Heavy graphics PC games

[quote=“ihuntinde, post:19, topic:2027”]
My guess would be you dont, unless you are compensating for something personal… Saint:)

ahem… other than that… it would only be for future upgrades…[/quote]

Lol…maybe! More Power!

[quote=“kaptken, post:20, topic:2027”]
How about liquid cooled?

That might be in the future, but this guy is running pretty cool on air, not sure if my 260 card gets hot enough to need liquid cooling yet. The i7 I’ve heard guys OC (overclocking) it pretty far on air w/o problems.

This graphics card is HUGE, ihuntinde is your 280 bigger than your buddies 260? (lol)

[quote=“kaptken, post:20, topic:2027”]
How about liquid cooled?

heat pipes look neat, we’ve been fooling with them for the better part of a decade. but they’re not ready for prime-time just yet, imo.

[quote=“IanH, post:21, topic:2027”]
This graphics card is HUGE, ihuntinde is your 280 bigger than your buddies 260? (lol)[/quote]

Yes… it’s definitely bigger…

ooh wait, the graphics card? they are actually the same size. Almost all of the GTX Series cards are pretty much built on the same PCB, with the individual pieces (ram, processors, etc.) being upgraded on the boards.

As for watercooling, I built one machine that had to be watercooled, but it was only because of the extreme overclocking I was doing, and it was one of the earlier AMD chips. If you are only gaming, and don’t plan on doing much overclocking, or at least you aren’t going extreme with your overclocking, there is no need for watercooling. If you have to start bumping your voltages up in order to stay stable, that is when you should consider watercooling. Even then, my last venture into extreme overclocking, I piped a small window air condition unit into the back of my PC. It was pretty neat, but looked like hell. I was always a little bit weary about running water through a machine that i spent $3500 on. even though now, they sell a lot of self contained water systems that you don’t even have to worry about the water evaporating away in, and there is no real way for it to leak.

we built water cooled pc’s back in the day more for mod factor than cooling. we actually used window washing fluid instead of water. very cool looking with blue cold cathodes. i built one for myself but the evap was a huge PIA. i had to top off the reservoir probably once a week…guess i should have built an ATO! a quality heatsink with multiple independent fans on a thermostat will do the trick 99.9% of the time. always a good idea to set a temp alarm in bios with an overclocked CPU. unless of course, like me, you like the smell of fried silicone ;D