Water cooling advice for 3d rendering system

Tigermad · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:08

Hubby wants to upgrade his main system. He uses this mainly to do 3d rendering using Octane renderer/Blender.

At the moment he has got:

Asus P5K wifi deluxe
Q6600
8gb ram
Nvidia 460gtx (processing 3d) and Nvidia 8800GTS (driving monitor)

At the moment when he renders it sounds like a jet engine taking off and I fear the computer is just about to blow up!

What he would like is:

Intel I7 Sandybridge
Asus P8 H67 Motherboard
16gb Ram
Nvidia 560GTX plus existing Nvidia 460GTX plus possibly Nvidia 8800GTS

It needs to be Nvidia cards because the renderer runs off Cuda.

The Nvidia 8800GTS is currently used to drive the 2 monitors but this could be done by the H67 chipset.

Because if the noise we would prefer a quiet system and hubby is looking at a water cooled system. Due to the multiple graphic cards this will be probably have to be an external system.

I would appreciate anyones response as to whether this is an appropriate spec for what we want to achieve, power and quietness.

Budget is going to be around the £800 mark hopefully

scrlk · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:19

It will be very hard to fit a decent WC system in to £800.

Tigermad · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:20

Vinni3 @H|H said:
It will be very hard to fit a decent WC system in to £800.

Cheers for the reply. How much do you think I will be looking at? Don't forget he already has the 460GTX and 8800 GTS.

Tigermad · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:21

Would an internal water cooler handle this?

rjk · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:23

sandybridge runs cool

you cant overclock on a H67 board so a decent air cooler would be better than watercooling. for the cpu at least anyway [as much as it pains me to say that

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perhaps watercooling the GPUs to make them quiet but in fairness you would be best getting some cards with quiet coolers pre fitted such as the asus direct CU cards

this would be as nearly as quiet as a WC system and handle the heat output well.

i doubt a h67 board would have the bandwidth or pcie lanes for three gpus

Tigermad · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:51

rjkoneill said:
sandybridge runs cool

you cant overclock on a H67 board so a decent air cooler would be better than watercooling. for the cpu at least anyway [as much as it pains me to say that ]

perhaps watercooling the GPUs to make them quiet but in fairness you would be best getting some cards with quiet coolers pre fitted such as the asus direct CU cards

this would be as nearly as quiet as a WC system and handle the heat output well.

i doubt a h67 board would have the bandwidth or pcie lanes for three gpus

Thanks for the advice but we already have 2 of the graphics cards so would be stuck with the noise they make

Steveps3 · 20 Sep 2011 at 12:34

The GPUs will be running at 100% for hours/days on end so water cooling sounds (boom boom) like a better option - no?