte. I have redone almost all the lines as I feel like I was getting the hang of it a little better. I would love to perfect it but I really want my PC back now it's been over a month!
My mandrel bender doesn't fit the bigger pipes, so had to do it by hand. I don't know if it's just me but swear I actually did a better job with just the corner of a table lmao. Ah well as said learning experience.
I am not 100% happy with it. I can't stress that enough, it's a lot harder to get it perfect than I thought. Maybe in the future I will do it again but for now here it is 75%complete.
The reservoir and pump are fixed in now too. All that's left is from the pump to the graphics card, motherboard and cpu. The lines from these components have been done.
Then the system needs filling up, checking for leaks. Then it should be good to go. Need to order a few more barbs and hard lines. But hopefully next week should see it back up and running.
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looks good to me, I would of never started it I hate computers can just about turn 1 on look at the trouble I have uploading pic had to get my son to do it I have trouble with my phone give me a spanner any day lol
@mad73 Give me a spanner, what do you think I have been building this with my teeth!
Do both pal. To be fair, I enjoy building the computer more than I do using it. And that's the Gods honest truth lol. Once its built it'll be used for YouTube lmao.
It's just once you have had a custom PC, it's so hard to go to anythibg else. Just imagine no loading for anything. Everything is instantaneous on this machine.
It is lovely. But overkill. And you know me, I don't shy away from the tools.
But I am not very good at stuff like your man cave. One day I hope to be. But it's not a skill I posses right now. It takes all sorts of people in this world.
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When I eventually upgrade my SSD I will probably be going with whatever the latest Samsung drive is. Just wondering, why did you choose a corsair drive and a Hyper x drive over other makes?
@MIGHTYMAN Samsung are absolutely gash lmao! Their SSD's are not compatible with Debian.
I bought the corsair one many moons ago.
I got the hyperx one free with the 970 graphics card. I would have not bought it out of choice.
The drive I would have got eould have been the San Disk Pro
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Ah in that case, the overhead of running Windows outweighs the gains of running an SSD. I joke of course.
So on paper the Samsung Pro is better than the San Disk. But the random read speeds, which are more like real life performance, favoured better on the san disk.
Out of personal preference I don't like Samsung products. I have a few expensive Samsung items that are just naff.
But either way you won't tell the difference.
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@mad73 Give me a spanner, what do you think I have been building this with my teeth!
Do both pal. To be fair, I enjoy building the computer more than I do using it. And that's the Gods honest truth lol. Once its built it'll be used for YouTube lmao.
It's just once you have had a custom PC, it's so hard to go to anythibg else. Just imagine no loading for anything. Everything is instantaneous on this machine.
It is lovely. But overkill. And you know me, I don't shy away from the tools.
But I am not very good at stuff like your man cave. One day I hope to be. But it's not a skill I posses right now. It takes all sorts of people in this world.
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@mad73 Give me a spanner, what do you think I have been building this with my teeth!
Do both pal. To be fair, I enjoy building the computer more than I do using it. And that's the Gods honest truth lol. Once its built it'll be used for YouTube lmao.
It's just once you have had a custom PC, it's so hard to go to anythibg else. Just imagine no loading for anything. Everything is instantaneous on this machine.
It is lovely. But overkill. And you know me, I don't shy away from the tools.
But I am not very good at stuff like your man cave. One day I hope to be. But it's not a skill I posses right now. It takes all sorts of people in this world.
teeth hahahahahaha I like it
most things to do with carpentry is having the right tools same as most things really , I just cant get on with computers to small and fiddly for me hammers and power tools as there nice and big , if your good at building things which it seems you are going by your bike and computer building a shed is easy really you could build 1 with basic tools hammer hand saw nails sprit level , -
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@mad73 Give me a spanner, what do you think I have been building this with my teeth!
Do both pal. To be fair, I enjoy building the computer more than I do using it. And that's the Gods honest truth lol. Once its built it'll be used for YouTube lmao.
It's just once you have had a custom PC, it's so hard to go to anythibg else. Just imagine no loading for anything. Everything is instantaneous on this machine.
It is lovely. But overkill. And you know me, I don't shy away from the tools.
But I am not very good at stuff like your man cave. One day I hope to be. But it's not a skill I posses right now. It takes all sorts of people in this world.
teeth hahahahahaha I like it
most things to do with carpentry is having the right tools same as most things really , I just cant get on with computers to small and fiddly for me hammers and power tools as there nice and big , if your good at building things which it seems you are going by your bike and computer building a shed is easy really you could build 1 with basic tools hammer hand saw nails sprit level , -
awwww maaaaaaaan, it's such a nice rig! Please trust, get Project Cars on there and upload some vids!!! Also a great rig for CAD. My favourite pass time atm
@Darty Hhmm, I bet if I check the bank the computer will say 'No'. I don't want to examine how much the upgrades have cost me lmao! Project cars next month.
I very rarely use this computer for gaming, not sure why I upgraded it, just fancied a challenge of building the liquid cooling system.
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@MIGHTYMAN Yeah, I wanted individual cold feeds to each of the components. As such it did take a few attempts to get right.
The hard part was making them all single pieces. The amount of pipes I had to scrap because I got it wrong three bends in grr!
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Individual cold feeds? I have never heard of anyone doing that before. I get the feeling this is a very similar scenario to you adding a second radiator to your DT. Looks very good, but doesn't provide any noticeable functionality. Whilst it would be good to drop some of the components by a few degrees, I'm sure in practise it wouldn't really help? The only benefit might be that you have a LOT of extra coolant so it might take a very small amount of additional time, before the whole loop gets up to working temp?
Sorry if this comment seems like I'm having a dig, I'm really not but I know you are much like me in that there are some unique ways we like doing certain things like this, even if the result is little to no gains and a much lighter pocket!
