A while ago a completed a new Gaming/Content-Creation PC after pinching pennies and selling my old build and people had asked for more pictures. Well...I had a 140mm fan making a grinding noise so I took the opportunity to take more pictures while replacing it.
Fractal Define R5 Intel i7 5820K ASUS X99-A Motherboard NZXT Kraken x61 32GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport 2400 DDR4 RAM EVGA GTX 980 Classified Kingpin Samsung 256GB 850 Pro - Boot Drive Samsung 500GB 850 EVO - Games Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD - Skyrim Only WD Black 2TB - Mass Stoarge Corsair HX750
Damn it! Why is the black and white theme so popular right now. I thought I was unique ;-). Mine is going to look so similar. Just waiting for the Kraken to finally arrive on saturday after waiting almost two month for the H110i GT which never showed. I'll be posting pics.
Yeah, it does seem to be very popular right now. One thing to note though about the Kraken: If you want a color that's closer to true white...in the software settings for the color turn the blue hue down so that the color in the thumbnail looks like yellow. NZXT's "white" is very blue looking.
yeah man...not a problem. NZXT has great products but their quality control as far as products going out has sucked a lot over the last year or so. Both of my fans that arrived with the cooler made a really loud grinding sound when they spun. NZXT replaced them though so I can't really be mad. Gotta love that 6 year warranty.
Since we both have a very similar system with the identical cooler it'd be interesting to compare some numbers, e.g. temps, overclocks, etc. I'm using the 5930K, and a different Mainboard (MSI X99 SLI Krait Edition, because of the b&w color scheme), but still.
Yeah, I thought about getting that motherboard but 1. I liked the black and white look of ASUS' a little more and 2. I do a lot of audio work and I didn't want to skimp on my on board sound. The on board sound on this board is top notch and has really blown me away. I was able to get my cpu to hit 4.4 at just under 1.3v (i don't remeber if it was 1.295 or 1.29) no problem. Had a stable 4.5GHz at a little over 1.3v but I didn't like the temps being in the 50's while gaming.
Allright, I got it up and running now. Gonna start playing around with the overclock now. I'm going to try the OC-Genie feature first to see how far that'll go. After that, I'll do a classic manual overclock. I'll be posting later...
Ok, I'm kinda hitting a wall at 4.5Ghz @ 1.245V right now. It's stable but I can't go higher even with much more voltage. I think I'll have to read up some more about X99/Haswell-E overclocking. I'm sure there is still some headroom, since the voltages are still kinda low and the temps are perfectly fine. The Kraken has not yet shown it's full potential either, I did the stress tests in silent mode.
