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Heat wise no difference so far at stock speeds. It consumes a little more power but overall I am happy with it. I guess whether its worth the extra is up to you, I'm rather under using mine. I only have 4x2GB sticks of ram and I don't think I will use all that power very often (I will try though). I will let defiantly be keeping this thread up to date so you will soon know about overclocked power and heat! The only thing I would say though is that I could do with the EK block for the VRM's there isn't a lot of airflow over them and after a prolonged BF3 session last night they were fairly warm!
 
So, one year later, this project is going to swing back into life. Since this point, I've upgraded a little more. I now have 2 520 series SSD's in raid 0, a second 580 for SLI (waterblock incoming). I'm going to be re doing all the tubing. A few more upgrades here and there, maybe watercool the motherboard. I'm also in the process of updating my office and server so that may make an appearance too!

So here I go again . . .
 
Thanks, It will be about a week till anything starts (dissertation due in next Thursday).

The Bitfenix fans are great. Lots of air moved and very quiet even at full whack. (I bought 2 more for my house mates PC) I would recommend them!

I always thought the shoggy sandwhich looks like a giant liquorice all sort. Works a treat though!
 
Thanks everyone. I managed to do a quick and dirty upgrade to put the second 580 under water but no proper changes yet.

Does anyone have any good suggestions for fast RAM? Dominator platinum seems a bit expensive, Samsung green is a little boring to look at (silly reason I know). Is Patriot Viper any good? The stuff in Intel Extreme Masters colours looks interesting! I want 16GB of 2133 if possible?

One GTX580 heatspreader

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One grubby block, one clean block. I have to give it to Mayhems, no gunk no mess and the colour hasn't stained after a year!

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A little sneak peek, as I say a very quick job of shoving the other 580 in!

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