Thinking about upgrading

[Spikes]

If you hook the liquid cooling up to the video card, yes.

[ACE]

If you hook the liquid cooling up to the video card, yes.

I bought it from ibuypower so i havent checked .  Wanting to upgrade to a new card , im afraid ill mess something up if im not careful lol.

[Spikes]

I have never messed with a water cooling setup. I'm afraid the do it yourself ones have too much room for error and one mistake can fry your entire computer. I hear the Corsair CPU ones are nice. A single rad...plug in and go. I'm sure you could set one up for the video cards with one as well. If you bought it through somebody, it may take a greater amount of time and work to rework their setup, also I'd assume doing anything to the stock cooling of the video card voids the warranty? I was thinking of doing it myself since I can't hear myself think with this card.

[ACE]

Ill leave mine alone or take it to a local tech.

[The Fugitive]

what is wrong with you.  everything is so clean, no ashtrays or trash on the floor and no beer/alcohol anywhere.  you cant build a computer like that?


semp

Well, I gave up smoking 15 years ago, but the beer frig is full 

Also, this is only the "unpacking" phase. I did spend 10 minutes chasing little peanuts of styrofoam around the house.

Which i7 did you get? And how much ram?

I got the 3770K in the LGA1155, only 8 gigs of ram for now, but knew I could add more later.

Skuzzy gave me a great piece of advice when I built my rig in February - TAKE YOUR TIME!

Took me an entire day (haven't built a rig in over 10 years...was fun learning to read Chinese english instruction manuals)

Everything was cake except for the heat sink which I never used, or SSD drives for the I7's cache.

Thanks, building one is easy. After building video games, and rebuilding pinballs and all other kind of vending machines the actual "build" is a piece of cake. The part I hate is getting it setup like I like it, and all the right software installed an updated. A week down the road I always end up with a list of things I forgot to add. 

[BaldEagl]

With liquid cooling does it cool the video card or no?

Only if you buy water blocks for your video card.

[The Fugitive]

Assembled and ready to go!

[Spikes]

Cool man! My mobo pooped the bed a couple days ago. Getting an i5 3570k, Z77 mobo and 16 gigs of ddr3 ram as an upgrade.

[ebfd11]

How is that 670 doing sir???


I am doing a rig for a friend and he is sending all the products to my house.


NZXT 810 Switch case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146094

EVGA X79 MB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188123

i7 3930 CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116492

Corsair Vengance Memory (32 gig) 16 going into storage http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233263

Velociraptor Hard drive (1 tb) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236243

OCZ 240 gig SSD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227727

CorsIR 1200 watt PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139014

with 3 of these monsters EVGA GTX 670 FTW http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130787

I told him he could go and put it together himself but he said he wanted me to build it ... He still is undecided as to whether he is going water cooled but I told him he would be silly not to with all that money invested in a computer. LOL

LawnDart

[guncrasher]

lawn why not just get the 8gig ram? something like this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233232

semp

[ebfd11]

Because he wants to put 16 in now and save the other 16 for later as an upgrade .

LawnDart

[MaSonZ]

3X 670's?? Whats he doing with it?

[Spikes]

Because he wants to put 16 in now and save the other 16 for later as an upgrade .

LawnDart

That is pointless. Plus this mobo only has 4 slots.

[MaSonZ]

That is pointless. Plus this mobo only has 4 slots.

Yes and no, 7 Pro only recocognizes up to 8 gigs, although I believe you can still access the rest. I believe. The board having only 4 DIMM slots isnt much of a draw back either, long as client gets a 2011 socket board when he wants to put the final 16 gigs in, if he gets 8 DIMM slots (which from what I've seen is pretty normal with 2011, supporting up to 64 gigs), he can slap the final 16 in.

[guncrasher]

Yes and no, 7 Pro only recocognizes up to 8 gigs, although I believe you can still access the rest. I believe. The board having only 4 DIMM slots isnt much of a draw back either, long as client gets a 2011 socket board when he wants to put the final 16 gigs in, if he gets 8 DIMM slots (which from what I've seen is pretty normal with 2011, supporting up to 64 gigs), he can slap the final 16 in.

I think the pointless thing about it is that the ram may never be used.  or if later used perhaps the mobo that he gets wont be able to use it.  ram is cheap right now, but it's really useless to buy something that may or maynot be used in the near future.


semp