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#1 Symtex
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^^ nice build and specs mate. i am not going to lie, i have never seen a rad placed like that before. but, to each his own. illharmonics

you are not visiting much site are you? The rads is setup on the outside to maximize heat transfer. Don't forget I am running at 4ghz right now

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#2 Symtex
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Please rate my build again

I7-920 4Ghz Watercooled with Swiftech Apogee GTZ CPU Block

Patriot Viper Extreme DDR3-1600mhz 8-8-8-24 Triple Channel 6gig kit

Asus PT6 Deluxe

BFG GTX 260 Core 216 730mhz on Watercoole Swiftech MCW60 GPU block

WD SATA 2 1TB 7200RPM

Corsair 750W PS

Antec twelve hundred

front/side view

another front/side view

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#3 Symtex
Member since 2003 • 1206 Posts

At every single computer store I've been, they told me to stay away from water coolers.

A Good heat sink, fans and a nice, big computer case will keep everything cool enough.

Amster_G

They have no clue what they are talking about and they do not want to be liable for any damage that might occurs to the equipment. If you want to overclock, you will need water cooling to have good result. Stay away from premade kit. It's better to order your part seperately. You can snoop around overclock.net if you to learn more

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#4 Symtex
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Can you run Prime95 and realtemp and post the result?
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#5 Symtex
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This article is a better assesment : http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i7-multigpu-sli-crossfire-game-performance-review/1

Pun aside, the 3.2 GHz Core i7 processor used in this article seems to be a very good match for heavy weight Multi-GPU environments, whatever your preference is: 3-way SLI or QuadFire. You will not likely run intoCPU bottlenecks anytime soon. That's of course until ATI and NVIDIA release faster cards again, which is bound to happen anyway. But in retrospect the Core i7 platform is a fantastic platform for multi-GPU gaming as you'll gain heaps... seriously heaps and heaps more performance opposed to today's regular PCs with a Core 2 Duo processor.

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#6 Symtex
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Please rate my rig :

Intel I7-920 Quadcore 3.2GHz

Patriot Extreme Triple Channel Memory 6Gig Kit @ 1600 mhz

Asus P6T Deluxe

BFG GTX 260 Core 216 OC Core @ 630mhz

Corsair 750W PS

Antec Nine hundred

1 TB Western Digital 7200rpm SATA2

Vista SP1 64 bit

I am thinking of upgrade the retail CPU fan so I can OC the CPU to around 3.6ghz