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GTribe ‘Limitless’ Gaming PC Giveaway ft. Quadstellar and i7-8700K

Steiger Dynamics joined forces with GTribe again!
The Giveaway has ended. Congrats to the winner Luke H. for winning this amazing Gaming PC powered by XFX, Radeon Vega, Deepcool, Intel, Gigabyte, GeIL, Seasonic, Seagate, Samsung, Logitech G, Microsoft and meticulously assembled by Steiger Dynamics!
Continue reading for specs and build-log photos.

Components

Chassis: DEEPCOOL Gamer Storm Quadstellar full-tower four cabin case. High-tech housing for E-ATX motherboard 120/240/360mm water cooling system w/ tempered glass and RGB lighting system

CPU Cooling: DEEPCOOL CASTLE 240 RGB 240mm Extreme Performance All-In-One RGB Liquid CPU Cooler, built-in double window panes and 16.7M true color lighting system with ultra-large, pure copper CPU block and optimized E-shaped micro water channel

CPU: Steiger Dynamics pre-binned Intel Core i7-8700K Processor, 12MB Cache, 6-Core / 12 Threads. De-lidded, stock thermal compound replaced with Thermal Krizzly Conductonaut Liquid Metal, re-lidded, and overclocked to 5+ GHz on all six cores. 

Graphics card: XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 1580MHz , 8gb 256bit GDDR5, DX12 VR Ready, Double Dissipation, Dual BIOS, 3xDP HDMI DVI, PCI-E AMD Graphics Card

Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS GAMING 7-OP Intel Z370 gaming motherboard featuring Intel Optane Memory w/ storage performance enhancement technology, RGB Fusion, Digital LED support, Triple M.2 with Thermal Guard, ESS SABRE 9018 DAC, Dual LAN with Killer + Intel, Front & rear USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C

Memory: GeIL SUPER LUCE RGB SYNC 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory

System Drive: Samsung 970 EVO Series – 500GB NVMe – M.2 Internal SSD

Storage Drive: Seagate BarraCuda 4TB 7,200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Disk Drive

Power Supply: Seasonic Flagship PRIME 1300W PLATINUM Active PFC 80 PLUS Platinum certification ATX12V 135mm Fluid Dynamic Bearing Premium Hybrid Fan Control Super Quiet PSU

Software

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Edition

Gear by Logitech G

Mouse: Logitech G Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse w/ Esports Grade Performance

Mouse Pad: Logitech G640 Large Cloth Gaming Mousepad

Keyboard: Logitech G513 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Headset: Logitech G533 Wireless DTS 7.1 Surround Gaming Headset

Craftsmanship by STEIGER DYNAMICS

System Integrator: Hand-assembled in Silicon Valley, USA, by STEIGER DYNAMICS

Signature Overclocking: CPU de-/relidding with 5.0 GHz on all six cores / 12 threads

Signature fan tuning: ultra-quiet setup with temperature-sensitive custom fan curves

Warranty: STEIGER DYNAMICS Lifetime Technical Support

Shipping: STEIGER DYNAMICS Global Shipping Service

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Build log:

CPU de-lidding done. Die and PCB thoroughly cleaned from stock thermal compound and glue residue. Next step coming soon.

Here is the video of how we re-lidded the CPU and applied Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal compound.

Motherboard with de-/relidded CPU, 500GB Samsung EVO SSD, Intel Optane SSD (to cache/accelerate the HDD) and 32GB DDR4 3000 installed.
Seasonic PRIME 1300W Platinum

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