i7-4790k custom watercooling

Robert Garnica

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i want a multi purpose pc, i have no budget (IF i really really need to put a budget that would be around 15k US $) and i want this to be a Really high end game/work machine and i want to go custom cooling i found this awesome case: the thermaltake core v71 and all of his radiator madness and i say HEY!! this is it! with all dem points for radiators and stuff i want to go with

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790k
Motherboard: Asus Republic Of Gamers Maximus VII Formula
Ram: 32GB of DDR3 2400mhz Corsair Dominator Pro
Storage: Ocz Revo Drive 350 960 GB, Seagate 6TB 128MB cache
Graphics Cards 2x Titan Z in sli
Case: Thermaltake Core V71
PSU: Corsair Ax1500i
Sound Card Republic Of Gamers Xonar Phoebus 7.1
Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow ultimate stealth edition
Mouse: Razer ouroboros
Headphones: Razer Tiamat 7.1
Lightning: Red Led Strips
Monitor: Asus PB278Q or the ezio FlexScan SX2462W or the Dell UltraSharp U3011: i need good color reproduction and consistency good color depth a good view angle and i want them configured in Nvidia surround for better multitasking when i will be working
Graphic tablet: Wacom Cintiq 24HD: this ''little'' tablet made my life soo easy when it comes to logos and drawing custom desings

Radiators and other loop components:

Top: 1x 420mm ( XSPC EX-420 plus 6 Corsair SP140 Red)
Front: 1x 420mm ( XSPC EX-420 plus 6 Corsair SP140 Red)
Bottom 1x 240mm (XSPC EX-240 plus 4 Corsair SP120 Red)
Back: 1x 120 in the back (XSPC EX-120 plus 2 Corsair SP120 Red)
Ram Waterblock: Xspc Memory Waterblock
Cpu Waterblock :Xspc Raystorm CPU waterblock
Graphic card Waterblock: EK-FC Titan Z full cover waterblock x2
Compression fittings: Xspc G 1/4 black
SLI fittings: Koolance Dual VID black
Reservoir: XSPC Twin D5 dual bay pump/reservoir combo
Tubing: uv red tubing primoflex
Fan Splitter: a metric TON of PWM fan splitters


the main purpose of this Rig is gaming and graphic design, photo editing as well some mid to light 3d work some mild video editing for my future Gameplay youtube channel i dont have a color scheme but given the color of the parts i'll say it's red and black

Games i want: Crysis 3, Battlefield 4, Metro last light, Tomb raider, Thieft and a loooong ETC mainly all of them at max settings and i dont care about the AA or the TXAA or anything of that

Programs i need: Photoshop cs6, Illustrator, Corel Draw, AutoCAD and Sony Vegas Pro 13

About overclocking: im planning to do a mild to medium overclock to both the cpu and the gpu they said that the devil's canyon could reach 5 ghz with air.. so i expect to reach at very least 4.8 ghz just to keep it safe about the titans: lets se how much i can squeeze out from them i read that with the EVGA precision x i could set the power target at 120% the temp target at 95° and the gpu clock offset at 75mhz and all that could give me an hefty 1.074 mhz so i want to test this .. so hell yeah you can bet your butt i'll overclock

Questions:
my question here is: destiled water or coolant? how much tubing would i need? how much coolant will i need? also need help with the routing of the loop in general i planned to go res/pump - top radiator - crosschill (the mosfet water block of the motherboard)- cpu - back radiator - gpu - bottom radiator - ram - front radiator - and back to the res/pump again

also tips n trick would be highly appreciated

soon build log! when the parts arrive i will take some pictures and i'll leave the link to the post here somewhere xD thanks for the answers!!
 
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do not take this the wrong way....but there are better ways to spend up to $15,000 for your needs.

what you have now is a bit excessive in places, can be improved upon in others and seems to be missing something in others. i'll just make note of a few things to think about below.

you might be better suited by two different systems connected up to one monitor as well given the perfomance differences between pro/consumer cards. more money spent on other components, yes (may require some cutbacks) but perhaps better performance and support on your end (you could have a sli gaming rig and a single card quadro for pro work in the other).

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-photoshop is not compatible with sli. while true that you can run it on consumer cards you may...
do not take this the wrong way....but there are better ways to spend up to $15,000 for your needs.

what you have now is a bit excessive in places, can be improved upon in others and seems to be missing something in others. i'll just make note of a few things to think about below.

you might be better suited by two different systems connected up to one monitor as well given the perfomance differences between pro/consumer cards. more money spent on other components, yes (may require some cutbacks) but perhaps better performance and support on your end (you could have a sli gaming rig and a single card quadro for pro work in the other).

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-photoshop is not compatible with sli. while true that you can run it on consumer cards you may be better suited making two rigs. one with a quadro card for work (3d/photoshop) and one with a consumer card or two for gaming. generally consumer cards are better at gaming and pro card are better at photoshop and cad.

-you can max out graphics at 1440p for less money then what you are currently spending. typically $3000-4000 can get you such performance easily including all manner of extra goodies.

-why would you spend $230 on a soundcard and waste it on something like the tiamat? there are much better choices out there mainly going with studio headphones and a seperate mic (great) or sennheiser gaming headsets (good). also you could use something cheaper than the phoebus and still do fine.

-dollar per dollar the gtx780/gtx780ti in sli will smoke a titan z for a lower cost. you can get 6gb gtx780's which have more than enough memory for even 1440p gaming (even 3gb is going to work for that). you can then overclock them. even going with regular titan blacks over the z is going to be a better choice.

-you seem to be putting all of your eggs in one basket. while no doubt such a large ssd is nice, what about backup options? you will want to disk image or otherwise back up your data in some manner as yes even ssd *can* fail (although agreed they seem more stable than some hdds). another thing to think about is that trim was not supported for revodrives (the command never got passed to the drive properly) which could cause issues for longevity. ultimately some good sata3 or sataexpress drives might be better.

-you are a just a bit excessive on the watercooling at first glance. having everything in one loop might also possibly generate too much flow restriction but you might want to check with the watercooling experts on this.

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again, just a few things to consider before pulling the trigger on such an expensive build.
 
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