Friend wants powerful machine, help me out please :)

Anominity · 27 May 2009 at 15:27

This was pretty much his request (Different case and water cooler than he asked, as OCUK don't have them)

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £248.99

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) -Retail £235.99

Asus P6T Deluxe v2 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £229.99

Swiftech H2O-220 Apex Ultima Watercooling Kit - (Socket 462/478/LGA775/754/939/940/1366) £218.49

Tagan PipeRock TG1100-BZ 1100w Modular BZ Series Power Supply £195.99

Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £137.99

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £89.99

2 x Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Triple Channel (TR3X6G1333C9) £155.98

Comes in at £1515.

Now my first question, is is all that compatible?

My second question is how difficult is setting up Water Cooling, and if there is a better one than the one I have chosen?

And finally, why is it the people who can afford machines like this more often than not will likely never utilise a quarter of what its capable of?

LukeTW · 27 May 2009 at 15:31

Looks compatible to me

Will be a good rig.

cmndr_andi · 27 May 2009 at 15:42

Couple of optimisations:

1100W PSU is heavy overkill - this PSU should be enough for that rig with two 4870x2 cards.

As for 12GB of RAM its unnecessary and will make the system less stable. If he plans on overclocking (should be with that watercooling kit), that many RAM sticks will limit the overclock. Get 6GB of faster ram and you will get overall better performance.

A personal opinion now, I use that ASUS board, it is good but if I had the chance again, I would go for this one.

Anominity · 27 May 2009 at 15:46

Thanks very much for that input, I thought the same about the PSU being overkill, and 12gb ram, I lol'd when he mentioned it haha

lynchy6789 · 27 May 2009 at 16:12

I would go with the above changes also it would probably go with a custom watercooling kit if went down that path

Anominity · 27 May 2009 at 16:26

Cheers.

Anyone got any info on the Water Cooling side of things, is it hard to do, having never done it before?

lynchy6789 · 27 May 2009 at 16:37

Post what you are planning to watercool the case your or going to use and budget in the Overclockers & Cooling thread and they will advise you on the best set up as i don't really know much about watercooling just that your best off customising your own

shadowake · 27 May 2009 at 16:40

cmndr_andi said:
Couple of optimisations:

1100W PSU is heavy overkill - this PSU should be enough for that rig with two 4870x2 cards.

As for 12GB of RAM its unnecessary and will make the system less stable. If he plans on overclocking (should be with that watercooling kit), that many RAM sticks will limit the overclock. Get 6GB of faster ram and you will get overall better performance.

A personal opinion now, I use that ASUS board, it is good but if I had the chance again, I would go for this one.

+1 on those points