I Was Told This About Dual Video Cards With Liquid Cooling

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LooN3y

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"I have bought/built gaming rigs for years now, and this is my advice:

Always go for the middle price class, don't spend a LOT of extra money to get a little extra performance. In your case that means drop the liquid cooling, solid state drive and dual graphic cards. I'd skip the blu ray burner as well, but perhaps you've got a use for it.


Why drop the SSD? Because you can't really use it for your games, because one game can take up tens of Gigs of space by itself. So you end up spending hundreds of dollars, just so you save a couple of seconds on your Windows start-up time.

Why not take dual video cards? First of all because it is overkill (unless you plan on playing on three 24" screens or something). Second because your video card is one of the first components that gets outdated and will need to be replaced."



is this true? i'd like to think dual liquid cooling video cards would last me a while before i replace them rather than a one non-liquid cooling video card
 
I agree 100%. Basically the point is that the difference between higher mid range cards and the highest end cards rarely justifies the price. To me it doesn't make since to pay for the highest end cards because they're not going to be the best for very long, technology advances fast. Instead get a good midrange card and use the money you saved to to upgrade in a year or two. Also, you generally get more bang for you buck going with one card vs two.

As for SSDs, they're nice but aren't going to have an effect on gaming outside of load times, and only if you have the game installed on the drive. An SSD will only make a big speed difference for application that have to access a lot of data quickly. They make Windows boot fast and things like virus scans will be much faster, but won't make a huge difference outside of that.

As for liquid cooling, that would only make a difference if you're overclocking. A card isn't going to run faster just because it's cooler, they first have to be configured so that they'll run faster than what the manufacturer recommend is safe.

Basically all that stuff is nice, and if money isn't an issue then sure, why not? But personally I think it makes since to aim for something more midrange and then upgrade later.
 
It really depends on the system you have. We can't really comment unless we see the specs.

Dual video cards are common place, kind of. Its not overkill, some games require it to reach the max settings with 60fps.

But it depends on what you want. I'm perfectly fine with my single card, and it runs all the games I want fine.

And I love SSDs, never will go back. Just my opinion.
 
claptonman said:
It really depends on the system you have. We can't really comment unless we see the specs.

Dual video cards are common place, kind of. Its not overkill, some games require it to reach the max settings with 60fps.

But it depends on what you want. I'm perfectly fine with my single card, and it runs all the games I want fine.

And I love SSDs, never will go back. Just my opinion.
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heres my build



Processor: I7-3770K ????

Motherboard: Intel Z77 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128549

Graphics Card: GTX 680 (x2) ????

Power Supply: SeaSonic X-1050 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151110

Ram: RipJaws X (x2) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231468

Solid State Drive: Crucial M4 512GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148444

Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533

Sound Card: ASUS 90-YAA0E0-0UAN00Z http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132019

Tower: Cooler Master Cosmos II http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119252

Optical Drive: Asus Blu-Ray, DVD Burner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135252

Liquid Cooler: Corsair H100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181017



this build was sent to me by jonnyp11 who was more helpful as he took his own time to make me a template build


I'm just not sure if its necessary, because i've said that i always wanted a dope computer that can run every game on the HIGHEST settings.

and not sure what video card or CPU to get (the exact one)
 
Either one will work. You NEED to have liquid cooling if you get the first one. If you get the second one, you just need to take off the heatsink/fan and buy a waterblock for it. The first one is basically a 680 with a waterblock. If you can find a good waterblock that is cheaper than that card, combined with the other card, do that.
 
If you water cool the video card you'll have to buy more tubing and nozzles for the water cooler, and really i can't even say that a h100 is strong enough to move that much liquid. Problem being that a custom water loop will cost you tons of money and from what i've seen/heard, be a complete pain in the arse.
 
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