For the 10 year anniversary of my first build, I decided to give the old P55 a little upgrade.  Renamed Baby ICE.
The heart of the build will be untouched (except for some much needed cleaning!)
Added new D-77 Case, CLC 120, Samsung 860 EVO 1TB, Thermaltake TTmod sleeve extensions +4G Dominator DDR3 memory, and some new fans.
 
 
I have to admit that for a 10 year old board and CPU, everything works like when it was first build a decade ago.  A real testament to the quality of the EVGA motherboards.
Only real negative experience I have with the new build is if compared from building in the DG-8 case, it was very difficult building in the DG-7 Case.
 

Nice ! i'm still working on my dg build - there's definitely some tolerance issues with how this case was designed.

Did you try routing your pcie cables through the notch under the gpu?




Ignore the rats nest :P still waiting on my controller board so i can properly route all my fan cables etc :P

Thanks for the tip... looking alot better now!  Still I'm amazed I didn't draw any blood during the build in this case!


 
 

danperry13
Nice ! i'm still working on my dg build - there's definitely some tolerance issues with how this case was designed.

Did you try routing your pcie cables through the notch under the gpu?




Ignore the rats nest :P still waiting on my controller board so i can properly route all my fan cables etc :P

yea I wish i could say building the dg-77 was enjoyable, but the entire case is literally half a CM off perfection :P they need to push the cavity behind the motherboard half a cm out ward and it'll make the cable management a LOT more feasible.  They also need to push the height of the case upward half a cm and allow for the motherboard to be slightly further away from top fans...

Then they need to adjust the cut outs for Radiator mounts on the front of the case ever so slightly to increase tolerances.

Then you'd have a perfect case :P

A very nice build