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AdamWest
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Can someone put together a rig for me? I'm too lazy to browse new egg.
Max cash is: $1500
I NEED a liquid cooling system link too. Don't include it in the whole comp bundle. (Also, I'm requiring something that can be overclocked pretty fucking high)
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Q6600 ( sexy quad core)
eVGA 790i motherboard
250GB HDD
Antec 900
3x 8800GT (yes 3 of them!)
2x 1GB Crucial Ballistix and 2x 512mb Crucial Ballistix (3GB total)
I have an Antec PSU, but it does not support triple SLI... Good luck finding one of those
Antec 900 supports liquid cooling
LIQUID COOLING IS LOUD AND OVER KILL!
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Before I would go on making anything for you, I need to know:
What games are you planning on playing? High-stress games like Crysis/COD4/etcetera?
What resolution will you be playing at?
Do you need a monitor?
About liquid cooling, it consumes a lot of power, is loud and is total overkill. The only great difference between it and air cooling is the looks. Any processor faster than 3.0GHz is totally unnecessary.
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Looks okay, may tweak some things
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That's a pretty good build guys.
Ill post my build for you later im a little buzy sorry man.
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Case: Doesn't have many fans. Antec 900 beats it by a mile.
Motherboard: Most of the reviews say this thing has problems with... everything. If you're gonna pay that much for a mobo, get this or something.
CPU: Why waste $60 and get a 2.5GHz processor when you could pay that much less for a Q6600?
Cooling unit: Liquid cooling uses too much power, is noisy, and isn't much better than an aftermarket fan. Useless, imo.
RAM: 8 gigs? You won't see much of a difference between 2 GBs. If anything, get 2 of this and a 32 bit OS.
GPU: The 9800GTX won't be any different from the 8800GT unless you're running a very high resolution. In fact, in some cases the 8800GT is actually better than 9800GTX.
HDD: If I were you, I'd use a WD raptor as your main drive and a larger, slower drive as your storage drive.
PSU: This I can agree with.
DVD: I can agree with this too.
You'll need some serious changes.
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@Zarr; he has $1500. 
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| Zarr wrote: | Before I would go on making anything for you, I need to know:
What games are you planning on playing? High-stress games like Crysis/COD4/etcetera?
What resolution will you be playing at?
Do you need a monitor?
About liquid cooling, it consumes a lot of power, is loud and is total overkill. The only great difference between it and air cooling is the looks. Any processor faster than 3.0GHz is totally unnecessary. |
You couldn't be any farther off. It doesn't consume much more power than air, it is almost always quieter than air, and a proper water cooling setup will have huge gains over air cooling. Of course if we're talking the cheapo $150 kits then I'd have to agree with you, but don't generalize all water cooling into that category.
To the OP, what do you want watercooled? Just the CPU, or the GPU as well? These are the only decent budget watercooling kits I've seen so far:
http://www.petrastechshop.com/wacoki.html
Also as far as Tri-SLi is concerned, while I can't say I recommend it for this build, you don't need a Tri-SLi certified PSU. Any decent 750w PSU will cover it with ease, and each video card will come with an adapter to connect the 6/8 pin PCI-e to a standard molex instead, if there's not enough PCI-e power connectors.
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