The Sith Lord

[TulsaGeoff]

It's been awhile since I've built a PC. Unfortunately this one is not for me, but for a friend. It is a straight forward mid-budget build with some style in mind. The owner is a professional tattoo artist and he wanted something bad ass. He named it the Sith Lord early on when I was talking to him about color schemes. We went with it.

 

Component list:Qty. Image Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price Update

Corsair Obsidian 750D Black ATX Full Tower Computer Case Model #:750D Item #:N82E16811139024 Return Policy:Iron Egg Guarantee Return Policy In StockNote (Add)$159.99 $159.99 Update

ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard Model #:MAXIMUS VI HERO Item #:N82E16813131989 Return Policy:Iron Egg Guarantee Replacement-Only Return Policy In StockNote (Add)$219.99 -$15.00 Instant $204.99 Update

EVGA w/ ACX Cooling 02G-P4-2773-KR GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card Model #:02G-P4-2773-KR Item #:N82E16814130919 Return Policy:Iron Egg Guarantee Return Policy In StockNote (Add)$349.99 -$15.00 Instant $334.99 Update

EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750 B 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified 750W Active PFC ATX12V v2.31/EPS 12V v2.91 5 Year Warranty 120-PB-0750-KR ... Model #:120-PB-0750-KR Item #:N82E16817438007 Return Policy:Iron Egg Guarantee Return Policy In Stock Mail in Rebate CardNote (Add)$109.99 -$20.00 Instant $89.99 Update

Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150 84W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics BX80646I54670K Model #:BX80646I54670K Item #:N82E16819116899 Return Policy:Iron Egg Guarantee Replacement-Only Return Policy In StockNote (Add)$249.99 -$10.00 Instant $239.99 Update

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL Model #:F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL Item #:N82E16820231428 Return Policy:Iron Egg Guarantee Return Policy In StockNote (Add)

$76.99 $76.99 Update

 

 

The goods... Actually sent back the video card pictured for a ASUS 770GTX.

 

The stock heatsink wasn't going to be enough for this build.

 

Sexy motherboard

[SiD]

That is badass! Great ideas too for future parts. Thanks for the additional links

[TulsaGeoff]

Even sexier RAM shot (yes Im a nerd )

 

Overclock stability testing while waiting on the 6 140MM Yate Loon fans to come in

 

With such a big case it was easy to hide all of the wiring. Notice how little there actually is. This case was a dream to work with.

 

The finished product. I did not get a picture with the windowed side cover on or with the lights out with its evil red glow. But the owner couldn't believe his eyes when he actually got it. It wasn't all just drunk talk I do pride myself that the system has not crashed 1 time in 3 months now with his decent overclock @ 4.4 or 4.5GHZ (cant remember). GPU is overclocked as well at least 10% over factory overclock.

[TulsaGeoff]

The owner also wanted to do something for his daughter for good grades. I took his old and still capable gaming PC and turned it into something cool for her.

 

It started out looking like this.

 

 

Then with some time with my Metro handheld duster and some cool fans and nice case, It looked like this

http://www.amazon.com/Metro-Vacuum-ED500-500-Watt-Electric/dp/B001J4ZOAW/ref=pd_sim_sbs_hg_1/186-3305149-6893445?ie=UTF8&refRID=1XY5T0KE14N5BWZ9RE9S

 

 

 

she was stoked. And I got her a 24" Asus screen with her dad's money. She got hooked up this Christmas.

[TulsaGeoff]

Just a note. I didn't do anything challenging. I didn't wrap any cables. This is all stuff anyone can do when they take their time building and planning out a PC.

[TulsaGeoff]

That is badass! Great ideas too for future parts. Thanks for the additional links

 

Thanks man, but the parts will probably be dated in a couple months

 

Post on the forums and check the guys over at xtremesystems for computer pr0n. They know their shit and many are artists.

Air cooling pr0n: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?36988-Air-Cooled-Gallery/page300

 

Their watercooling gallery will make you want to spend thousands on a build. lol

 

Here is my old hoopdy from 2009 again that was inspired after I spent many of hours lusting over their PCs. It now has white watercooling tubing and a 570GTX in it. I personally don't see myself ever spending that much money again on a PC build, because you can get so much from spending much less. I find about $1500 to be the sweet spot. The additional hundreds spend on watercooling are not currently necessary. But it sure was fun. Not so much fun when you see a pool of water on the bottom of the case dripping off of the videocard... My motor went out causing the CPU block to get so hot it deformed the tubing attached to it causing a leak... EVGA did accept the card for RMA.

 

 

[Raider-]

Good call going with a nice heat sink for a haswell bridge, i heard they run hot. Nice rig

[TulsaGeoff]

It is a nice heatsink and very well priced. $30-35 for the Cooler Master 212 EVO http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099  6,500 5 star reviews cant be wrong. 

You won't be setting in aircooled overclock records, but its a nice well sized heatsink that should fit in most cases and motherboard layouts. Certainly worth getting a heatsink if you intend on doing any overclocking.  I also did not want to hide too much of his motherboard or ram since they are both pretty cool looking. He'd trade looks for a couple extra mhz of CPU.