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@badrobot, bad rig.
Top: Old PC,
EVGA SR-2
2x Xeon X5650 @ 3.5GHZ
2x Zotac GTX 670 4GB
24GB Corsair XMS3 1333mhz RAM
Still have this mobo. Will probably turn it into an XP X64 Edition machine at some point.
Bottom: Current PC (same case)
ASUS Maximus VIII Hero
i7 6700k @ 4.6 GHZ 24/7 1.35 Volts
XFX Radeon R9 295X2
16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 2400MHZ DDR4
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Though I posted these here for a case review, I'll play here too :)
This is my primary system...
- Cooler Master HAF X case
- Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming GT MB (BIOS F7b)
- Intel i7-6700K
- 32gig Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM (3333MHz)
- Corsair AIO CPU cooler – H115i
- Samsung 950 Pro 512gig NVME SSD Card (Windows 10 Pro x64 OS drive)
- Samsung 850 Pro 512gig SSD (data)
- Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB drive (Games/data)
- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drive (removable – backups)
- Sapphire Tri-X R9 Fury GPU
- SoundBlaster ZXR Soundcard
- LG Blu-Ray disk recorder/player
- EVGA Super Nova I000 P2 (1000 watt) PS
- Windows 10 Pro x64
This is my backup system...
- Phanteks Enthoo Luxe
- Gigabyte G1 Sniper 5
- Intel i7-4790K
- 32gig Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM (1866MHz)
- Corsair AIO CPU cooler – H100i
- Samsung 840 Pro 256gig (Windows 10 Pro x64 OS drive)
- OCZ Vertex 4 (256gig) SSD (data)
- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drive (Games/data)
- Sapphire R9-280X Vapor X
- Onboard soundcard – Creative Sound Core 3D
- Lite-On DVD drive
- EVGA Super Nova I000 G2 (1000 watt) PS
- Windows 10 Pro x64
Hope you like :)
Excellent work, as always, Drew. Please tell me one thing. How did you enlarge the back access to the CPU on the HAF X? I enlarged mine also, but it didn't maintain the rolled edges and support. Just curious.
Thanks Steve.
I never enlarged the back of the HAF X's CPU area, it's still factory. And if you click on the image and look closely at the CPU area, the CPU Cooler plate is still partially covered by the opening. If you're looking at the bottom (last) image, that's the Phanteks case.
I never even thought about enlarging the HAF X's opening because I figured it would be a pain in the rear.
Oh, and I saw your message :)
Thanks.
I was looking at the right case I just missed it still being covered. And yes, it is a pain. It only takes about 5 minutes to do it. Then an hour to clean up the cut. But, it is useful if you ever want to change CPU Coolers. I, for the life of me, have no clue why Cooler Master didn't fix that after they changed the CPU Socket location.
Good stuff, Culbrelai and sygnus21. Man, that I7 6700K CPU is one popular choice.
I'm with you on that. However, if they did do it, I not sure how they would/should compensate previous owners. Anyway I bought mine back in June 2010. Did they fix subsequent cases after that? I don't know.
What I did was just left the back-plate in place and used it for the new CPU cooler. Although it was still a Corsair cooler. Anyway I'm thinking the back-plate should be able to house any cooler designed for those motherboards using them. And if I have to remove the motherboard anyway I'm probably replacing it so it's a moot point.