*new* interested in custom built PC.

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For a while now I have been a gamer, graphics designer, and I have had a photography company.

I am interested in a custom built machine, but I don't know if I should get water cooling, or fans? Overclock or no?

I have already done my research on graphics cards, and etc.

Thanks.
 
If you overclock be sure to get an aftermarket cooler and a case with good airflow and cable management.

I've never done it myself but apparently overclocking isn't to difficult, especially with a good motherboard.

I have absolutely no experience with water cooling so I won't say anything about that.

I'm sure others can be of more help. Best of luck!
 
Water cooling is, to me, too much hassle for the benefits. Air cooling works just fine, and you'll be able to overclock with air cooling easily. It would just be a lot more quiet than fans. What CPU did you pick out?
 
and a cheap water cooler is actually less effective than a good air cooler at the same price and way more hassle than the air too because you have to setup a radiator and the tubing and a fan.
 
The setup is going to run something like this:

Cooler master HAF X
Intel i7 960 or 70 still deciding
EVGA Motherboard
Triple EVGA GeForce GTX 580 gfx cards
2 x 1TB WD Black caviar HD
1 120GB SSD Data drive
Corsair H60 CPU cooler
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit.

Gonna look at some more options soon.
 
Look at the 2600k, just about the best you can get without really destroying your bank account.

Triple 580s is insane. You'll be maxing out games with a single card with no lag. That will just produce a ton of heat and power consumption. And some games don't like more than one GPU and might produce screen tearing.

What RAM are you looking at?

Windows 7 home or pro is enough. Ultimate just has like, more fonts or something. Not really worth it, in my opinion.
 
the only thing that ultimate has is that it can basically turn into an upgraded win xp for xp programs, so you're paying an extra hundred i think it was so you can use a new old software

and a i5 2500k is more than most people ever need, only a few things involving video editing and encoding/decoding will benefit from the extra threads of the i7, but if you got the money go for it, although there is a new amd cpu coming out over the next few months, and new intel next year supposedly Q'1 '12, both new socket 1155's and a new socket 2011 6 core as 12 using the sandy bridge arc

and the 3 580's is pure overkilling the mother of all overkill, the only point of that is for doing like 6 monitors or more, and lightening your wallet to next to nothing
 
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jonnyp11 said:
and a cheap water cooler is actually less effective than a good air cooler at the same price and way more hassle than the air too because you have to setup a radiator and the tubing and a fan.
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The cheap watercooling units are all in one, no assembly required, and perform about the same as high-end air coolers.
 
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