bignick277
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2 years of work, buying parts one by one as I could afford them and as of last night, my PC rebuild is finally done. In case any of you are interested, I had discussed some of the work I was doing on this system about a year and a half ago here.
I finally managed to get the last group of parts over the last week (this group was a bit more involved than my previous incremental upgrades because each parts installation relied on also doing the other parts at the same time) and spent the day yesterday dismantling the PC and installing the last group of parts. Other than a new 12TB HDD, most of the final group of parts came down visual aesthetics implementation. But because I was making significant changes to the case (because I was modding a Dark Base Pro 900 Rev 1, part way to a Rev 2), it involved sourcing a new HDD rack panel (optional, but I bought it so I could install a PSU Shroud for the Rev 2 without having to sacrifice HDD capacity on my Rev 1 case), Dual HDD cage and a PSU shroud from BeQuiet. Which meant dismantling a significant chunk of the case, removing the original HDD rack panel and installing the new Rev 2 HDD rack panel, and moving all HDD's from the old rack to the new rack. (I really have to give BeQuiet's engineers credit. Their design of this case is incredible. The fact I can make these kinds of modifications to this case so easily without having to worry about needing to buy a new case due to the modularity and sheer level of customization it affords you has really impressed me to no end. They really deserve a lot credit and I can't sing their praises enough.) Giving the whole system a proper clean in the process. Then installing some new sleeved cable extensions for the CPU power connections, 24pin power and graphics card cables(moddified a 24pin cable comb by cutting it down to 22pin to get it to hold my 3 graphics card power cables evenly together). And finally installing the new PSU shroud.
Two years of work and it's finally done. Actually done. And I couldn't be happier with the results. Am I bragging. No. Am I stoked and revelling in having finished a big project that took up so much of my time. Absolutely! Thought I would share it here as this is kind of "the" place for sharing and talking about these things. Yes I will share some pictures of the finished build.
Build Specs with brief (notes): Used for gaming and demanding productivity workloads. Great 4K gaming rig.
BeQuiet Dark Base Pro 900 Rev 1.5 (Rev 1 partially converted to Rev 2 by me. It wasn't worth it to me to spend another 50 euros to fully convert to Rev 2 just get a front panel USB-C port, Especially when I already have a USB-C port on the back motherboard IO shield that never gets used because no devices currently come with a USB-C to USB-C cable.)
x5 140mm BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 case fans
Corsair AX860 860Watt Power Supply
Motherboard: MSI X399 Pro Carbon
CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (16 core/ 32 thread) @ 3.4Ghz Base / 4.0Ghz Boost / 4.2Ghz XFR
Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 CPU Cooler (modified to use lighting cap from MSI Core Frozr L CPU cooler, and fan replaced with 2 Noctua Chromax NF-A15 HS-PWM fans / Noctua never looked so good!)
32GB G.Skill F4-3200C14Q-32GTZ @ 3200Mhz CL14 DDR4 RAM
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio graphics card
250GB Samsung 960 Evo M.2 NVME SSD Hard Drive (Operating System and Applications only)
500GB Samsung 970 Pro M.2 NVME SSD Hard Drive (For hotswapping demanding games only)
120GB Corsair Force 3 SATA SSD (Currently used for User Files - Documents, Music, Game Saves etc.)
12TB Western Digital UltraStar HC520 7200rpm HDD (Mass Storage so I can download and store all games locally without having to constantly redownload any game I want to play)
4TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm HDD (still deciding what to do with this one. This is the one I just upgraded to the 12TB from as 4TB was not enough space to hold all my games)
2TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm HDD (Backups drive)
1TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm HDD (Download Drive - This is the drive I use for torture for repeated writes and rewrites from downloads. This way control where the repeated writes goes, reducing wear and tear on the other drives and extending their life span. This is the drive I don't care if it dies. Recently upgraded to 1TB as old 500GB recently died, so this was the next oldest drive and consequently took it's place. A couple of my drives are 10 years or older, but are still running perfectly because of this method of managing wear and tear.)
1TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm HDD (Miscellaneous Drive - Used for whatever miscellaneous tasks I need it for, such as Virtual Machines, video encoding, big jobs that require a significant amount of hard drive space, temporary storage, etc.)
LiteOn Blu-Ray ROM / DVD rewriter (Yes I still use an optical drive for some things and I have no intention of getting rid of it.)
CableMod Pro ModMesh Sleeved Cables - Carbon
Pictures: (Case lighting LED's are capable of solid color or White, Red, Greed, Blue, and Amber and you can see some of these in the pics I posted in my previous thread I linked above. But I have only included a couple pics in White, Amber and Off. I mostly run the system with the case LED's turned off because I like that the lighting is less distracting with them off and I actually like the components doing all the talking when it comes to lighting. It actually works in this case.)
I finally managed to get the last group of parts over the last week (this group was a bit more involved than my previous incremental upgrades because each parts installation relied on also doing the other parts at the same time) and spent the day yesterday dismantling the PC and installing the last group of parts. Other than a new 12TB HDD, most of the final group of parts came down visual aesthetics implementation. But because I was making significant changes to the case (because I was modding a Dark Base Pro 900 Rev 1, part way to a Rev 2), it involved sourcing a new HDD rack panel (optional, but I bought it so I could install a PSU Shroud for the Rev 2 without having to sacrifice HDD capacity on my Rev 1 case), Dual HDD cage and a PSU shroud from BeQuiet. Which meant dismantling a significant chunk of the case, removing the original HDD rack panel and installing the new Rev 2 HDD rack panel, and moving all HDD's from the old rack to the new rack. (I really have to give BeQuiet's engineers credit. Their design of this case is incredible. The fact I can make these kinds of modifications to this case so easily without having to worry about needing to buy a new case due to the modularity and sheer level of customization it affords you has really impressed me to no end. They really deserve a lot credit and I can't sing their praises enough.) Giving the whole system a proper clean in the process. Then installing some new sleeved cable extensions for the CPU power connections, 24pin power and graphics card cables(moddified a 24pin cable comb by cutting it down to 22pin to get it to hold my 3 graphics card power cables evenly together). And finally installing the new PSU shroud.
Two years of work and it's finally done. Actually done. And I couldn't be happier with the results. Am I bragging. No. Am I stoked and revelling in having finished a big project that took up so much of my time. Absolutely! Thought I would share it here as this is kind of "the" place for sharing and talking about these things. Yes I will share some pictures of the finished build.
Build Specs with brief (notes): Used for gaming and demanding productivity workloads. Great 4K gaming rig.
BeQuiet Dark Base Pro 900 Rev 1.5 (Rev 1 partially converted to Rev 2 by me. It wasn't worth it to me to spend another 50 euros to fully convert to Rev 2 just get a front panel USB-C port, Especially when I already have a USB-C port on the back motherboard IO shield that never gets used because no devices currently come with a USB-C to USB-C cable.)
x5 140mm BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 case fans
Corsair AX860 860Watt Power Supply
Motherboard: MSI X399 Pro Carbon
CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (16 core/ 32 thread) @ 3.4Ghz Base / 4.0Ghz Boost / 4.2Ghz XFR
Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 CPU Cooler (modified to use lighting cap from MSI Core Frozr L CPU cooler, and fan replaced with 2 Noctua Chromax NF-A15 HS-PWM fans / Noctua never looked so good!)
32GB G.Skill F4-3200C14Q-32GTZ @ 3200Mhz CL14 DDR4 RAM
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio graphics card
250GB Samsung 960 Evo M.2 NVME SSD Hard Drive (Operating System and Applications only)
500GB Samsung 970 Pro M.2 NVME SSD Hard Drive (For hotswapping demanding games only)
120GB Corsair Force 3 SATA SSD (Currently used for User Files - Documents, Music, Game Saves etc.)
12TB Western Digital UltraStar HC520 7200rpm HDD (Mass Storage so I can download and store all games locally without having to constantly redownload any game I want to play)
4TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm HDD (still deciding what to do with this one. This is the one I just upgraded to the 12TB from as 4TB was not enough space to hold all my games)
2TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm HDD (Backups drive)
1TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm HDD (Download Drive - This is the drive I use for torture for repeated writes and rewrites from downloads. This way control where the repeated writes goes, reducing wear and tear on the other drives and extending their life span. This is the drive I don't care if it dies. Recently upgraded to 1TB as old 500GB recently died, so this was the next oldest drive and consequently took it's place. A couple of my drives are 10 years or older, but are still running perfectly because of this method of managing wear and tear.)
1TB Western Digital Black 7200rpm HDD (Miscellaneous Drive - Used for whatever miscellaneous tasks I need it for, such as Virtual Machines, video encoding, big jobs that require a significant amount of hard drive space, temporary storage, etc.)
LiteOn Blu-Ray ROM / DVD rewriter (Yes I still use an optical drive for some things and I have no intention of getting rid of it.)
CableMod Pro ModMesh Sleeved Cables - Carbon
Pictures: (Case lighting LED's are capable of solid color or White, Red, Greed, Blue, and Amber and you can see some of these in the pics I posted in my previous thread I linked above. But I have only included a couple pics in White, Amber and Off. I mostly run the system with the case LED's turned off because I like that the lighting is less distracting with them off and I actually like the components doing all the talking when it comes to lighting. It actually works in this case.)
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