New build (please advise)

chorcen

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Hello there,

I am looking at building new PC for 3D animation/modelling and some gaming.

I have asked help in different section of the forum, one of the users was very kind to suggest some of the components, also he suggested that I ask here for advise on liquid cooling items, please see quote of his post in spoiler:

Doomedspeed said:
That looks a good list.

I think you can go for the 2011 socket though and a 6 core i7. This would improve your animation ability.

The only thing i haven't included in the spec below is a water cooling loop. I guess that is what you want?

It may be worth posting a separate water cooling components thread in that forum you'd get some great advice.

The SSD can be used as a boot drive for all your programs.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £459.95
2 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £419.99 (839.98)
1 x GeIL EVO Corsa 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (GOC332GB1600C10QC) £179.99
1 x Asrock X79 Extreme 4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £167.99
1 x Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850HXUK) £121.99
1 x Fractal Design Define XL USB3.0 Full Tower Case - Titanium Grey £119.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £99.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £89.99
1 x AeroCool X-Vision 5-Channel LCD Fan Controller £31.99
Total : £2,129.54 (includes shipping : £14.75).

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I want this kind of build to have serious liquidcooling for mad overclocking.
My initial budget is £2500.
Any advise with pointers to specific items will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
As for the build I would say go for a Gigabyte mobo.
They have a UK based RMA center and customer service is top notch.

As for watercooling, Have you done any of it before or is this you first plunge to water?
If it is, you better do some reading first as most of the Watercooling hardware are selected not only for there performance but for there looks as well. No point in recommending some thing which is good but you dont like the looks of!
Have read through the stickies in this section on how to do watercooling(basics) and read through here and here as well.

EDIT
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18312749
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18290835

If this seems like a lot to read then yes - watercooling involves lot of research!
 
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you might have been through this is the other thread you mentioned, and i know this isnt what you asked... but

PC for 3D animation/modelling and some gaming...

would you not be better off with a workstation card, there is only so much 3d work you can do on gaming cards

though admittedly the ones on your list would do it well.. but if you talking big 3d work, a quadro would be better

or did you mean some 3d... and gaming?
 
oneofmanyjoes said:
would you not be better off with a workstation card, there is only so much 3d work you can do on gaming cards
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I was through these droughts when I first started 3D modelling and was thinking whether I need to make changes to my PC.
I had perfect opportunity to compare mid range quadro card from work to my gaming card at home.

While quadro card was giving me on average 10 to 15% better performance during the work with wireframes and rendering complex lighting I haven't noticed any other advantages over my gaming card. At the same time Quadro card cost was 1/3 higher (£120 more) then my gaming card.

I decided to explore capabilities of CUDA cores technology released by Nvidia and found it good enough for the job I put my PC for. At the moment I utilise single overclocked Nvidia GTX 570 card, however judging on my experience and number of cores I can get in 2 x GTX 680 after overclocking it will be more then enough for the job giving me decent gaming performance at the same time. All this for slightly lower price then single similar by performance quadro or tesla card.
 
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Avathar77 said:
As for the build I would say go for a Gigabyte mobo.
They have a UK based RMA center and customer service is top notch.

As for watercooling, Have you done any of it before or is this you first plunge to water?
If it is, you better do some reading first as most of the Watercooling hardware are selected not only for there performance but for there looks as well. No point in recommending some thing which is good but you dont like the looks of!
Have read through the stickies in this section on how to do watercooling(basics) and read through here and here as well.

EDIT
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18312749
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18290835

If this seems like a lot to read then yes - watercooling involves lot of research!
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Thanks for the reply,
I am thinking now that I will see if overclockers staff can put watercooling together for me. As this would be my first watercooling build.
With regards to the looks of the system, I am only after performance of the PC as a whole, I don't find myself spending time looking at internals of the machine.
 
I've just built a PC for the same purpose also in the Define XL. Obviously it took a little modding in cutting a hole in the top an bottom but here is a picture.

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It has a XSPC EX360 in the top and a XSPC RX240 in the bottom.
 
chorcen said:
Nice configuration. Can I ask what sits in your bottom PCI slot?

Also did you overclock any components?
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That's the mighty GT610 ;) (its only used for an email and temp monitoring monitor)

This is the second time I've built the loop. The first build I overclocked to around 4.7 which was fine (can't remember the temps but was happy) but the tubing went bad (Primochill - few threads about it - wouldn't touch it IMO)and the mosfet temps were getting a little higher than I liked.

I re-built using XSPC tubing and added a mosfet block but haven't pushed it yet.
 
I am back again,

I am stuck at choosing graphics cards.

I am looking right now at

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-079-OE&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2255
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-001-OP&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2255

I see that connectors on both point the same direction, is it going to be easy to connect them to the loop? Should I chose different graphics card with custom block to be put on it later? I am actually going to get overclockers staff to install it, but I might want to upgrade in the future getting 3rd card and wouldn't want to struggle getting all fittings and pipes it.
 
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