4. How much money did you spend on the rig as it is right now?
That depends on what you call the ‘rig’ since it’s actually two computers built in the wall. The air-cooled system did cost me around eur.2000,- but that’s including a widescreen monitor my girlfriend definitely wanted for her system. The water-cooled system ended up around eur.5650,- (ouch).I spent waaaaaaaaaaayy too much money. But since it took me 4 years to build it I had time to save.
5. How often do you update/buy a new rig?
Not often, it has been six years since a major upgrade. My 3770k was built in an ancient Antec P180 case and ran very well for years.
6. What components are used?
The air-cooled system is made of the following:
- Case: Silverstone Fortress FT-03-mini Silver
- Power supply: Corsair SF-450
- Motherboard: AsRock Z370M-ITX/AC
- Processor: i5 8600K
- Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB
- Cooler: Noctua NH-Lx65
- HD: Samsung 960 EVO 250GB
- Display: Samsung C34H890WJU
- DVIGear 7.5m displayport cable
- Club3D Active repeater USB 3.0 cable
an additional 140mm Noctua 1200RPM fan blows air from the bottom of the cabinet.
The water-cooled system is a bit more extreme:
- Case: plywood and MDF with white carbon wrap-foil and hardened glass.
- Power supply: Corsair HX850i
- Motherboard: Gigabyte X399 Aorus Xtreme
- Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X
- Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200 32GB
- HD: Samsung 970 EVO 1TB & Samsung 970 500GB
- Display: Samsung U32H850
- DVIGear 7.5m displayport cable
- Club3D Active repeater USB 3.0 cable
- aquacomputer Farbwerk LED controller with 2x RGB & 1x UV LED strip
- Cooling:
- radiator: EK coolstream-ce-420
- fans: 3x Noctua NF-P14S redux 1200 PWM, but two Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC- 3000-PWM fans are ordered to keep the system in check.
- Reservoir and pump: Singularity Protium D5, reservoir is 200mm.
- CPU block: XSPC raystorm black chrome
- GPU block: EK Vector RTX2080 RGB Nickel + Plexi plus backplate
- Mayhems X1 clear coolant
- tubes: 12mm petg hard tubing and 16/10 EK matte black soft tubing to connect the radiator
