Gaming build Watercooled

Fiveoh4

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This is the list of parts im about to buy. Im wondering also if its possible to put the radiator at the bottom of the case rather than the top. I will be doing gaming and a lot of video editing, I will also add in another radiator and gpu water block in a few weeks. I'm wondering if the motherboard is OC friendly also. Any advice would be appreciated.





CASE- Corsair Obsidian Series 900D
MOBO- ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO
CPU- Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell 3.5GHz
RAM- CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB LP 1600
GPU- EVGA ACX Cooler 03G-P4-2784-KR GeForce GTX 780 3GB 384-bit GDDR5
SSD OS- SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series 2.5" 256GB
HDD games- Western Digital WD Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
PSU- CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply New 4th Gen CPU Certified Haswell Ready


Water cooling parts

XSPC AX480 Quad 120mm Radiator w/ Aluminum Enclosure - Black
EK-RES X3 250 Reservoir
EK-D5 X-TOP CSQ - Plexi, for Laing
Alphacool 49092 Laing VPP655-Single
XSPC AX480 Quad 120mm Radiator w/ Aluminum Enclosure - Black
Corsair SP120s x8 for radiator push/pull

EK Supremacy Universal CPU Liquid Cooling Block - Clean Nickel + Red Acrylic (EK-Supremacy RED Clean CSQ - Nickel)

 
Solution
a better rig
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1gHEA

-better board for cheaper. there is no reason to get ROG products
-more ram will help you out. you can use half of the 32gb i give you as a ramdisk for scratch operations. it will speed things up much faster
-you dont need half of that cooling nor do will you ever need such a large case
-there is no reason to get the acx card when you are watercooling it anyways. if you arent. forget watercooling the system. if you are going to spend money on a watercooling system, you better be doing it for the GPU and CPU otherwise you are wasting the time you put into building
-the blue drive performs better. there is no reason to get the black drive
-a SSD that performs the same in real life. you will...
a better rig
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1gHEA

-better board for cheaper. there is no reason to get ROG products
-more ram will help you out. you can use half of the 32gb i give you as a ramdisk for scratch operations. it will speed things up much faster
-you dont need half of that cooling nor do will you ever need such a large case
-there is no reason to get the acx card when you are watercooling it anyways. if you arent. forget watercooling the system. if you are going to spend money on a watercooling system, you better be doing it for the GPU and CPU otherwise you are wasting the time you put into building
-the blue drive performs better. there is no reason to get the black drive
-a SSD that performs the same in real life. you will never tell the difference between the 2
-just as good psu, but cheaper

as for the watercooling, its rather easy for mine. buy yourself a 360mm rad (a 45 or 60mm thick one will work), a res of your choice, and the extra tubing and fittings. the h220 is expandable and the onboard pump is more than capable enough to drive 2 GPUs and a CPU loop

as for the fans, do not use push pull. its the biggest waste of money as it practically does nothing
 
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