12 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

For install I tend to lay out a small light blanket/towel and place the ESD bag on top of it, and place the board on top of that.  This board is well equipped but not overly fancy...no RGB on the board itself (case has a few fans with RGB though)

 

Warning: Don't worry, everything will be fine. Bot DON'T put the motherboard on top of the anti static bag!

ESD bags work like a Faraday cage in that they protect what's INSIDE. If you place the motherboard on top of the bag if encourages static discharge if anything.

The bags only protect the contents inside. 

12 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

I've got to admit gents....  I was a little nervous...some of these parts are tiny....like the M.2 mounting screws.  MSI apparently has these dumb plastic swinging arms that sort of lock the drives into place.  I used one of them on the first slot but the second one I decided to not use it.  It was so small and flimsy.  It is still locked in place with the heatsink covers and it is very secure in the board - I'm not worried about it.  I admit I watched a video on if I was doing the install correctly...it was weird having the M.2 drives sort of "spring" off the board at about a 30 degree angle until they are secured.  M.2 is totally new to me and I'm hoping I installed them in the correct slots.  (Slots 1 and 2 is what I went with).  Couldn't find much info on the net about what is advised.  I will of course be only running a single GPU.  Anyway I was expecting them to be the side of a RAM stick....  you can see they are a LOT smaller hehe.

 

Asus have a similar system now. A plastic swivel that locks the drive in place. One of mine wasn't swinging round. Turned out it had been pushed too far down during manufacture, I had to flip it back up and all was well.

The miniscule screws are a pain. The plastic retention mechanism are a much better idea. 

 

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(Slots 1 and 2 is what I went with).  Couldn't find much info on the net about what is advised. 

 

Read the motherboard manual. It should all be there. Unless MSI manuals are rubbish. 

Edited March 1, 20224 yr by martin-w

7 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

Read the motherboard manual. It should all be there. Unless MSI manuals are rubbish. 

Doesn't seem to say much.  Just says slot one is Intel RST and 2-4 are Optane compatible...

I don't know what either of those are lol.

Intel Optane -- see https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/memory-storage/optane-memory.html -- it is a special kind of caching memory from Intel.

Intel RST stands for "Rapid Storage Technology" -- see https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/rapid-storage-technology.html

1 hour ago, martin-w said:

 

 

The bags only protect the contents inside. 

Oh lol...  see.  This is why I post stuff here - I learn stuff too.

Some decent progress tonight.  Mounted cooler, placed RAM, got board into case, mounted additional fans (they all go into a cool 6 port hub and power is provided via USB2 on the board).  I was sweating mounting the cooler lol...wow that thing is a monster.  And after that I almost forcefully tried to insert the RAM facing the wrong way...thankfully I didn't press too hard.

Plenty left to do....  GPU install (and install my old GTX 970 into current pc), PSU install plus cables ugh....SSD install (already did the M.2s)

(sorry for crappy focus here...I guess it went to my ram case in the background)

20220301_211922 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Originally had the RGB Gskill from the ddr4 build but I found this decently fast DDR5 stuff at amazon

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Even though the cooler is massive the case is even more massive - this case has so far been amazing to work with!

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Getting closer!!

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17 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Oh lol...  see.  This is why I post stuff here - I learn stuff too.

 

You aren't the only one. Lots of people do it. 🙂

Edited March 2, 20224 yr by martin-w

That's the same RAM I have, to sell on eBay. 😃

That Corsair case looks lovely. I looked at the Corsair cases but decided in the end to go for the Phanteks Evolv X. I already had the TG and liked it, so didn't take any chances. The X has way better airflow.

I'm waiting to see how well you cable manage Ryan. I usually take hours over it. And no untidiness under those panels at the rear either please. I want it all tidy under there. 😁

I didn't bother with the hub that came with my Evolv X. Was easier and neater to just plug into the motherboard headers. 

Finally got eBay sorted out by the way. My 10900K I had for sale is on there. Next up will be the Corsair DDR5 RAM, Some Trident Z DDR4, and a Maximus XII Hero. 

Edited March 2, 20224 yr by martin-w

I looked at that Phanteks case as well - it looks awesome.  My current PC is a Corsair 650D and I enjoyed working with that case so I figured I'd drop the 185 on the 5000X.  Cable management.....  yyeeeeah not really my strong suit.  Thankfully there's plenty of velcro straps that came with it and there's a little door that covers the cables on the back side of the case....  My wife is very good at organizing though 😉  Maybe she can help!

Glad to hear about eBay!

Slower progress tonight....  my brain had forgotten how all the cables work....which ones go to the board from the case....which ones go from the psu to the board....which ones need to go to sata for power etc.... and then those pesky teeeeeeeeny pins on the mobo - I can see why you guys get those quick connector things!

I'm not certain on the case fan direction.  The arrow on the bottom points to the non-main logo side.  In other words the air would suck in from the front of my case, and exhaust out the tops and rear (or that's how I made the arrows point).  What do people think?

And then the CPU cables from the PSU were just barely long enough to stretch behind the back of my case.  I can't possibly think of another way to run these things.  In fact I struggled with the very last 4 pronged cpu to the board - my wife and her small hands had to help me lol

Organization in the back/side....meh!  It's not trashed but it's not pretty either.  Wanted to swap GPU's from the PC I'm typing this message on to the new build but it's too late.  Time for bed!  Hope to get it booted up tommorow!

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5 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

I'm not certain on the case fan direction.  The arrow on the bottom points to the non-main logo side.  In other words the air would suck in from the front of my case, and exhaust out the tops and rear (or that's how I made the arrows point).  What do people think?

 

Yep, that will work. It looks like you have three fans blowing in and three fans (including AIO) blowing out. So a balanced airflow. Balanced or somewhat positive is fine, to avoid too much dust build-up. 

 

5 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

And then the CPU cables from the PSU were just barely long enough to stretch behind the back of my case.  I can't possibly think of another way to run these things.  In fact I struggled with the very last 4 pronged cpu to the board - my wife and her small hands had to help me lol

 

Yep, CPU EPS is always a stretch in big cases. I bought some extensions for mine so I could route them neatly. Sometimes a good idea to plug CPU power in before mounting D15S. Although in my case the entire top comes off for easy access. 

I'm obsessive about cable management, I usually spend the entire day at it. I buy fan extension cables too so I can route the fan cables discreetly. Cable ties, sticky pad cable tie mounts, I buy too. 

No rush Ryan, take your time. Its not a race.

I know what you mean about flimsy pins. I once pushed a USB connector onto a header and the pin inside must have been slightly out of position. Of course, it bent it flat. Tried to straighten it and the pin snapped off. 

With my current build, the aRGB header must have had super slim pins because the connector was lose, too lose, no way would it have made proper connection;. So In ended up controlling my case LED's from the button on the front of the case instead of from the Asus software. 

 

 

Edited March 3, 20224 yr by martin-w

12 hours ago, martin-w said:

No rush Ryan, take your time. Its not a race.

This is what I always tell people too, lol... They are excited and understandably want to get it together quickly and use too much force and break stuff...

Ryan you are doing great keep the pics of your progress coming. Ram looks awesome and I like the case. I also use a corsair case a 750D which is older now but still looks great in my opinion. Coming from your 4790k you are going to see a big difference.

Edited March 3, 20224 yr by TurboKen

3 hours ago, TurboKen said:

This is what I always tell people too, lol... They are excited and understandably want to get it together quickly and use too much force and break stuff...

Ryan you are doing great keep the pics of your progress coming. Ram looks awesome and I like the case. I also use a corsair case a 750D which is older now but still looks great in my opinion. Coming from your 4790k you are going to see a big difference.

Thank you Ken!  My old PC is a 650D case - I really have it enjoyed it these last 11 years.  I am happy to report I'm typing this message from my new PC!

I will get real pics eventually....  starting up everything...  drivers, software, actually should do a BIOS update first lol...  

One thing to note is that I had to use an HDMI cable and could not use DP to display at first.  Needed nvidia drivers to get DP working

Also haven't done anything with the fans lol....they keep alternating rainbow colors hehe.  

Mobo and CPU are decent temps I guess...  30's for idle.  I don't know what's normal hehe - anyone help me on that?  Is that an ok temp?

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👍 Nearly as beautiful as my PC.

2 hours ago, martin-w said:

👍 Nearly as beautiful as my PC.

Nearly haha!

I've set xmp 3 in bios, and just done some P95 stress tests which all passed to make sure things are running ok.  Temps while doing that averaged about 74 but the highest was 80.  Idle temps seem to be around 29 or so according to Real Temp.

I'm running into an issue trying to install the sim which I've detailed in the main MSFS forums.  

But everything else appears to be installing ok - still much work to do, including hooking up my old PC for network access - all of my files are on it hehe.