The Ferrari 9590 Extreme Project: Final Build Log & Pictures

Water cooled, tightened up and ready to go.

We are finally done with the new AMD 9590 Ferrari build and I have to say that it really came out very nicely. The NZXT Phantom was the perfect quick fix case as it was red and matched our other parameters needed to compete the system.

The case worked great and we were able to install dual-radiators inside the case itself as to have a separate loop for the VGA and the AMD FX 9590 CPU. The CPU runs quite hot being it travels in the 5.0GHz crowd and liquid cooling is required even for basic usage on that bad boy.

Thanks to ASUS for providing us their CrossHair V Formula-Z motherboard, as this is one of the best motherboards for the AMD platform and it matched the color scheme perfectly to boot. We bought a HIS 7970GHz Edition VGA card, but we had to swap it out for a reference based card to use the custom Swiftech cooling we used in the system build.

Swiftech provided all the parts used in our cooling except the reservoir, which is made by Frozen CPU and as you can see everything came out very clean in the final build. Cooling both the CPU and VGA card and using separate loops helps insure a cool running PC especially when we will be overclocking this beast.

We built the liquid cooling system outside the system were we first leak tested it and made sure everything was running fine and I know opinions vary on ways to do this, but we prefer to do it this way just to make sure we ruin no equipment by accident. Anthony Reynolds our in house tech spent a couple of his weekends building this system and making sure everything came out awesome. We used a variety of drives as well, a Corsair Neutron 240GB SSD is the BOOT drives and a Seagate Barracuda 3TB drive is the media storage drive, which is plenty of room for games and movies. We omitted the original Blu-Ray player as many people said that they thought that was a fairly useless item on a desktop PC. We used a variety or custom sleeved cables that matched the build and they only make it look sweeter to the eye. 

Parts list!

·      AMD FX-9590 8-Core CPU

·      ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z Motherboard

·      NZXT Phantom 530 Red 

·      Red FrozenQ Liquid Fusion Dual Bay Reservoir 

·      Swiftech Apogee HD Waterblock 

·      Swiftech Komodo 7970 Waterblock

·      x2 Swiftech MCR220-XP Radiators

·      16GB Kingston 2133 MHz HyperX Beast DDR3 RAM

·      OCZ Fatal1ty 1000W PSU

·      VisionTek Radeon HD 7970 

·      Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD

·      Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive

·      Lite-On DVD+/-RW Drive

Misc. Parts

Lok-Seal Quick Disconnect Non Spill Couplings – Chrome

The MCP35X2 is the dual motor version of Swiftech’s flagship MCP35X pump

FrozenQ Liquid Fusion Dual Bay Reservoir – Fluorescent Red Helix

Cast Acrylic Sheet – Plexiglass – Laser Cut Black (Size: Thickness – .118″, Size – 24″ x 24″)

Cast Acrylic Sheet – Plexiglass – Laser Cut (Size: Thickness – .236″, Size – 12″ x 12″)

FERRARI – Vinyl Car Decal Sticker #A1600 | Vinyl Color: Red

XSPC LCD Temperature Sensor V2 – Red + G1/4 Plug Sensor

BitFenix Essentials Pro Pack – ATX 24pin, EPS 8pin, 2x PCI-E 6pin Set – Red/Black

PrimoFlex Advanced LRT Tubing – 1/2in. ID X 3/4in. OD – Bloodshed Red

PrimoChill Pure Performance Coolant (32 oz.) – UV Red

Bill Owens also provided a couple of the mod parts used in this build and you folks who follow that madman/genius will recognize some of his handiwork inside the case. I know a lot of people hate on OCZ right now, but the 1000W PSU we used fit the build to a T so we went ahead and used it, and in actuality the Fatality branded product seems to work very well and is quiet to.

As you can see we used a custom switch to engage the various lights throughout the build and they can be turned on or off individually to your preference. We were able to use black Plexiglas on the rear of the card and ad a nice Ferrari sticker on it, and you can see that came out simply cool as hell. Everywhere are clean lines and organization within the case and cable management was done very nicely as you can see in the pics in the photo gallery.  Now that the system is completed, it’s time to install the software and begin the testing phase of the system, and move forward with the 9590 Ferrari project. So far so good though! Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow. So what do you think of this system so far folks? Let us know in the comments section below.