Antonio001z
New member
Hi evryone , im new and im need of some help. . mainly with watercooling but any other advice would be much appricated. Thanks
I bought a second hand rig off of my local classifieds about a month ago for 1400AUD and it has been serving me well since.
Here are the pics : http://s1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee484/antonio001z/
SPECS
-Asus Rampage III Extreme
-Intel i7 980X
-Patriot G series ram 6gb 1800mhz (the guy said to be careful with these as they will be the first thing to go if istart to oc the system)
-Antec True Power Quattro 1200watt oc edition(is this too much for one gtx 580? the guy had three in this rig?
i dont mind keeping it as long as my electricity bill doesn't go through the roof)
- I also got a fanspeed controller and some silverstone thing that you will see in the pics it's the thing with all the green cables and all it did was give wrong temp readings and beep at me every now and then .
It also came with water cooling included with a an watercooling setup with is as follows:
-Ek Supreme HF Nickel Acetal cpu block (which comes with some dog tag attachments but i have no idea what they are for :s)
-Thermaltake P500 pump
-mc 3x 120 rad
Basically had the sytem for a bit now and it has been great it came with everything apart from a hdd and i have been using a 5200rpm hdd out of a broken portable hdd case as a result my boot times have been ridicules and it has a virus on it so i figured f*** it its time for an over haul . .
This is what i want to do with this rig . .
- Transfer everything into a xigmatec elysium case because the p80 case has been modded by previous owner
- water cool the gtx 580 as it reaches 76c under load
- Water cool the nb and sb of the R3E as they reach 80c under load and i can feel it on the side of my face
plus the nb fan is loud as
-get an ssd (in thinking kingston hyper x 120gb)
-get a second hdd for mass storage (mainly movies and games dont know whether to get a 2tb 7200 drive
or two 600gb velocirapors in raid is there much of a difference between the two? i just want to be able to transfer movies to usb really fast
My budget currently is 1400 it can expand if need be but im thinking this should be more than enough . .
I mostly need help with the water cooling as i am unsure how to it as i have never had a watercooled case before.
Can that pump and rad combo cool the gpu mobo and cpu?
should i get another pump+rad and res for gpu and mobo or should i just get another rad and a monster pump to cool everything?? and whats the best loop for what i am thinking of cooling? I also want to set up the loop for easy drainage and this current one was really hard and messy to drain.
sorry for the long write up but i thought i would be careful and mention everything thanks for reading
I bought a second hand rig off of my local classifieds about a month ago for 1400AUD and it has been serving me well since.
Here are the pics : http://s1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee484/antonio001z/
SPECS
-Asus Rampage III Extreme
-Intel i7 980X
-Patriot G series ram 6gb 1800mhz (the guy said to be careful with these as they will be the first thing to go if istart to oc the system)
-Antec True Power Quattro 1200watt oc edition(is this too much for one gtx 580? the guy had three in this rig?
i dont mind keeping it as long as my electricity bill doesn't go through the roof)
- I also got a fanspeed controller and some silverstone thing that you will see in the pics it's the thing with all the green cables and all it did was give wrong temp readings and beep at me every now and then .
It also came with water cooling included with a an watercooling setup with is as follows:
-Ek Supreme HF Nickel Acetal cpu block (which comes with some dog tag attachments but i have no idea what they are for :s)
-Thermaltake P500 pump
-mc 3x 120 rad
Basically had the sytem for a bit now and it has been great it came with everything apart from a hdd and i have been using a 5200rpm hdd out of a broken portable hdd case as a result my boot times have been ridicules and it has a virus on it so i figured f*** it its time for an over haul . .
This is what i want to do with this rig . .
- Transfer everything into a xigmatec elysium case because the p80 case has been modded by previous owner
- water cool the gtx 580 as it reaches 76c under load
- Water cool the nb and sb of the R3E as they reach 80c under load and i can feel it on the side of my face
plus the nb fan is loud as
-get an ssd (in thinking kingston hyper x 120gb)
-get a second hdd for mass storage (mainly movies and games dont know whether to get a 2tb 7200 drive
or two 600gb velocirapors in raid is there much of a difference between the two? i just want to be able to transfer movies to usb really fast
My budget currently is 1400 it can expand if need be but im thinking this should be more than enough . .
I mostly need help with the water cooling as i am unsure how to it as i have never had a watercooled case before.
Can that pump and rad combo cool the gpu mobo and cpu?
should i get another pump+rad and res for gpu and mobo or should i just get another rad and a monster pump to cool everything?? and whats the best loop for what i am thinking of cooling? I also want to set up the loop for easy drainage and this current one was really hard and messy to drain.
sorry for the long write up but i thought i would be careful and mention everything thanks for reading
