I just got completed with the Just Bucky Build, which is a high end gaming PC. The only reason it’s considered that is mainly because of the Ryzen 7 9800x3d, along with a few other things like… I spent way too much money for card. It can be used for productivity, but because of that extra level three cash, somehow it just doesn’t do as good a job as one without it vs the other way around. Both can do the other's job, but there will be some hangups. As for the naming, I had crazy stuff like Buckzilla, Buckenstein, The Beast, TUF-buck, and Buckydragon, so I wanted something basic, so I went with Just Bucky. Ultra Bucky will be a super hero build, but that happens, it won’t be happening any time soon, but the name should give you a clue of what it’s going to consist of.

Even though I ran into some unexpected snags, I’m pleased with the way that the project came out. I really enjoyed building in the Bequiet light base 600. There was no problem assembling all of the proper pieces onto the motherboard, and I did some pretty good cable management. The first minor snag that I ran into was with the reverse blowing Aisain Horse fans that I installed on the case floor. I didn’t like the way that I really couldn’t hide the cable so I flipped it backwards to where the cable was at the back of the case. Putting the motherboard into the case was a breeze thanks to learning that the front glass can be removed, and also to the thanks of getting a proper magnetic tip computer screwdriver that had a long handle.

After spending about four hours of putting everything into place, it was time to turn it on.. Time to turn it on… Fire in the hole…. No fans, no RGB, No error codes, and no posting, all I got was the RGB lighting on the two Ram sticks. So I went to my studio to watch some videos to see if someone else might have ran into the same problem. Basically the videos were saying to check all the connections and so forth, so that meant it was time to start trouble shooting for the issue. I checked all of the cables to make sure there wasn’t anything loose, and found nothing wrong. The next thing that I did was to take out one stick of ram since it was the only thing to be doing a little bit of something, but I got the same thing. So I put in a different set of ram, and that time I didn’t even get them to light up. Next thing that I did was to reset the GPU which also did work so I took it out and used the IPU which was still nothing. Then I got to thinking maybe it was the power supply, so I went and grabbed the one that I was originally going to send back because I didn’t need it. The first thing that I notice was how well it came packaged, and the cables were far superior even though it wasn’t rated as high as the one that was in the system. So I decided that not only was I going to replace the PSU, that I will also replace all of the cables which took about 40 minutes. The hardest part was plugging in the CPU power connections to the motherboard because of the tight squeeze behind the radiator.

After taking a small break, it was once again to try to power it up. Oh look, the PSU, GPU, three fans, along with the case RGB lit up. Crap a new problem, but it was a better sign than what I had before. It did post but I had to quickly turn it off because the Rad Fans, the rear exhaust fan, and floor fans weren’t spinning, or lighting up. The first thing that I thought was that maybe one of the hubs wasn’t functioning, but I then realized that the intake fans, and the PSU fans were on different hubs, so that wasn’t the problem. I checked all of the connections along with disconnecting them along with connecting them, including by passing the hubs which didn’t solve any issue. I was starting to get a bit baffled, so the next thing that I did for trouble shooting was to get a spare fan from a previous build, and hooked it up to the hub, and it worked fine. I also did the same time test with extension connectors from the original fan cables and once again no issue. I got to thinking that surely there weren't three bad connectors that went into the side of the snap fans. So luckily the trash wasn’t coming till the next day so I had to dumpster dive for the spare connections that I was throwing away because I didn’t need them. (Lesson learned, keep all spare parts before trashing anything till it’s running 100%.) First goal was to get the radiator fans running, and yes it was a bad connection and also the hardest one to replace because I had to drop the rad to do so. It also started my adventure of my cable management getting blown. The connections were bad on the other two too, and who knows, I might have done it myself when I was trying to make my cable stuff look neat. Because of working the fan cables before installing the motherboard, I couldn’t remove them to replace with the good ones with out yanking the motherboard back out of the system, so I got a little bit of Spaghetti going on which I tried my best to hide behind and under the GPU, but everything was now up and posting. I decided that I wasn’t going to mess with it till the next day.

I was able to get the rest of the system up and running with very minor issues. The little problem is I think that the fans are running a little on the high side, but I can’t seem to get them to adjust down.

That is also playing around with her arch enemy the blue tarp.