Okay. I am back. Well, Im pretty sure I am back. And to be honest, I had completely forgotten about this thread till a friend of mine who was researching my case (he was kind of interested) and found this thread.
So it's time to get some projects finished and updates done. Need to get projects finished because they're stacking up on me. Not much to show at first. Just me getting things in motion.
First I need to show you the buildup of Project Cairn (aka Cairn) before I can show you the dismantling of Monolith. (The M8A). Largely because I need an operational PC up here. Okay, I'll shut up and put up some pics.
Cairn SpecsMSI Z690 MEG ACE (MSI loves it's capitals apparently)
Intel i9 13900k. In my defense, I bought this before everything went sideways with the 13 and 14 gen CPU. I have a 12900KF on standby, JIC.
Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420mm non RGB
64GB Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5-6000
Galax Serious Gamer 4090
2TB Crucial T500 NVME
4TB Crucial P3 Pro NVME
EVGA 1600 T2
7x BeQuiet Silent Wings 4. Might up that by 3 more if I decide to go push/pull
I chose a BeQuiet DarkBase Dark Base Pro 901. Sadly, I did not take any pictures of the new chassis before I dismantled it.
And here we hit the second stumble in the build. As I was prepping to breadboard it, I figure, might as well mount the heat sink. But decided that better check clearances before I go any further. Pics speak for themselves.
The Corsair Dominator Titanium is some of the tallest RAM sticks/heatsinks I have ever dealt with.