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Mynight

Mynight

Mynight

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Hello all, I am in the process of building a new pc (shocker). It will mainly be used for graphic design and app building (ios, android and the like) however I adore playing games in my down time. So I'm looking for an all rounder really.

Currently I have this in my basket;

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7970 Lightning BOOSTED Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 900D Super Tower Case £299.99
1 x Seasonic 860w '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply £179.99
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - W16 Watercooling Kit 480 £167.09
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 480 £94.99
1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £51.98
2 x Adata XPG SX900 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (ASX900S3-128GM-C) £95.99 (£191.98)
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £53.99 (£107.98)
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
12 x XSPC G1/4" to 3/8" ID, 5/8" OD Compression Fitting (Black Chrome) £2.99 (£35.88)
Total : £1,564.00 (includes shipping : £16.85).





I also have in another websites basket;
x79 Asus Sabertooth
16gb g skill 1600mhz
I7 2011 3820 (My software doesn't yet utilize 6 cores)

Already own;
20x scythe gentle typhoons 1450rpm,
360mm and 240mm hardware labs sr1 rads,
and enough tubing to watercool my house.


Now I wonder if I've overlooked something especially in regards to the PSU(Is it enough for my spec'd system?).

If anyone has any recommendations as to additions/changes I'd love to hear them :)

Thank you for reading.
 
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The PSU should be fine for that setup...

Not wanting to watercool the GPU? Especially with the Rad's you have, you could easily manage it. :)
 
I'm really tempted :)

What do you recommend- Swap the msi lightning to the ocuk water cooled 7970?

Would the x20 res/pump have the grunt to get through two blocks and three rads?
 
Considering you already have a 480 and 360 rad do you actually need to buy a kit. Id just buy a pump and a red (I like tube res). :)

With 20 GT's you won't need any extra fans either..
 
The list has been altered slightly removing the fans and only purchasing the rad/ cpu block and pump.

My last water cooling adventure was a kit from ek so I'm a bit unsure about which pump / res to get.

Upon reading the D5 vario seems to be a real winner but I would prefer to be able to control it from a fan controller so I'm a bit lost at this point.

Tube res are gorgeous though :)

I do plan on xfire eventually or maybe just an upgrade (see what next gen brings).
 
Sorry I can't seem to edit my post anymore:/ (presume time limit).

Does anyone know if there's a waterblock to fit the msi 7970 lightening boosted edition?
 
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