Description

Overkill build for gaming/streaming/video editing/browsing. This is my first time building a PC, extremely happy with how well it turned out. Booted on first attempt :)

Mistakes made:

  • Overpaid for some components (mobo, SSDs) without checking their price history first

  • Bought an AIO with RGB fans before learning that radiator fans can be swapped

  • Mounted some fans on the wrong side of a fan bracket (bruh)

  • Forgot to plug a DP cable into the upright graphics card before finishing the build

  • Didn't have enough USB 2.0 headers for the AIO pump, fan hub, and Strimmer hub. Thankfully, I was able to combine the AIO pump and Strimmer hub cables into one (5+4 pins into a single header)

  • Bought 7800 MHz RAM but setting it above 7200 MHz causes stability issues.

Inspired by the following builds:

https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/b/b9wzK8

https://www.reddit.com/r/lianli/comments/ynlh2i/upright_rtx_4090_founders_edition_o11_dynamic_evo/

Part Reviews

CPU

Intel Core i9-14900K 3.2 GHz 24-Core Processor

It's fast, I guess? But you should not buy this CPU unless you want to deal with a relatively higher risk of failure. High-end AMD CPUs are better anyway when it comes to gaming.

CPU Cooler

NZXT Kraken Elite 360 RGB 78.02 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Extremely sleek AIO, would recommend getting the cheaper non-RGB version and swapping the fans for daisy-chainable ones.

Motherboard

Asus ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO ATX LGA1700 Motherboard

Great future-proofish motherboard with pretty much every feature most users might look for.

⚠ Only two USB 2.0 headers so you'll have to merge some cables if you need more (Lian-Li fan hub + Lian-Li Strimmer hub + AIO pump in my case)

Memory

G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-7800 CL36 Memory

I can't manage to run it at 7800 MHz on a ROG Maximus Z790 Hero without getting an instant BSOD, but it runs fine at 7200 MHz.

Video Card

NVIDIA Founders Edition GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB Video Card

Very sleek looking card and an absolute beast. Some coil whine while gaming but nothing too scary. No melting issues with the power connector so far.

Case

Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO ATX Mid Tower Case

Mounting the GPU upright looks very nice, though I had trouble plugging the DisplayPort cable in once installed. I installed 13 fans and a 360mm radiator with no issue. My 200mm PSU fits after removing some parts from the back chamber, but it is tight and makes the cable management harder.

Power Supply

be quiet! Dark Power Pro 13 1600 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Dead-silent PSU, with a ton of wattage to spare for future PC upgrades. 200mm is quite big, but it fits in my O11D EVO after removing some parts from the back chamber. I had some trouble using the cable combs, but I may just be stupid.

Case Fan

Lian Li Uni Fan SL-Infinity 61.3 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack

Make sure to install the fan clusters in the right direction and to plug them into the correct ports of your fan hub, or the RGB effects will not display properly. I wish Lian-Li would add an update to their software to address this issue.

Case Fan

Lian Li Uni Fan SL-Infinity 63.6 CFM 120 mm Fan

Awesome addition to Lian-Li's fan lineup so you can use their Infinity fans in their full glory! Make sure to install the fan clusters in the right direction and to plug them into the correct ports of your fan hub, or the RGB effects will not display properly. I wish Lian-Li would add an update to their software to address this issue.

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Comments

Glitchyboi143
  • 1 year 6 months ago

Definetely a tricked out rig for sure! Do you feel their is a big performance difference in the new 14900k?

MaddleDee
  • 1 year 6 months ago

Unfortunately, I don't have anything to compare it to except my over 5-year-old gaming laptop's i5 😅

Though I can absolutely say that this PC is a beast, I can run my games at max settings in UHD @ 200 FPS 🥳

The biggest issue I'm currently facing is constant crashes when gaming despite good temps and stable FPS, and being unable to enable XMP without getting a BSOD within a few minutes of logging into Windows.

RAMReaper
  • 1 year 5 months ago

I currently own a 10-year-old laptop, but I am soon upgrading to a PC. I anticipate a significant performance boost with my new Ryzen 7 CPU compared to my current Ryzen 3 processor, although the extent of the improvement remains uncertain. Recognizing that Minecraft is a CPU-oriented game, I plan to assess my new CPU's capabilities through testing. Presently, my current CPU manages to run Minecraft at an average of 44 frames per second.

DeadmanEM
  • 5 days ago

That's because you got the wrong ram for the I9-14900k. You need 6400mhz up to 7000mhz, under CL32 to CL34. Your crashing is because the timing is not correct for how beefy the cpu is already on it's own. Also you don't need to really do anything to the cpu in the bios besides turn off turbo mode, all it does it make the power fluctuate way to much for no reason.

smacks14
  • 1 year 4 months ago

do u still having an issue with the memory ?

MaddleDee
  • 1 year 4 months ago

Yeah, unfortunately Windows just blue screens as soon as it loads when XMP is enabled.

Curtis1mo
  • 1 year 4 months ago

i think i may know what is wrong, asus has been having problems with there motherboards, jayztwocents had an issue with his build (even though it was amd it was the motherboard that was the problem). As soon as he would enable emp (xpo) his system would either crash randomly and blue screen or not boot. so i think it may be a problem with the motherboard's controller, because asus has been selling absolute crap products here lately. so if you are still having problems i would try and change out the motherboard and see if that helps.

Xaproach
  • 1 year 2 months ago

hey man i'm curious as to what custom psu cables did you use i'm getting the same power supply for a build i'm working on but i can't find the right ones on cablemod etc

MaddleDee
  • 1 year 2 months ago

I just used the cables included with the PSU, there's a lot of those including a 12VHPWR to 12VHPWR that I use to connect the 4090.

boogi3
  • 10 months ago

i too have the same memory, i too have the same problems (solved). xmp profiles for not only mb manufacturers but gskill and a few other don't match up.

go to 6000mhz @ 28-36-36-76 timings. the First Word Latency goes from 9.231 ns to 9.333 ns cuz of the tight timings and its been stable for me for over a month now. hope this helps

MaddleDee
  • 8 months ago

Very late reply, but I managed a stable 7200MHz using some BIOS tweaks I found on Reddit that limit CPU power consumption.

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/1axepvu/optimizing_stability_for_intel_13900k_and_14900k/

Haven't had any major issues since, maybe 2-3 crashes/BSOD but nothing I would consider abnormal like "Out of video memory" crashes while playing Fortnite.

Then we got the official news that 13th-14th gen Intel CPUs are prone to voltage issues which explains the instability. Not sure how to assess if my CPU somehow got damaged while stress testing, but it works fine for now.

I also plugged in the second CPU power connector which most definitely didn't do anything but hey I get to pretend I'm doing X-TREEM OC 😎😎😎

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MaddleDee
  • 1 year 5 months ago

I have 7 intake fans and 6 exhaust fans, you might be confused by the reverse blade ones.