Hello everyone,
I'm fairly new to this forum but I've read a couple of posts since last month because I'm planning to build a gaming rig of my own for the first time. Initially, I will be using stock fans except for the CPU (which I plan to overclock). However, I want to move to a water cooled system after a few months (6-8) of having a complete build.
Here are my desired specs:
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3
Video Card: EVGA GTX 680
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB)
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100
SSD: Corsair Force Series GT 120GB
HDD: WD Cavial Black 1TB 7200 RPM
CD/DVD: Lite-ON 12x BD-ROM
Power Supply: Corsair HX850
I got to know that RAM does not really benefit well from water cooling but if there are water blocks for it, I'm willing to spare. Also, I'm thinking of using 2 GTX 680 in the far future (1yr from now) because it is a powerful GPU with less power consumption than GTX580/590, hence the 850W supply. I would gladly wait for a 680 with a water block before I even buy this system. My secondary goal would be having this system as quiet as I can possibly afford.
Considering that I plan to water cool my system, what is a good computer case for this? Something that will work for the above setup and still fit enough room for the tubes?
Btw, I have very little idea over the motherboard that I chose in this build. I am also thinking of using this rig as a server (virtualbox mainly) instead of buying a separate server. The virtual machine will run Oracle RAC (minimum 2 nodes), so that's about 8GB of RAM for the VM alone.
I'm fairly new to this forum but I've read a couple of posts since last month because I'm planning to build a gaming rig of my own for the first time. Initially, I will be using stock fans except for the CPU (which I plan to overclock). However, I want to move to a water cooled system after a few months (6-8) of having a complete build.
Here are my desired specs:
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3
Video Card: EVGA GTX 680
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB)
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100
SSD: Corsair Force Series GT 120GB
HDD: WD Cavial Black 1TB 7200 RPM
CD/DVD: Lite-ON 12x BD-ROM
Power Supply: Corsair HX850
I got to know that RAM does not really benefit well from water cooling but if there are water blocks for it, I'm willing to spare. Also, I'm thinking of using 2 GTX 680 in the far future (1yr from now) because it is a powerful GPU with less power consumption than GTX580/590, hence the 850W supply. I would gladly wait for a 680 with a water block before I even buy this system. My secondary goal would be having this system as quiet as I can possibly afford.
Considering that I plan to water cool my system, what is a good computer case for this? Something that will work for the above setup and still fit enough room for the tubes?
Btw, I have very little idea over the motherboard that I chose in this build. I am also thinking of using this rig as a server (virtualbox mainly) instead of buying a separate server. The virtual machine will run Oracle RAC (minimum 2 nodes), so that's about 8GB of RAM for the VM alone.