New Liquid Cooled Rig

Hi

Very NICE. what sort of temps are you getting?

OCZ which model SSD? I have had a few (still have 4 of them from Vertex2 and Vertex3, all used ans backup devices for images of SSD/HDD data), while they are good, I have found the Samsung EVO's far superior in speed.

ASUS boards I love, use a Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe at the moment, its a 2yr old desktop now but works really well as the Intel i7-3770K unlocked CPU is running at default O/C settings in the ASUS BIOS @ 3900mhz with on air a CPU temp of 29c after 2hrs of variable usage.

What OS did you go for Aidan?

 

Hi Aiden

Yeah the AMD CPUs do tend to heat a bit over latest Intel's and I agree with you on re-using your Agility 2, nice SSD in the day, close in speed if not better than my Vertex 2's

500GB Samsung 840 EVOs are starting to come at a good price, dependant on your location, in UK where I am they are good price if you want to go for speed, bit more expensive than HDDs but they dont offer the read/writes of SSDs

I agree with you on ASUS, rock solid, have my old ASUS P6T is being used in my personal home Windows Server 2012 R2 box, its that stable.

Thanks, yes the case is a Coolermaster 690 111 and the Case fans are Noctua, with a Zalman CNPS9800, and I cable manage as best as I can for airflow as well as position fans, the SSDs and I use a Samsung 840 EVO for OS and a OCZ SSD for temp data, then a 1TB WD Green and a 2TB WD Green for storage, the case and fans + cable position seem to help, it takes a bit of thought when you are building to manage the cables to not block the GPU, CPU or RAM from good airflow, but I think its worth it in the end, a stable and quick PC.

Your case management looks superb Aiden! really clean and tidy, eat your dinner off it!


I run Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit

Agreed the stock coolers good for general users but power users you need to go 3rd party.

 

HI Aidan

Yeah I play a lot with OS's and I was a Microsoft MVP for 7yrs in the area of Windows Operating Systems, so managed to get hold of various software, still beta test Windows OS. As for 2012 Server wanted to give it a whirl as works IT dept said it was difficult to install, yeah right! so less than an hour later I had it installed and used to backup my other PC, and laptop/netbook.

I have used and love WHS, superb OS and pity that MSFT binned it a few years back, did write an install guide many years back on V1 of WHS HERE

Noctua fans are superb, do look them up as they give really good CFM and are quite, you can also using some of the cables they give tweak the speeds to your liking.

I agree on the cables, well worth it. Yeah will dig out some pics of the PC, sure I have a few somewhere.