Project Blue One

[Ollii]

Hey, Here is the updated version (January 11th) of Project Blue One and I finally now have all the parts

Will upload some pictures of it once I have build it, I'm refraining from doing so at the moment due to exams

My PC:

Motherboard - Asus X58 Sabertooth TUF

CPU - Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz Bloomfield (Overclocked To 4GHz Perhaps More Considering Water Cooling)

CPU Cooling - Custom Water Cooling Set Up: EK Supreme HF Waterblock Nickel Plexi - Laing DDC-1+ Ultra Pump 600 L/hr 18W - XSPC Dual Bay Dual Loop Reservoir - Thermochill TA Series 360mm Triple Radiator - Bitspower 1/4" Thread Compression Fitting for 1/2" ID 5/8" OD Tubing In Shiny Silver - Tygon R3603 1/2" ID 5/8" OD Tubing - Mayhems X1 Premix Fluid - Mayhems Dye 10ml Dropper Bottle In Deep Blue

CPU Radiator Fans - Xigmatek XLF-F1256 120mm Blue LED Fan x 3

CPU Thremal Paste Remover - ArctiClean Thermal Material Remover and Surface Purifier

CPU Thermal Paste - Arctic Cooling MX-4

Memory - Mushkin 6GB 3x2 DDR3 PC3-12800 6-8-6-24 Ridgeback (Overclocked To 2MHz)

Memory Cooling (Dosn't Hurt To Have A Little Extra Cooling) - Corsair Airflow Triple-Channel Fan

GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 (Overclocked As Much As Possible)

DVD Drive - Sony DRU-870S

Hard Drive - Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB x 2 (Raid 0 or 1?)

SSD Hard Drive - Corsair Nova Series 128GB

PSU - Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850

Case - Corsair Obsidian 700D

Case Fans - Xigmatek XLF-F1454 140mm Blue LED Fan x 3

Fan Controller - NZXT Sentry LX LCD

The Software It's Running:

Operating System - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Retail

Publishing Software (Not Sure What Name It Comes Under) - Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student

Anti-Virus Software - BitDefender 2011

My Peripherals:

Monitor - Hannspree HF257HP (25 Inch)

Mouse - Logitech G9x

Mouse Pad - Razer Goliathus Control

Keyboard - Logitech G19

Headset - Corsair HS1

Speakers - Logitech Z323

External Hard Drive - Western Digital Elements 1TB

Dream List Of Components (These Are Only Things I'd Love To Have And Not What I Will Be Getting):

CPU: Better CPU - Intel Core i7 980X 3.33GHz (Gulftown) Extreme Edition

Memory: 12GB For More Memory - Mushkin 6GB 3x2 DDR3 PC3-12800 6-8-6-24 Ridgeback

GPU: Two More For Three Way SLI - MSI GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 (Perhaps New Lightning Edition)

GPU Cooling: Have All GPU's Water Cooled - EK Full Cover Waterblock Nickel Plexi And Bitspower 1/4" Thread Compression Fitting for 1/2" ID 5/8" OD Tubing In Shiny Silver

SSD Hard Drive: Have Another For More Storage For Games - Corsair Nova Series 256GB or Crucial C300 256GB SATA 6Gb/s

Dream List Of Peripherals (These Are Only Things I'd Love To Have And Not What I Will Be Getting):

Monitors: Three Of These Beautys Would Be Incredible - Dell U3011 Ultrasharp 30 inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor

Speakers: For Some Insane Surround Sound - Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 Speaker System

External Hard Drive: Another For A Little Extra Storage - Probably Some Type Of Western Digital Or Samsung

 

[AMDFTW]

samsung f3 instead of the cav black

and ither MX3 or noctua thermal paste

and dnt need memory cooling

 

[Ollii]

samsung f3 instead of the cav black

and ither MX3 or noctua thermal paste

and dnt need memory cooling

Too late on the storage side unfortunately, there can't be that much difference between the two surely? and I'm not too bothered as it's not my OS or main game drive

Thermal Paste wise, the zalman is a lot easier to use as it uses a brush rather than having to try and get the right amount and I believe temperature wise it's not far off the MX stuff though I might be wrong

I realised that I don't need the memory cooler after I received it, but hey can't hurt to have a bit of ram cooling

Thanks for the comments though

really appreciated. Does everything else seem fine though? and that is everything I need right? EDIT: oh and for raid do you have to have identical HD's or can I for instance have one Samsung and One WD?

 

[killablade]

Too late on the storage side unfortunately, there can't be that much difference between the two surely? and I'm not too bothered as it's not my OS or main game drive

Thermal Paste wise, the zalman is a lot easier to use as it uses a brush rather than having to try and get the right amount and I believe temperature wise it's not far off the MX stuff though I might be wrong

Sammy F3's are a tad faster but you wont notice it if you're only using it for storage.

Having used that zalman stuff I can honestly say get MX-3/MX-4 or something decent. MX-3 knocked 3 degrees off my cpu temps compared to Zalman.

 

[Ollii]

Sammy F3's are a tad faster but you wont notice it if you're only using it for storage.

Having used that zalman stuff I can honestly say get MX-3/MX-4 or something decent. MX-3 knocked 3 degrees off my cpu temps compared to Zalman.

Kl Kl about the HD's

and if the paste makes that much difference then yer I will change it, thanks for the heads up

 

[Aurus_OC]

I think there's thermal paste bundled with the EKWater block (I think its MX2)