Quite literally everything in this build was done because I thought it was cool. Why does it have two Radeon VII's? Because it looked cool. Why does it have a 200mm AIO mounted to the top via duct tape? I was not aware that the old-ass case I'm using has proprietary fan mounting slots, leadinge to this current situation. It has an i7 6800k cooled by an Alphacool Eisbaer 200 with a mounted Noctua NF-A20, two Radeon VII's, 32 GB of DDR4-3200 (with plans for upgrading to 128 GB in the future) and a 4 TB NVME. It is also powered by an EVGA 1600 T2 PSU. I am well aware this is a highly confusing build, but please do tell me what you think of it.
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If you mount the psu on the back of your case, it’ll look like it’s wearing a jetpack.
This is fucked up as hell. I LOVE IT.
at least the dual Radeon VIIs are killer for FP64 workloads even compared to new cards and you’ve got a 32GB pool for local LLM stuff.
Gods I love kitbashed shit, looks fucking dope
6800k gang
I have and been using this case for more than a decade at this point I just wanna ask does yours have a rattling noise too cause by the side panel fans?
I used the same case but red for my first PC
I like it except for the transformer era cases, I am so glad shit like this died hard.
https://preview.redd.it/puywzs7jn4ve1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=adf44525ac836f4eb6cf5c9e1d0c7951e25aff55
Jarvis, please tell me what is the purpose of a PC chassis?
This was my first case when I seriously started to care about PC gaming. That case held my 965 and 7870 followed by a 8350 and r9 290. Sold the PC to a neighbor and helped him upgrade it a few years ago to a 2700x and 3060. That case still lives on!!
I have that case down in the basement. I had to order parts from the company when the fan died cause nothing else would fit. I see you lost the front panel. I did like that case back in the day. Its a tank. Antec? Man it might have a very early i7 still in it.
Change that i7 to 2690v4 and that will be a good ROCm testbench
Nice NZXT Phantom. Extremely popular case at the time. Helped boost the company to where it is now.
I still have the larger Phantom 820 in matte black sitting by my desk here from two builds ago. Repurposed it as a server rig. But that case, the fans, and the Kraken I originally had in it are the reasons I swore off NZXT products. That and CAM.
It was a never ending series of issues. Most of the case’s ports no longer work, the power button is faulty, the lights failed months after I got it, all the fans had to be replaced in like a year and a half, and the Kraken to this day is the only AIO I’ve ever had straight-up die on me.
Still kinda dig the look of the case though.