Liquid Cooling or Air Cooling, Raid Cards

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robotdino304

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Hello everyone!


Current System

i74770k
Asus Maximus Hero VI
G skill ripsaws 8gb 1.5v
nividia Gforce GTX 650Ti 2gb
Corsair 850 Watt PSU
Windows 7 64 bit

This is going to be a long thread. I have alot of questions. I am upgrading my computer and I am not sure what are some of best choices. Thank-you for your help!

For Liquid and Air cooling I am stuck between these two options.


Silverstone Tundra series TD03



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835220064


Noctua-U14s



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608041



Should I go with liquid cooling or air cooling which are my best options?


Raid Card questions.

I want to run my system in raid. I know that my motherboard has a built in raid controller but I am currently running raid 1 with my two tb drivers as well as raid 0 with my 500gb drive and 60gb ssd used as an acceleration drive. I cant run raid with any of my other drivers. I am considering getting a raid card so I have an option to run more raid arrays in my system. So far I have chosen this raid option.


SYBA SY-PEX40039

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124045


What raid options are compatible with my motherboard and are in a cheap price range?


 
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gman97005

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Most any PCIe based RAID controller is compatible with your motherboard, ALL of your RAID options will be associated with the card and not the motherboard so your question should be: what PCIe based RAID controller is my best option ?
The best one you can afford..
------- I edited your sentences only to make it easier for me to understand but i am still confused, please explain..
.. I want to run my system in RAID..
.. Currently running RAID1 with a pair of 1TB HDD's
.. and RAID0 with 500GB HDD and 60GB caching SSD
 
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gman97005

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Your best option is always liquid cooling, a liquid cooled system will run 20* cooler than comparable heat-sink, it's a no-brainer..

 
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If you dont want the hassle of liquid cooling, although the closed loops eliminate most of that, the noctua DH14 has proven itself to be just as good as the liquid coolers. The issue with it is, however, its size. It is massive, and will cover the first ram slots, but it should fit over your ripjaws.
 
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gman97005

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Oh my, i would not have a clue which PCIe based RAID controller is good choice, i have a modern board with SATA III ports and on-board RAID controller, a PCIe based RAID controller offers lot's of bandwidth because it is slotted right next to the CPU but this is no longer an issue with SATA III and 6GB/s transfer speeds, if a GPU is occupying the first x16 slot then you will have to move the RAID controller to the second slot which will drop speed in half to x8 and if you have to move the card to the third PCIe slot you will cut data transfer rates in half again to x4 so think out your strategy and make sure you are making a improvement to read/write speeds and not actually slowing down your data transfer..
 
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