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[Cortexian]

So for my next build I've wanted to do a dual-loop water-cooling setup and I'm thinking this is the case for me:

[Warsaw]

On your own here, I don't know anything about water cooling setups. That said, it's a box. Not even a slick-looking box. It's a box with stamped cutouts. Unless it's made out of titanium or maybe even stainless steel, I can't honestly see how you justify dropping $335 on it.

[Cortexian]

It's a purely functional water-cooling case design with plenty of room for custom reservoirs and a good sized pump. The two 3x120mm mounting holes would be perfect for two 360 (triple) radiators so I can cool the water before it hits the CPU in addition to before it hits the GPU(s). For example:

Pump
Reservoir
360 Radiator
CPU
Chipset (optional, might not do this since it costs quite a lot more)
360 Radiator
GPU(s)
Pump

I'd probably get some neon green lighting going on and call it "My Little Borg Cube". You're completely right though, it's crazy expensive, but that's because these are made to order in the U.S. out of fairly thick Aluminum.

It's really a toss up between the Mountain Mods and getting a Corsair Obsidian 800D, because they're just damn sexy and very water-cooling friendly...





Obviously a lot less space to work with, only room for one 360 radiator in the top but you can get a 480 quadruple radiator in the top with some modification to the case top and sacrifice of one or two 5.25" bays. That said, I really like those cylinder style reservoirs and have always wanted to build a rig that included one of these. And I could always stick a 120 radiator in the PSU compartment at the bottom under the existing 120mm fan in the 'shelf'.

[hobojoe]

I'd go Corsair, Really regret not getting it when I had the chance.

[Sasc]

So is that setup designed mainly for overclocking? Or is it just for more powerful components?

[Warsaw]

Get the Corsair. With the other one, you are overpaying and getting literally nothing in return for it; you'd be better off building your own with some sheet metal stock.

[Rook]

Hey all looking for a performance drive in the ~$150 range. Had the WD 300GB Raptor in mind for decent storage space and good loading times. The main question is that would spending $150 on a 60GB-80GB SSD instead for the performance gain (if there is some?) be worth losing out on more than double the space.

[annihilation]

I would get the Raptor. I don't think the decreased load times would be significant enough to loose out on half the storage space. Even more so if you have a lot of games or large programs installed.

[Warsaw]

The load times are night and day when you have an SSD, actually. Everything is so much snappier. That said, if you don't want to jump on the SSD bandwagon just yet, look at Seagate's hybrid drives.

[Rook]

The load times are night and day when you have an SSD, actually. Everything is so much snappier. That said, if you don't want to jump on the SSD bandwagon just yet, look at Seagate's hybrid drives.

Those appear to have only 4GB of SSD space, should have stated when I meant loading times it's for the OS + games I play frequently. L4D2 alone is 16.4GB for me.