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Hey guys, i'm going to buy a whole new system on saturday and just wondered if i have missed anything or if anything needs to be removed/replace



I will be adding a waterblock to the 4890 at a later stage. Or i might wait until OCUK stock the watercolour 4890 powerccolour when it arrives.

thanks in advance
 
Holy **** Why do you need a 1250W PSU? A 600W would suffice.

Also get the D0 stepping of the 920 (will allow for a better overclock).
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-280-IN

Get the Asus 4890, its almost £40 cheaper, and has been volt modded and overclocked a bit already. It should reach that HIS turbo speed through a further overclock.

I'm not too clued up on watercooling, so can't comment on that.

Other than that, it looks alright.
 
Looks a good setup, but just 1 or 2 things :p

Do you really need a PSU that powerful? 1250W is more tri SLI sort of power!

And why do you have a swiftech GTZ hold down plate for but no GTZ block? You have the EK one which doesnt need another hold down plate, fits on an i7 board as standard.

And whats the IDE cable for? You attaching an old hard disk to the system?

Oh and trust me, you wont need 3 bottles of Feser :p I used about 2/3 of a bottle filling my system (single bay res -> pump -> cpu -> 240 rad -> 120 rad). You have a bigger res so one bottle will probably be enough, or get 2 just to be on the safe side.

The tubing cutter isnt really needed either, I use a sharp craft knife and its fine.

Thats all I can see so far :)
 
well i went for the 1250W as it was only like £20 more so thought wha tthe hell, i might go crossfire later on as well.

Yes i have an old HDD i am attatching
 
Seems good to me, post back to tell us how you get on with it. I just noticed there's not any hard drives in the list, does that mean you are using the IDE drive as your main drive? That would be a nice bottleneck :P

With that kind of money to burn I would've gone for something like a 4870 X2, or at least another 4890 straight away. Have fun with it mate, Chris.
 
Agree with the comments above, 1250W is serious power, even a crossfire setup will pull less than half of that. Saying that, for a 1250W PSU it is a decent price, but certainly not needed :p

Get the Asus 4890, it has the volt mod which should see some serious overclocking, probably higher than the HIS.

I can't really comment on watercooling, never done and probabaly won't, decent air cooling is all I need.

If you are seriously spending this amount of money, lose the IDE hard drive as the boot drive, it will be a bottle neck and slow the system down, use it as a secondary storage drive. Get a 320gb sata hard drive (something like the samsung F1 or WD black), cheap as chips nowadays and install the OS/games on that. The fact you are watercooling a pretty high end system, don't skimp on the hard drive :p
 
The IDE drive i have is purely used for storage of old crap i have and will be getting rid of it soon enough.

My Budget is £1,500 or less, also looking to get the GFX watercooled but OCUK doesn't stock the blocks yet so might have to get it somewhere else then.

Thanks for all the great advise guys and keep it coming if you see anything else :)
 
isane PSU youve chosen, i cant see anything in the spec to justify it?! i would go with the first reply you got in this post, says everything im thinking lol :P
 
i have pc power cool power supply 1000w and tbh i dont need such power. might as well save some cash 750 W more then enough for crossfire setup
 
Sorry for being off topic, but why do people print the date as month-day-year? I have seen it like that quite a lot, but surely it should be day-month-year?
 
That makes sense (america's data format), when reading it as November 16th, 2003. I still find it a bit odd when I see it as 11/16/03 though.
 
i think the standard should be day-month-year, it just makes so much more sense doing it that way, but i guess i think that as i was brought up with that format.

anyways, i have changed the i7 to the suggested Do step one, also changed the GFX to the asus one, added a HDD and removed the IDE cable cause i'll just swap the files to one of my other drives.

now i am starting to wonder if it is worth going for another GFX and doing crossfire :rolleyes:
 
Just noticed as well, youve no fans for your radiator. Need 3 120mm fans.

Noctuas are some of the best around, quiet and shift a lot of air too... just look a bit nasty colour wise haha

Xilence fans are good too, and look nicer. Not much louder either and a lot cheaper

Or you can get some yate loons, they also seem a popular choice. As do Scythe fans, but Im not sure which are the best models (theres loads!)
 
Xilence fans are good have them on my watercooling.
You might need a Fan speed controller, not sure if you may have one already.
Clicky

PS - Your sig is to big 400 X 75 ;)
 
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