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Calin said:
I don't really see what can happen to it, maybe the risk of spilling water?
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  • Any pets can jump up and knock it off or damage it
  • Someone walking by can bump it to the floor
  • Spilling liquid
  • Static electricity by accidently touching it
  • Poor/no air circulation leads to possible overheating

I don't know how your room is setup, but most teenagers rooms are messy, which means it's likely you will end up tripping over something and possibly falling into it. Or you could have friends over, have too much soda, throw a ball around or something and accidentally hit the components, your parents could be cleaning your room and bump it with a vacuum cleaner.

Seriously, there are hundreds of possibilities. Not to mention it looks awful having components spread out everywhere, taking up unnecessary space, etc.
 
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  • Intel i7-920 2.67GHz @ 3.4GHz w/ a Scythe cooler
  • ASUS Sabertooth X58
  • Kingston HyperX Fury 3x4GB 1866MHz @1620MHz
  • ASUS GTX 780 3GB DC2OC
  • Intel 330 120GB SSD
  • Kingston V300 128GB SSD
  • Seagate Barracuda 1TB
  • Corsair TX650
  • Antec GX505
Colleague had an extremely dusty PC with an old RaidMax case, and we have a few slow days at work this week, so I cleaned and rebuilt (while getting normal salary :D) his entire system and applied a proper overclock (3.4GHz @ 1.100v vs 3.2GHz @ 1.350v).
He had 6x2GB 1066MHz before, so he bought the Antec case and RAM here at work for cheap. Now it's very silent and much cooler.
Before overclocking, I resat his BIOS to stock and saw the CPU pulled 1.212v and hit 87C. Now, with GPU and CPU at 100% it's 84C :)
 
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Jiniix said:
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  • Intel i7-920 2.67GHz @ 3.4GHz w/ a Scythe cooler
  • ASUS Sabertooth X58
  • Kingston HyperX Fury 3x4GB 1866MHz @1620MHz
  • ASUS GTX 780 3GB DC2OC
  • Intel 330 120GB SSD
  • Kingston V300 128GB SSD
  • Seagate Barracuda 1TB
  • Corsair TX650
  • Antec GX505
Colleague had an extremely dusty PC with an old RaidMax case, and we have a few slow days at work this week, so I cleaned and rebuilt (while getting normal salary :D) his entire system and applied a proper overclock (3.4GHz @ 1.100v vs 3.2GHz @ 1.350v).
He had 6x2GB 1066MHz before, so he bought the Antec case and RAM here at work for cheap. Now it's very silent and much cooler.
Before overclocking, I resat his BIOS to stock and saw the CPU pulled 1.212v and hit 87C. Now, with GPU and CPU at 100% it's 84C :)
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Nice. The CPU fan looks kinda dusty though
 

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Starting to come together now, very very nearly finished over this past week. (when i had some spare time). It has taken quite a while atleast the past 2 weeks to get everything just right. Well nearly just need some LED's for the side and one of those EVGA v2 3 way bling bridges.

Plus yeah ignore the wallpaper, had to move the 900D into the spare room due to it being massive and had to mod the desk to fit it on. The thing weighs an absolute tonne. so that wallpaper will be gone soon :P.

Gpu's idle at the low 20s and maxed out running in the mid to high 30s. So far love the system and with the fans on slow speed it is nice and quiet aswell.
 
Don't know about anybody else but the case was the first thing I bought on my list :rolleyes:

Just bought a set of Corsair AF120 White LED fans and I'll post my pictures when I get them Wednesday :)
 
I did this build for a client to run AutoDesk software (AutoCAD and so on).

  • Intel Core i7 4790K
  • Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 5
  • 32GB Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz RAM
  • Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD
  • MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB
  • Fractal Design Define R5 case
  • Corsair RM650 PSU
  • DVD-RW drive
  • Windows 10 Pro x64
Took the pics on my phone (Lumia 625) and Dad's (Lumia 930) so not the best quality but not too bad.

PC Build 04-08-2015 by ThinkPad Review, on Flickr

PC Build 04-08-2015 by ThinkPad Review, on Flickr

PC Build 04-08-2015 by ThinkPad Review, on Flickr

PC Build 04-08-2015 by ThinkPad Review, on Flickr

PC Build 04-08-2015 by ThinkPad Review, on Flickr


Dad took a few photos of me putting this together:

PC Build 04-08-2015 by ThinkPad Review, on Flickr

PC Build 04-08-2015 by ThinkPad Review, on Flickr

PC Build 04-08-2015 by ThinkPad Review, on Flickr


The cable management features of the Fractal Design Define R5 are excellent! Firstly there is a lot of room behind the motherboard tray to route cables, especially if you use a power supply with flat cables like the Corsair RM650 which I used. There are Velcro straps that can be used to hold cables in place as well as those white metal plates which can act as cable holders, like above, or you can actually use them to mount your 2.5" drives, like an SSD! Impressive for less than £100! Solid case!
 
Nice...but a stock cooler on an i7?

Also, building a system on a carpet is risking a static electrical handshake between you and the components you are touching.
 
WhoX said:
Nice...but a stock cooler on an i7?

Also, building a system on a carpet is risking a static electrical handshake between you and the components you are touching.
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Yes, I know about the static issues but I was careful to ground myself, I wore shoes and I didn't actually put any of the components on the carpet. When I wasn't using them they were either in their boxes or on top of them, so it was fine. I've built plenty of systems like this now and have had no issues. It's not as big a deal as people sometimes make it out to be (and don't forget stuff is fairly tough these too and not too static sensitive).

As for the stock cooler, they're not overclocking and the airflow in the case is good. The budget was pushed enough and I stress tested it for over 12 hours with no issues so it should be fine. If it does end up running hot an aftermarket cooler can always be added later.

I noticed somebody here also did a build in the Define R5 recently and liked it. I noticed it was dead silent too! Really good case and amazing value for less than £100! Would have used the windowed one for the build I did too, but they were out of stock.
 
spirit said:
As for the stock cooler, they're not overclocking and the airflow in the case is good. The budget was pushed enough and I stress tested it for over 12 hours with no issues so it should be fine. If it does end up running hot an aftermarket cooler can always be added later.
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Actually I was thinking more about the noise level. I've tried Intel's stock coolers before and they weren't very quiet. Maybe they've improved since I last tried one. How's the one you installed?
 
WhoX said:
Actually I was thinking more about the noise level. I've tried Intel's stock coolers before and they weren't very quiet. Maybe they've improved since I last tried one. How's the one you installed?
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Pretty silent but like above I've noticed the R5 is a quiet case! I slept in the same room as the PC for 12 hours with the CPU running at 100% during a Prime95 test.
 
Found a nice deal on a 780 Ti so I upgraded. Added a second 120mm radiator up top for when I find a good deal on a water block for the 780 Ti.

Also bought another 8gb kit of ram so I have 16gb now.

 
Geoff said:
Says the person who doesn't know why they should use a case.. And how is saying someones heatsink looks dirty (when it clearly isn't), being nice?
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There was actual dust that compressed air/my mouth couldn't blow off the wings, and I didn't bother taking a rag and cleaning them.

Why are we being mean to Calin for not having a case? :P

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