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I am currently building my first ever PC, and I will be using a custom water loop with EK waterblocks & Acrylic and Bitspower fittings. I am fairly new to all this and just wanted to make sure I have the best motherboard for this hardware combo. Any ideas or changes to the build please post to help me out.
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Ray123/saved/7XmNnQ
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Ray123/saved/7XmNnQ
BeginnerBob said:
i7Baby said:
Don't do a custom loop on your first build. Build it and use it for a month then decide whether to update the cooling.Get a Haswell refresh CPU, not the i7 4770K For gaming the i5 n4690k would be fine and $100 cheaper.
Try an EVGA Supernova 750 Gold PSU ($115) instead.
Get a Corsair K70 instead of the Razer KB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Why not watercooling? I don't want to spend money on something I will be replacing rather quickly.
Exactly - if you want reliability, then do do custom watercooling. There's no need. Try it without to start with.
BeginnerBob
October 15, 2014 6:02:43 PM
Yeah I will be using an acrylic tubing build. Once loop is filled i'll just run it for a couple hours and watch for any leaks, afterwards it's just standard maintenance. I am also building this case to have some future proof, and possibly adding in another GTX 980 for SLI config. Which is why I was wondering about the motherboard.
Like I said their no reason to get anything over what I listed those chips hit a wall and you would at the max get a 0.1 or 0.2GHz higher overclock.
For the custom water I hope you know how much maintenance is going to be required about 2 times a year your going to need to drain the system clean it out and refill.
I would put this right next to your PC at a much lower price and beat your gaming performance.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4jdgCJ
For the custom water I hope you know how much maintenance is going to be required about 2 times a year your going to need to drain the system clean it out and refill.
I would put this right next to your PC at a much lower price and beat your gaming performance.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4jdgCJ
BeginnerBob
October 15, 2014 4:37:33 PM
Zerk2012 said:
Their no reason to spend that kind of money on a motherboard either of these will do really the same thing.You could spend 2X as much money and only ever get a 0.1 or 0.2 increase.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
What about overclocking optimization motherboards?
Their no reason to spend that kind of money on a motherboard either of these will do really the same thing.
You could spend 2X as much money and only ever get a 0.1 or 0.2 increase.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
You could spend 2X as much money and only ever get a 0.1 or 0.2 increase.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
BeginnerBob
October 15, 2014 4:32:26 PM
babernet_1 said:
First of all, change over to the I7-4790K. It costs about $5 extra and has better packaging so you can overclock it better because it runs cooler and you don't get "hot cores."I think the ASUS VII Hero Z97 will overclock as well and be cheaper.
I changed the processor, but how will the VII Hero fair agains't the EVGA Z97 Classified with overclocking?
BeginnerBob
October 15, 2014 4:26:05 PM
i7Baby said:
Don't do a custom loop on your first build. Build it and use it for a month then decide whether to update the cooling.Get a Haswell refresh CPU, not the i7 4770K For gaming the i5 n4690k would be fine and $100 cheaper.
Try an EVGA Supernova 750 Gold PSU ($115) instead.
Get a Corsair K70 instead of the Razer KB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Why not watercooling? I don't want to spend money on something I will be replacing rather quickly.
Don't do a custom loop on your first build. Build it and use it for a month then decide whether to update the cooling.
Get a Haswell refresh CPU, not the i7 4770K For gaming the i5 n4690k would be fine and $100 cheaper.
Try an EVGA Supernova 750 Gold PSU ($115) instead.
Get a Corsair K70 instead of the Razer KB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Get a Haswell refresh CPU, not the i7 4770K For gaming the i5 n4690k would be fine and $100 cheaper.
Try an EVGA Supernova 750 Gold PSU ($115) instead.
Get a Corsair K70 instead of the Razer KB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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