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Water or air?
I am defaulting to air, since I have pretty much no experience with water. :blush:
And, will you actually buy it, or am I just doing it just cause?
Uh, let's see...
Quad SLI GTX 480s
Core i7 980x
6GB DDR3 2000MHz Corsair XMS3
GIGABYTE UD9
Corsair AX1200 + SeaSonic X650
2x OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 200GB in RAID 0
4x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1TB, In RAID 0+1
ASUS Xonar STX
Custom Built Case
All over water, and OC'd to hell and back.
But you'd need a generator, and a custom fabricated outlet to house all that power, as they can output a max of 1700W, and that is obviously more.
The HDD/SSD set up is completely subjective, though.
Estimated price, minus all mods/waterblocks/fabricated stuff.
~$6800
Quad SLI GTX 480s
Core i7 980x
6GB DDR3 2000MHz Corsair XMS3
GIGABYTE UD9
Corsair AX1200 + SeaSonic X650
2x OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 200GB in RAID 0
4x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1TB, In RAID 0+1
ASUS Xonar STX
Custom Built Case
All over water, and OC'd to hell and back.
But you'd need a generator, and a custom fabricated outlet to house all that power, as they can output a max of 1700W, and that is obviously more.
The HDD/SSD set up is completely subjective, though.
Estimated price, minus all mods/waterblocks/fabricated stuff.
~$6800
Uh, let's see...
Quad SLI GTX 480s
Core i7 980x
6GB DDR3 2000MHz Corsair XMS3
GIGABYTE UD9
Corsair AX1200 + SeaSonic X650
2x OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 200GB in RAID 0
4x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1TB, In RAID 0+1
ASUS Xonar STX
Custom Built Case
All over water, and OC'd to hell and back.
But you'd need a generator, and a custom fabricated outlet to house all that power, as they can output a max of 1700W, and that is obviously more.
The HDD/SSD set up is completely subjective, though.
Estimated price, minus all mods/waterblocks/fabricated stuff.
~$6800
whats sad is this will be a standard PC in 3-6 years most likely. Technology for you.
Thats why you get another 7k in 3-6 years
No, it wouldn't.
Possibly the six-core, but not that exact one,
but 4GB-8GB will still be the standard, I believe.
But having 4 GPUs will never be the standard.
But probably incredibly fast SSD's that have a high capacity, like a 1TB with read/writes at 800/770 speeds. :O
I wasn't being that exact when I said the pc in 3-6 years ~ No standard PC user will have 4 1tb HDDs either XD
Actually Phobus, it can be WAY more expensive
Evga Classified SR-2: 700$
2- ASUS ARES GFX cards: 1200$ each
2- 980X (yes its a dual compatible Processor Board) 1200$ each
6X 8GB Ram Sticks 500$ EACH Total 3000$
+ all more stuff.
Watercooling can cost upto 1000$ and back if you make 3 GREAT LOOPS (CPU, GPU, Motherboard NorthBridge and Chipset.
Evga Classified SR-2: 700$
2- ASUS ARES GFX cards: 1200$ each
2- 980X (yes its a dual compatible Processor Board) 1200$ each
6X 8GB Ram Sticks 500$ EACH Total 3000$
+ all more stuff.
Watercooling can cost upto 1000$ and back if you make 3 GREAT LOOPS (CPU, GPU, Motherboard NorthBridge and Chipset.
Actually Phobus, it can be WAY more expensive
Evga Classified SR-2: 700$
2- ASUS ARES GFX cards: 1200$ each
2- 980X (yes its a dual compatible Processor Board) 1200$ each
6X 8GB Ram Sticks 500$ EACH Total 3000$
+ all more stuff.
Watercooling can cost upto 1000$ and back if you make 3 GREAT LOOPS (CPU, GPU, Motherboard NorthBridge and Chipset.
Good luck finding a waterblock for the board. The chips are right next to the PCI-E slots.
Actually Phobus, it can be WAY more expensive
Evga Classified SR-2: 700$
2- ASUS ARES GFX cards: 1200$ each
2- 980X (yes its a dual compatible Processor Board) 1200$ each
6X 8GB Ram Sticks 500$ EACH Total 3000$
+ all more stuff.
Watercooling can cost upto 1000$ and back if you make 3 GREAT LOOPS (CPU, GPU, Motherboard NorthBridge and Chipset.
Oh yeah. I was being at least somewhat practical.
Actually Phobus, it can be WAY more expensive
Evga Classified SR-2: 700$
2- ASUS ARES GFX cards: 1200$ each
2- 980X (yes its a dual compatible Processor Board) 1200$ each
6X 8GB Ram Sticks 500$ EACH Total 3000$
+ all more stuff.
Watercooling can cost upto 1000$ and back if you make 3 GREAT LOOPS (CPU, GPU, Motherboard NorthBridge and Chipset.
Only if you turn HT off, Why not just get 2 Xeon's? then you can have 24 threads!
I have no idea where you are getting this 1000$ WC stuff. Are you using 24ct. gold as coolant?
and yes singular, there are already waterblocks for the SR2
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I never said there wasn't.
this is for a friend
1. $500 maybe more Zip code is 73099
2. purpose is for gaming
3. NOT over clocking
4. what he will need is pretty much everything meaning a case, CPU, GPU, sound card, fans, heat sync and fan, and so on except a monitor (he has this one http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...37&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=459838&lang=en# but he can save up for a better one later) and an OS.
5. for as long as he can xD
6. he says "if the fan would be a little quiet thats great. the case doesnt have to look super fantastic but a nice sleek look would be OK as long as it has fan spots.
Please PM me the list if thats alright with you
1. $500 maybe more Zip code is 73099
2. purpose is for gaming
3. NOT over clocking
4. what he will need is pretty much everything meaning a case, CPU, GPU, sound card, fans, heat sync and fan, and so on except a monitor (he has this one http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...37&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=459838&lang=en# but he can save up for a better one later) and an OS.
5. for as long as he can xD
6. he says "if the fan would be a little quiet thats great. the case doesnt have to look super fantastic but a nice sleek look would be OK as long as it has fan spots.
Please PM me the list if thats alright with you
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this is for a friend
1. $500 maybe more Zip code is 73099
2. purpose is for gaming
3. NOT over clocking
4. what he will need is pretty much everything meaning a case, CPU, GPU, sound card, fans, heat sync and fan, etc except a monitor (he has this one http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...37&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=459838&lang=en# but he can save up for a better one later) and an OS.
5. for as long as he can xD
6. he says "if the fan would be a little quiet thats great. the case doesnt have to look super fantastic but a nice sleek look would be OK as long as it has fan spots.
Please PM me the list if thats alright with you
Pretty much everything includes a mouse and keyboard, but you didn't say he needed those. And that's a weak build, he should just save up more. I mean, he could just stick with onboard for a while then pick up a 5770 later on down the road.
