The ULTIMATE Linus Tech Tips Themed PC Build Log
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,372 words · ~6 min read
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many of you requested when you saw the seven Gamers 1 CPU machine which you can
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check out here by the way that we do an LT Edition build blog not necessarily
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because that one wasn't black and orange enough but because thanks to its cost it
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wasn't really attainable for well any
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but the richest oil princes so today we
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are going to be bringing it back down to earth somewhat with other than the lus
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techit Edition knock to offend every other part of this the first LT Edition
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build being an off-the-shelf normal
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component So It Begins as always with
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the motherboard unfortunately within ASUS's lineup unless you're willing to
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paint their Rog series x99 board there's
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not much choice for a premium option in anything of other than white or red so I
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decided to go with their WS which is all black I've been partial to the Ws line
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for quite some time I like the No Frills
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feature set excellent compatibility with exotic add-in cards and Rock Solid
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construction not to mention ECC compatibility if you're into the whole
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Zeon thing for the CPU speaking of which
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I went with the core i7 5930k 6 core the
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only reason for this is that with with an x99 motherboard the 5820k provides 28
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versus 40 PCI Express lanss so it can
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limit future expansion but if you don't see yourself adding a bunch of
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specialized PCIe cards to your computer the 6 core
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5820k is a fantastic choice to go along
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with my six core CPU I've got four dims of quad Channel ddr4 memory and it's not
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an LTT Edition build without Corsair dominators
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but the only problem being again that while dominators are actually available
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in orange the orange really doesn't match what I'm trying to do here and it
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only comes on this weird special edition low capacity high-speed skew I wanted 32
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gigs of RAM with the ability to move to 64 gigs in the future so I ended up
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painting the top bars of a regular kit of dominators myself it's actually
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really easy to do and takes about an hour of total time if you've got a
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convenient place to spray paint the heat sink may actually seem like an odd
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choice to many of you a single Tower heat sink with a pushpull fan
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configuration lines really but the rationale is actually pretty
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straightforward I opted for a single Tower over a dual tower for better
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compatibility with tall RAM coolers and
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over an aiio liquid cooler because rather than adding points of failure
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water cools remember are rendered useless if either the pump or the fan
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and fails a tower cooler improves
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reliability because with two fans on it it can operate at near Peak efficiency
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even if one of them fails thanks to noct to his use of a static pressure
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optimized fan design which isn't to say that I left the original fan on the
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black and orange is a special LTT edition of the n12 that's only available
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while quantities last at the pricing and discussion Link in the video description
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for the case I wanted something off the shelf but something that I also so
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really like and the h440 continues to stand out as a well-built well thought
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out case and they happened to have an orange accented version right around the
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time that I was evaluating my options for this build be quiet! silent base 800
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was also a top candidate but I did a silence optimized build in it over a
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year ago and I wanted something a little different for the power supply I had
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actually originally intended to use something much more sensible a Corsair
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rm850x so still high quality but not to the point where I'm paying a huge
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premium for 80 plus titanium efficiency or enough wattage to run literally three
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of these systems under load unfortunately I misplaced my orange and
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black kit of Corsair compatible cable mod cables and was only able to find my
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EVGA ones and I got to have my black and orange cables man I mean no LT Edition
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build would be complete without them so the EVGA T600 makes a return from Seven
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Gamers 1 CPU for the case fan I mean do
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I even need to say it the obvious choice for an LT build is blue LED y loons from
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ncx that nah I went of course for the
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exclusive LT orange version of noa's NF
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Series so I popped three of them in the front choosing to go logo side up and
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deal with the cable management later on and in the rear I used an LT Edition
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nfa1 14 honestly I could have gotten
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away with just the one in the back since the front fans will be hidden by the 3
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and 1/2 in Bays anyway but it just didn't feel right I went for the 100%
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complete versus just getting to the ending cinematic at this point it was time to
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mount the motherboard and I found a small flaw in my plan I had to pull the
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rubber grommets out of the case to avoid flexing the slightly wider than standard
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ATX board then I used some fan cable
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extensions and Splitters to reach the fan headers on the motherboard rather
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than the on the back of the mobo tray IMO it's worth it so that I can set up a
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custom fan curve that responds to system temperature changes in the BIOS versus
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relying on a manual switch then I ran
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all the wiring for the motherboard Drive video card and fans with the intention
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of hiding as much of it as possible the
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h440 lends itself very well to the clean
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look with its hidden power supply basement thing the second to last
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component was the SSD and I regretted my decision here I mean sure the hyperx
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Savage is a fine SSD and 960 gigs is
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lots of capacity no issues there but I regretted not finding a better way to
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paint this one to go back and do it again I think I'd want to mask off a
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pattern on the top or something but still once it was mounted it ended up
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looking okay for the final stage I
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waffled for a while about whether to mount the video card in the top slot the
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traditional way or to move it down a little bit for better funu or whatever
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and I ended up putting it a couple slots down it looks so much better there and
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doesn't impact performance
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anyhow so we're done what is until lus Tech tips
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releases its own motherboard case video
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card RAM SSD power supply and cables
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actually as close as you can get to a fully LT Edition build thank you guys
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for coming along with the ride and thank you for joining me now for the Moment of
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Truth a yes oh yeah a last minute addition that
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we added uh cable mod RGB LED strips
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with Magnetic mounting which by the way makes a whole lot more sense to me than
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the sticky sticky tape mounting that most of them use so thanks again for
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