Hello all, first time poster here.
I've just recently gotten around to fulfilling a long-time dream of mine, which is starting to build a gaming PC
!
The last time I did this, the Intel Pentium 4 was the baddest thing out there, so as you can imagine I'm pretty shell-shocked at how complicated things have gotten, or at least they seem that way to me
.
My first purchase was an Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell 3.5GHz that came with this GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD4H LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard, a sweet deal from Newegg.com.
I'm wanting to eventually crossfire two AMD Radeon 7970 Ghz Edition graphics cards, but I know I'm probably going to have to wait a month or so to purchase the 2nd card.
My question is, is liquid cooling worth it for both the CPU and the GPUs? If I can buy a good HSF and OC the CPU safely, I'd much rather do that. Also, If I choose to go the route of LC, would it be an absolute pain to add LC to the 2nd GPU a month later after I've already built the rest of the PC?
I don't think I know much of anything about liquid cooling, so some of the questions I asked might not make sense, but I thank you in advance for your responses!
I've just recently gotten around to fulfilling a long-time dream of mine, which is starting to build a gaming PC
! The last time I did this, the Intel Pentium 4 was the baddest thing out there, so as you can imagine I'm pretty shell-shocked at how complicated things have gotten, or at least they seem that way to me
. My first purchase was an Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell 3.5GHz that came with this GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD4H LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard, a sweet deal from Newegg.com.
I'm wanting to eventually crossfire two AMD Radeon 7970 Ghz Edition graphics cards, but I know I'm probably going to have to wait a month or so to purchase the 2nd card.
My question is, is liquid cooling worth it for both the CPU and the GPUs? If I can buy a good HSF and OC the CPU safely, I'd much rather do that. Also, If I choose to go the route of LC, would it be an absolute pain to add LC to the 2nd GPU a month later after I've already built the rest of the PC?
I don't think I know much of anything about liquid cooling, so some of the questions I asked might not make sense, but I thank you in advance for your responses!
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