New Fun/Work Rig

[Wiggawam]

So I am building myself a new computer. I plan on doing some moderate gaming/movie watching with it but it's main design is for my engineering and graphics/audio programs. I also plan on running dual moniters with this. Not much more to say jsut wanted you guys with more expierence to check this over.

PS. I plan on playing with overclocking a bit and was wondering as to what you would reccomend to cool this down short of WC (Though I will probably go to that for noise reasons as I run my comp 24/7 normally.)

http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=3927927

[Mr.Ferrari]

You do void warranties if replacing stock thermal compound or stock heatsink with a aftermarket one. But if your not worried about that I would be happy to suggest a appropriate cooling solution. Just give me your budget and noise tolerance.

Otherwise build looks excellent. I myself prefer single railed powersupplies if im not going with a dual card configuration and want to overclock, but that OCZ 600W is a VERY high quality powersupply.

Top notch, build looks great.

If your interested in ever going crossfire I suggest the P5WDH over the P5B. But if not P5B has been an excellent board. Stable as a rock. Suprisingly enough, its been having less issues then its bigger brother P5WDH considering it is a 965p board.

:).

[Wiggawam]

You do void warranties if replacing stock thermal compound or stock heatsink with a aftermarket one. But if your not worried about that I would be happy to suggest a appropriate cooling solution. Just give me your budget and noise tolerance.

Otherwise build looks excellent. I myself prefer single railed powersupplies if im not going with a dual card configuration and want to overclock, but that OCZ 600W is a VERY high quality powersupply.

Top notch, build looks great.

If your interested in ever going crossfire I suggest the P5WDH over the P5B. But if not P5B has been an excellent board. Stable as a rock.

I was thinking about crossfire and at the moment since newegg is out of stock and I wan't to build this guy soon I am willing to pass. Might upgrade to the P5WDH in a few months anyways. As quite as possible since I'm living in a studio oncampus while being able to push the limits to a fair degree. I'm not really sure about the budget so if you could give me some options though if it would be more cost effective to WC then I am willing to look into it.

[Mr.Ferrari]

The limit to how good of a cpu heatsink you can get is how much patience you'll have with taking the time to properly seat the heatsink. (These arent as easy to seat as stock heatsinks).
Just out of curiousity have you ever built a computer before?

Some good examples of very high quality heatsinks would be the following:

Thermalright Ultra-120 (http://sidewindercomputers.com/thul1.html)- Best of the best performing heatsinks on the market. Requires additional fan. Tower style heatsink that takes 120mm fans of your choice. Make sure you visit www.thermalright.com to read the instructions on installation and make sure your case doesnt have any issues with the heatsink. (Which I doubt since your getting a p180. Nonethless, never hurts to measure.

Thermalright Ultra90 (http://sidewindercomputers.com/thulcpucofor.html)- Basically the 120's little brother. Needs additional fan. Takes 90mm fans.

Thermalright XP90 (http://jab-tech.com/Thermalright-XP-90C-Copper-Heatsink-pr-2836.html)- Awesome little heatsink. High performer, although a little less then the above two. But great for small form factor. Requires additional 90mm fan. Since your mounting on lga775 Make sure you purchase this adapter bracket (http://jab-tech.com/Thermalright-LGA-775-RM-retention-bracket-pr-2570.html) for socket 775.

Arctic cooling Freezer7 pro (http://jab-tech.com/Arctic-Cooling-Freezer-7-Pro-pr-3136.html)- Great little budget heatsink. Not as good as the above two but uses intel's stock mechanism so its easy to install. Comes with fan.

Before I suggest a 90 or 120mm fan, whats your noise tolerance? Would like to go with a $12 fan controller and a little noisy fan and quiet it down. Or would you prefer to go with a already quiet fan?

Once again I must reiterate that you will void your cpu's warranty if going with a aftermarket cooling solution. Although it seems thats probally something your not worried about.

If you have any further questions feel free..

[Wiggawam]

Just out of curiousity have you ever built a computer before?

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Before I suggest a 90 or 120mm fan, whats your noise tolerance? Would like to go with a $12 fan controller and a little noisy fan and quiet it down. Or would you prefer to go with a already quiet fan?

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If you have any further questions feel free..


No not my first build but my first build with completley new parts. My sideprojects have started making enough that I'm being limited by my old hardware. Honestly I prefer as little noise as possible but I understand that with aircooling there will always be something. On the issue of a fan controller or already quite fine I must admit I think that a slightly glowing computer is cool so If they make an already quiet fan that glows bue that would be awesome
Since I havn't seen that while looking around a fan controller works for me if or if it is that big a diffrence then a non glowing black works jsut as fine. Kinda overwhelmed with new things I'm jsut really use to cobbleing together junk that barely runs!

PS. The reason I decided to use all new parts is my last one had a nice snap crackle pop to it which also explains why I would like to get this guy built sooner than later. Thanks for all the help.