O'Blue

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Joseph B.
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O'Blue

First build, Yes! now that's out of the way where to start. I didn't run into too many issues other than me freakin out at parts since I have never build a system before. It took me longer than most once I got all my parts because I would work on it after I got off from work throughout the week. So the main colors I stay with is orange and blue(hence the name O'blue). The coolant is actually blue but I notice, as you can see in some of the pictures, it comes off as green depending on the color of the Corsair LL fans. I had 6 extra fans that I ended up with but originally didn't have any plans to use but I used 3 of them, all non-RGB besides the Thermaltake case fans that came with the View 71. The 240 radiator at the top is in push/pull configuration with the Varder fans at the top. Threw an extra coolermaster fan at the bottom pulling air in to help with the GPU being vertically mount and I plan on possibly using one of the Thermaltake blue LED fans that came with the View 71 and putting it to the right-back of the motherboard. I wanted to water cool the GPU as well but couldn't find an aluminum water block for the PNY RTX 2070 card, unfortunately. Speaking of which I got really lucky to find the PNY 2070 brand new unopened for only $350 off of eBay. I know the orange anti-kink coils can look a little tacky to some but I haven't seen anyone use them so I wanted to use it to be a little different lol. I saw a few builds using a small screen as temperature monitors and thought that was one of the coolest things I have seen so I remembered I had an old Galaxy Tab 3 and so I set it up to show the CAM tool. I was originally going to keep it on top of the case since I could just look down to see it but decided to install it inside. Overclocked the 2600x currently up to 4.1 GHz from the base 3.60GHz. Only have 500GB but will get a 1TB NVMe soon (I really need more space I'm already at 300GB). Let me know what you think, complaints or praises, I'm just ecstatic I FINALLY got to build a system at 31 years old and I'm itching to build another....maybe I can convince the wife she wants one build :)

UPDATE 1(April/2020): I have since upgraded this PC with 2x EVGA RTX 2070 Super XC Ultra, Pictures has been added. Waiting on the NVLink to get shipped.

UPDATE 2(Oct/2020): Upgraded the motherboard from the ROG Strix X470-F to the Aorus X570 Elite Wifi. Preparing for when I get the Ryzen 5000 series cpu....and yes I knew I could have just updated the firmware but I wanted to upgrade regardless. Also currently just have one 2070 Super and not two in SLi anymore. Looking to upgrade GPU as well

UPDATE 2(Dec/2020: Man! I was not expecting to upgrade and change my PC this much this fast but I been pretty grateful for having extra finances. I was able to actually get a 30 series GPU....I got the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid. Pictures have been added and now trying to figure out when and which Ryzen 5000 CPU I should upgrade to when the time comes

Bonus picture of my game room(old room)
Color(s): Blue Orange
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Color
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build

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Hardware

CPU
$ 175.00
AMD - Ryzen 5 (2600X)
Socket: AM4
Cores: 6
Motherboard
$ 198.74
Gigabyte - AORUS Elite (WiFi)
Chipset: X570
CPU Socket: AM4
Size: ATX
Memory
$ 839.80
G.Skill - Trident Z (3600MHz) (Black/Silver) (4x)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 8 GB
Graphics
$ 1,799.99
EVGA - GeForce FTW3 Ultra Hybrid Gaming
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: RTX 3090
Interface: PCIe x16
Storage
$ 45.97
Crucial - MX500
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (M)
Capacity: 500 GB
PSU
$ 79.99
Thermaltake - Toughpower Grand SE (RGB) (discontinued)
Wattage: 750
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Gold
Case
$ 257.44
Thermaltake - View 71
Type: Mid-Tower
Side Panel: Tempered Glass
Case Fan
$ 5.00
Cooler Master - PWM Fan
Size: 120 mm
Case Fan
$ 118.83
Corsair - LL120 (RGB) (Black) (3x)
Size: 120 mm
Case Fan
$ 199.98
Corsair - LL140 (RGB) (2x)
Size: 140 mm
Case Fan
$ 49.99
Case Fan
$ 49.99
Cooling
$ 100.00
EKWB - Fluid Gaming A240
Type: Custom Loop
Size (WxHxD): 240 mm
Estimated total value of this build:
$ 3,981.97
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