Assetto Corsa with 3x24" nvidia surround :-)

I live in a warm country and when we experience the rare very hot days (40°C+, inside 38°C) my fans were going crazy. I switched to watercooling. For the sake of simplicity I've choosen that corsair watercooling set. Its not super silent, but it does it's work and has no problem of cooling the cpu even at very high room temperature - it just keeps the temp, which is what I desired. The system is quiet enough for me, also was able to configure all other fans to min. speed.

When gaming, the video card takes over the noise but I really don't care, because I have no use for "silent gaming" and wonder who has a use for that.

But if you do not have any real reason for a water cooling like warm room temp or overclocking or 3 video-cards-beside-each-other you can savely spare water cooling ;-)

Your description does fit several games .. do you have more info about it? What view was it? Iso, Top down? Because you mentioned cess i was thinking about Battle Chess, but that maybe too old (that was Amiga 500 days *g*)

Any more hints would help, finding the game you desire :-)

You can just solder some new capacitors into that board .. cheap and easy to do, if you WANT to do it. Get them out carefully, bring it to electronical store, get replacement caps, solder them in (carefully!) and be happy for another 10 years ;-)

Did that back in the old days - nowadays I prefer to stick with more pricey mobos which have high quality electronics built in - it's just not worth the trouble to solder cheap capacitors out.

I actually do not completely understand all that buzz about SSDs.

Speed: They are faster as an HDD - fact - and we do not talk about writing speed, we do talk about access speed, which will MASSIVLY improve system performance. So getting your System on a 120 GB SSD does the trick, everything else can go to normal HDD - cause there is no reason to use SSD for stuff that is just lying around. You can easily root the user dirs to your HDD, no need to put them on the SSD.

Lifetime: If you do not fill up your SSD you should be fine for DECADES. It does absolutely NOT matter if you put your PC to sleep every day. Benefit: If the SSD dies some day, you will STILL be able to READ it .. you know the fun, when a HDD dies - woohoo!

Pro-Tipp: Get yourself another pair of RAM and setup an RAMDRIVE (8GB+)- put your temp there, your virt. memory and all other often-changing-not-persistent things like caches whatsoever. The RAMDRIVE can be saved at shutdown and is saved when you put your rig to sleep - so overall Drive Access Times are nearly nothing.

If you want speed, get an SSD for your system (and ONLY your system), a RAMDRIVE for temps and cache and a HDD for longtime storage. The later needs no speed

PS: When using a RAMdrive be aware that there may be an issue with windows updates from time to time, because MS is sometimes using the TEMP-Dir for persistent File saving between reboots - which is pretty stupid but some devs there may have no idea about "temp". If this happens (the update fails and rolls back) shut off ramdrive and try again. it will work. reactivate after update and you are fine.