This is it. My dream that came true.
Glory shot. I was unbelievably happy and thankful how far I got when I was shooting this picture.
Planning of where I would like to have the exhaust for hot air.
After 3 hours and and a lot of sweat.
The edges are made out of 4x4x4 U shaped 1mm thick bronze.
I´ve used white primer instead of just a colour spray.
Finished product (with some dust specks that I cleaned afterwards).
Teared down case chassis. This case is really well done and offered me absolute freedom. The main internal part was used as a test bench later on!
Another little mod was adding this mesh that I used also at the top for the exhaust vent.
Beautiful CableMod cables. I had some hard moments figuring out whether I have the right cables but Matt Augsburger was so kind that he helped me out quickly. The problem was that as a newbie and first time builder I wasn´t that familiar with the different connectors. and their naming. Looking at the Corsair box and then trying to find the same in the CableMod box confused me.
Test bench using the internal main component of the case was just so awesome!
And the very first post! (is this how you spell it?) I was so much happy and relieved that everything worked the first time and that I didn´t destroy anything. This was really the first time I´ve build a PC so I was extremely nervous when I pushed the On button.
Attaching the main case part which served as a test bench back into the chassis. At this picture you can see that I´m using incorrect (original Corsair) cable instead of the CableMod one. I´ve fixed it little later.
Different kind of soup.. It´s a combination of EK-WB, Barrow and Bykski fittings. Non-EK-WB fittings were used only for all the complicated turns. All main fittings - touching the EK-WB tubes were from EK-WB as well.
Very tight fit but it allowed me to rout the tubes in a way that it looks gorgeous in the end.
Dry fit of the radiators and pump-res combo! It fits!
Detail of where I´m hiding that one invisible tube connecting the two radiators. I haven´t seen it anywhere else but I guess it´s caused by the fact that I´m using the inverted layout. I was like "hey, it looks nice! I haven´t seen it anywhere so it may be wrong but why not?.. right?.. oh my god please tell me it will work.."
My first ever tube! I was so happy (I know.. it´s just a straight run but it was my first time..)
Believe me that it took me a lot of courage and stress to take a screwdriver and start disassembling something so expensive for the first time.
However in the end working with hardware and manuals from EK-WB was absolutely easy and it helped me to overcome the stress of doing it for the very first time.
This is what the back of the case looked like at the very beginning before I started to do the cable management.
Cable management after 6 hours of work.
Finished cable management after 8 hours of work.
These were my initial ideas of how to do the runs but JayzTwoCents himself helped me out on Twitter and recommended me to ditch the additional curved connections and do the 90 degree runs using the tubes.
Very first test run! I was super nervous.
Drain port with temporary tube attached.
Finished.
Quiet Jay
Hello everyone,
I would like to share with you my first ever build. After 2 years of saving the money, 6 months of planning, 350+ hours of watching YouTube tutorials and guides and 4 days of building I´ve been fortunate enough to accomplish one of my biggest dreams. Build my own gaming PC.
Specification:
I´m very proud (yet still very nervous whether everything has been done correctly) of what I´ve build. Sometimes I find myself looking at the PC instead of actually using it and sometimes I have the feeling that building was actually the best part.
Little bit more about the build itself
I knew right from the very beginning that I need a case that will allow me to have the PC on the left side of the monitor due to the limited space I have in the living room therefore I was looking for something what allows the reverse motherboard layout. To my big surprise I´ve quickly found out that it´s something so unusual that it´s not even a filtering category on many e-shops with PC hardware. It took me some time to find the right case for me and you could not imagine how happy I was when I found out that it will be released in white as well!
So from the very beginning I knew what case I will use - the beQuiet! Dark Base 700. In terms of other HW I set up a budget limit for myself and I was aiming for Intel 9700K and nVidia GTX 1080Ti. However, just as I was about to pull the trigger new RTX line up was announced and I told myself that I´ll wait and save more money. So I wanted to get the nVidia RTX 2080 but then (as it always happens) I started to tell myself that I can wait even more and save up even more money. That´s how I got to the nVidia RTX 2080Ti - MSI Gaming X Trio. At first I was planning to use 240mm AIO for the CPU. However at that time I found out about the Liquid Gaming line up from EK-WB and I wanted that. By this time you may have figured out that I´m easy to convince myself to wait more and that´s how I ended up saving for full hard line liquid cooling by EK-WB and also upgrading the 9700K to 9900K.
The cooling was something what I was (and still am) most stressed about. I was running out of even the 10 times stretched budget and I ended up cheapening up on some of the fittings but in the end everything seems to be working really well. I´m using a combination of main EK-WB 16mm fittings (going to the EK-WB 16mm PETG tubes) with some Barrow and Bykski rotary and 45/90 fittings.
After properly inspecting the case I felt like I have to mod the case a little bit to help with the airflow and that´s why I´ve spent around 6 hours creating the additional exhaust vent at the top of the case to help with exhaling the hot air out.
I absolutely love this build and the experience building it was so strong and satisfying that I´m already thinking about what I could do in the far future where I would love to go full crazy with creating custom case.
In the end I would like to thank my lady for helping me stay sane during the build, Matt Augsburger for helping me understand how to connect the cables from the CableMod kit, JayzTwoCents for his reply on Twitter regarding the difficult runs, beQuiet! support team for answering my questions whether the radiator setup would fit in, EK-WB support for helping me out with choosing the right blocks and also all the YouTube content creators that made it possible for me to build such PC without any previous experience. Namely: JayzTwoCents, Bitwit, Paul´s Hardware, Optimum Tech, Gamers Nexus, Joey Delgado, HardwareCanukcs, JDTechGear, Greg Salazar, BPS Customs, V. A E S T H E T I C, jojococo studio, Linus Tech Tips and caitlinV3.
If this build inspires even a single person I will be very happy.
Kind regards,
Lukas
I would like to share with you my first ever build. After 2 years of saving the money, 6 months of planning, 350+ hours of watching YouTube tutorials and guides and 4 days of building I´ve been fortunate enough to accomplish one of my biggest dreams. Build my own gaming PC.
Specification:
- CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K
- GPU: MSI RTX 2080Ti Gaming X Trio 11G
- MB: GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS MASTER
- PSU: Corsair RMx Series RM850x white
- Case: beQuiet! Dark Base 700 White
- Cooling: EK-WB GPU block, CPU block, pump and reservoir combination, tubing, fittings, 2x 360mm radiators
- RAM: 2x G.SKILL 16GB KIT DDR4 3200MHz CL16 Trident Z RGB
- SSD 1: Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 1TB
- SSD 2: Transcend MTE220S, M.2 - 1TB
- Cables: CableMod PRO ModMesh C-Series RMi & RMx Cable Kit - WHITE
I´m very proud (yet still very nervous whether everything has been done correctly) of what I´ve build. Sometimes I find myself looking at the PC instead of actually using it and sometimes I have the feeling that building was actually the best part.
Little bit more about the build itself
I knew right from the very beginning that I need a case that will allow me to have the PC on the left side of the monitor due to the limited space I have in the living room therefore I was looking for something what allows the reverse motherboard layout. To my big surprise I´ve quickly found out that it´s something so unusual that it´s not even a filtering category on many e-shops with PC hardware. It took me some time to find the right case for me and you could not imagine how happy I was when I found out that it will be released in white as well!
So from the very beginning I knew what case I will use - the beQuiet! Dark Base 700. In terms of other HW I set up a budget limit for myself and I was aiming for Intel 9700K and nVidia GTX 1080Ti. However, just as I was about to pull the trigger new RTX line up was announced and I told myself that I´ll wait and save more money. So I wanted to get the nVidia RTX 2080 but then (as it always happens) I started to tell myself that I can wait even more and save up even more money. That´s how I got to the nVidia RTX 2080Ti - MSI Gaming X Trio. At first I was planning to use 240mm AIO for the CPU. However at that time I found out about the Liquid Gaming line up from EK-WB and I wanted that. By this time you may have figured out that I´m easy to convince myself to wait more and that´s how I ended up saving for full hard line liquid cooling by EK-WB and also upgrading the 9700K to 9900K.
The cooling was something what I was (and still am) most stressed about. I was running out of even the 10 times stretched budget and I ended up cheapening up on some of the fittings but in the end everything seems to be working really well. I´m using a combination of main EK-WB 16mm fittings (going to the EK-WB 16mm PETG tubes) with some Barrow and Bykski rotary and 45/90 fittings.
After properly inspecting the case I felt like I have to mod the case a little bit to help with the airflow and that´s why I´ve spent around 6 hours creating the additional exhaust vent at the top of the case to help with exhaling the hot air out.
I absolutely love this build and the experience building it was so strong and satisfying that I´m already thinking about what I could do in the far future where I would love to go full crazy with creating custom case.
In the end I would like to thank my lady for helping me stay sane during the build, Matt Augsburger for helping me understand how to connect the cables from the CableMod kit, JayzTwoCents for his reply on Twitter regarding the difficult runs, beQuiet! support team for answering my questions whether the radiator setup would fit in, EK-WB support for helping me out with choosing the right blocks and also all the YouTube content creators that made it possible for me to build such PC without any previous experience. Namely: JayzTwoCents, Bitwit, Paul´s Hardware, Optimum Tech, Gamers Nexus, Joey Delgado, HardwareCanukcs, JDTechGear, Greg Salazar, BPS Customs, V. A E S T H E T I C, jojococo studio, Linus Tech Tips and caitlinV3.
If this build inspires even a single person I will be very happy.
Kind regards,
Lukas
Color(s): Light Blue Purple White
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: none
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build
Hardware
CPU
$ 380.00
Motherboard
$ 439.99
Memory
$ 305.98
Graphics
$ 529.99
Storage
$ 99.60
Storage
$ 113.98
PSU
$ 177.99
Case
$ 155.64
Case Fan
$ 237.66
Case Fan
$ 30.00
Cooling
Cooling
Cooling
$ 70.00
Cooling
$ 219.00
CableMod
CableMod - C-Series Cable Kit for Corsair AXi / HXi / RM (Yellow Label)
Mode: Stock
Sleeve: PRO ModMesh
Color: Red
Monitor
$ 1,057.97
Mouse
$ 77.00
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