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AlexW484

AlexW484

AlexW484

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I have a rig at least 6 years old (I72600) and looking to upgrade. Can anyone advise on the parts I'm looking at:


Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
Stock Code CP-63R-IN



Asus ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Stock Code MB-6AL-AS



Team Group Xtreem "8Pack Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-32000C18 4000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
Stock Code MY-098-TG



Samsung 960 EVO Polaris 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
Stock Code HD-22H-SA


Last upgrade was for a Gainward 1080 GLH Nvida card and Acer 144hz gsync screen so the barebones are now the systems bottleneck. I'll also need a CPU cooler and want to look at water cooling but would have to fit into my Antec 902 case.

Anyone have advise on these components and a cooler that would fit?
 
Cool, do you still have to do something in the bios to allow boot from m.2?

Also what explicitly would I be looking for in a case to support the water cooler?
 
Thanks guys, would the alphacool water cooler and the air coolers have the component gel attached already or would i need to get that separately?

Would you mount the watercooling fans at the back of the case?
 
The case looks pretty good, but I'll need to bring my DVD RW across and looking at reviews I'll probably need to get some extra intake fans to get a good airflow going. Any other recommendations that are good for water cooling? I'm guessing the water cooler fan would exhaust probably out the top and there would be intake fans near the front.
 
So the water cooler fans would end up exhausting air at the 3 fan bays at the front/side, and perhaps could do with an intake fan at the back/bottom of the case to ensure a flow going on?
 
Thanks for all the help guys, think I'm going to go with:
These are all pretty decently priced here at Overclockers so will be grabbing them here.

I plan to set the AIO cooler as exhaust at the top and, looking at the awesome video @NovaKill4 posted, got some fan ideas. Pretty expensive at the moment to LED it up but will see how it performs and probably put some intake fans at the bottom/side to douse the 1080 GLH I have.
 
Cool I'll look into if the difference is really worth it. Looking at it a couple years ago RAM speed didn't really come into it much when you're talking about squeezing a couple extra FPS out of a game.

Also perhaps AIO as an intake at the front would be best here as I have an open GPU:

 
Yeah, so looking here:
https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z370 Extreme4/index.asp#Specification

If I connect the AIO cooler here:
- 1 x CPU Optional/Water Pump Fan Connector (4-pin)***

Than am I right in saying there's only 2 left that have the PWM speed control, and 2 others that would just power the fan at 100%?

If so I guess I'll need a hub to put them all together or perhaps a different board is needed to support more fans?
 
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