2.5k gaming rig & part time miner

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Howdy

As the title suggests,

I'm looking at putting together a gaming rig, for the last few years I've been buying gaming laptop's, thanks to work/travel. But now I'm looking at getting a nice old desktop back.

Secondly, I'm changing energy supplier which gives me free economy 7 electric (free at night).
I've done a bit of testing with XMR and my current laptop 6700hq i7 ~ 980GTXm with reasonable results, so why not give it a bash it'll be free and the hardware will be off or idle at that time.
But the primary objective is a gaming rig & liquid cooled.

Heres my basket, it's been a few years since I had to put hardware together so inspiration is welcomed!

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,518.13 (includes shipping: £14.70)​
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shame all the liquid cooled 1080ti's are out of stock.

Thanks for your time!
 
YouMust said:
Howdy

As the title suggests,

I'm looking at putting together a gaming rig, for the last few years I've been buying gaming laptop's, thanks to work/travel. But now I'm looking at getting a nice old desktop back.

Secondly, I'm changing energy supplier which gives me free economy 7 electric (free at night).
I've done a bit of testing with XMR and my current laptop 6700hq i7 ~ 980GTXm with reasonable results, so why not give it a bash it'll be free and the hardware will be off or idle at that time.
But the primary objective is a gaming rig & liquid cooled.

Heres my basket, it's been a few years since I had to put hardware together so inspiration is welcomed!

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,518.13 (includes shipping: £14.70)
​

shame all the liquid cooled 1080ti's are out of stock.

Thanks for your time!
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When you say water , do you mean closed loop units like you've listed above or would you be happy to build a water loop yourself ?

Also coffeelake i5 8600k or i7 8700k is better value for money as they are now 6 cores instead of 4 like the one you've listed :)
Though you do have the option to slap in a 18core.monster with that x299 socket in the future :D
 
orbitalwalsh said:
When you say water , do you mean closed loop units like you've listed above or would you be happy to build a water loop yourself ?

Also coffeelake i5 8600k or i7 8700k is better value for money as they are now 6 cores instead of 4 like the one you've listed :)
Though you do have the option to slap in a 18core.monster with that x299 socket in the future :D
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Hi orbitalwalsh

thanks for popping in, your right!
I've had a read up (still rusty).
How does the i7-7820X sound?
I have no issue making a loop, I've not done it before but how hard can it be.
 
YouMust said:
Hi orbitalwalsh

thanks for popping in, your right!
I've had a read up (still rusty).
How does the i7-7820X sound?
I have no issue making a loop, I've not done it before but how hard can it be.
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Classic case of i7 8700k being 6 core and 12 threads for £350 and can overclock to 4.8
With AMD Ryzen 1700 being 8 cores and 18 threads make lower end x299 poor value for money , if your pure gaming i7 8700k all the way . If you really want Intel and lots of cores hen push the 10 core chip , after that max overclock speeds tend to drop. Most games are still clock speed dependant rather then thread count
 
is the 7820x not better? with 8 core +16 threads @ very similar speeds
I guess it's price/performance?
on the loop making side,
Do you put everything in parallel or run everything in series? (ie)
Pump > CPU > GPU > radiator ?

thanks!
 
YouMust said:
is the 7820x not better? with 8 core +16 threads @ very similar speeds
I guess it's price/performance?
on the loop making side,
Do you put everything in parallel or run everything in series? (ie)
Pump > CPU > GPU > radiator ?

thanks!
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The Intel should perform and will perform faster but the cost of it is double !
And it's GPU that gets you the gaming power . Part time mining you'd get a second GPU for mining in there !

Run in series , normally because it's easier but most people do what's nicer ! Doesn't matter which order - thermal dynamics .... Big read that but loop water reaches an equilibrium temp through out :)
 
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