Budget Custom Build!

[AddRAM]

Well, if you ever want to clean it properly, you`ll be taking it out At least once a year. Depends on usage, your mileage may vary

But yes, taking it out will not be fun

 

[ThrashZone]

Yea it seemed a lot easier to adjust the hard drive bay rack as to where they were than trying to ever remove the cooler from the top

 

[Layback Bear]

All my intake air is filtered and I still take things apart about once a year and do a cleaning and flush the cooling system.
I really don't find much gunk, dust, cat hair but one never know until one looks.

I highly recommend making sure all incoming air is filtered.

 

[Dimerz]

You guys are using 4 fans wow, im only using two and using it as an exhaust on the top, still it was hard to fit it in. And my intake is filtered so thats good. The bottom is filtered too. I was worried about getting my dog hair in there everywhere but after you said about your cat, i think ill be fine.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yea the factory screens are not exactly filters but should catch hair
They do nothing for micro dust

I made some real filters using a/c filter material and they have done a real nice job of cutting down a lot of small dust particles
Not all there are way to many cracks here and there but does cut a lot out.
I added a grill so the filter wouldn't get sucked into the fans

 

[Mellon Head]

Well, if you ever want to clean it properly, you`ll be taking it out At least once a year. Depends on usage, your mileage may vary

But yes, taking it out will not be fun

Oh crap. I forgot about that. lol

 

[Dimerz]

Everything is all well! Overclocked my chip to 4.7 GHz at 1.3CPU Volts and doing a CPU stress test now. Temperatures are below 50 degrees celcius at 100% load. Seems good so far.

Whilst stress testing under 1.3V it shut down my computer after 8+ mins, so ive put up the volts to 1.35v. Stable at 1.35v, temps running under 60 degrees celcius 100% load.

 

[AddRAM]

The board screams GTX 1080

Your build is coming along nicely.

 

[Dimerz]

Thats exactly what im waiting for! Glad someone knows a thing or two about GPU's here

 

[AddRAM]

You could also go 1070 if you can`t afford a 1080, the 1080 was supposed to be released today, check your sites.

 

[Dimerz]

Nah wont be buying the founders edition, i'll buy the companies ones so EVGA, MSI etc. Will be cheaper and most likely better.

 

[Dimerz]

Ran into a problem. Woke up, pressed the power button on my case and got a blank desktop but the windows sign and all the other things at the bottom were there. Restarted my computer and got a black screen with a mouse cursor on it. Ive read up on it and seems theres quite a few people with this issue. Im unable to go to my bios screen as upon starting up my pc theres not boot screen or windows logo straight to the black screen with a moveable mouse cursor. Tried logging in and doing ctrl alt delete, all these other things and nothing worked... What do i do?

Or not, resolved this issue by letting it idle on that black screen, clicked the on and off button on my case it powered up!