£2150 Budget mixed feelings if worth it.

So after doing abit of looking and deciding I came up with this
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I been looking at your comments about the I7 3930 and looks like a good CPU to go for specially for CPU intensive games. I know the Haswell cpus come out in June and if the motherboard that is in the picture is not out before haswel then i'll get one of them instead unless they not good in performance compared to I7 3930.

I am debating if the PC case is good enough for my PSU because its not a modular it has a lot of useless wires.

Not sure about windows os because my Win7 was a family edition with 3 keys and I already installed them on a 2 laptops and my main pc.

PS.. do i need that adaptor panel for the ssd?
 
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You don't need it, you can just sit your SSD about, i'd remove post code from image :p

Will the ram fit? seems rather big to be used next to a big heatsink :p
 
Had watercooling before for crossfire 4870 X2 and the pumps kept failing they where XSPC never again.
Now days there is good air cooling for cpus and my GTX 680 Lightning is always at around 35-45 on load
 
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Shouldn't be put off due to a poor pump in the past (had a XSPC pump/res combo fail on me too)

Plenty of good pumps out there though, but no point adding w/c unless you plan on overclocking/want to waste some money on looks :p
 
Scotteh said:
Shouldn't be put off due to a poor pump in the past (had a XSPC pump/res combo fail on me too)

Plenty of good pumps out there though, but no point adding w/c unless you plan on overclocking/want to waste some money on looks :p
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Had XSPC Pump/Res aswell but it failed 4 times and had to send the whole computer back to get the part replaced that is 4 times going back where the assemble them and back to where I live and 3rd time my graphics card died because the pump failed so that was a 4870 X2 down then they replaced that then the other graphics card died and got a replacement for that as well.
 
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nadesicod25 said:
Had watercooling before for crossfire 4870 X2 and the pumps kept failing they where XCS never again.

Now days there is good air cooling for cpus and my GTX 680 Lightning is always at around 35-45 on load
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MSI did a great job in coolers I know, I owned a pair of 7970 lightning and love them :D

Anyways I really think throwing in <£2000 is best for watercooling... if not then wait for IB-E IMO... but gaming doesn't need that lot of CPU power i think...
 
Don't link competitors (or name them :p )

Next build i'll be doing with w/c will be using OcUK D5 Vario Pump + EK D5 X-Top V2 Value Combo rather than XSPC :P
 
Your RAM is 1600Mhz, it's double data rate so 800 is 1600Mhz.

Doesn't look like you've OC'd the CPU. Strange that you haven't tried that before wanting to move on. That's hardly a bad rig at all
 
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I am debating if the PC case is good enough for my PSU because its not a modular it has a lot of useless wires.
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I have this case, it is large, all the cabled tuck nicely away, easily. I also have the 750 variant of your PSU and I also have the K2 Mount Doom cooler, no concerns there either.

A quick note though, I keep seeing about low profile ram needed, well mine isn't low profile, it is standard height and is easily clear of the cooler, (Corsair XMS3 8GB PC3-12800C9 1600mhz)
 
hlxbravo said:
I have this case, it is large, all the cabled tuck nicely away, easily. I also have the 750 variant of your PSU and I also have the K2 Mount Doom cooler, no concerns there either.

A quick note though, I keep seeing about low profile ram needed, well mine isn't low profile, it is standard height and is easily clear of the cooler, (Corsair XMS3 8GB PC3-12800C9 1600mhz)
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That's about standard height, if you looked at the original ones in his image they were massive :p

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