kmanmx
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'Sup all. For those who have no idea who I am, I sit in Off Topic all the time 
As you can see in my signature, I am running a pretty fast laptop at the moment. I bought it in december as I was moving between different houses a lot and so my desktop was becoming a PITA to move everywhere. Well now having spent all that money, sods law, I will no longer be moving all over the place for numerous reasons. So now I have no need for a laptop. The good news is laptops are second best to desktops for thermal/acoustic/reliability reasons, and I can now return to a desktop PC woop.
I don't really do a lot of heavy gaming anymore, but at the same time I hate having a slow PC that can't stand up to everything I try and do, even if it isn't that often. So I will be looking at a high end rig. I am pretty happy choosing most of the components, just want some advice on a couple of bits:
Watercooling/Case:After having a gaming laptop spinning its fans at 129K RPM all the time and still only keeping the CPU at 90c, i'd like to return to a PC that is seriously cool and quiet. So I want some help with watercooling. I have no experience with watercooling other than the AIO ones. I'd like to cool both the CPU and GPU if possible, so I need a case to fit a fat rad in (420mm+). Or is it better to get two smaller radiators, one for CPU, and one for GPU ? I also need some case reccomendations, ones that are big, high quality, good for water cooling. I don't really have a budget for cases because even the most expensive ones are like £400 max, which is fine. So just whatever is reccomended.
Motherboard: I want a good motherboard. I user a DAC/headphone amp so don't care about audio. I use Ethernet so don't care about WiFi. But, I want one with high quality reliable components, that will overclock well, and is rock solid. I doubt I will SLI but it's possible at some point, so a SLI capable mobo is preferable.
It's really just that which I need advice on. The rest will be a pretty standard setup, i7 7700 & GTX 1080Ti etc. I might not be upgading immediately, but in 3 to 6 months or so. So whatever are the best components at the time.
As you can see in my signature, I am running a pretty fast laptop at the moment. I bought it in december as I was moving between different houses a lot and so my desktop was becoming a PITA to move everywhere. Well now having spent all that money, sods law, I will no longer be moving all over the place for numerous reasons. So now I have no need for a laptop. The good news is laptops are second best to desktops for thermal/acoustic/reliability reasons, and I can now return to a desktop PC
woop.I don't really do a lot of heavy gaming anymore, but at the same time I hate having a slow PC that can't stand up to everything I try and do, even if it isn't that often. So I will be looking at a high end rig. I am pretty happy choosing most of the components, just want some advice on a couple of bits:
Watercooling/Case:After having a gaming laptop spinning its fans at 129K RPM all the time and still only keeping the CPU at 90c, i'd like to return to a PC that is seriously cool and quiet. So I want some help with watercooling. I have no experience with watercooling other than the AIO ones. I'd like to cool both the CPU and GPU if possible, so I need a case to fit a fat rad in (420mm+). Or is it better to get two smaller radiators, one for CPU, and one for GPU ? I also need some case reccomendations, ones that are big, high quality, good for water cooling. I don't really have a budget for cases because even the most expensive ones are like £400 max, which is fine. So just whatever is reccomended.
Motherboard: I want a good motherboard. I user a DAC/headphone amp so don't care about audio. I use Ethernet so don't care about WiFi. But, I want one with high quality reliable components, that will overclock well, and is rock solid. I doubt I will SLI but it's possible at some point, so a SLI capable mobo is preferable.
It's really just that which I need advice on. The rest will be a pretty standard setup, i7 7700 & GTX 1080Ti etc. I might not be upgading immediately, but in 3 to 6 months or so. So whatever are the best components at the time.
