My Corsair Vengeance Series Build - Need Further Inspiration!

TheDesX77 said:
If your'e willing to spend some cash on this get a KFA2 GTX680 if you really want to go all white, red and black.

Otherwise the MSI one looks pretty good, apart from the blue bit on top.

It might be nice to add some braided cables too to finish the whole thing off nicely.
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I would go GTX 680 but to be honest it is quite far out of my price range, also not too keen on the White PCB, however I will try and consider some of the MSI Twin Frozr 3 Designs, as they feature red and black lines on them also. I am also planning to buy some Corsair fully braided red cables, only when I upgrade my PSU to one that's supported by them though.

Somthing Else said:
dont spend money on pointless parts that you dont need mate. get the rig performing as you want and then do the finer details.
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Also something like a closed loop watercooler is only really something I'd buy when I would be looking at heavy overclocking anyway, that is if I don't skip it altogether and move to proper watercooling. However it's not necessary at the moment so wont need to look at that kinda stuff just yet.

Have got an fan controller due in the post, however only to keep my fan noises down when I don't need them so much, as they are pretty noisy at the moment. Any ideas as to where to place the thermo sensors would be great.

Thanks for the advice, next step for me I think is focusing on getting a half decent ATX mobo, as I wont be getting a new GPU just yet... :)
 
My fan controller recently arrived, however I do appear to be having some minor troubles with it, anyone who does own another Aerocool Touch 2100 - would love to hear from you and if this issue is only affecting me - have emailed Aerocool and hopefully will get the problem sorted. Looks absolutely beast though :D

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Somthing Else said:
i used to have an nzxt sentry lx fan controller. hated it. was slow to respond and a lot of the time never even adjusted the fans.

much rather have a manual dial controller any day
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I did initially look at the Sentry LX, however the difference with this is that it supports a massive 25W per channel, and Aerocool (from what I've read) are generally trusted and have high build quality, which this controller definitely has. But yes I have to agree, the issue with it is it isn't actually adjusting the RPM's. emailed the support and I've received a non-automated reply saying they will get back to me:)
 
been in contact with Aerocool Support, unit may be faulty so will have to RMA it :/ meanwhile here are some pics I've taken recently (out of boredom of course :P):

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id just get your money back for the fan controller, replace it with something like a lamptron fc5


YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £299.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 660TI 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £219.95
1 x Lamptron FC5 V2 5.25" Bay Fan Controller - Black £34.99
1 x Lamptron FC6 5.25" Bay Fan Controller - Black £29.99
1 x Lamptron FC2 5.25" Bay Fan Controller - Black £24.98
Total : £621.30 (includes shipping : £9.50).




some gpu options in there that will match the colour scheme
 
Somthing Else said:
id just get your money back for the fan controller, replace it with something like a lamptron fc5


YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £299.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 660TI 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £219.95
1 x Lamptron FC5 V2 5.25" Bay Fan Controller - Black £34.99
1 x Lamptron FC6 5.25" Bay Fan Controller - Black £29.99
1 x Lamptron FC2 5.25" Bay Fan Controller - Black £24.98
Total : £621.30 (includes shipping : £9.50).




some gpu options in there that will match the colour scheme
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thanks, I appreciate the suggestion, but I think I may keep this, as it is the only powerful LCD fan controller I've seen and I do really like it - however I will further look into fan controllers and consider what you've said :P regarding the graphics cards, I have been looking at the EVGA lineup and I have always liked them, may end up going for the 670 as it does have the white strip :D I think I'm going to head towards MSI / EVGA, I've come to the conclusion that the ASUS Direct CU2 series do look horrible haha :)
 
Alright,
I've finally come to the conclusion that I would prefer an Intel Extreme Board instead, along with an MSI GTX 670 Power Edition card. Partly because they go so well together, and the Intel board is much more feature rich than the ASRock board, for example having Thunderbolt. It has also worked out slightly cheaper, and I have asked for the bundle for my upcoming birthday - this does mean I now have to look for a part-time job also :P

Intel DZ77RE-75K:
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MSI GeForce GTX 670 Power Edition
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Sorry for the confusion!
 
sounds good! 670 is a good gpu but have you had a look at the amd offerings? they are hard to ignore at the current price


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £299.99
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £249.95
1 x Sapphire HD 7870 XT rev2.0 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £191.99
Total : £753.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).



the sapphire 7870 is essentially a 7950 gpu core, and the gigabyte wf 7950 and 7970 are regarded as one of the best coolers
 
A word of caution - if you plan to watercool, the MSI power edition is a non-reference PCB design. I have just started a rebuild and came across this. There are currently no waterblocks to support the PCB - except I guess for generic chip only blocks but these look horrid.

Now trying to decide if I wait for someone to make a block or buying some new graphics :/
 
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Somthing Else said:
sounds good! 670 is a good gpu but have you had a look at the amd offerings? they are hard to ignore at the current price


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £299.99
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £249.95
1 x Sapphire HD 7870 XT rev2.0 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £191.99
Total : £753.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).



the sapphire 7870 is essentially a 7950 gpu core, and the gigabyte wf 7950 and 7970 are regarded as one of the best coolers
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I would prefer a Nvidia card but you do have a fair point, I will take a look :)
 
Rossi~ said:
Could go for the Corsair SP/AF series fans for colour matching a long with braided cables.

You could also consider the Asus P8Z77-V PRO motherboard, it's quite blue too.
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I was definitely planning on using Corsair SP/AF 120/140 fans, along with the BitFenix braided cables :)

To be honest, I think I'd prefer the Intel board :)
 
Roachy692 said:
A word of caution - if you plan to watercool, the MSI power edition is a non-reference PCB design. I have just started a rebuild and came across this. There are currently no waterblocks to support the PCB - except I guess for generic chip only blocks but these look horrid.

Now trying to decide if I wait for someone to make a block or buying some new graphics :/
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don't worry mate, if I ever were to fully watercool - it would only be the CPU block ;)
 
Swagger187 said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-219-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-020-AR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
Can get an MSI 680 Lightening as well to finish it off http://www.eteknix.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MSI_GTX680_Lightning.jpeg
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this was the setup I was originally looking at before I considered Intel Extreme and ASRock, however I figured it would end up costing too much and in my opinion wouldn't look right with my case :P
 
Seems I need some help choosing RAM:

Corsair Dominator Platinum 8GB (2x4)
Corsair Vengeance Black 8GB (2x4)
or
Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4)

Reason for 8GB is I don't believe I need anymore at this time, also a bit tight on cash :P

Help would be appreciated - thanks :)
 
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