Planning Out First Sli/liquid Cooling Rig.....help

**Carbon** · #21 14th May 2009, 20:42

Oh well in two months there will probably be a completely different set of parts that are the best..so come back then?

**Soverntear** · #22 14th May 2009, 20:51

i keep reading that buying out right is better then buying part by part. guess ill see how the cheques are from high rise window washing

**Razer** · #23 15th May 2009, 00:15

Buying outright gets you a shed load of features you dont need, a BIOS as dumb as a post and half as likeable, an operating system littered with crap and usually budget components that burst into flames at the very thought you might actually want to use them

**Carbon** · #24 15th May 2009, 00:28

Yeah, generally speaking you'll get some crappy quad-core with a budget motherboard and an exploding PSU.

**Soverntear** · #25 15th May 2009, 03:18

lol i by buying outright i ment buying all your parts at once vs buying 1 part at a time. id never buy a computer that came in one box. waste of money

**4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie** · #26 15th May 2009, 08:51

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Originally Posted by Soverntear

lol i by buying outright i ment buying all your parts at once vs buying 1 part at a time. id never buy a computer that came in one box. waste of money

Right on both counts.

I bought in 2 or 3 orders, but I specced it all before the first order and stuck to that, meaning its as good as buying all at once. Definatly the right thing to do.

And box computers are overpriced, and under-quality'd. As Carbon touched on, they giveit components which make it sound good, but in fact aren't that great.

4GB RAM - They don't tell you that it's generic 1kHz... (Ok I'm exaggerating on the speed a little..)

They won't even tell you about the motherboard and PSU half the time.

CPU will be guarenteed to have lots of cores. That's about all they can guarantee though - not that it will last for more than a month or anything..

**Razer** · #27 15th May 2009, 10:07

Mate of mine got a quad core AMD system with 1.5Gb of graphics memory! 3Gb of RAM and a 52 in 1 card reader.

Vista Home Premium was loaded with crap, the quad core was shoddy at 2.2GHz, a "massive" 256Mb of graphics memory was dedicated and the RAM ran at 533MHz. One of the card readers ports didn't work, shop said it was his fault, fan is as loud as a bus, the boot time is unbelievably slow, the front mounted USB ports are only just deep enough to fit a USB stick in, knock it and you lose connection. For £400 it looked like a steal until he bought it..

**cheesepuff** · #28 15th May 2009, 13:03

custom build FTW!

**Soverntear** · #29 19th May 2009, 09:37

custom build indeed ftw

**Razer** · #30 19th May 2009, 11:28

As far as Liquid cooling goes, there is a new technology called "Bubble Pump" that Akasa use, it's meant to be better than air cooling but easier to fit than water cooling. I think at the moment it's just a processor technology, not a full system cooler.