For now only the start, but power supply is coming tomorrow, and I wanted to sell some more before I bought the CPU, but I might just grab it. Still deciding.
So here’s my new build. Finally x.x
First off the mobo. It had a cover over the back plate area that covered the VRM cooling, so I took that off, as well as the stupid little metal plate they glued to the top one. For the SSD I’m just using the 128GB M.2 I have laying around spare to boot. I’ll eventually get a 1TB NVME drive to stick in the other slot. As well, trimmed the pad on the SSD heatsink to only cover the controller. Don’t wanna cool the memory!
Case! Came in the mail today. My dad thought it was huge. Footprint wise, sure, but not really over all.
I have one of the updated H100i V2 kits with the new seals, never used for AM4 but has the AM4 bracket in it? Guessing the last owner got a new one after his previous one exploded. Either way, this was traded for a GPU. I don’t like the socket mount I don’t think, so I think I might get a Kraken X62 later on. The Block mount is kinda jank though…
It’ll do fine for right now I think. Only held in with 2 screws, but I don’t mind. I could move one of those fans to the back, but atm I want to try a full push pull on the water block and see how it works out.
And this is just a fit test.
Specs of finished product
HAF EVO XB Contaning:
Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra Gaming
AMD 3900 X
H100i V2 (AM4 Kit)
64 GB DDR4-2133 (2X32GB)
Nvidia GTX 970 (EVGA ACX 2.0)
Nvidia Grid K2
EVGA 750w Supernova G+
128GB Kinston A400 (I think?) (Boot)
60GB Kingston A400 (Scratch)
3TB WD Green (Linux Home / Windows Game Storage)
500GB Dell HDD (Mac OS Storage)
250 GB WD Blue (Mac OS Storage)
1TB WD Black (Video / Mediia Storage)
I will be getting these parts later to either Add or Upgrade:
Radeon RX 5700XT
64GB (4X16) DDR4-36 or 3800
1TB Samsung 970 (NVME)
Probably some fans tbh
Maybe a bigger PSU
So you might be wondering, ok, why the K2? Well, general plans for right now are to run VM’s for stuff. I have these K2’s doing nothing right now, so I figured throw one in! For what I’m playing right now, I’ll just dual boot, but the K2 is built for VM work so I figured I’d play with it. Eventually when I get my 5700XT I’ll go out and grab a single slot GPU of some sort (Probably a GTX 9800 Katana because I can get one easily) and keep the 970 in the system. The 9800 will be my host card, the 5700XT will go to windows when I don’t need it for compute, and the 970 will go to OSX, all run in VM’s.
The over all point of this machine is to get rid of other X86 machines I don’t use, unless its collectable or otherwise special to me. The only processors I want in my house are a 3900X, some arm chips, and everything else needs to have a specific purpose. Sparc can’t be emulated easily, nor can PPC. I’m sure I could run a PPC emulated environment, but I’d be better off doin it on the real hardware. At least until I get a talos, then all my PPC machines can buzz off too (Then just a sun Ultra 60! But that’ll be an upgrade from my sun blade). By the end I should be doing well off.
More pics tomorrow when my PSU comes in.
Edit: Just want to insert here that I just ordered a 120mm fan, 2 80mm fan’s, and a pcie wifi adapter for laptop chips. I have so bloody many I figure I might as well throw something in for a backup connection. As well, I don’t want my storage baking. I realized I have had a mac pro and it cooled everything so my hard drives actually performed really well. So I should proooobably cool them.
Edit 2: Cancelled the wifi adapter I think they’re made in china on demand. I’d rather not lol. I’ll figure something else out.
Edit 3: Fuck it I’ll just order the processor I’m ok.
Anyways more later.