Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:01 pm by ferrari8608
country_boy454 wrote:ferrari8608 wrote:Nice water setup! Do you really need a 1200W PSU for that rig though?
Well tri SLI is in the near future for me, plus im a firm believer in by one PSU and never worry again when it comes to upgrading down the line. Ill also be adding more HDDs and what not into it. Fans for the rads, it all adds up over time.
Dragonrage217 wrote:that is the fans me and plum use which are around 7-8 watts under normal load and overloaded can get around 20 using the actually fan controller for them.The Temps are in fact good because his case is not an air cooling case it is designed for liquid cooling mainly and the fact of the liquid loop is including a gpu and not drawing air threw but pushing causes less cooling and also he is using 3 gpu versus 1 tells you that with those temps he is actually doing decent but not the best. 1200 watt psu is one of the best ways to go if you plan on expansions which he is doing.
Makes sense to me. Three 570's would use quite a bit of power. Have either of you tried the Gentle Typhoon fans? I'm thinking about getting a couple 1850's for my heatsink. Right now I have a couple of Slipstream 1400's on it, and I'm not quite satisfied with the temps. They're not bad for a stock Phenom II X4, but I would like some more headroom for overclocking.
Temps idle and load after 20 minutes of Prime95
AMD Phenom II X4 970 ~ MSI NF980-G65 ~ 8 GB G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1333 ~ EVGA GeForce GTX 580 ~ Corsair HX 750W ~ Antec Lanboy Air