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First off, I want a better than stock cooling for my LGA 1155 Core-i7 2600K. (Should have done this a few years ago.) My 16gb of Corsair DDR3 is has high profile heat sinks which pretty much kills using larger air cooling. Any recommendation on a closed loop water cooler for it? My case wasn't designed with radiators in mind, I might be able to get a single 120mm or single 140mm radiator at the back of it if it'll do enough. Might be able to get a dual radiator in but I'm not at the computer to study it.
Probably next year I'll be building a new gaming rig. To lighten the load on the wallet a little I want to upgrade my current system with components that I'll move over into the new build. First purchase will be a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb SSD, it'll help my current computer and be a nice drive for the next one.
Biggest expense and probably hardest for me is graphics, Nvidia is the easy part. I don't need to play crisis 10 or battlefield 25 on ultra max settings on a 4K monitor, so GTX Titan X ($1000+) or TRI-SLI GTX980 water cooled kits ($2000+) for me.
Right now I'll be buying one card to upgrade my current system. It will be a GTX 980 class card and will be a reference design (more on that later). these are the options I'm thinking about:
1) GTX 980 now > SLI GTX 980 later (maybe TRI-SLI eventually)
2) GTX 980 TI now > GTX 980 TI later (maybe SLI eventually)
3) GTX 980 now > GTX 980 TI with GTX 980 PhysX later (Maybe SLI eventually)
If I get a GTX 980 card I will definitely be running two cards when I build. Can't decide which way to throw my money. the way I figure is in 2 or 3 generations of graphics cards I'll upgrade again, at which point one of the GTX 980 (TI) can be used as a PhysX card for those and the other card(s) can be put to other use. Just can't decide which way I want to go.
For the future build I'll wait to see what motherboards and processors are available then. What I do know is that I want to incorporate liquid cooling. That is why I want to stick with reference design graphics cards, full coverage application specific water blocks are available for them. Any recommendations on full tower cases that are good candidates for liquid cooling? I know that you get what you pay for, but lower price range would be best.
Probably next year I'll be building a new gaming rig. To lighten the load on the wallet a little I want to upgrade my current system with components that I'll move over into the new build. First purchase will be a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb SSD, it'll help my current computer and be a nice drive for the next one.
Biggest expense and probably hardest for me is graphics, Nvidia is the easy part. I don't need to play crisis 10 or battlefield 25 on ultra max settings on a 4K monitor, so GTX Titan X ($1000+) or TRI-SLI GTX980 water cooled kits ($2000+) for me.
Right now I'll be buying one card to upgrade my current system. It will be a GTX 980 class card and will be a reference design (more on that later). these are the options I'm thinking about:
1) GTX 980 now > SLI GTX 980 later (maybe TRI-SLI eventually)
2) GTX 980 TI now > GTX 980 TI later (maybe SLI eventually)
3) GTX 980 now > GTX 980 TI with GTX 980 PhysX later (Maybe SLI eventually)
If I get a GTX 980 card I will definitely be running two cards when I build. Can't decide which way to throw my money. the way I figure is in 2 or 3 generations of graphics cards I'll upgrade again, at which point one of the GTX 980 (TI) can be used as a PhysX card for those and the other card(s) can be put to other use. Just can't decide which way I want to go.
For the future build I'll wait to see what motherboards and processors are available then. What I do know is that I want to incorporate liquid cooling. That is why I want to stick with reference design graphics cards, full coverage application specific water blocks are available for them. Any recommendations on full tower cases that are good candidates for liquid cooling? I know that you get what you pay for, but lower price range would be best.
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