re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

This is what we benched with when we had our competitions.

Overclocking is how you boost performance, if you have an intel chip there are usually presets that you can used in the bios. It adds heat and fans noise the higher you get though. Video cards are a little harder as you have to manually play with the settings. Someone else will have better input on OCing I am a novice at it.

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I did just about everything but that

Putting the card under water too, right? I believe there's an EK block for the Gigabyte 970.

my desk setup looks 10 times worse. I've wanted to reorganize it for a long time, but I just get lazy. It would be a huge task.

Yeah I'm going to use the ek block but I'm gonna make a custom backplate out of acrylic with the gigabyte eye lit up in Red

Damn, pretty fancy for a first gaming build. What's the rest of your loop going to have?

So what happened with the 6 pack?

Two loops for two components would be a bit much; you could always get red and white opaque tubing in one loop. I generally don't recommend using dyes or colored coolant for loops. I know it looks fancy, but regular distilled water (with maybe a small additive like water wetter) performs just as well or better and is much more convenient to work with.

A little heavy on the radiator quantity/capacity for two components as well, unless you might be going SLI. Even still, I have two 980s and a 4770K with two 360mm radiators, and I know for sure I could easily eliminate one radiator. Maxwell is stupid-easy to cool. Prior to that I had two 290s which benefit a little more from the extra rad capacity. What pump are you going to use?

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Tomorrow, my case finally comes in. Tomorrow, I build. Tomorrow night, I game like its 1999.