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Here are some parts, I think they should work OK together, except im not sure about the cooling.

i7 3770k
ASRock Extreme4
Sapphire Radeon 7970
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHz
WD 500GB Black
SanDisk Extreme 120GB SSD
Bitfenix Shinobi XL
Silverstone Strider Plus 850W

I was hoping to be able to support crossfire with 850W?

But for the cooling...

Option 1)
X20 750 Pump
2x 5.25" Bay Reservoir
RS360 Radiator
Rasa CPU Block
NZXT Razor 7970 Full Coverage Block

OR

Option 2)
XSPC D5 Pump
2x 5.25" Bay Reservoir
EX 360 Radiator
Raystorm CPU Block
NZXT Razor 7970 Full Coverage Block

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So will all the parts work well together?
And package 1 or 2 re cooling? Or would a double-thick radiator be worth an extra $30?

Thanks :)
 
Nice choice of parts you have there. I think 850W might be a bit overkill but if you're planning on upgrading then I guess it's OK.

Normally I recommend Gigabyte over ASRock but ASRock are still OK :).

To tell the truth, I don't know anything about water-cooling at all.
 
I don't know an awful lot about water-cooling as I haven't ever really looked into it, but a 750W PSU should be OK for CorssFire depending on which two cards you CrossFire. If two 7970s, I'd go for 850W probably. 850W would definitely be enough to CrossFire two 7970s.

If this is for gaming alone, you may want to save some money and get the i5 3570K over the i7 3770K, but if this is for things like video editing, design work etc then yeah a 3770K would be good. Put more money into the motherboard too - Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H or a UD3H. Both great boards, I'd take one of those over the Extreme4, especially for a system like this.

Bear in mind that the GTX 680 is a faster card than the HD 7970 too.
 
vistakid10 said:
I don't know an awful lot about water-cooling as I haven't ever really looked into it, but a 750W PSU should be OK for CorssFire depending on which two cards you CrossFire. If two 7970s, I'd go for 850W probably. 850W would definitely be enough to CrossFire two 7970s.

If this is for gaming alone, you may want to save some money and get the i5 3570K over the i7 3770K, but if this is for things like video editing, design work etc then yeah a 3770K would be good. Put more money into the motherboard too - Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H or a UD3H. Both great boards, I'd take one of those over the Extreme4, especially for a system like this.

Bear in mind that the GTX 680 is a faster card than the HD 7970 too.
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The 680 would cost me nearly another $130
 
The 7970 still has plenty of headroom on a 750W when in CF config. If this is just for gaming, get the i5-3570k and use the $ on perhaps more storage? Cuz everything else looks fine.
 
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