Building a PC...maybe

[Ella`Ella]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly I could care less about the look of the case or the fans, or the colors / LED's.. none of that stuff interests me. However, what I did when I started my case search was to determine what I truly wanted. What it came down to was, I really want a case that is filled with front fans and, more specifically, had a fan at the TOP of the case in place of where the 5.25 bays normally were. I have literally nothing being placed in the front of the case.. no CD Drives, no Hard Drives (I'm using M.2's and that's it, my data / media drives will stay on my old PC). Therefor, I wanted something with all that space cleared out for maximum airflow, and a fan at the top of the case that can blow right over the motherboard (Something a *ton* of cases don't have these days. Almost all of them have fans in the bottom of the front but not right at the top).

So the airflow plan for my case is 3 fans in the front doing Intake. I will be mounting the 280mm Radiator for the CPU in the top of the case, blowing out the top. The GPU Radiator will mount on the fan slot in the back and also blow outward. So I get a true front to back airflow system.

So, by your count of 6 Noctua fans, I am assuming that you're replacing the stock fans on all the radiators (2 on the CPU cooler and 1 on the GPU cooler)? Plus the three fans in the front?

[Rogean]

Originally Posted by Ella`Ella [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, by your count of 6 Noctua fans, I am assuming that you're replacing the stock fans on all the radiators (2 on the CPU cooler and 1 on the GPU cooler)? Plus the three fans in the front?

Yar

[Uuruk]

Rogaine you talked this guy into way more than he needed!

[Grimjaw]

Nice choices Ella. Similar to my build (dual rads in the 750D). I went with the standard edition for aesthetics on the case. Airflow edition not a concern with all that liquid cooling. And i dont think u can go wrong with the G3 PSU. Also, I hear more people leaning towards Arctic MX-4 instead of Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste. Non-conductive so u don't have to worry about any potential disaster from it, and it lasts much longer than 1 year. That's what i've been using on my builds last year. Haven't read much on the 7th gen intel nor z270 chipset. but im sure it cant be bad.

[Ella`Ella]

Placed the order last night - ended up going with this for a final build.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Thermal Compound: ARCTIC MX4 20g Thermal Paste
Motherboard: MSI Z270 KRAIT GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
Storage: Samsung 960 Evo 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB FTW HYBRID Video Card
Case: Corsair 750D Airflow Edition ATX Full Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Going to see how the noise level is with the stock fans - i'm suspecting it will be louder than I want, but I don't think they should ramp up too high in RPM that often, given I've got some serious cooling going on. If it does get too loud or hotter than I think it will, I'll switch out with some Noctua fans.

I wanted to go with the Kraken x62 as was recommended, but NewEgg was out of stock, Amazon didn't carry it and I was too impatient to wait. The only real difference is the fans/noise anyways.

Khanable - I took your advice and went with the NZXT Grid+ for fan control as opposed to the shit I had originally picked out. I'll let you know how I like it.

Split some of the purchases between NewEgg and Amazon (Prime), everything should be in around Tuesday of next week - probably won't start the build until that weekend.

[dafier]

Ella, that's a nice build.

[Ella`Ella]

Originally Posted by dafier [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ella, that's a nice build.

Thanks, man!

Thanks everyone for all your input and feedback - I took a lot of comments into consideration when laying out the build.

I'll post pictures once it's all set up.

[pasi]

You would be correct with that assumption.

[pasi]

Rog I don't know much about that case, but if it's a Mid ATX and has an attic for the radiator, you're going to have some fun with a H115i.

Also, LED-less RAM (and fans for that matter) disgusts me.

[dafier]

I signed up for that stupid AMEX offer and got Newegg Premier or whatever for free for one year. It's nice. I get my items in 3 days.

Will I renew, probably not.