My First Water Cooled Build

Hi Illuz - don't mind at all :)

I've lost count to be honest - but roughly

600 pounds for the case (but the case is really a luxury so you could save a lot on that)

Watercooling stuff - including fans, rads, res, x2 gpu blocks, 1 cpu block, compression fittings, tubing - roughly 900 quid. I know, I know, but you could save a packet if you just went with barbs and not comp fittings. I bought too many anyway, so overspent there.

The only hardware I have bought is the mobo, cpu and ram, which in all came to about 800 quid. I have the gpus (x2 gtx 570s) drives, fan controller, optical drives already, so I saved there. If I'd had the money I would have upgraded the 570 to the 670s but that's another 600 pounds, which was too much for me in the end. The cards I have now are really good in sli (great scaling), so I'll stick with them until the 7 or 8 series comes out (if they come out).

So all in all, and it terrifies me to say so, I spent around 2300 pounds, but if I knew then what I know now, I could have saved a couple of hundred quid.
 
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What it looks like atm. Empty on the right because I'm waiting for those darn hdd mounts. Note the dead fan in the middle. Have to wire connections again.
 
Over 500, but Jim put the value of the case as 400, because he fogot to include other bits in the package, so I had to pay postage on all that stuff too.
 
So here it is the door on, side panel on, and in its new location (my shed).

Running prime 95 small ffts and it's hanging in there at 43-44 degress on all cores under full load so I'm guessing that's a reasonable temp. Sorry about pic quality. Did it in phone, which doesn't seem too good :)

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