dalewakelin
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Awesome
Project: Foundation
- Thread starter Treble20
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Jeremy1998
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This is simply amazing! I do want.
The Orange One
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Really Nice Mate!
dalewakelin
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Treble20
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Update
After a real bad couple of days (daughters getting attacked after school and car broken into).
It was really nice that these arrived in the post today to update my rig.
I am think two for me in Raid 0 and May put the other in the Wife's PC as a nice surprise for her.
Not quite sure how or where im gonna mount them yet but will firmware update etc and try to find out if they will run better on intel or Marvel controller ( got no idea about that stuff)
After a real bad couple of days (daughters getting attacked after school and car broken into).
It was really nice that these arrived in the post today to update my rig.
I am think two for me in Raid 0 and May put the other in the Wife's PC as a nice surprise for her.
Not quite sure how or where im gonna mount them yet but will firmware update etc and try to find out if they will run better on intel or Marvel controller ( got no idea about that stuff)
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Ross_Kirkbright
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you will have to let me know how those hyper x's are as there the ones o want to get for my build 
Choklitmlk
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still deciding on a sound card? asus' xonar series is pretty sweet, heaps of options at various price points to pick from. ive heard good things about the xonar rog card they released, if your wanting to go fairly high end...
Treble20
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Update (ish)
Hi guys yeah I am still looking for a sound card and have started a thread :
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?p=575556#post575556
and in regard to the Two Kingston Hyper X 240gb SSD's I have just installed they are a big improvement over my previous Mushkin SSD and I love them.
I did some benchmarks with Crystal and saved screen shots of them, So I will upload them soon with the information etc so other users can get an idea of what to expect.
Laters for now
Hi guys yeah I am still looking for a sound card and have started a thread :
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?p=575556#post575556
and in regard to the Two Kingston Hyper X 240gb SSD's I have just installed they are a big improvement over my previous Mushkin SSD and I love them.
I did some benchmarks with Crystal and saved screen shots of them, So I will upload them soon with the information etc so other users can get an idea of what to expect.
Laters for now
Treble20
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Update 02/12/12
So still not able to make up my mind on a sound card I have decided to try a little trial and error.
Stilll looking around on the net for the ONE I want, I finally decided to go for the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
I tried to hit a few people up on ebay to see if they was willing to day cash on collection to end bidding early but no dice.
A quick Google and my local PC World/ Comet ( normally Avoid that place)had them in stock for £79 Not feeling patient Took a trip to pick one up.
Get there and get the usual blank faced expression when asking for any item and was generally pointed away from the Assistant. eventually find them and they only had the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series Version. Now I didnt really want the break out box as When I go water cooling I want the front bays for the res , But I thought re-sell value and It was the same price.
Still not set on the card I have a little look around and see the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD Thinking that it is suposed to be the better out of the cards I say F$%*& it and go for it. Dam no price.. Oh well Ill ask and hope. Scanned the card in and had a nice suprise £69 ! So score for me I think.
So now downloading the latest drivers etc and will have it up and running soon and will give it a blast. Thanks to the peeps that helped me choose (even thou im still not 100% set yet)
Thanks again
So still not able to make up my mind on a sound card I have decided to try a little trial and error.
Stilll looking around on the net for the ONE I want, I finally decided to go for the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
I tried to hit a few people up on ebay to see if they was willing to day cash on collection to end bidding early but no dice.
A quick Google and my local PC World/ Comet ( normally Avoid that place)had them in stock for £79 Not feeling patient Took a trip to pick one up.
Get there and get the usual blank faced expression when asking for any item and was generally pointed away from the Assistant. eventually find them and they only had the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series Version. Now I didnt really want the break out box as When I go water cooling I want the front bays for the res , But I thought re-sell value and It was the same price.
Still not set on the card I have a little look around and see the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD Thinking that it is suposed to be the better out of the cards I say F$%*& it and go for it. Dam no price.. Oh well Ill ask and hope. Scanned the card in and had a nice suprise £69 ! So score for me I think.
So now downloading the latest drivers etc and will have it up and running soon and will give it a blast. Thanks to the peeps that helped me choose (even thou im still not 100% set yet)
Thanks again
AverageNinja
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Sorry to hear that mate
Scoob
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Hi Treble20,
You've really dived right in ain't ya? Must admit, I love this sort of stuff. There's something about doing an OTT build for the fun of it, isn't there?
As an aside, the GTX 690 has been looking like a good value option lately. Consider that you can Grab an ASUS one for just under £700 now, add £100 for a block and that's £800 for dual GPU. A typical GTX 680 is around £370 now (best deal), so two are £740. Add to that a pair of blocks at around £100 each and you're looking at £940 or there abouts - a "saving" of 140! Bargain!
Ok, so two 680's would likely clock better than a single 690, that much is a given. However a 690 is still going to be a beast.
I admit, when one of my 570's failed I looked at getting a 690 with block. However, back then, it would have still been the wrong side of £1000. Ah well.
As I WILL wataercool my next rig from the get go, it really makes sense looking at a dual GPU card that needs just the one block - makes the build far far easier too.
Anyway, I'm rambling...over to you - moar fotos! lol.
Scoob.
You've really dived right in ain't ya? Must admit, I love this sort of stuff. There's something about doing an OTT build for the fun of it, isn't there?
As an aside, the GTX 690 has been looking like a good value option lately. Consider that you can Grab an ASUS one for just under £700 now, add £100 for a block and that's £800 for dual GPU. A typical GTX 680 is around £370 now (best deal), so two are £740. Add to that a pair of blocks at around £100 each and you're looking at £940 or there abouts - a "saving" of 140! Bargain!
Ok, so two 680's would likely clock better than a single 690, that much is a given. However a 690 is still going to be a beast.
I admit, when one of my 570's failed I looked at getting a 690 with block. However, back then, it would have still been the wrong side of £1000. Ah well.
As I WILL wataercool my next rig from the get go, it really makes sense looking at a dual GPU card that needs just the one block - makes the build far far easier too.
Anyway, I'm rambling...over to you - moar fotos! lol.
Scoob.
Treble20
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Still in the game
Hi Scoob and thanks for your input.
I think the main problem is I do NOT consider this an OTT build I must admit the 690 is sweet but having some worries now that if it goes wrong and I need it RMA'ed or replaier I lose the whole lot. Sure I can use HD4000 my integrated CPU graphics to get by but that wont run any of the games silky smooth.
So still considering selling the 690 and going Tri sli on 680's or decent 670's that way one dies can still continue. Either that or go back to my original idea and dual 690's oooo yeah !!!!!!!
I am looking at ordering a Water cooling loop (as the H100i died)now, instead of doing it pre summer like originally planned. Just getting stuff together to put the order in. So running on a stock intel cooler at the moment and it looks such a let down, all that kit in there with a stock cooler and the fact I am an impatient SOB really does not help.
The Dual monitors did my head in as well especially the Dell higher resolution going screen to screen. SO I sold that and just stuck to the Asus 144hz. Looking at getting a FingerVU as a side monitor and got the Nvidia 3d vison 2 set stuff coming as a little Xmas bonus from Mrs Santa.
Ordering some more cables and bolts etc soon and will put a fan grill in the front to help the 240 that is going in there. As soon as its arrived ill start work on it again and upload more pics !
and mate there is nothing wrong with a good ramble
Hi Scoob and thanks for your input.
I think the main problem is I do NOT consider this an OTT build
I must admit the 690 is sweet but having some worries now that if it goes wrong and I need it RMA'ed or replaier I lose the whole lot. Sure I can use HD4000 my integrated CPU graphics to get by but that wont run any of the games silky smooth.So still considering selling the 690 and going Tri sli on 680's or decent 670's that way one dies can still continue. Either that or go back to my original idea and dual 690's oooo yeah !!!!!!!
I am looking at ordering a Water cooling loop (as the H100i died)now, instead of doing it pre summer like originally planned. Just getting stuff together to put the order in. So running on a stock intel cooler at the moment and it looks such a let down, all that kit in there with a stock cooler and the fact I am an impatient SOB really does not help.
The Dual monitors did my head in as well especially the Dell higher resolution going screen to screen. SO I sold that and just stuck to the Asus 144hz. Looking at getting a FingerVU as a side monitor and got the Nvidia 3d vison 2 set stuff coming as a little Xmas bonus from Mrs Santa.
Ordering some more cables and bolts etc soon and will put a fan grill in the front to help the 240 that is going in there. As soon as its arrived ill start work on it again and upload more pics !
and mate there is nothing wrong with a good ramble
Moonlitstrider
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looking good man I am looking forward to updates and cant wait to see that custom loop!
Scoob
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@ Treble20: surely you just plan to use this for Surfing, Word and the odd email though right? Maybe fire up solitaire once in a while? lol.
It's funny, my 2500k system was originally bought (cheap bundle, I had a GTX 570 already) as a temporary Gamer. I ultimately planned for it to be my new media PC, using the iGPU to keep a nice, simple, cool & quiet system. However, the system turned out to be so good I bought a 2nd 570, better PSU and ultimately spent an insane amount water cooling it all.
I still dabble with the idea of picking up a 690 (they can be had for £700 after all) and popping a block on it. Then of course I'd be obliged to water cool both my Gateway and Media PC's to take advantage of my blocked up 570's...a slippery slope lol.
Water cooling is great fun. But, when first starting out, you need to buy sooo much stuff. Now I'm fairly established with things like a spare CPU block (ready for my older kit) plenty of tubing, a spare 360 rad, compression fittings and the like. So, I just need to add to the pool so to speak making it easier to cost up as I just need the big obvious items such as appropriate blocks etc. for the most part. Also, experience now allows me to more readily identify what I'd need for a given install.
If I do migrate my external cooling solution to my next PC however, I will of course need buy some new bits to keep the old one going. Assuming my 2500k gets re-tasked as a media PC, that's a simple case of a Pump & res and maybe a good 240 rad as I'll just be cooling the CPU & making use of the iGPU... Worst (best?) case I keep a 570 in there and up-spec the rads a little. For a media PC I DO want a tidy fully-internal build.
I do get your concern re: loosing a 690 - I lost one of my 570's for a while and it was HORRIBLE going back to a single card in certain games. However I'd say you'd have to be particularly unlucky for a 690 to die as they really do seem to be built to a quality above your average card. As long as you take care with fitting the block (take you time, it can be fiddly to unpractised hands, but it's not really difficult) that card will serve you well for years.
Oh, I rambled again didn't I?
Scoob.
It's funny, my 2500k system was originally bought (cheap bundle, I had a GTX 570 already) as a temporary Gamer. I ultimately planned for it to be my new media PC, using the iGPU to keep a nice, simple, cool & quiet system. However, the system turned out to be so good I bought a 2nd 570, better PSU and ultimately spent an insane amount water cooling it all.
I still dabble with the idea of picking up a 690 (they can be had for £700 after all) and popping a block on it. Then of course I'd be obliged to water cool both my Gateway and Media PC's to take advantage of my blocked up 570's...a slippery slope lol.
Water cooling is great fun. But, when first starting out, you need to buy sooo much stuff. Now I'm fairly established with things like a spare CPU block (ready for my older kit) plenty of tubing, a spare 360 rad, compression fittings and the like. So, I just need to add to the pool so to speak making it easier to cost up as I just need the big obvious items such as appropriate blocks etc. for the most part. Also, experience now allows me to more readily identify what I'd need for a given install.
If I do migrate my external cooling solution to my next PC however, I will of course need buy some new bits to keep the old one going. Assuming my 2500k gets re-tasked as a media PC, that's a simple case of a Pump & res and maybe a good 240 rad as I'll just be cooling the CPU & making use of the iGPU... Worst (best?) case I keep a 570 in there and up-spec the rads a little. For a media PC I DO want a tidy fully-internal build.
I do get your concern re: loosing a 690 - I lost one of my 570's for a while and it was HORRIBLE going back to a single card in certain games. However I'd say you'd have to be particularly unlucky for a 690 to die as they really do seem to be built to a quality above your average card. As long as you take care with fitting the block (take you time, it can be fiddly to unpractised hands, but it's not really difficult) that card will serve you well for years.
Oh, I rambled again didn't I?
Scoob.
Treble20
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All Systems stop !
Nah not just Surfing.. I really want to be able to run and play Farmville with no lag so is really important to me !
But not going as planned I can source most if not all the parts I want apart from the GPU Block !
I am after an XSPC Razor GTX690 and everywhere seams to be out of stock.
Estimated time of stock is 3-4 weeks away !
If anyone knows of one going for sale in stock it would be much appreciated.
and I think the MObo is faulty so may have to RMA and look for a replacement.
Nah not just Surfing.. I really want to be able to run and play Farmville with no lag so is really important to me !
But not going as planned I can source most if not all the parts I want apart from the GPU Block !
I am after an XSPC Razor GTX690 and everywhere seams to be out of stock.
Estimated time of stock is 3-4 weeks away !
If anyone knows of one going for sale in stock it would be much appreciated.
and I think the MObo is faulty so may have to RMA and look for a replacement.
