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Intel i7 2600k (5.0ghz overclock)
Asus Maximus Extreme IV motherboard (16x-16x-8x)
Asus EN-GTX 580 DirectCu ii (Dual-SLI) (still nailing down max OC values, these trip slot boards have considerable OC potential)
8G DDR3 1600 G.Skills Ripjaw X
Corsair AX1200 PSU
Intel 510 SATA 6.0 SSD (OS/Apps)
Intel x25-m SSD (Game Drive)
Hitatchi Deskstar 7200rpm 3TB (Media/storage)
LG 12x Blue-Ray Burner
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler
Nvidia edition HAF-X case (its ugly, but it was free)
Samsung T240 24" x3 monitors (5670x1200)
Plus an LCD bay fan controller, a 5 port bay switch for lighting, and some other nonsense. I can also monitor my voltage/temps, overclock, and powerdown/restart my computer all from my Iphone over wi-fi or bluetooth.
I considered going w/ water cooling. But I've never been comfortable w/ putting liquid inside several thousands of dollars worth of electronic equipment. My luck is far too poor.
To all the "Water cooling" people. is it really worth it to have an entire system water cooled? I've seen people talk about specs where their CPU, GPU's (usually the people with SLI and Triple SLI), and Chipsets were all water cooled. From my understanding you have to eventually fill it right? Wouldn't that be annoying? I imagine it's probably very very very quiet though.
In War - Victory. In Peace - Vigilance. In Death - Sacrifice.
I water cool mostly as a hobby. It does have some technical advantages over air cooling, but I have to admit the price and risks don't really justify those advantages. It's not something that I recommend to casual computer builders, but I do defend it against those who claim it's a pointless exercise.
To all the "Water cooling" people. is it really worth it to have an entire system water cooled? I've seen people talk about specs where their CPU, GPU's (usually the people with SLI and Triple SLI), and Chipsets were all water cooled. From my understanding you have to eventually fill it right? Wouldn't that be annoying? I imagine it's probably very very very quiet though.
Only when you OC its needed or if you want a cool looking pc:P
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009..... In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
There are two fundamentally different sorts of water cooling. One is a low-end processor-only water cooling setup, which is comparable in both price and performance to a high end air-cooling setup. Certain gaming-oriented OEMs offer this cheaply, and there it makes sense, but otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
The other approach is high end water cooling setups. Here, you're looking at hundreds of dollars for the water cooling loop, $100+ or so for a waterblock for each video card, and scattered extra money for whatever else you want to water cool. This is in addition to buying the hardware that you actually want to cool.
This really does work better than air cooling, and can be done for a variety of reasons. One is to allow for unreasonably high overclocks. Another is to try to fit a powerful gaming computer into an unreasonably small form factor. Yet another is if you're trying to dissipate an unreasonably large amount of heat from the system, such as 600 W or more from the video cards alone. Anyone looking at a 3- or 4-way SLI or CrossFireX setup should seriously consider liquid cooling the cards to keep the temperatures safe.
So if you're looking at building your dream gaming system and have a $5000 budget, then a high end water cooling setup makes sense. If you're trying to build a high end gaming desktop on a $2000 budget excluding peripherals, a high end water cooling setup is kind of silly.
There's also the justification of, because it's something else to tinker with, if you happen to think that would be fun. That's not for most people, but it does include some hardware enthusiasts. And the point of a gaming computer is for fun, isn't it?
Yeah, water cooling isn't cheap. I have almost as much money invested in my water cooling components as I do my computer hardware, but I carry it forward on computer rebuilds and upgrades (except GPU water blocks, which have to be custom made for the card). One of my radiators is getting close to 10 years old now and still works great.
As far as "filling" them - yes, it's a huge pain the first time you do it (while you are building your computer). You have to get all the air out of the blocks and radiators,and it usually means flipping your case over for an hour or two with the pumps running, but none of the hardware running. Once you are done with that though, and have it all installed, there isn't much else you have to do. You have to add coolant very very rarely (most systems are sealed, or have just a tiny vent) - maybe a tiny bit every 2-3 years, and usually I've decided to upgrade or change something in the system before it comes time to have to add any coolant to it anyway, and just top it off by then.
Once you have them installed, they are probably more maintenance free than an air cooled system (although I admit, an air cooled system doesn't really need any maintenance other than having the fins blown out once or twice a year).
Sounds very interesting. Seen a few pictures of complete watercooled systems while I was at work yesterday. Looks very nice. Definitely see that it's expensive. Some of the custom PC sites I visit (for fun). Do CPU + 2 x GPU water cooling setups for an additional 1300 to 1800 (depending on various things). Goofing off picking parts using (www.pugetsystems.com) easily ran the cost of a PC up to around 8000+ range. Talking extreme with SSD's, top end CPU, SLI 580's etc etc. Definitely have to be a PC lover or just crazy, maybe even both lol.
Edit: Water cooled ram? seriously? wtf lol
In War - Victory. In Peace - Vigilance. In Death - Sacrifice.
Puget Systems is a boutique vendor that will take care of their customers and not sell them cheap junk parts. The downside of that is that they charge an arm and a leg for that service. That's ideal for someone with an enormous budget who wants a really nice gaming computer, but has no idea what to get, and wouldn't be bothered by overpaying considerably, so long as he gets something really nice. Most people are more price sensitive than that, though.
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Intel i7 2600k (5.0ghz overclock)
Asus Maximus Extreme IV motherboard (16x-16x-8x)
Asus EN-GTX 580 DirectCu ii (Dual-SLI) (still nailing down max OC values, these trip slot boards have considerable OC potential)
8G DDR3 1600 G.Skills Ripjaw X
Corsair AX1200 PSU
Intel 510 SATA 6.0 SSD (OS/Apps)
Intel x25-m SSD (Game Drive)
Hitatchi Deskstar 7200rpm 3TB (Media/storage)
LG 12x Blue-Ray Burner
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler
Nvidia edition HAF-X case (its ugly, but it was free)
Samsung T240 24" x3 monitors (5670x1200)
Plus an LCD bay fan controller, a 5 port bay switch for lighting, and some other nonsense. I can also monitor my voltage/temps, overclock, and powerdown/restart my computer all from my Iphone over wi-fi or bluetooth.
I considered going w/ water cooling. But I've never been comfortable w/ putting liquid inside several thousands of dollars worth of electronic equipment. My luck is far too poor.
Intel Core i9 7ghz, 8 core (8threads)
ASUS BadazzSE X68 80 lane PCIE 3.0 Mobo with 8 USB 3.1 ports
8x Intel X-69 2 TB PCIEx20 SSD in RAID0
Quad GTX590 Dual Core GPUs
128GB 4000mhz DDR4 ( 16 x 8GB DIMM)
3 KV 99% Efficient PSU
If you're gonna be a forum cowboy, do it big.
Mine takes a gallon of antifreeze coolant.
Just ordered this from scan, its arriving this week. Thank god I missed the sandybridge crap and got the new fixed B3
Intel Core i5 2500K unlocked and overclocked to 4ghz
Asus P8P67 Pro R3 P67 MoBo
8gb corsair vengence memory
2GB XFX HD6950 DDR5 PCI-E Graphics Card
XFX Pro650W Core Edition Full Power Supply
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK HArd Disk
Creative labs SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI
Water cooling and lots of fans etc etc.
Hoping it lasts me a while and will run current games on full!
To all the "Water cooling" people. is it really worth it to have an entire system water cooled? I've seen people talk about specs where their CPU, GPU's (usually the people with SLI and Triple SLI), and Chipsets were all water cooled. From my understanding you have to eventually fill it right? Wouldn't that be annoying? I imagine it's probably very very very quiet though.
In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
I water cool mostly as a hobby. It does have some technical advantages over air cooling, but I have to admit the price and risks don't really justify those advantages. It's not something that I recommend to casual computer builders, but I do defend it against those who claim it's a pointless exercise.
Only when you OC its needed or if you want a cool looking pc:P
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
There are two fundamentally different sorts of water cooling. One is a low-end processor-only water cooling setup, which is comparable in both price and performance to a high end air-cooling setup. Certain gaming-oriented OEMs offer this cheaply, and there it makes sense, but otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
The other approach is high end water cooling setups. Here, you're looking at hundreds of dollars for the water cooling loop, $100+ or so for a waterblock for each video card, and scattered extra money for whatever else you want to water cool. This is in addition to buying the hardware that you actually want to cool.
This really does work better than air cooling, and can be done for a variety of reasons. One is to allow for unreasonably high overclocks. Another is to try to fit a powerful gaming computer into an unreasonably small form factor. Yet another is if you're trying to dissipate an unreasonably large amount of heat from the system, such as 600 W or more from the video cards alone. Anyone looking at a 3- or 4-way SLI or CrossFireX setup should seriously consider liquid cooling the cards to keep the temperatures safe.
So if you're looking at building your dream gaming system and have a $5000 budget, then a high end water cooling setup makes sense. If you're trying to build a high end gaming desktop on a $2000 budget excluding peripherals, a high end water cooling setup is kind of silly.
There's also the justification of, because it's something else to tinker with, if you happen to think that would be fun. That's not for most people, but it does include some hardware enthusiasts. And the point of a gaming computer is for fun, isn't it?
Yeah, water cooling isn't cheap. I have almost as much money invested in my water cooling components as I do my computer hardware, but I carry it forward on computer rebuilds and upgrades (except GPU water blocks, which have to be custom made for the card). One of my radiators is getting close to 10 years old now and still works great.
As far as "filling" them - yes, it's a huge pain the first time you do it (while you are building your computer). You have to get all the air out of the blocks and radiators,and it usually means flipping your case over for an hour or two with the pumps running, but none of the hardware running. Once you are done with that though, and have it all installed, there isn't much else you have to do. You have to add coolant very very rarely (most systems are sealed, or have just a tiny vent) - maybe a tiny bit every 2-3 years, and usually I've decided to upgrade or change something in the system before it comes time to have to add any coolant to it anyway, and just top it off by then.
Once you have them installed, they are probably more maintenance free than an air cooled system (although I admit, an air cooled system doesn't really need any maintenance other than having the fins blown out once or twice a year).
Sounds very interesting. Seen a few pictures of complete watercooled systems while I was at work yesterday. Looks very nice. Definitely see that it's expensive. Some of the custom PC sites I visit (for fun). Do CPU + 2 x GPU water cooling setups for an additional 1300 to 1800 (depending on various things). Goofing off picking parts using (www.pugetsystems.com) easily ran the cost of a PC up to around 8000+ range. Talking extreme with SSD's, top end CPU, SLI 580's etc etc. Definitely have to be a PC lover or just crazy, maybe even both lol.
Edit:
Water cooled ram? seriously? wtf lol
In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
Puget Systems is a boutique vendor that will take care of their customers and not sell them cheap junk parts. The downside of that is that they charge an arm and a leg for that service. That's ideal for someone with an enormous budget who wants a really nice gaming computer, but has no idea what to get, and wouldn't be bothered by overpaying considerably, so long as he gets something really nice. Most people are more price sensitive than that, though.
Processor AMD 1090T
Motherboard MSI 890FX GD70
Memory Corsair Fatality 16GB DDR3 - 1600mhz
Video Card MSI HD5870
OCZ Vertex 2 90GB
WD Caviar Black 500GB
WD Caviar Black 1TB
PSU Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 650w
I got more memory then you and a better PSU