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Riggety Rekt

by c0d3man

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Date Published

Oct. 17, 2017

Date Built

Oct. 11, 2017

CPU Clock Rate

4.7GHz

GPU Core Clock Rate

1.72GHz

GPU Effective Memory Clock Rate

10GHz

Description

This is my first build that is geared towards 1440p. I thought about getting a 1080 Ti, but the 1080's are still extremely powerful cards and the Ti's are crazy expensive. Also only 16GB of RAM because all I use it for is gaming, no productivity, so there's that lol. I have been playing at 1080p for about 5 years now and I got tired of seeing all of these awesome screenshots of 1440p in games. I also got extremely salty about the Kaby Lake platform, so I sold that ENTIRE build and parted up this one. Like thousands of others, I am waiting extremely impatiently for my 8700k to ship. I plan on setting the lights up in all white. I also ordered the Rockit88 Delid/Relid kit and will be doing that before my CPU even goes in.

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Otterman366 9 Builds 2 points 12 months ago

Where did you find that 8700k???

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c0d3man submitter 1 Build 2 points 12 months ago

I had originally ordered it from Newegg on 10/5 at about 9AM. I actually just broke down and ordered one off of eBay from a skimmer. Paid a kidney for it, but I don't care.

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Otterman366 9 Builds 1 point 12 months ago

Darn. I was kinda hoping you had found it on some indie site that had them in stock

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xTwistts -1 points 12 months ago

Amazon

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teskater506 2 points 11 months ago

How do you like that ASrock taichi Mobo? I was looking at the same one or the asus z370E Mobo. I'm really leaning towards the taichi

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thy390 5 Builds 2 points 10 months ago

Awesome looking build! I built my friends computer in that same case, only thing I disliked was the hard drives not having vibration damping.

Also, I'm planning on getting that motherboard soon when I rebuild my computer, do you know if there is an option to turn off the LEDs on the motherboard? My current ASRock Z97 board lets me do that, but I'm unsure if this one will, which might be a deal breaker for me as I like the ability to turn off the LEDs. (165hz... wow, I bet you can't look at 60fps without dying inside a little lol)

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iF1GHTx 1 point 12 months ago

When you manage to finally build it, you gotta record your temps w/ your OC. I have the same case, and I am hesitant with buying the same rad simply because of the case's front panel.

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c0d3man submitter 1 Build 4 points 12 months ago

I de-lidded my 8700k and replaced the TIM (Or lack thereof) with Cool Labs Liquid Ultra. Then I am using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on the heatsink. After getting everything setup/installed, my 8700k with all 6 cores pegged at 4.7 on stock voltage did not breach 55C in a maximum stress Linpack. 55C!!!!! I am happier than a pig in sh*t.

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iF1GHTx 1 point 12 months ago

Very nice! Run the CPU under load for about an hour and hit me up with the temps!

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c0d3man submitter 1 Build 2 points 12 months ago

I have yet to see the temperature go above 57C with anything that I have thrown at it

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FivePercent 1 point 12 months ago

How do you like that NZXT case? does it feel cheap or cut any corners? looking to upgrade from my meshify c as i don't have have enough room for AOI cooler

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c0d3man submitter 1 Build 2 points 12 months ago

I used to think that Fractal had the best quality cases. I was blown away by the S340 Elite.

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Markus2727 1 point 12 months ago

Would love to see some more pics with the system turned on.

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c0d3man submitter 1 Build 1 point 11 months ago

Pics are up!

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Scenarika 1 point 1 month ago

This is a great build! I have the same motherboard, your cable management is really nice, especially with how the fan headers are placed. Where did you find that m.2 cover by the way?

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c0d3man submitter 1 Build 1 point 4 months ago

I just set the XMP profile and never had any issues with it.

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