Computer spec's

[NKO29]

Meh, I just bought a H100i and took the IHS off my i5 3570k. Saw minimum 10 Celsius drop in temps idle and even more on load

 

[ryansoh3]

Meh, I just bought a H100i and took the IHS off my i5 3570k. Saw minimum 10 Celsius drop in temps idle and even more on load

Nice, did you only replace the TIM or remove the IHS entirely?

 

[NKO29]

Nice, did you only replace the TIM or remove the IHS entirely?

I left it off. I had to remove the bracket on my socket for the cooler to contact the DIE, but it was SOOO worth it :beer:

 

[Blarg King]

I'll stick with my big copper pipe heatsinks and fans.

 

[The Lightning Stalker]

I've heard a lot of bad bad things about the Powe®Stroke™.

 

[ReaperZ]

I'll stick with my big copper pipe heatsinks and fans.

YES !!!! my Prolimatech Megahalems v2 with Noctua fan will wtfpwn watercoolers left right and centre ..

thought it was about time i chimed into this thread .. i give you my baby

Specs
CPU : Intel i7 2600k @ 5.18ghz
Motherboard : Gigabyte P67a-UD4-B3
RAM : 8gb g.skill ripjaws x 8-8-8-24
COOLER : Prolimatech Megahalems v2 with Noctua NF-P12 fan
PSU : FSP Aurum 1000W 80+ Gold
GPU: EVGA GTX 780 SuperClocked - SLI !! (gotta love SLI)
Case : NZXT Phantom with 2x 200mm fans at top
Hard Drives - Boot : Samsung 840 Pro 256gb
Hard Drive - Storage : 3x 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives

the CPU is overclocked to the balls, using prolimatech pk-3 paste, and ive only pushed the GPU's a little bit (+130mhz on the cores, no o/c on the vram YET)

cpu temps are 25-30 idle, 55-60 @ 100% load.

Things to complete:
1) Replace GPU cabling with Bitfenix blue cables
2) replace sata power and sata data cables for dvd-rw to Bitfenix blue cables
3) Make a plate for the bottom to hide the PSU wiring

Heres a link to the full-size image
http://iforce.co.nz/i/5rtqzeny.wkl.jpg

 

[ryansoh3]

Wow, impressive rig!

Does anyone know of a budget waterblock?
I have a water chiller that I want to use as a CPU cooler, I have a small aquarium pump so I'll use that to circulate the water. There's so much room for disaster, but I would like to try it out when I'm not too busy.

Edit: The water should be about 3-5 deg C, should I be worried about condensation?

 

[ReaperZ]

i always wanted to visit Seoul .. im starcraft crazy!

 

[ryansoh3]

i always wanted to visit Seoul .. im starcraft crazy!

Haha, maybe sometime during the spring... It's crazy cold here now.

 

[Blarg King]

Had an idea for a liquid cooling system that would let you overclock like crazy.

1. Get a large foam food cooler
2. Get a large quantity of dry ice
3. Get several liters (or gallons if you use those) of pure methanol

Then simply put the dry ice in the cooler, pour the methanol over it, and pump the super cooled methanol through your liquid cooling system lines. Since methanol cant freeze your left with a liquid at about -80 degrees C. Could achieve some decent overclocks with that kind of thermal overhead.

(I have no idea if this would actually work. It sounds good in my head though)

 

[icecruncher]

Hard Drives - Boot : Samsung 840 Pro 256gb

I'm surprised no one has focused on this.
An SSD makes a HUGE difference in preceived speed of the system.

Get an Accelsior PCI-e blade card or something like it.

No matter how fast the CPU's are overclocked, etc. you still have to continuously read data from the HD.

I've got 20GB of RAM and 10TB of storage on a physical 8 core Xeon 3.2. But putting the Boot, the OS and major files on SSD will make even a slow system seem much faster!

You only really NEED about 40-80 GB for it. Make sure it's on a fast SATA port or a PCI-E card.

throughput on mine went from a little over 200MB/sec to over 700MB/sec.
Everthing loads faster and is quicker.
Cold system to prompt in 15 sec..

If you do, get something reliable and tested, cheap ones can be a nightmare, especially with trim issues.

 

[NKO29]

So true bout the SSD. My dad's 5 year old laptop is faster than my 1 year old laptop at booting and opening programs... But raw power goes hands down to mine

 

[brendon7358]

I ended up getting this; thoughts?

AMD FX-8350 (4.00 GHz -- Overclocked 20% to 4.8GHz ??)
AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
8GB DDR3-1866
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P -- AMD 970
Case: ARC 647 Gaming Case
2TB HDD SATA 6.0Gb/s
750 Watt Enermax LEPA G750-MAS 80 PLUS Gold
Liquid CPU Cooling System (the rest is just fans I think)

I will probably add an SSD later too

 

[Blarg King]

Though Im personally not a fan of AMD, it seems like a pretty solid build you got there.

 

[brendon7358]

I was planning on going with intel all along but after seeing that a lot of my friends had AMD and after looking at benchmarks, that's what I went with.

 

[Blarg King]

Huh. Usually AMD is lower than the equivalent Intel CPU, but that's why they're so much cheaper.