lonewolf7 said:
yukiok2 said:
lonewolf7 said:
With a single GPU there's no need to go with a liquid cooler, an Air Cooler is sufficient and risk free, as liquid coolers may leak and could takeout your valuable components.
I personally wont prefer Overclocking. Good luck.
So which air cooler would you recommend, AIO Kraken is unnecessary then? Won't it's heavy body risk damaging my mobo? Since I'll be doing the assembling myself.
Which PSU would be considered safe for a single card them? Maybe 750w?
If I can spare some money by choosing a lower wattage PSU, setting aside the sound card, and going for Air Cooler then maybe I could go for 290x TOXIC/TRI-X later which it's still somewhat expensive here on par with gtx 280/280ti.
Simsreaper is right about three things : 1. the choice of air cooler and 2. the orientation of fans. 3. No need for PCI sound card, MB's integrated sound is sufficient for everything.
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO would be my choice also, its a pretty decent cooler. And in simple physics top fan should be used as exhaust. So top and rear fan = exhaust, front = intake, side = intake.
For a single GPU no matter its 290 or 290x or 780ti a 650W PSU would be enough, but you could go with a 750W as well which will give you some extra headroom.
This would be my choice for 650W PSU, solid as a rock, and sufficient for a single GPU, else you could go with Simsreaper's choice the 750W PSU, decent as well :
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Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($109.25 @ Amazon)
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Just keep in mind, to much fan could mess the airflow, so 3/4 fans will be enough. Good luck.
Thank you guys for your help, I decided to take the Cooler Master V850w as it seems to be build by the same OEM of XFX psu, which is Seasonic, the reason for increasing even more headroom is due to the possibility of overclocking later and "reasonable" prices of HD 7990 which is much cheaper than nvidia's 780 here, but I'll stick with r9 280x TOXIC for the time being, and due to some issues about crossfiring and prices which, I'm afraid, won't drop enough by the time I decide buying another and crossfire it, I'll stick with one beefier card and keep things simple.
As for the mobo I went for the sabertooth, the M5A99FX kinda vanished from the market at the time and those that lasted became quite overpriced, and as for the sound card I decided to go for the Creative ZXR, most onboard sound are indeed good enough for pretty much everything but I had and Audigy many years ago and I did really miss that sound board although all onboard sounds now would be on par and maybe even superior to that one.
And about overclocking the the fx-8350, I'm not quite sure about it, as I've seen it I can go somewhere 4,5ghz to 4,7ghz without messing too much with cpu voltage, and if it proves to be quite beneficial at some point I'll just attempt to do that along with some help, so I'll keep the kraken x60 to play it safe.