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What is a watercooled system? Sorry for all the dumb questions I'm just trying to learn as much as I can from you guys before I make my purchase
Water cooled means using a resevoir of liquid in your system and pumping it through tubes over your 'CPU' and 'GPU' to keep it cool. It's arguably the most efficient way of cooling your components and is also very quiet in comparison to air cooling. It's also a little more expensive and a bit more 'specialist' and probably less newcomer friendly. (Not that difficult though)
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What is a watercooled system? Sorry for all the dumb questions I'm just trying to learn as much as I can from you guys before I make my purchase
It's using water loop components (radiotor, pump, coloured liquid, fittings) to cool the CPU, instead of a lump of metal sitting on the CPU.
It's a more complex system, but keeps the CPU cooler under load. To be honest, don't bother with water cooling. The Prolimatech Genesis used in the pre-builds is good, your CPU will be overclocked at 4.5GHz and be kept cool and quiet anyway.
Water-cooling is usually for enthusiasts. If you want simple and effective, stick with standard cooling solutions (either a great bit heatsink like the Genesis, or a all-in-one sealed water cooled unit, like the Corsair H80).
For the case, you can choose a case with a side window, which will show the inside. It's kinda cool. Good case for this is the Corsair 650D, but there are others.
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I would recommend it absolutely. Todays overclocking is pretty simple and in basic terms means just 'turning up' the speed on your processor/graphics card. In doing so it means that your component are working harder and getting more voltage pumped into them, therefore needing more cooling.
OCUK prebuilts come with an OC option which will be pre stress tested and suitably cooled but it's very easy to do it yourself.
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On the new Intel CPUs, you can get 30% overclock easily.
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What is a watercooled system? Sorry for all the dumb questions I'm just trying to learn as much as I can from you guys before I make my purchase
Just to give you an idea of watercooling. This is a very high end system but gives a very nice example of what your system 'can' look like
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18412823
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The processors alone cost up to £3000
Nearly a grand on the graphics cards.
Ram - 3-400 quid
Case is £300
I would hazard a guess at the best part of £6000 :/
Nearly a grand on the graphics cards.
Ram - 3-400 quid
Case is £300
I would hazard a guess at the best part of £6000 :/
I think this is the one I will go for
"Ultima 9550i Tyrannosaur MKIII" Intel Core i7 3770K 3.50GHz @ 4.50GHz DDR3 Quad Core Ivybridge Nvidia GTX 680 System
What size SSD should I choose with this?
Also will the 7.1 on board sound card be any good for gaming and movies or should I ask them to upgrade the card for me?
"Ultima 9550i Tyrannosaur MKIII" Intel Core i7 3770K 3.50GHz @ 4.50GHz DDR3 Quad Core Ivybridge Nvidia GTX 680 System
What size SSD should I choose with this?
Also will the 7.1 on board sound card be any good for gaming and movies or should I ask them to upgrade the card for me?
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miniumum of 128gb, 256/512gb if you can afford it.
try it without, you can always slot a sound card in later if it doesn't perform as well as you'd like it to.
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They will indeed
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yup, will work.
as to whether it works or sounds as nice as you'd like it to is personal, so try it first then maybe upgrade later.
depending on what you plan to do have you thought of getting an audio amp/speaker setup ?
what would be the best soundcard for gaming, movies and music? i came across these ones on the overclockers website
Asus ROG Xonar Phoebus 7.1 PCI-E Soundcard
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard
Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card
Asus ROG Xonar Phoebus 7.1 PCI-E Soundcard
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard
Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card
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Xonar D2X for me.
The onboard sound chip on the UD5H is one of the better ones, so you could see how it goes.
The onboard sound chip on the UD5H is one of the better ones, so you could see how it goes.
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with the budget you've mentioned i'd have a look at that one.
not sure if there 5.1 or 7.1 but the Asus Xonar Essence's would also be worth a look.
what about this setup or are some of the components a bit overkill?
- System build fan. Sharkoon 2000rpm Golf Ball
- Full Cable Management
- Networking Not Selected
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050)
- Corsair Professional Series AX850 High Performance 850W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK)
- Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card
-Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BluRay ROM / DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive
- No RAID Option (ZERO Cost)
- Sandisk Extreme SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-240G-G25)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003)
- Gainward GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- G.Skill RipJawsZ 32GB (8x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (F3-14900CL9Q2-32GBZL)
- Asus Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard
- OcUK H²Flo Extreme Liquid Dual Fan CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM3)
- Stage 5: MAX OC OF ENTIRE SYSTEM - (CPU, RAM, Graphics all OC'd to Maximum 24/7 Stability)
- Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail
- Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black
- No Security Software
- Benq XL2420T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red
comes to £2665
- System build fan. Sharkoon 2000rpm Golf Ball
- Full Cable Management
- Networking Not Selected
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050)
- Corsair Professional Series AX850 High Performance 850W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK)
- Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card
-Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BluRay ROM / DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive
- No RAID Option (ZERO Cost)
- Sandisk Extreme SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-240G-G25)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003)
- Gainward GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- G.Skill RipJawsZ 32GB (8x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (F3-14900CL9Q2-32GBZL)
- Asus Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard
- OcUK H²Flo Extreme Liquid Dual Fan CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM3)
- Stage 5: MAX OC OF ENTIRE SYSTEM - (CPU, RAM, Graphics all OC'd to Maximum 24/7 Stability)
- Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail
- Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black
- No Security Software
- Benq XL2420T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red
comes to £2665