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Case
Cool thing here is they give you a paper template with numbering that you can use to put the motherboard tray standoffs in the right place (this is easy anyway, but still a nice touch)
MOBO
I am going to look at adding some active cooling to the north bridge to make sure I stay nice and cool at 3.8+
PSU
Packaging for Corsair is super nice! they even give you a pouch for all of the modular cables
I didn't know it when I took this picture, but this PSU was DOA. It actually would post with one GTX 285, but the blue modular PCIe cables had no juice coming out of them.
Another nice touch from Corsair, they give you thumbscrews to install your PSU in the case. I really liked that.
The Build First Draft
Here is my first attempt at running the case headers to the motherboard. I later decided to use wire loom and shrink tubing.
Here I was a bit disappointed because Cooler Master advertises this case having a window in the motherboard tray so you don't have to remove the board to install the CPU cooler. Note that I am using a Cooler Master V-8 and it doesn't line up to their window.. I know that this is the motherboard causing this, but thought I would put out an FYI here... Install the CPU Cooler outside the case as normal!
Here we have everything in, but not yet wired.
Here is the first wiring job all ready for me to go an find out it doesn't post.. I was pretty crushed needless to say. As noted above the Corsair modular 6 pin connection ports were faulty. I was able to hop on EVGA's tech support line and go through troubleshooting to determine it was the power supply for sure. Note that Corsair's tech support phone center is CLOSED on Saturday... because we all have lots of spare time to do high end gaming builds M-F 9-5 right?
So I went to my local Best Buy and picked up a BFG 1000 Watt power supply and threw that sucker in here to see if it was up to the task. It ran everything fine, but I am pretty sure I was pushing it a bit too hard, because there was tons on noise coming through the onboard sound. I contacted Newegg and stared the RMA replacement process for my Corsair. In the mean time I went back to Best Buy and picked up an X-fi Titanium Fatal1ty for $100.. Ya I know that Fatal1ty branded stuff is generally lame but this card had a cool metal heat sink and the "F" logo faces down where no one can see. It was also $40 LESS than Newegg (weird huh) and the ONLY PCIe 1x card at sigh Best Buy. Here is how the build looked roughed together with the BFG right before I tore it apart and put the fresh from Newegg Corsair 1000HX in!
The Final Build
OK, so I decided that I would do this build right with wire loom and shrink tubing. Here are my headers before and after pics.
Before
After
Here we have the SATA cables to my two 640GB WD drives in their drive trays and the DVD Burner
Here they connect to the motherboard
All wiring so far
Here we go, the new power supply is in!!
Here I bundled together the 4 modular 6 pin PCIe cables and covered them with wire loom and shrink tubing.
Here is the GPU end of the cable I built. Note that you want to plan for the cables to be slightly different lengths so they lay down correctly once they are connected to the GPU.
Plugged into the video cards
SLI Bridge in
Here is the bundle I made to run power to the HDs and DVD
Connected here
I also ran loom over any exposed case fan wires and even the CPU fan controller
Final Pictures
RAM
X-FI
PSU and three GTX 285s
Motherboard with all components
V-8
Final Build
Ya, I even ran wire loom behind the motherboard tray.
Case
Cool thing here is they give you a paper template with numbering that you can use to put the motherboard tray standoffs in the right place (this is easy anyway, but still a nice touch)
MOBO
I am going to look at adding some active cooling to the north bridge to make sure I stay nice and cool at 3.8+
PSU
Packaging for Corsair is super nice! they even give you a pouch for all of the modular cables
I didn't know it when I took this picture, but this PSU was DOA. It actually would post with one GTX 285, but the blue modular PCIe cables had no juice coming out of them.
Another nice touch from Corsair, they give you thumbscrews to install your PSU in the case. I really liked that.
The Build First Draft
Here is my first attempt at running the case headers to the motherboard. I later decided to use wire loom and shrink tubing.
Here I was a bit disappointed because Cooler Master advertises this case having a window in the motherboard tray so you don't have to remove the board to install the CPU cooler. Note that I am using a Cooler Master V-8 and it doesn't line up to their window.. I know that this is the motherboard causing this, but thought I would put out an FYI here... Install the CPU Cooler outside the case as normal!
Here we have everything in, but not yet wired.
Here is the first wiring job all ready for me to go an find out it doesn't post.. I was pretty crushed needless to say. As noted above the Corsair modular 6 pin connection ports were faulty. I was able to hop on EVGA's tech support line and go through troubleshooting to determine it was the power supply for sure. Note that Corsair's tech support phone center is CLOSED on Saturday... because we all have lots of spare time to do high end gaming builds M-F 9-5 right?
So I went to my local Best Buy and picked up a BFG 1000 Watt power supply and threw that sucker in here to see if it was up to the task. It ran everything fine, but I am pretty sure I was pushing it a bit too hard, because there was tons on noise coming through the onboard sound. I contacted Newegg and stared the RMA replacement process for my Corsair. In the mean time I went back to Best Buy and picked up an X-fi Titanium Fatal1ty for $100.. Ya I know that Fatal1ty branded stuff is generally lame but this card had a cool metal heat sink and the "F" logo faces down where no one can see. It was also $40 LESS than Newegg (weird huh) and the ONLY PCIe 1x card at sigh Best Buy. Here is how the build looked roughed together with the BFG right before I tore it apart and put the fresh from Newegg Corsair 1000HX in!
The Final Build
OK, so I decided that I would do this build right with wire loom and shrink tubing. Here are my headers before and after pics.
Before
After
Here we have the SATA cables to my two 640GB WD drives in their drive trays and the DVD Burner
Here they connect to the motherboard
All wiring so far
Here we go, the new power supply is in!!
Here I bundled together the 4 modular 6 pin PCIe cables and covered them with wire loom and shrink tubing.
Here is the GPU end of the cable I built. Note that you want to plan for the cables to be slightly different lengths so they lay down correctly once they are connected to the GPU.
Plugged into the video cards
SLI Bridge in
Here is the bundle I made to run power to the HDs and DVD
Connected here
I also ran loom over any exposed case fan wires and even the CPU fan controller
Final Pictures
RAM
X-FI
PSU and three GTX 285s
Motherboard with all components
V-8
Final Build
Ya, I even ran wire loom behind the motherboard tray.
