First build using a EVGA board and mainly did so because of the color scheme I wanted to go with. I finally got everything running great after some memory issues and heat issues with the northbride using the H50, but after some help from the community all it took was a 40mm fan and I was good to go. 
Corsair Obsidian 800D case with EVGA x58 SLI LE
H50 Cooler
Crucial Ballistic Tracer 1600mhz ram
Antec 1000
2x 4890's
Some tubing and red paint markers from walmart and TA DA !!!! It's finished.

You chose a motherboard based on colour..wow..GG
Let me guess you chose the ram for its colour too? :p
I have to say it looks great, so I guess you acomplished what you set out to do!! \o/
It does boot ok yeah?...jks
I see you have your CPU underwater, tell me how are the other temps? does the fane on the Nb hs help?

The job looks very nice indeed
Well done

Beautiful build there.  Great attention to detail.

LonelyStoner

awesome awesome awesome


did i say awesome?

AWESOME!



Before anybody else asks, ill do ---> How'd you do the red lining thingy?

Just a red paint marker from Walmart made by Elmer's and some patience. Anything that had a defined edge that I could get the tip to slide steady on pretty much is where I painted.

YerBuddy

I love the red outline.  Did you just paint those?  What did you use?  I see you got them from Wally World, but what did you use exactly.  I want to try this myself.

Outstanding attention to detail.  Very well thought-out.  Congratulations!


@snooooze:  you sound a little jealous/antagonistic in my opinion.

Thanks and the materials used cost me less than $15 bucks at Walmart.
Red Elmer's Painters marker- used for edging. Very simple... anything that had a defined edge I could use the tip on steady... I painted.

Black Elmer's Painter marker and small paint brush. I used the black to cover any of the wiring showing from the fans or power supply. I just colored the tip of the brush and blotched the wires and it goes on very nicely.

The tubing is used to cover wires behind your tv and such and even though my power supply had black sleeving I thought the tubing matched the H50's water lines.

reuben9376

lol Well I was browsing and seen it on newegg and along with the reviews the color scheme caught my eye. I did do research on the mobo and made sure it supported what I needed first and it did so yea the color made the choice for me. 

 
Dont get me wrong by what I said before, I did say you've done a great job!
I was refering to the first line "First build using a EVGA board and mainly did so because of the color scheme I wanted to go with. " where I read you bought the Gear based on colour. My reply was meant to be humorous but serious at the end, some read it the wrong way around ...I think you got it right!
 

reuben9376

I have the  Cpu at 3.8 and my idle temp is anywhere from 30-33 ( readings from real temp) the board lcd shows 22.
This case has amazing air flow and all my temps seem to be excellent. Vreg stays in the low 40's and the system temp stays about 35 .. My 4890,s stay in the 45-50 Idle range but with no air being circulated around the Northbridge it was getting extremely hot and causing me freezing and random shutdown issues. Idle temps on the NB were in the 70's and I seen it get close to a 100 after some heavy testing. The 40mm fan brought temps down to the 50's and Ive only seen it hit 61 as a high, so the fan helped greatly.

WoW thats such a great improvement with such a tiny fan, 40deg better in load temps, thats impresive!
 
Your case looks fantastic and perfoms well to boot, some will say you can clock it a little more aggresivley, thats up to you!
Congrats again on a great build!

MJinZ

I see barely any fans... (none on top?) how can you possibly have good airflow?

from what i read about the case, this is how its setup

snooooze

reuben9376

lol Well I was browsing and seen it on newegg and along with the reviews the color scheme caught my eye. I did do research on the mobo and made sure it supported what I needed first and it did so yea the color made the choice for me. 

 
Dont get me wrong by what I said before, I did say you've done a great job!
I was refering to the first line "First build using a EVGA board and mainly did so because of the color scheme I wanted to go with. " where I read you bought the Gear based on colour. My reply was meant to be humorous but serious at the end, some read it the wrong way around ...I think you got it right!
 

reuben9376

I have the  Cpu at 3.8 and my idle temp is anywhere from 30-33 ( readings from real temp) the board lcd shows 22.
This case has amazing air flow and all my temps seem to be excellent. Vreg stays in the low 40's and the system temp stays about 35 .. My 4890,s stay in the 45-50 Idle range but with no air being circulated around the Northbridge it was getting extremely hot and causing me freezing and random shutdown issues. Idle temps on the NB were in the 70's and I seen it get close to a 100 after some heavy testing. The 40mm fan brought temps down to the 50's and Ive only seen it hit 61 as a high, so the fan helped greatly.

WoW thats such a great improvement with such a tiny fan, 40deg better in load temps, thats impresive!
 
Your case looks fantastic and perfoms well to boot, some will say you can clock it a little more aggresivley, thats up to you!
Congrats again on a great build!

ur case looks fantastic and perfoms well to boot, some will say you can clock it a little more aggresivley, thats up to you! Congrats again on a great build!

I knew you were just being humorous and  I was able to get the 17 920 D0 to about 4.2 stable but I found the temps a lot higher and at 3.8 I do not have to make any adjustments to the the vcore. And for what I do it suits my needs.  I was impressed about the temp change on the north bridge and was surprised to see how high the temps were to begin with. I assume if you have heat sink with fans that the airflow helps cool it ??? and that's why it was so hot.

Very nice build man, congrats with the color scheme working its ****in' haha. You really do like the case? i saw it when i was looking into the H50 and the thing i loved about it was the cable management holes, the rubber blocking things i guess you could call it. Didn't look much into it but i plan to now hearing that someone really likes it, also how would you compare the H50 to (if you've had any) good fan heatsinks?

mrhankey946

Very nice build man, congrats with the color scheme working its ****in' haha. You really do like the case? i saw it when i was looking into the H50 and the thing i loved about it was the cable management holes, the rubber blocking things i guess you could call it. Didn't look much into it but i plan to now hearing that someone really likes it, also how would you compare the H50 to (if you've had any) good fan heatsinks?

I did a build for a friend with the same case and cpu and we used a v10 heat sink on his and while the temps at idle are similar the H50 seems to keep a steady temp under a load (60ish) while the v10 seems to climb higher (70ish). Considering the price I think its a good choice. I had a cooler master cosmos and a lian li case before this one and I must say I like this case much better.  The cable management is excellent on this case and so is the  air flow.

Absolutley none...all good buddy

mikotan

man you people are making me want to replace my haf932 for an 800d... aarrgh..... months later and im still on the fence.... maybe i'll jsut grab it when i move back to the US...

I know exactly what you mean.  I lucked-out and got a used one here (I'm overseas as well).  Anyway, they are so darn expensive in Europe and almost every place I tried to order one in the States would not ship to my APO.  Anyway, I was browsing a web site and found a guy selling his for a really good price and it turned-out he lives very close to me.  I drove and picked it up that day.  It has one scratch, but I can live with it.
 
Next to my MM case the 800d is quickly becoming my favorite.  Like I said, it's made for LC in my opinion.  I'm not sure I would like it for air cooling though.
 
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack...

thewadd

That is one of the best cable managment jobs I have seen whole package looks great nice work.

Thanks, I always spend a lot of time trying to hide cables. It's a pet peeve of mine that drives me nuts.. I hate seeing cables going everywhere. 

very nice build. can't believe red paint markers from walmart can actually look good. 

  This is all new to me so please be patient.  What it is I would appreciate is the feedback on a system that I had the pleasure of building.
I have absolutely no formal traing in the field of computers....I am in my 50's, and  this is one of those "bucket list" things I always wanted to try.
I must say that I am pleased with the outcome thus far but am looking for ways to possibly make it a bit better.  I'll have pics available just as soon as I can, but in the meantime would appreciate any direction and advice that I can get. 
My system is as follows:
Monitor: Samsung T260HD 1080p
Case: Thermaltake Speedo full tower ATX with cooling chambers
PSU: Ultra X4 1050
Motherboard: X58 SLI
CPU: Intel I7 920
Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H50
RAM: OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3
Optical: 2x Samsung 22x DVDRW
              Logitech MX5500 keyboard and mouse
Sound: Crative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatality Champ
Drive 1: Seagate Barracuda 7200.1 1TB SATA
Drive 2: Western Digital 1TB External USB
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Video: Radeon 5870HD

  Any comments, suggestions,  direction, or advice will be appreciated..........Thanks