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Corsair and XFX don't make power supplies, they put stickers on power supplies. And their good models are made by Seasonic or Flextronics anyway. There's more to a product than the name of the company etched into the side of it.

If you open up one off the Rosewill Hives, Capstones, or Fortress PSUs you will find really high quality components. This is what's important, not the name of it.

I get so tired of all the "only buy Corsair, XFX, or Seasonic power supplies" sheep that go around reiterating this statement and don't even know why. The Corsair CX and TX units are made by CWT and are very average. The only perk is that Corsair makes good on their warranties.

The Corsair RM series are terrible. They didn't skimp on the cost, they're expensive as hell, but leaving out a rectifying bridge and cheaping out on half of the caps and other components as well is proof that they think they can get away with it.

"Oh everyone says to buy our PSUs, so we'll make a new line, charge a bunch of money for it, and since it's expensive people will think it must be good"

I don't buy in to that nonsense.
 
StickG1 - 0_o Ok sorry. But the reason I aksed if XFX is good is cause I have a PSU by them which is made by seasonic right? Meaning its good? Anyway, its up to you...I hope "I get so tired of all the "only buy Corsair, XFX, or Seasonic power supplies" sheep that go around reiterating this statement and don't even know why. " Wasnt directed towards me.
 
No not directed at you. But in every home built help thread if someone picks anything but those three companies people go off. All because Benny the Badge-master said so, and he has badges so he must know what he's talking about!
 
Hmm, okay I'll try to list it all out.

Res: EK-DDC X-Res 140 CSQ - Acetal
Pump: Swiftech MCP355™ 12 VDC Pump
GPU Block: Koolance VID-AR290X
CPU Block: Koolance CPU-360
Rads:
1x Swiftech MCR-220-XP 240mm
1x Watercool HTFS2 LTX 120mm
2x Alphacool ST30 120mm
Tubing: 5ft. Primochill Advanced LRT 3/4" OD
Fittings: Bitspower Shining Silver Compressions and angled adapters. About $350 worth, kind of sickening but the nice stuff is expensive.

I put everything in my cart on Performance-PCs.com and it was about $800. That's not what I paid because all my blocks, rads, pump, res were used. But still crazy expensive.
 


That Rosewill looks good, it's a Super Flower unit. :) While the texture finish doesn't look as sharp as the 550m it still looks good (could be the pics HW Secrets took) and it's gold.

http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page2917.htm

The 550m received many accolades via HW Secrets.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Rosewill-CAPSTONE-550M-Power-Supply-Review/1584/11

**Not all of the RM series (Chicony and CWT) are bad. Iirc it was the RM750 v1 (discontinued) that was abysmal. The rest received good to great reviews.

Doesn't Jon Gerow work for Corsair now?

 
I didn't know they discontinued that model. That's great news.

Super Flower you say? That's great. I think I'm going to go for one.

I can't find a mATX case I want, at least not one that isn't more expensive than the CPU and motherboard going in to it, lol.

Any ideas? I want small but decent cooling. Something a little different than the traditional rectangular PC tower.
 


Tubing is new, it's about $2/ft so might as well get fresh stuff. The blocks, pump, rads, and reservoir were used. Nothing that an external pump and a decent water filter can't clean up.

I haven't gamed in a while. I was playing Metro LL a week or two ago. The CPU @ 4.8GHz was ~45C and the GPU @ ~44C.



I do like the N200, I used one for a few weeks. I had built a backup rig but ended up selling it to someone locally that wanted a budget gaming machine. Definitely a nice case to work in.
 


Fractal Design Core 1000 and it's only only $30!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352032

This is the 450w model of the Capstone (not 450m).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5698/rosewill-capstone-450w-and-650w-80plus-gold/4

 
StickG1 - Thats awesome! H100i price dropped to 95 from 109 and either way i can buy it right now but i want it with the fans so yeah. I have exactly enough. is 142.10 and i got 142.12 😉 33.33 for shipping though

 
It looks like a larger version of the Define Mini I have. As such, I'd expect it to be a fantastic case, however it will be optimized for quiet, not cooling. You'll need to remove an insert from the top and/or side (will be layered in sound-deadening foam) to get more cooling.
 
Onus - I wanted the one with the window so I get 65% silent and the rest for the window. I dont need to extreme cool anyway. It fits an H100 iand thats enough and yes, I will removed the TOP HDD BAY to fit my Massive GPU...NO case can fit it with the HDD cages on (maybe the cosmos 3) but still.
 
The rad will be on top. The top HDD cage will be gone and I will have TWO fractal R2 140mm fans infront allowing cool air to the GPU and VRAM and the rear exhaust and the rad exhaust. Im sure that will be great cooling, do you agree? And in the future I can replace the front fans with AF140s but thats fine.
 
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