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Water cooled still has fans. It depends on what you go with. You can get the quiet edition of fans that have less static air pressure. Mine are high performance so there is a very soft whirr when they are idle. But I'd rather have the ability to crank up the CFMs if i need it versus having little rinky dink fans that cant move crap. That is my take of it, anyways.
As for the Phanteks PH-TC14PE, the included fans come with a low RPM adapter, but I elected to control them directly with my motherboard's software... Here's my fan profile. Even when I ran the 4.5GHz overclock with temperatures in the 50's, the fans were quiet... just the faint sound of air moving. Stock clocks under gaming load... you can't hear a thing, and I'm sitting next to the tower.
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Yes I'm using the H100i. The Haswell loves it and it keeps things nice and cool. I broke one of the fans so I bought a pair of Corsair SP120s to replace them and they move twice the air. Quiet as a button on idle, but if you set them to max RPM, they sound like a 737 on takeoff. My only gripe is that the blue LED in the water block quit working so I can't change the color that much anymore. A lot of people say that the margin of performance from a large air cooler to water isn't that much, but I think the space savings is worth it alone. It looks so clean:
What two cards are you running in SLI? Any driver issues? Is it worth it for gaming the blockbuster AAA titles?
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As for the Phanteks PH-TC14PE, the included fans come with a low RPM adapter, but I elected to control them directly with my motherboard's software... Here's my fan profile. Even when I ran the 4.5GHz overclock with temperatures in the 50's, the fans were quiet... just the faint sound of air moving. Stock clocks under gaming load... you can't hear a thing, and I'm sitting next to the tower.
nVidia GTX770s. I always use the new Beta drivers and I never have problems. I actually did a mild 15% overclock yesterday and gained about 10fps on most of my games.
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Nice setup! You don't have to keep all games on your SSD, especially multiplayer ones, because you're kind of limited by everyone else' speed anyway.
Also, Intel RST can help you cache to the SSD and it's almost as good as having everything on the SSD itself.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/24882...echnology.html
Love that case! Here's my NZXT beast!
Also, Intel RST can help you cache to the SSD and it's almost as good as having everything on the SSD itself.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/24882...echnology.html
Love that case! Here's my NZXT beast!
Nice setup! You don't have to keep all games on your SSD, especially multiplayer ones, because you're kind of limited by everyone else' speed anyway.
Also, Intel RST can help you cache to the SSD and it's almost as good as having everything on the SSD itself.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/24882...echnology.html
Love that case! Here's my NZXT beast!
Also, Intel RST can help you cache to the SSD and it's almost as good as having everything on the SSD itself.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/24882...echnology.html
Love that case! Here's my NZXT beast!
Oh, and I dumped the Phanteks. I'm sure my dad will put it to good use. It's holding a stack of papers down on my desk, currently. The second GTX 780 is somewhere in Kentucky.
Last edited by AndersonS; Jan 2, 2014 at 12:07 AM.
My dad got jealous of my rig, so I built him is nice tiny daily driver machine... Then I gave him my PSU, and threw in an AX 860i. Benchmarks would trip the surge protection with the 750.
Last edited by AndersonS; Jan 7, 2014 at 04:31 AM.
