Hey Guys!
It’s Mike from The Geek Pub!
And today, we’re going to build my new desktop and gaming rig.
I’ve been wanting to build a new desktop and gaming rig for quite some time, and now
that time is finally here!
And I went all out on this bad boy including a GTX 1080ti STRIX and the Enthoo Evolve tempered
glass case.
I’ll include links to all of the components in the description and on my website at TheGeekPub.com.
For the power supply I went with the EVGA Super Nova 850 G3.
Its fully modular and rocks a 10 year warranty.
The Asus ROG STRIX 270G motherboard paired with an Intel Core i7-7700k found its way
into my build, unlocked and overclocked to 4.8 Ghz.
And with a fast processor, you’re going to want fast IO, so I installed a 500 gigabyte
Samsung EVO 960 NVMe SSD and two 16 gigabyte sticks of Corsair Vengeance LPX for 32 gigabytes
of DDR4 RAM.
Always be sure that the locking tabs click into place when installing RAM.
Once all of the components were installed, I simply screwed the motherboard into the
Enthoo Evolve using the included hardware.
For CPU cooling, I decided to go with a Corsair H100i V2 liquid cooler.
Since I’m overclocking the 7700K, keeping the CPU cool is a must.
The Enthoo Evolve has a radiator bracket located at the top of the case making installation
a breeze.
Now the fans that came with the Corsair H100i are let’s just say boring.
So let’s toss those aside and put something worthy of a custom PC build.
Thermaltake RGB Riing Fans to the rescue.
The Thermaltake Riing fans are just regular 120mm fans and will mount using the same hardware
provided with the H100i.
They’ll do the same cooling job but give our case some much needed style!
The Enthoo Evolve has a fantastic rail on the back of the case that provides a cable
raceway with velcro straps.
This important since the case has tempered glass sides and all of these cables will be
visible.
Additionally the Evolve has strategically placed cut-outs allowing for precise routing
of your cabling, keeping everything looking super clean.
The H100i’s liquid pump already has thermal paste installed and simply attaches to the
processor with four thumbscrews.
I attached the Thermaltake fan controller to the back of the case using some industrial
velcro and routed the cables through existing cut outs which hides them nicely.
The last thing left to do install the massive Nvidia GTX 1080ti and install the tempered
glass side panels.
OK.
So this is one of those projects where after you get finished and you live with it for
a couple of weeks you kinda decide that you want to make a couple of changes and that’s
exactly what happened.
The first change that I made was that I put the original HS100i fans back in place.
I did this for two reasons.
The first one was that I didn’t really like how the Thermaltake software was controlling
the fans.
I didn’t feel like it responded rapidly enough to some of the CPU temperature changes.
But honestly the most important reason that I changed it was because that all you could
see was two dashed lines on the RGB lighting at the top and I really wanted that to be
more visible.
And now you can see with them in the front you can see the ring effect on the fan and
its visible all of the time and I really like that a lot.
The other big change I made and you might have actually caught it in one of the video
clips because I changed it mid way through the actual build was that I moved the radiator
from the far left side to the far right side.
That again purely for aesthetics.
I really wanted the hoses of the CPU cooler that go to the pump to not be covering the
Corsair logo on top of the liquid cooler pump itself.
And so again, just more aesthetics.
I redid some of the cable management just a little bit to make it a little cleaner.
But this project has turned out to be phenomenal and this thing is a beast.
I will give you one warning though if you decide to build this machine or one like it.
It can get extremely noisy.
The GTX 1080ti along with the rest of the fans when playing something like Titanfall,
er Titanfall 2 with everything set to extreme the fans in this guy turn into a jet engine
and it gets incredibly annoying, but I guess you have to live with that to get the performance
you’re looking for.
Additionally in Adobe Premiere Pro this thing just screams through a video editing track.
It makes my Mac Pro look like a dinosaur and I have one of the later generation Mac Pro
trashcans.
This thing blows it away.
Good job Apple.
This machine is about half the price.
So I absolutely love the tempered glass look of this case.
A lot of cases today have these little windows and glass inserts, but this is an edge to
edge top to bottom left to right solid piece of tempered glass and it’s got the same
thing on the back.
It’s absolutely gorgeous and its got just a little bit of a smokey tint to it and then
al of the LEDs shining through just make this thing absolutely gorgeous.
So I highly recommend this case if you’re looking to build a computer.
Everything in it is so well laid out and so well thought out.
So bravo to Phantec for that.
Again, this is the Enthoo Evolve.
Well that’s the end of this video.
Please leave at least one-hundred comments below telling my why I should have used Ryzen
instead.
I always look forward to those and I’ll see you in the next video.