Been out of the hobby for a while, got it all sorted except the essentials!!

engstrom0304 · 30 Jun 2011 at 21:47

Ok, So im planning an antec skeleton watercooled project... looking at the moment for a mobo, cpu and gpu watercooled...

allowing £300 for case and watercooling, but thats likely to rise...

Looking for the rest... best i can get for about £400...

Not really sure what the best is out there atm for this cash

Just looking for casual gaming to be honest...

Remember that doesnt need cooling or case...

engstrom0304 · 30 Jun 2011 at 22:11

Would want a graphics card tbh... integrated chips wont cut it for gaming will it to be honest...

Used for gaming, but nothing too much...

engstrom0304 · 30 Jun 2011 at 22:22

Jordan97 said:
You want to OC?

Would very much be an option as I will be watercooling... therefore, a lower clocked cpu would be a good money saving option...

engstrom0304 · 30 Jun 2011 at 22:31

I'd kinda like to steer clear of AMD, had many bad experiences... Dont need an os...

engstrom0304 · 30 Jun 2011 at 22:38

Hmm... thanks guys...

I may go for AMD anyway... but they seem more unstable than intel in many cases... maybe its just my bad luck, who knows.

engstrom0304 · 30 Jun 2011 at 22:40

stulid said:
Then your **** out of luck as you need a K cpu and P67/Z68 board to overclock a sandybridge, and thats £300 just for the CPU/RAM and motherboard, leaving very little for the rest.

Would an overlcocked AMD X4 phenom II be quicker than a stock sandybridge?

engstrom0304 · 1 Jul 2011 at 14:12

IPAddis said:
+1. Can't see why you would compromise on the hardware for the sake of watercooling. There are cheaper ways of making it quiet if that's your thinking and better ways of making it fast.

Its simply a project for fun... much more bothered about things like, mounting the rad and pump and res on the antec skeleton etc... and the looks than the performance...

engstrom0304 · 1 Jul 2011 at 18:13

wilko49 said:
You won't get anything near the performance of your current rig - seems like a very expensive project just for kicks. Have you thought about upgrading your current rig instead?

Alternatively, if you used the GPU from your current rig, you could get an i5 2500K rig easily.

Had to get rid of this rig... havnt updated sig yet!