Gaming Setup for £1300?

Doomed Bayres version is also very very good, still would buy the Phantek case over the 750D if i was going for a full water loop though, its just simply a better designed case for watercooling.
 
SiDeards73 said:
Doomed Bayres version is also very very good, still would buy the Phantek case over the 750D if i was going for a full water loop though, its just simply a better designed case for watercooling.
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Thank you.. I was impressed i could get it all more that money. :) a lot better value than that kit. 2 x 240mm rad will be a lot better IMO.

True, the Enthoo is an out and out watercooling case but in the same way the 900D is. It has space for a 480 and dual 360's i think. Ideal for 3/4 GPU's and a 2011 rig in my eyes, for this, just one 360mm or 2 x 240mm rads the 750d would be fine.. :)
 
I read somewhere i cant remember now, that Haswell wants like a 360 rad to keep it tamed if using an aggressive overclock and also 290s benefit from a decent sized rad also, i'd imagine your right though, 2 x 240mm rads would do the job, im opting for a 420 and 560 in mine though to fit 140mm fans across it all and drop in a 2nd 290 at some point :)
 
SiDeards73 said:
I read somewhere i cant remember now, that Haswell wants like a 360 rad to keep it tamed if using an aggressive overclock and also 290s benefit from a decent sized rad also, i'd imagine your right though, 2 x 240mm rads would do the job, im opting for a 420 and 560 in mine though to fit 140mm fans across it all and drop in a 2nd 290 at some point :)
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Well i don't know where you read that but i have seen people get seriuos OC's on 4770k's with the H100i, upto 4.7-4.8ghz..

Take into account the h100i is a 240mm rad with a small(tiny) pump and res.. And pretty poor coolant aswell (compared to proper watercooling).

You can put more vcore into chips under water so you'll probably get a better oc anyway but i think NEEDED a 360mm rad is a bit of a 'tall story'.

2 x 240's will handle Xfire 290's overclocked pretty easily.
 
So one 480mm radiator will be enough for a 4770k and CF r9 290? Here's what it looks like.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290 "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £329.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Primo Full Tower Case £199.99
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - W16 Watercooling Kit 480 £184.12
1 x XSPC EX480 120mm Radiator - Black £66.95
1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £51.98
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - FREE Gigabyte M8000x Gaming Mouse £143.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 1000W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £139.99
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC R9-290X - Acetal £79.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
2 x XSPC G1/4" to 7/16" ID, 5/8" OD Compression Fitting (Black Chrome) £3.19 (£6.38)
1 x XSPC 7/16" ID [16/11mm] High Flex Hose - Clear [1m Length] £2.99
Total : £1,602.52 (includes shipping : £58.52).

 
When you cf your 290 I would consider sticking another 240 rad in your case just to be on the safe side allowing you to be able to have a solid oc on both gpu's and the CPU else looks like a nice setup.
 
imo cherry pick watercooling parts to fit the build, those XSPC kits are ok but you can get a bit better if you pick the parts yourself for around the same kind of price.
 
The kit comes win corsair sp fans for the radiator, might want to double check this with CS but by the pic it does. However I do agree for the money you are spending you can get people is wc section to spec you a nice setup just give a budget and what colour theme you want and they will go to work. :)
 
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