Rebuilding an older PC tonight

[Chipfiref]

Rebuilding this:
Antec P-160
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
Intel i7-2600K
Intel stock cooler
16GB Corsair Vengance
Sapphire 6970
Seasonic SS620GB

To this:
Antec P-160
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
Intel i7-2600K
Noctua NH-U14S
16GB Corsair Vengance
SAPPHIRE 100351SR Radeon HD 7970 3GB
Seasonic SSR 650RM

Of course I have to take the MB off to put the Noctua back plate on :twisted:

hopefully the Corsair Vengance memory will fit next to the Noctua cooler - it has some thick goofy heatspreaders - otherwise I will have to switch some memory around :twisted:

Interesting, my Sapphire 7970 card is shorter than my Sapphire 6970 card. Not much but I may be able to at leas uset the drive bay opposite the card now.

 

[Blain]

No "rebuild", simply an upgrade.

 

[Chipfiref]

No "rebuild", simply an upgrade.

When I have to take out the Mobo and the PS I call it a rebuild 🙂

Well the Noctua does not like the Corsair Vengance with its crazy heat spreaders. It almost fits but I do not want pressure on the first DIMM from the Noctua fan. The Corsair heat spreader has a needless bulge but it can't be removed. So I decided to do plan B and bring the Noctua fan around to the other side of the Noctua cooler. This will push heat over the memory DIMMs instead of toward the back exhaust fan, but I think it will be OK. Opinions? I can add a 120 fan in the front of this case to do something, possibly positive pressure?

I may buy some new memory eventually with more reasonable heat spreaders and swap memory between machines. I do prefer the air to go right out the fan in the rear.

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rebuilding
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1. To build again.
2. To make extensive structural repairs on.
3. To remodel or make extensive changes.

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3. Computer Science a. To replace (a software program) with a more recently released, enhanced version.
b. To replace (a hardware device) with one that provides better performance

Nice rebuild with upgraded parts. Better CPU heatsink/cooler, faster video card and larger wattage PSU.

 

[fixbsod]

It's both!

 

[Zorander]

Ah, you upgraded your CPU cooler and GPU. 🙂

 

[mfenn]

Are we really at the point where a 2600K is considered an "older PC"? Where's my cane emoticon?

So I decided to do plan B and bring the Noctua fan around to the other side of the Noctua cooler. This will push heat over the memory DIMMs instead of toward the back exhaust fan, but I think it will be OK. Opinions? I can add a 120 fan in the front of this case to do something, possibly positive pressure?

Just flip the fan over so that it's pulling air through the heatsink.

 

[Chipfiref]

Ah, you upgraded your CPU cooler and GPU. 🙂

...and PS

So I had to remove the MB to put the Noctua cooler back plate on, I had to unplug and replace all the power cabling...

System functional again, not quite all back together. I did have some HD trouble on one of my 1.5TB Hitachis. Didn't lose too much data I think but had to do some repairing. Still hearing a methodical click sometimes so it does not look good for this disk.

Still updating some drivers and Catalyst.

Definitely performing well temperature wise.

 

[mfenn]

Back that data up, stat!