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Originally Posted by SgtGoldy
Dude... How long has it been now? I've pretty much followed since the day I heard it was being hauled away... that feels like forever ago (granted it probably feels much longer to you). Well when its all done hit me up and we'll grab a drink 
Im sporting a Seasonic Platinum 1000 and an H100i water cooled CPU. My goal is a fully water cooled system down the road. but your build seems awefully close to mine. 2 SLId 780's and 120 SSD. White Case/White LEDs (tastefully done, and not too many of em)
Check out that PSU man. Best one out there hands down |
I would have gone platinum, but Newegg had a flash deal on the PSU I ordered. $130 for 1KW Cooler Master and Gold efficiency. I was eying the Corsair AX1200i Platinum, but I couldn't justify it because I maxed mine at 830 watts with a 4ghz 980X and two 560ti's. It would take a bigger overclock and three top end GPU's to use 1200W. With two 780's and downsizing to a quad core again, I don't see pushing past 750, but I stuck with 1k for any future upgrades. My old one I had since 2006 and had a 7 year warranty. I would have kept it, but it restricts me to four 6 pin connectors for the GPU's. I does have two 8 pins for CPU's, way too many molex and sata connectors too. Damn thing is rock solid reliable. Paid $572 back then for it, I used it for as long as I could stretch it out. I don't doubt it has another 10 years in it. Your build sounds awesome. I'm still on the fence with the H100i. Temps are mediocre. Then again, my custom WC'd setup had two pumps, two reservoirs, and 360mm Thermochill radiators that are at least twice as thick as the 100i in a push/pull configuration. I also had phase change on the CPU... That was a few years ago... kind of a Frankenstein build.
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Originally Posted by Mr&Mrs
Maximus VI Xtreme?  Im still running on my Red Dragon (my name for it) build, dang its pushing 4 years old now. Im due for a new build but I use PC so little for gaming now that its hard to make myself do it.
Red Dragon
-LIAN LI ARMORSUIT PC-P50R Red Aluminum ATX
-ASUS Crosshair III Formula AM3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
-AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad- Core Processor
-(2) XFX HD-585A-ZNBC Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB Black Edition 256 bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
-Crucial Ballistix Tracer 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) w/ Red LEDs Model
-Thermaltake Black Widow 850W ATX 12V v2.3, CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular
-500 GB WD
-Windows 7 Home Premium
So ya I would love to see pics of your new rig! It might force me to start building a new one myself. I have a HTPC plan that is going to be awesome if it works. I found a company with software that I can use with my old Kinect that will allow the HTPC to be hands free airless touch. I have not seen anyone else do this yet so im excited to give it a shot. |
Heck man, the only thing I'd really think about updating is the CPU and your tiny @ss HDD. 5850's in crossfire can handle most games still. And if you aren't gaming all the time, I'm sure you can get more life out of them. The only reason I'm updating is because the motherboard options for 1366 are limited now, USB 3.0 and Sata 6g are not built in with the chipset, but add on's, no PCIE 3.0, no SSD caching, no ram disk, there are a lot of great things that came out the past couple years. The processor though, that thing is brutally quick, I don't want to part ways with it, but it's the only way to update the platform. It's every bit as fast as Haswell, Ivybridge, and Sandybridge CPU's, except of course the 6 core LGA2011 beasts. Now those are great for ramdisk with the ram density they can handle. I just don't see a need for all that though to play games with a maximum of two GPU's. If I ever run three, then I'll either have to move up. I'll cross my fingers that AMD can bring out something really competitive again. Now time to watch some football