You can step-up your 780 to 980 once EVGA adds the card to the program! You get 90 days to that! I did that on my 580.
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I've already waterblocked the 780's. I can live with them I guess.
I did have one small leak out of the primochill vortex flow indicator. A pair of grips got that shorted. Apparently that one fitting alone didn't like being only hand tight. No worries, only weeped a drop straight on the paper towel. A keen eye is priceless during the first few minutes of filling the loop.
Mid-tower mATX never again. It was seriously a pain in the ass. Filling the loop and burping it was surprisingly easy. Bought a cheap $10 psu which sped up the priming process. Have the D5 set on about 4.5, which yields an amazing amount of flow. Finally GPU boost 2.0 is useful, both cards maxed at 1125mhz on several benchmarks and bf4. Idles @27-29*c and maxed at 48*c. CPU idles -29-30*c, and prime95 maxed 54*c. Haven't done a burn test. I have all the fans running on smart mode in ASUS AI Suite and they didn't spin over 900rpms. Whisper quiet. I could feel the loop and rads heat up during benchmarking. Gonna see if i can set up a more aggressive fan curve for more airflow to drop temps even more
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Mid-tower mATX never again. It was seriously a pain in the ass. Filling the loop and burping it was surprisingly easy. Bought a cheap $10 psu which sped up the priming process. Have the D5 set on about 4.5, which yields an amazing amount of flow. Finally GPU boost 2.0 is useful, both cards maxed at 1125mhz on several benchmarks and bf4. Idles @27-29*c and maxed at 48*c. CPU idles -29-30*c, and prime95 maxed 54*c. Haven't done a burn test. I have all the fans running on smart mode in ASUS AI Suite and they didn't spin over 900rpms. Whisper quiet. I could feel the loop and rads heat up during benchmarking. Gonna see if i can set up a more aggressive fan curve for more airflow to drop temps even more
Looks Badass!!! I'm green with Envy of your level of "nerdiness". Wish i had the knowledge and patience to build mine from scrap.
Easier than it looks. Water cooling is fun but expensive as shit. I still have a bunch of fittings and crap in my shed. The best part about water cooling parts are they really don't change, except the CPU dies occasionally so you can use the stuff for many upgrades. The biggest part about water cooling is not really installing the stuff. It's the planning and getting all the parts that is a PITA.
Hey fellas, I've got a dilemma and was hoping you all could help me with it. I built a gaming PC a few years back (beginning of '12), but I no longer play PC games (family/kiddo, work, etc all take up my time). My best friends brother is wanting to build a PC, but asked me if I wanted to sell mine so he could just build up a few things off of it (probably GPU and CPU). I was hoping you all could help me figure out what you think I can get for this rig.
My main duties now are just basic browsing and I store all my movies/blu-ray's & music on my PC so really the only thing I'd need is a decent PC build with a good CPU, good amount of RAM and a lot of storage. What I have now is overkill for what I do so if I can sell it and make a little money on the deal after buying/piecing together another, smaller PC build that'd be great. Here's what I got....
CASE: Cooler Master HAF 932 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119213)
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro GOLD 1200w (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171055)
GPU: EVGA Superclocked GTX580 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130590)
CPU: Intel i5-2500k 3.7GHz Turbo Boost (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072)
MOBO: Asus P8Z68 V-Pro (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131730)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4gb) DDR3 1600 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233147)
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200rpm, 32MB Cache, 3Gb/s (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185)
CPU COOLER: Corsair H60 Liquid Cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181015)
Disk Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204
I'm not sure if he wants the keyboard, mouse and monitor, but those are:
Keyboard: Microsoft Sidewinder X4
Mouse: Logitech G500
Monitor: HP 2509b
Any idea's on what this could be worth? You guys know a lot more about this stuff than I do and I've been out of the PC gaming world for a few years it seems.
My main duties now are just basic browsing and I store all my movies/blu-ray's & music on my PC so really the only thing I'd need is a decent PC build with a good CPU, good amount of RAM and a lot of storage. What I have now is overkill for what I do so if I can sell it and make a little money on the deal after buying/piecing together another, smaller PC build that'd be great. Here's what I got....
CASE: Cooler Master HAF 932 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119213)
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro GOLD 1200w (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171055)
GPU: EVGA Superclocked GTX580 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130590)
CPU: Intel i5-2500k 3.7GHz Turbo Boost (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072)
MOBO: Asus P8Z68 V-Pro (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131730)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4gb) DDR3 1600 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233147)
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200rpm, 32MB Cache, 3Gb/s (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185)
CPU COOLER: Corsair H60 Liquid Cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181015)
Disk Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204
I'm not sure if he wants the keyboard, mouse and monitor, but those are:
Keyboard: Microsoft Sidewinder X4
Mouse: Logitech G500
Monitor: HP 2509b
Any idea's on what this could be worth? You guys know a lot more about this stuff than I do and I've been out of the PC gaming world for a few years it seems.
The case, ram, and especially that psu are the only relevant components imo that still hold value from this build.
780 TI is a great card, I run the GTX 670 overclocked but water-cooled along with a i5 3570k oced 1ghz on each core total (water cooled as well). An i7 isn't really worth it in gaming, it is better with video rendering\other things as most games, by most I mean pretty much all, use four cores, so an over-clocked i5 quad is better than a hyper-threading one. I'm using that H100, I mounted it to the top of my Haf-X w\ 2x 240mm fans on top pulling heat out as well as 2x 140mm Scythe gentle typhoons pulling air up through the rad as well. Works wonders. One thing I will say it do NOT get a 780TI with the single 80mm fan, it is loud as hell. Plenty of makers like Gigabyte\Asus\ make them with the dual fan, to three fans, which is quiet, unless you like a jet-liner revving up when your card gets hot. With those specs I'd just go with the 750w HX\TX Corsair. I've been using mine since the 4870 Radeon, thru the 5870 and 480 GTX and now the 670 GTX, but I already ordered the 980 GTX for Alien: Isolation.
I REALLY recommend you get a Haf-X case, best case I've ever owned and I've been through a boat-load. You really will never need another case, and the dual 240mm fans to exhaust heat up top + one in front, + side, yeah....it's a killer. Let alone the expansion ability.
Having gone on and on, your setup looks good though! P.S. I only really use Gigabyte these days as Asus failed on me in the past, but people do love Asus, I just dig Gigabyte for their over-clocking interface. You should easily be able to play 95% of games @ 1920x1200 @ 60+fps, or I guess most people have a 1920x1080, but yeah you'll be fine...but not for sure how long with all the new gaming engines coming out. I'd still drop down, save $ and go with an i5 and over-clock it, as in games, i7\i5 there is no difference but price, so you can buy a even higher end GPU.
I REALLY recommend you get a Haf-X case, best case I've ever owned and I've been through a boat-load. You really will never need another case, and the dual 240mm fans to exhaust heat up top + one in front, + side, yeah....it's a killer. Let alone the expansion ability.
Having gone on and on, your setup looks good though! P.S. I only really use Gigabyte these days as Asus failed on me in the past, but people do love Asus, I just dig Gigabyte for their over-clocking interface. You should easily be able to play 95% of games @ 1920x1200 @ 60+fps, or I guess most people have a 1920x1080, but yeah you'll be fine...but not for sure how long with all the new gaming engines coming out. I'd still drop down, save $ and go with an i5 and over-clock it, as in games, i7\i5 there is no difference but price, so you can buy a even higher end GPU.
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There are def things I'd do differently next time. Thats just one of those thing that u learn by doing it.
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