Enthoo Primo Build sharing after todays Tek video (for wendel) (PICTURE HEAVY)

[ozturkish]

Hay guys, firstly I'll introduce myself seeing as this is my first post.

My names Sam I'm from Australia, I built my first PC in year 7 as a project for school (stripping the family PC and re-building it)

I fell out of PC gaming and had a bunch of consoles for ease and convenience but thought "fuck it i need a new PC" and here we are.

The plan was something I could use for gaming, video editing, graphic design and digital art for the missus

The specs ended up with are

RUNNING GEAR

Phanteks Enthoo Primo Ultimate Chassis black

ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Motherboard

Intel Core i7 4790K

2 x Crucial Tactical Tracer BLT2KIT8G3D1608DT2TXRG DDR3 (4x8GB)

Corsair AX860 Platinum Power Supply

2 x EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked W\ ACX Cooler

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DRIVES

Corsair Force Series GS 128GB SSD

2 x Western Digital WD Black 3TB

Samsung 840 EVO Series 1TB SSD

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FANS AND ACCESSORY'S

XSPC Twin 3mm LED Kit Green

XSPC Twin 3mm LED Kit UV

Corsair Gen2 White Sleeved Modular Cable Kit

Corsair White Sleeved ATX 24pin for 2nd Generation AX Series

BitFenix Sleeved Molex Extension Cable 45cm White

BitFenix Sleeved 4-Pin Molex Power Splitter White

5 x SilverStone Black 100mm PWM Fan Splitter Cable

Phobya Y-Cable 3Pin to 4x 3Pin 60cm - Black

Phobya Y-Cable 3Pin to 3x 3Pin 60cm - Black

4 x Corsair Air Series SP120 Performance Edition Twin Pack

3 x Corsair Air Series AF140 Quiet Edition High Airflow

2 x Cougar CF-D14HB-G 140mm Green LED Fan

2 x Cougar CF-D12HB-G 120mm Green LED Fan

2 x UV LED strips

WATER-COOLING

XSPC D5 Photon 170 Reservoir/Pump Combo

XSPC RayStorm CPU Waterblock for Intel

XSPC RX360 Triple Fan Radiator V3 Black

PrimoChill PrimoFlex Advanced LRT Tubing Green 1/2ID 3/4OD 3m

Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Compound

XSPC RX240 Dual Fan Radiator V3 Black

PrimoChill Antimicrobial Tube Coil Silver

2 x Heatkiller GPU-X³ GTX 780 Ti Hole Edition Nickel / Black

2 x Heatkiller Titan Backplate - Nickel

10 x Monsoon 45° Rotary Angle Adapter 3/4" OD Green

10 x Monsoon Free Center Compression Fitting 1/2"ID x 3/4"OD White

10 x Monsoon Standard Rotary Accent Disk White

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PERIPHERALS

Logitech G502 Proteus Core

Corsair K70 RGB Red

Hyperx Cloud Black and white

ASUS PB278Q 27in PLS LED Widescreen Monitor

ASUS PG278Q ROG Swift 27in 144Hz G-Sync Gaming Monitor

here's a link to my original Build Log with all the issues I had

First Watercooled Build- Designation: Liberty Prime...

I'll just do a quick summery here for you all

here we go

so this was the original package with the case, its much larger then it appeared online hahahaha I love the lines and the stepped cable management side with the I/O

a selection of the fans installed, the AF140's got shit canned because this was when it was going to be a air cooled build but decided to have a crack at water cooling

the Z97 saber-tooth, Looks amazing IMO

32Gig crucial balistix tactical tracer 1600Mhz CL8 1.5V

solid PSU

Boot drive for Windows 8.1

The beating heart, I haven't had a crack at OCing yet

First boot with no GPU's, the RAM says it all (:

test fitting the WC parts

the fittings

those water blocks are so bling but heavy as fuck

First boot with the GPU's

Fitting those GPU blocks

CPU water block fitment

dems fittings

leak testing

GPU issues lead to draining the loop and re fitting the GPU water-blocks once, twice and thrice, was about to give up here and just leave them air-cooled

But finally we got a clean boot with both GPU's showing

dirty OC on the GPU's

Up and running

Cheers for getting this far guys, I urge you to have a look through my original build log to see all the issues i encountered.

for first builders I recommend always double and triple counting parts so you don't end up 1 fitting down and having to spend $30 shipping one from the US because that blows and order as much as you can each time so you don't end up having to over pay in shipping.

the case was a dream to work with, there is so much room.

For temp management I have a temperature probe in one of the pump inlets and plugged into one of the boards temp sensors, I have all the fans plugged into the fan hub and that hub slaved to the water temp sensor so it keeps the water and system cool and quiet

The cable management cover Wendel refers to in the video is actually a vertical res mount (the cover with the black plastic next to the MOBO) and was my original choice for the res however mine didn't mount there.

many thanks all, any advice or comments are always appreciated.

Peace and chicken grease.

OzTurkish

[PadThai]

Looks awesome dude! Looks like it was a lot of fun to build.

[ozturkish]

cheers man

yer it was fun to build but also stressful, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but i would do it again in a heart beat

more fun to actually use as well

[PoshGeordie]

very cool build! Watercooling still hits that catch 22 for me.. I'd like to try it, but not on an expensive new system (scared of a water disaster), but there's little point spending good money on watercooling to put it in a 'crap' system. Glad I can enjoy looking at yours instead!

[ozturkish]

I hear ya man but you have to start somewhere and the beauty of a custom loop is you can add to it as you go and upgrade, maybe look at a CPU loop with a DDC pump, res, 240 or 360 rad, cpu block fittings and tube then add to it as you need or want, change rads, pumps, fittings, add GPU's add more fans etc etc you don't have to go balls deep straight away and aslong as the systems turned off while leak testing then you wont fry anything, if yopu get water on your mobo and theirs no power in it then its not going to damage anything, its also why we use de-ionised water a lot less chance of shorting if there is a leak with de-ionised water.

I also cant go past a tall tower cooler though they just work...... In my city we get to 45 degrees in summer easy, my mate runs a noctua NH-D14 and his fans died this summer, he didn't realize because his cooler was still cooling without any fans on it was just a bit hotter then normal

[PadThai]

Yeah more of a weekend got nothing else to do and want to stress kinda thing

[ozturkish]

and oh the stress, like trying to get the GPU's to work in SLI was a huge PITA, fit the blocks, leak test 24 hours, fire it up and they don't work.... drain the loop, strip the blocks, refit the air coolers to make sure the cards aren't dead, they fire up in SLI fine so strip them back down, refit the water blocks, refill the loop and leak test for 24 hours......... I went though this 3 times and was about to give up when finally they fired up.....

so yer can be stressful but that's what you have to be prepared for, that's why for starters I'd recommend just doing the CPU, theirs not much that can go wrong

[JCat]

Looks really nice. Does anyone else love the smell of s new hardware? Ahhh a fresh motherboard right out of the anti-static bag, and that clean toxic smell of fresh paint on a new case.... Then there's that great warm electrical smell of the silicon heating up for the first time during burn in. Can't beat it. Congratulations on the new build!

[ozturkish]

Cheers man.... I do love that "new car" smell

[Kat]

Salute to you, good sir. this was pretty good :)

[ozturkish]

many thanks, of course I'm already planning an upgrade, the impatient side of me didn't want to wait for x99 and Maxwell but like anything once you get used to the power you want more and more.... as I'm sure many of you are aware

[Kat]

Honestly, i would stick with the 780ti for a bit, at least until pascal comes. the 780ti is actually faster than the GTX 970, just by a bit. but it is. plus you know for a fact the 3GB you have is actually 3GB lol

[ozturkish]

yer but 3 Gig is still only 3 Gig..... especially when 4K max settings on GTA V is pulling 7.5 Gig on a single card

[Kat]

Yeah but no Graphics card is handling 4K at max settings to begin with. except Titan X which is just a waste of money. and an extra gig from a GTX 980 or 970, isn't going to help with Memory. if it's pulling the 7.5GB of Memory that "GTA V" Pulling..