Cooling advice

[Katsumoto]

Still looking around to optimise my upcoming build (building in august ish). Got a lot of money saved, got my parents a new comp and now need my own for heavy gaming. Over holidays when i'm not going out it isn't rare to see the computer on all day.

Anyway, the build so far (rough ideas):

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 690 4096MB PCI-Express Graphics Card £899.99
1 x Asus Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £334.99
1 x Benq XL2420T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red £281.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £274.99
1 x Corsair Professional Series AX1200 High Performance 1200W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (CMPSU-1200AXUK) £214.99
1 x Thermaltake Level 10 GT Visionary Full Tower Case - Black £209.99
1 x Corsair Dominator GT 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C9 2133MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit with DHX Pro Connector (CMT16GX3M4X2133C9) **SPECIAL** £199.99
2 x Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD2) £178.99 (£357.98)
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional - Retail (FQC-00133) £169.99
1 x Razer Tiamat Elite 7.1 Surround Sound Analog Gaming Headset £159.98
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) £101.99 (£203.98)
1 x Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card £89.99
1 x LG BH10LS38 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Lightscribe Drive - Black (Retail) £79.98
1 x Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7 5600 DPI Gaming Mouse £76.99
1 x Noctua NH-D14-2011 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler with PWM Fans (Socket LGA2011) £72.98
1 x Saitek Cyborg V7 Illuminated Gaming Keyboard £54.98
1 x Belkin 8-Socket SurgeMaster Maximum Series with Telephone Protection - 4 Metres (F9M820uk4M) £21.43
1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24B3ST SATA ReWriter - Black (Retail) £20.99
1 x Edimax EW-7612UAN 300Mbps High-Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter £17.99
1 x Razer Goliathus Omega Fragged Speed Gaming Mouse Pad £13.99
1 x AVG Internet Security 2012 - OEM - 1 User 1 Year (ISCA0120UKS001) £6.24
Total : £3,797.50 (includes shipping : £27.55).




Will this run cool enough? Where i'll have it won't have much space around the tower, sort of in a cupboard if you will. I'm skeptical about water cooling because i'm a hopeless incompetent lol.

*Have a lot of media files etc hence the hard drive stuff going on there.

 

[RJC]

Motherboard and cpu won't work together, you will need a Z77 board.

PSU slightly overkill, unless you thinking of adding another 690 later, and perhaps drop the cpu to 3570K.

 

[Katsumoto]

Knew i'd miss something. Thank you for pointing that out.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Z77 Sabertooth Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £199.99
Total : £210.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).



That should work. Could've sworn I selected a socket 2011 processor. Meh. Still a damn fine one.

 

[RJC]

No probs

Def a high spec system.

 

[Katsumoto]

Best note i would indeed be looking at overclocking but not sure how much by. I hear ivybridge CPU's run somewhat hotter.

 

[Gav_881]

Also wrong socket on your cpu cooler mate, the 1155 model is supposed to be about as good as mine so expect about 4.6Ghz to be your max watercooling is the only way to go higher realistically.

 

[trickynickyuk]

nice spec mate just the boarrd as already stated if you going to have it in a cupboard i would look at a bit better cooling with a few extra fans the nh-d14 is a fantastic cooler for your CPU though

 

[Justintime]

Crikey those WD blacks are still mega expensive, luckily i snagged 2 2Tb Blacks for 100 each from a supplier last week