Am i leaving out anything?

mrteabag

mrteabag

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I have a feeling im leaving out something...Especially with the water cooling part.

EDIT: remembered the reservoir,added this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-040-EK
 
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Well, what else do you have?

Kind of hard for us to judge what you require when we don't know your previous purchases...
 
Why such a good system but no triple channel memory?? I would recommend getting just the Corsair h50 and using the saving and buying one velociraptor and a SSD.
 
My main worry is that i have all the bits for a functional water cooling system,never done water cooling before.I think i have a fair understanding of how it works.I have built a few pc's before so im ok otherwise.Thanks ;)
 
Im not dead set on water,just great performance.I have a chance to spend a bit of money here,its for a business.

And i'l be alrite installing it

EDIT:Maybe you lads are right,if i do mess it up its a hell of a lot of money gone to waste..Which i7 cooler would you recommend?
 
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Ok well i still say get a Corsair h50 as there is not much point in custom watercooling unless you are cooling graphics card and doing some high overclocking.... Are you going to be OCing high? If not i would suggest going for a cheaper board such as the Gigabyte EX58-UDR3 which still clocks high but just does not have some of the features of the rampage. Also i would drop the Scythes as i believe the Apaches are a lot better.....
Is the HX1000 necessary? ie you triple sli'ing graphics cards? if not i would say a HX750/850 or a TX series powersupply will be more than enough
What will the pc be used for? As you may be better with a i5...
 
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Thanks for the advice,yeah the 1000 is a bit overkill but i thought i might need it for the wc'ing.Its going to be used as a sip server for (hopefully)hundreds of concurrent calls.I would like to be able to upgrade to an i9 when it comes.
 
Looks quality mate, I would suggest getting 4xSamsung F3 1tb instead of WD Caviar Green, That dominator ram is very over priced and i would suggest something cheaper ie OCZ Gold 6gb also judging by the rest of the build you have quite a budget.... I would suggest getting a SSD such as the M225 128gb will be better than a VELOCIRAPTOR....
 
Yea i pretty much dont have a budget lol.I dont have the money for a packet of crisps(taytos in ireland)but its not my money so i may aswell have a bit of fun.
Cheers for the recommendations.
 
Man up and get the proper water cooling. It's only plumbing after all.

You ideally want triple channel ram, not double channel. You don't want a litre of coolant at £20, you want a litre of deionised water for 60p with a £3 bottle of pt nuke or a scrap of silver.

The 18W pump, astonishingly, uses 18W. So you definitely don't need a monster of a psu for water cooling. You probably don't want two raptors in raid 0, though only you know how much space your operating system will take up. Finally get a 60mm thick thermochill instead of the thin xspc, it's significantly better.

I'm assuming budget isn't much of an issue based on the raptors. Otherwise you're doing fine :)
 
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Thanks for the advice,yeah the 1000 is a bit overkill but i thought i might need it for the wc'ing.Its going to be used as a sip server for (hopefully)hundreds of concurrent calls.I would like to be able to upgrade to an i9 when it comes.
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So it's for a business? Why are you building them a gaming rig? Will they appreciate you spending a load of cash that's not necessary? When they find out it's not fit for purpose will they come back to you to put it right, or will you have lost potential further sales and income?

I don't know the first thing about SIP servers, but what you're building looks nothing like a server. Is any kit required to route the calls into the server? What sort of CPU load will be needed, IO load etc? Do they have any requirements?

Off the top of my head I'd be looking at cheaper graphics, potentially more memory, losing the BD and speaker and if you have the budget an SSD instead of the raptors for the OS, maybe more HDs and a dedicated RAID card so that you can build in some redundancy. If it's business critical I wouldn't be looking at any significant overclocks, meaning water shouldn't be an option.
 
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The build with the monitor,kb and mouse etc. is for someone else.
I was told to build a pc with as much power as can be put into a fairly reasonable budget,not sure of any particular requirements but they want to be able to expand easily also.Its going to be a kind of a VOIP service for the area and needs to handle all the calls.Thats all i know to be honest.

EDIT:Just saw this on the forums,wouldnt that be a great little board?
http://www.clunk.org.uk/news-stories/dfi-mi-p55-t36-mini-itx-board-imminent.html
 
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mrteabag said:
The build with the monitor,kb and mouse etc. is for someone else.
I was told to build a pc with as much power as can be put into a fairly reasonable budget,not sure of any particular requirements but they want to be able to expand easily also.Its going to be a kind of a VOIP service for the area and needs to handle all the calls.Thats all i know to be honest.

EDIT:Just saw this on the forums,wouldnt that be a great little board?
http://www.clunk.org.uk/news-stories/dfi-mi-p55-t36-mini-itx-board-imminent.html
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You need them to talk to them to define what "power" means and get their specific requirements so you build them something that meets their needs.

I'd suspect network bandwith, fast disks, and possibly even mutliple CPUs might be more important. They may be better served by an Opteron or Xeon based platform. Also what sort of DR will be required? What availability is expected? But I'm no expert on these servers - these are probably more important aspects to a business.

TBH, you need to do a lot of reading up and spend sometime understanding your customer's expectation before embarking on a build.
 
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