So.. How bout a build log? Meet Kagutsuchi!

Thats allowed right? Figure ill combine two of my extremely expensive hobbies into one thread

My beloved 5 year old workhorse desktop finally bit the dust a few days ago, I already ordered up the parts but I thought some members might enjoy a buildlog

Following the theme naming of my desktops, this one is Kagutsuchi, the kami of fire in Japanese mythology (The last ones were Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu.. My desktops go with Japanese gods/goddesses/spirits​)

Fitting the name the theme will be black and red...

NZXT H440
Corsair HX1000i PSU
MSI Z170 M9 ACK
Intel Core i7 6700k (Shooting for a 4.7 OC)
Corsair H110i 280mm Sealed Liquid Cooler
GSkill Trident Z 32gb DDR4-3200 (Ordered a second kit, the price was too good)
eVGA GTX 980Ti SSC 6gb (1450 core, 8000 memory OC)
500gb Samsung 850 EVO
500gb Samsung 840 EVO
600gb WD Velociraptor 10,000rpm HDD
2x 2TB "Green" drives (One Samsung, one Western Digital)
5tb Western Digtial Black Edition
BenQ XL2730Z, Dell U2410 and Samsung PN60F8500... My display triad, will possibly throw in a 4k IPS display to replace my aging 2410

I'll be posting pictures of the build as i progress and im possibly doing a 4k video unboxing the parts and showing them off as well as discussing why i chose various parts. Ive NEVER done video really, im going to probubly use my GX8 on a tripod with my Summilux 15mm stopped down to 2.8 or so.. I dont know how to edit or splice or anything mind you.. lol

And so I leave you with the parts I salvaged from my old rig to start

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/EA6m​e5

Sounds like a sweet build. You going to use it for video and gaming?

EverydayGetaway wrote in post #17916826
Sounds like a sweet build. You going to use it for video and gaming?

Photography and gaming, im not much a video shooter.. Except im going to make a few videos of me building it mainly for friends that have never seen someone build a computer, and because i think it will be fun.

ill do my best on photos of the build as it goes, im going to use the GX8 to process and export them basically "blind" lol...

Looks like a BEAST.

A question i was asking myself just the other day, with SSD around, is there ANY point at all to Velociraptor drives?

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #17916851
Looks like a BEAST.

A question i was asking myself just the other day, with SSD around, is there ANY point at all to Velociraptor drives?

At this point, Not really

Im keeping it more or less because I already owned it, when i bought it several years back it was less than half the cost of a similar capacity SSD.

Its my go to photo drive (the two SSDs are for my game library basically..) Probubly going to switch its duties to the 850 EVO when i get a M.2 SSD.

KenjiS wrote in post #17916842
Photography and gaming, im not much a video shooter.. Except im going to make a few videos of me building it mainly for friends that have never seen someone build a computer, and because i think it will be fun.

ill do my best on photos of the build as it goes, im going to use the GX8 to process and export them basically "blind" lol...

Cool, I asked about the video because of the CPU, figured that would be handy for video processing, seems like overkill for most photography applications, but I'm sure it plays games buttery smooth

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #17916851
A question i was asking myself just the other day, with SSD around, is there ANY point at all to Velociraptor drives?

you gotta keep the backups somewhere...

joeseph wrote in post #17917357
you gotta keep the backups somewhere...

Back ups don't have to be 10K RPM fast though.

Anyway, there was a time before SSD was ready for prime time that Raptors filled a much needed solution for fast storage in a SATA/PATA hard drive (vs. 10K and even 15K SCSI)

I had (have but don't use anymore) the earliest 32GB Raptor (yes, a hard disk with less capacity then most CF cards these days)

I used it as my secondary scratch disk for Photoshop to help speed up swaps back when memory was hard to come by. (motherboards and OS limited to 4GB etc.)

These days with SSDs I just can't see a use for them anymore.

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=nS_5bu4gaak

Video as promised, Not as long as i wanted but...

will be doing a series of shorter videos instead i think, and stills

https://www.youtube.co​m …LMyTODhk&featur​e=youtu.be

Part 2

Now with 32gb of Ram!

To anyone who is wondering whats happened, i hit a bunch of problems getting it all put together then running.. i ended up having to order a different motherboard and some other parts

Really feel bad about that. But hey it happens

KenjiS wrote in post #17933485
To anyone who is wondering whats happened, i hit a bunch of problems getting it all put together then running.. i ended up having to order a different motherboard and some other parts

Really feel bad about that. But hey it happens

I suppose it's something of a good thing that if a piece of tech is faulty, it's going to have the decency to break immediately or within the first week, instead the day before warranty runs out.

Kolor-Pikker wrote in post #17933573
I suppose it's something of a good thing that if a piece of tech is faulty, it's going to have the decency to break immediately or within the first week, instead the day before warranty runs out.

Indeed.. though its less defective, more just the drivers for a bunch of its features are just trash and will not be stable no matter what im doing.. the way i see it is if its not going to run stable for 5-10 minutes -now- how will it be in 6 months? The Killer NIC has a few problems RE its drivers so... yeah... Basically if you do something like download a bunch of games on Steam and stress the NIC the driver crashes completely. Same with playing any multiplayer games that stress out the NIC... Pretty nuts TBH. I didnt like the UEFI interface, the manual, or the software that came with it either... Im picky, what can i say

Also the audio on the motherboard was a massive disappointment and that was a big reason i bought it..

So i ordered a Maximus VIII Formula, as well as a set of better fans to fix the heat problems i had when the case was buttoned up (My temps were on the higher side of fine, i dont like the "high" side of fine..but they were nowhere near high enough for a stability problem, it just annoyed me because my standards are high), on top of that a set of individually sleeved PSU cables for the HX1000i to more easily wire it up and get the case closed up cleaner

If that doesnt fix my complaints ill probubly go with a different case.. As it is i feel this case would be a bad match for say, 980 Ti in SLI due to the heat issues..

Thankfully i have decent return policies... Its not that any one part was particularly "bad" its that my combination and configuration just didnt play nice together

-edit- its 4 am and i havnt slept, my explanation is basic. I spent a week playing with this and just basically gave up. im not comfortable with the motherboard and dont trust it unfortunately

Wow, major bummer.

KenjiS wrote in post #17933580
Indeed.. though its less defective, more just the drivers for a bunch of its features are just trash and will not be stable no matter what im doing.. the way i see it is if its not going to run stable for 5-10 minutes -now- how will it be in 6 months? The Killer NIC has a few problems RE its drivers so... yeah... Basically if you do something like download a bunch of games on Steam and stress the NIC the driver crashes completely. Same with playing any multiplayer games that stress out the NIC... Pretty nuts TBH. I didnt like the UEFI interface, the manual, or the software that came with it either... Im picky, what can i say

Ah, I went back and took a look at the motherboard, MSI gaming series do use Killer NICs which are widely known to have problems, for me it'd be Intel or bust. Gigabyte boards typically offer two NICs of each type depending on preference, but their overall quality has dropped recently, especially on the X99 platform.

The audio on the mobo is going to be essentially identical with any board, since nearly all of them use the Realtek 1150 chip at the core, which are $4 BoM for the manufacturer - not exactly high-end.
Add-on sound cards like the Asus Essence STX II or the old Creative X-Fi Titanium are a better pick if you want to drive high-end headphones and also get some hardware features like surround headphone simulation.
The best choice would be an external USB-based audio interface, since it's not under interference from surrounding components or less than ideal power from your PSU (unless you have a high-end PSU with very stable power output), but they do not feature hardware audio if gaming is your thing.