PC Gaming Buddies. I'm Back With My New Build

Very nice sir! Got the same mouse!

I had the normal one before I sold it. I didn't want the LED, so the Black edition was what I went with

Jcole, yea the case is big, it's a full tower. I like it A LOT more than my old phantom (I think it looks a helluva lot better than it too)

I'm jelly I didn't think about a white tower before I built mine in December.

You are way above my paygrade, nice build.

you frickers must rob banks in your spare time as often as you change builds

i haz real life bills

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you frickers must rob banks in your spare time as often as you change builds

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no that's just blue. He has spent more time building and rebuilding than actually playing games.

Nice work though Blue. It's pretty apparent that you need a full tower case to do any serious watercooling. Some mid towers are compatible with the thin rads, but anything 60-80mm thick pretty much requires full tower, which is why I am not gonna water cool yet. I will leave my current build as is for a couple years until I am ready to change socket, mobo, and case and probably WC then.

Do you have gentle typhoons in the front and back or just on the rad? walk us through the WC parts you used and give us a ballpark figure on how much you spent on the WC alone.

you and i have very different definitions of "broke college student". when i was at lsu, all my money went to beer.



































and coke. but mostly beer.

I'll inform NASA that they've been robbed.

Its xspc tubing with distilled water. I'm using silver kill coil

Alright so all about this WC loop. I spent roughly $400ish give or take on the whole thing. I got a deal for the 7970 that came with the block, and I got a deal on the pump. Everything else was bought brand new off of frozencpu. I would have finished the build in a few hours, but I had to go through and buy like 6 different sets of screws before I found the right ones.

I went with the Gentle Typhoon fans on top of the radiator in pull because I took up a lot less space in the case (the 810 has a very nifty top slot for fans for a rad, watch linustechtips review on it). The 810 is a great water cooling case, because it can fit a 360, a 240 and two single 120s at the same time. I went with the Black Ice SR1 rad because it is optimized for low RPM/quiet fans, which is what I was looking to do with this build (make it quieter).

I just finished playing DayZ and my temps never went above 40C, and they don't go above 42C in 3DMark overclocked at 1125/1575. I have yet to OC the processor yet, but don't worry that's soon to come.

I really only spent $300 on this build, mostly because of the water cooling. I was able to sell my last build for a very nice amount, so it made funding this build a heck of a lot easier

Looks good man!

What liquid did you use and what manufactor you went with for the tubing?