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I think you mean (H80i) on the cooler. :)

H100i is 240 rad.

I like that Motherboard how it has a cover over it.
 
Nevakonaza said:
I think you mean (H80i) on the cooler. :)

H100i is 240 rad.

I like that Motherboard how it has a cover over it.
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Damnation!!!!!!! I hate when your right!:D

And yah, the board is awesome..looks terrific! i bought it for my rig after my original Maximus V issues--but I sold to him and am giving a new Maximus a try/
 
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Actually, I may go with a 990fx mobo and a 8350. depends on how my funds look after valentines day :P

EDIT. Looks like I'm going with a 8350 and a ASRock 970 Extreme4.
 
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14630925/2013-02-15_16-56-08_952.mp4 (video, apologies for poor quality/shakeycam in advance, and no it wasn't filmed with a potato)

Only bad news is my board isn't compatible with the Ballistix utility to set colors so i guess I'm stuck with green, still looks bad-ass.
 
Cable management could do with tidying up a bit, Fury (mind you, I can't talk about that though. :D) Otherwise looking good. :)
 
I might take some time to clean up the sata cables, thats the only thing *bothering* me. Otherwise i love the way its managed, most of everything is pinned behind the side panel.
 
Completed this build yesterday. Believe it or not, this was one of the hardest builds I've ever done - mostly because of the case. For an mATX case, this Fractal Design Core 1000 case is actually pretty good, but it does have some drawbacks, such as mounting a HDD/SSD is a pest if you want to use a right-angled SATA cable and there are no cable management features. Anyway, I got round those issues and below are some photos of the results. The whole build took me about 3-4 or so hours, longer than usual for me.

It's a PC for my mum who only does very basic things such as write emails, write Word documents and surf the web on her PC. Main reason for the upgrade is because at the moment she is on an HP dx2200 with 2GB of RAM, a P4 HT and Windows XP. Dad and I are keen to move her away from XP so we've put 8 Pro x64 on this machine. :)

Spec (probably over-specced but oh well):
Core i3 3220
ASUS P8B75-M LX
8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz (2x4GB)
Crucial M4 128GB (this is my old drive, I got a Vertex 4 to replace it)
Corsair CX 430
Fractal Design Core 1000
Windows 8 Pro x64

Here are some shots of the build:

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Meh, you could have done several things better for cable management.

Just a couple things to start, the USB header etc cables could have been ran along the back and zip tied instead of putting them to the front. Also, zip tie them all together to give a cleaner look.
The one fan you have running across the middle of the board looks like it could have went to the fan header at the top of the board beside the CPU fan.
The 4 pin CPU power cable can be zip tied with the bulk of the wires above and then shoot down to the board instead of just running across down low.
The 24 pin connector can be not put up in the 5.25 bays but rather ran down behind the 3.5'' bays and taken straight over instead.
On the CPU heatsink, the cleanest look is to leave the cable wrapped around the heatsink not to take it off and bunch it up. Swivel the heatsink around until it works out and then mount there.

This is a little crude but you get the idea.

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An example pic of the CPU heatsink cable-

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87dtna said:
Meh, you could have done several things better for cable management.

Just a couple things to start, the USB header etc cables could have been ran along the back and zip tied instead of putting them to the front. Also, zip tie them all together to give a cleaner look.
The one fan you have running across the middle of the board looks like it could have went to the fan header at the top of the board beside the CPU fan.
The 4 pin CPU power cable can be zip tied with the bulk of the wires above and then shoot down to the board instead of just running across down low.
The 24 pin connector can be not put up in the 5.25 bays but rather ran down behind the 3.5'' bays and taken straight over instead.
On the CPU heatsink, the cleanest look is to leave the cable wrapped around the heatsink not to take it off and bunch it up. Swivel the heatsink around until it works out and then mount there.

This is a little crude but you get the idea.
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Not really too bothered at all by the cable management, but thanks for the suggestions for improvements.

I forgot to mention about the cooler: I kind of messed it up when I installed it. I installed it, and somehow the fan was getting caught on the little wire, preventing the blades from spinning at all. I took the wire off the cooler itself and just had it hanging loose and then my fan was spinning again, so I just bunched it all up because I'm too lazy to take it all off. :P

The cables on the power supply are very long and the case is very small - that's why I just shoved it all up n the 5.25" bay. I really wish I had gone modular or semi-modular but I pressed the order button without thinking about that.
 
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The cables on the power supply are very long and the case is very small - that's why I just shoved it all up n the 5.25" bay. I really wish I had gone modular or semi-modular but I pressed the order button without thinking about that.
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I understand that and I've done that myself. All the other cables were fine there, I was just saying I'd take the 24 pin cable down behind the 3.5'' drives so it would look cleaner.

I also wouldn't be so concerned for my mom's PC either, so in all reality it is perfectly fine. Just offering up some tips for future builds or whatnot. :)
 
Yeah it's all good knowledge to have and yeah you're probably right it'd look better if I took that cable down by the 3.5" bays. :)
 
spirit said:
Not really too bothered at all by the cable management, but thanks for the suggestions for improvements.

I forgot to mention about the cooler: I kind of messed it up when I installed it. I installed it, and somehow the fan was getting caught on the little wire, preventing the blades from spinning at all. I took the wire off the cooler itself and just had it hanging loose and then my fan was spinning again, so I just bunched it all up because I'm too lazy to take it all off. :P

The cables on the power supply are very long and the case is very small - that's why I just shoved it all up n the 5.25" bay. I really wish I had gone modular or semi-modular but I pressed the order button without thinking about that.
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Same thing I did when I pressed the order button without thinking too. What i got? corrupt wireless, bad fan control and bad power supply.
 
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