Here is an updated picture of my rig from a few posts ago. Installed a noctua l9a to silence some of the noise the stock AMD cooler was making along with a 140mm noctua fan. Also did quite a bit of cable management, but there is only so much you can do in a case that is less than a foot in each dimension(7.83" x 6.3" x 11.42"). All that is left is a little sound deadening and I have the perfect rig for getting work done.
Considering going with one of the corsair Hydro series like the h90 for extra silent. Normally, the noctua would be super silent, but in linux, the fan is running full blast and I haven't been able to get pwm controls to cooperate.
The ends of Motherboard cable, front panel connectors and the whole SATA cable and the CPU fan power cable has been painted black using a permanent marker.
Nice cable management. It looks quite clean. I made my PC "look" decent, but you will think otherwise once you take the right side panel off, and then try to put it back on again...
It was a bit difficult too to manage the cables in the N200 and then close the panel too, but yeah, once everything was organised, it was quite easy to put the side panel back in.
Cooler Master could have provided some extra space at the back for routing cables, but anyways it is all fine cuz it somehow worked.
I am happy with my first time effort. The best is yet to come.
PSU: Corsair CX 500M - I don't know what i was thinking going with a psu with such a low wattage it started with a budget and i did not look to the future so now i have to buy a new one till i make any more upgrades.
OS: Windows 8.1
Peripherals
Monitor: Asus VH236H
Mouse: Logitech G500
Keyboard: CM Storm QuickFire Ultimate - Brown Switches
Headset: Logitech G35
Headphones: Audio-Technica ATH-M50
Pictures
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7Cvc0u4.jpg[/IMG]
I am aware the cable Management is awful. I am not very good at it.
I mainly use my rig for gaming, productivity, web surfing etc. (No editing or rendering as of right now). My cable management is downright abysmal so much that I should redo it, but all of my temps are surprisingly fine even when under load.
Intel Core i5 4670K
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Asus Maximus VI Hero
8GB GSkill Ripjawz 1866Mhz DDR3
Kingston Hyper X 3K 120GB SSD
WD Black 1 TB
Asus GTX 780 OC (I chose this over the 770 and 280x cos 3GB VRAM for hella mods lol and 280x is way overpriced)
Intel core i7-2960XM 2.70GHz (factory default, when overclock around 3.7GHz, have achieved 4.8Ghz problem is i do not have a sufficient cooling system)
Well Well Finaly my new case and cpu cooler arrived today!!!
Tomorrow i gonne strip my current build, and rebuild it with my new parts lol. I will shoot some pictures from the whole operation, if you guys like lol ☺
