UPDATE 09/10/21: Corsair Vengence memory LEDs were giving me fits to sync with the rest of the lights. Mostly they would freeze. Just swapped to TEAMGROUP TUF Alliance DDR4-3200 sticks. Something odd freezing lights. Gotta investigate.
UPDATE 08/28/21: Actually catching up on a few upgrades/swaps. I changed out the motherboard from Gigabyte to ASUS, swapped the Thermaltake power supply with an ASUS Thor and I finally got my hands on a RTX3070. Swapped case to Cougar, changed AIO and fans to Arctic. RGB lights are controlled by SignalRGB software based. Amazing!!!!
UPDATE 04/12/21: Disconnected status screen as it was interfering with resolution and size on the big screen. Added a couple of Corsair accessories (headphone stand, iCue Nexus)
UPDATE 01/28/21: Even more tweaks. Swapped monitors, added 7″ status screen running AIDA64, added DAC/AMP and new gaming headset.
UPDATE 10/27/20: A few more tweaks
New Corsair keyboard and mouse and added some color coordinated sleeved cable extensions
UPDATE 4/20/2020: A couple of swaps and upgrades…
I was having random lockups and BSOD’s. Checked the Windows Event Viewer and showed that I was getting kernel low power errors so I swapped the power supply to a Thermaltake 850w. Still got random lockups but no more BSOD so that helped but didn’t fix everything.
Picked up a Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super thinking maybe the lockups were caused by the graphics card but that didn’t fix the problem.
While piddling I pulled a couple of the drives and they were extremely hot to the touch. So I ran SpeedFan and the thermals on my data and media drives were crazy high (Toshiba X300’s) so I pulled the cloned WB Blue drives from the old build and thermals dropped considerably.
Issue now is the UPS is not carrying the computer when we lose power or does a self-test. Tried a new UPS and didn’t fix. Going to swap the power supply with a Corsair unit from an older build to see if that fixes it but that’s a project for the weekend.
UPDATE 2/16/2020: Convert to main gaming rig. Swapped RTX2070 from i7 build and cloned data, media and game drives.
| CPU |
AMD |
Ryzen 9 3900X |
| Motherboard |
ASUS |
ROG Strix X570-F |
| Memory |
TEAMGROUP |
T-Force Delta TUF Gaming Alliance RGB 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200Mhz |
| Case |
Cougar |
Conquer |
| Boot Drive |
Seagate |
Firecuda M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB |
| Data Drive |
WD |
Blue 4TB-5400RPM |
| Media Drive |
WD |
Blue 4TB-5400RPM |
| Game Drive |
Toshiba |
X300 8TB-7200RPM |
| Video Card |
ASUS |
GeForce RTX 3070 Dual |
| CPU Cooler |
Arctic |
Liquid Freezer II 360 A-RGB |
| Case Fans |
Arctic |
BioniX P120 A-RGB (x2) |
| LED light control |
software |
SignalRGB |
| Power Supply |
ASUS |
Thor 850W 80+ Platinum |
| OS |
Microsoft |
Windows 10 Home |
| Virtual Reality |
Oculus |
Rift S |
| Monitor |
Samsung |
49″ Odyssey G9 Gaming Monitor |
| Status Monitor |
Corsair |
iCUE Nexus Companion Touch Screen |
| Speakers |
Logitech |
Z-5500 THX 5.1 Digital Surround Sound |
| Headphone DAC/AMP |
EPOS|Sennheiser |
GSX 1200 PRO Gaming Audio Amplifier |
| Headset |
EPOS|Sennheiser |
GSP 600 Wired Acoustic Gaming Headset |
| Headphone Stand |
Corsair |
ST100 RGB Premium Stand with Surround Sound and USB |
| Mouse |
Corsair |
Dark Core Pro RGB SE |
| Keyboard |
Corsair |
K100 RGB Gaming Keyboard |
| Gaming Wheel |
Logitech |
G920 Driving Force Steering Wheel and Pedals |
| Flight Stick |
Saitek |
Pro Flight X-55 Rhino H.O.T.A.S. |
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