I built this Z490 custom water loop rig in early 2021 basically as a temporary build until I could finish putting together a Z590 rig. I probably would not have posted an entry for this build if almost all of the records of my main desktop builds had not been lost to the ether with […]
Month: October 2023
i7-7700K mini-ITX build
I built this mini-ITX rig for my wife around January 2019 using a Corsair 250D case. For a mini-ITX case, the Corsair 250D is very well thought-out, and there was no problem dropping in a 120mm radiator with push & pull fans in the front. The bequiet! push/pull fans on the radiator are the only […]
i7-7700K with Titan X (Pascal) AiO-cooled build
I built this rig around April 2017 with AiO water cooling on both the CPU and GPU. Overclocked the i7-7700K CPU to 5GHz stable on auto and plenty of room to go higher, but hitting 5GHz was my goal achieved. Temperatures on CPU remained around 55-60°C on full load. Overclocked the NVidia Titan X (Pascal) […]
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 16
The ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 16 gaming laptop (2023 model G634JZ-XS96) is my current laptop as at the time of this writing. I purchased it from XoticPC in early June 2023, basically the day it became available there. Although ASUS generally have very good products at the high-end level, I was a little dubious buying […]
Sager NP9371V
The Sager NP9371V (based on the Clevo X370SNV-G) was technically the fifth gaming laptop I owned, although I only had it for a week or two. Purchased from XoticPC in April 2023, the Sager NP9371V was the first full sized 17.3″ laptop I had owned for personal use (although I had purchased a 17.3″ laptop […]
Sager NP8852N
The Sager NP8852N (based on the Clevo PD50PNN) was the fourth gaming laptop I owned. Purchased from XoticPC in April 2022, the Sager NP8852N was a 15.6″ laptop running an Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake i7-12700H 14 core / 20 thread processor (6 performance-cores and 8 efficient-cores) which ran at 4.70GHz in turbo boost at […]
Sager NP7879PQ-S
I ordered the Sager NP7879PQ-S (which is based on the Clevo NH77HPQ) from XoticPC in March 2022 as a replacement for my daughter’s Acer Nitro 5, which had basically died way sooner than it should have. The Sager NP7879PQ-S is a 17.3″ laptop running an Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake Core i7-11800H 8-core/16-thread processor at […]
Samsung Galaxy Book Pro
I ordered the 15.6″ Samsung Galaxy Book Pro in ‘mystic blue’ for my wife in January 2022 as a replacement for her dying Lenovo LaVie which she had been using for over 6 years. Again, the intended use was general internet and media; this was not going to be used as a gaming machine, at […]