custom, hand-built external water cooled i5-2500k @ 5.0 Ghz

[OneVerce]

wow thats a really nice system

[IceFried]

I have an almost exactly the same computer except the processor, i got the i7 2600k 3.4ghz and i don't have nearly the balls to overclock as much as you do..

[srbananaphone]

@IceFried lol im running at 5.1 Ghz now too.. if youre watercooling i wouldnt worry about overclocking your i7 2600k to 4.5 at least. if youre on air you can hit 4 no problem! just up your cpu voltage a tiny bit, like 0.025v at a time and see what the min v is needed to be stable, cant hurt unless you overvolt and go like 1.6v and up, im running 1.48 v for 5.1 ghz stable...

[IceFried]

@srbananaphone I stupidly added bad cooling when i was building my computer, it's air but barely anything special. I got a 700w psu so i'm not sure it's the best one for overclocking anyway.

I have no need to overclock yet anyway, for now every single game that i've played ultra on this pc runs perfectly, the witcher 2 staggered a little bit when i enabled ubersampling but even then i still had about 40-45fps.

Thanks for letting me know, i'll probably do it when i start having framerate problems

[Emeianoite]

@IceFried if you game mostly, the 2600k is a waste of money.

[IceFried]

@Emeianoite uhuh... well maybe you should tell that to every single game i'm playing on my computer on ultra because they don't seem to know that and run without any lag...

And the ubersampling is notorious for it's fps eating.

Also the 2600k is pretty much one of the best gaming cpus second only to the 2700k...

[Emeianoite]

@IceFried are you stupid? Games are barely optimized for 4 cores, yet alone 4 extra lanes (HT) almost every single game out there will run better with HT off, or none existant, you could even get away with setting affinity. Thus, 2600k over a 2500k is a WASTE of money for gaming. You can keep babbling much ado about nothing, be my guest, but having the more expensive CPU doesn't make you any more logical, it just means you paid more for basically the same performance in gaming. lol

[IceFried]

@Emeianoite Got money to waste.

Any difference, even small ones are important because i live in a shit country where you can't even find an sli motherboard without a tremendous amount of trouble.

Truth be told i just selected the most powerful components i could find, i was lucky they had the 2600k. Custom building a computer is a pain in the ass here and the pre-made ones are crap.

[Emeianoite]

@IceFried Overclocking is about being able to push the limit... nothing more. After about 4Ghz, you barely see gaming performance increase.

[ZabraliMiNicka]

@Emeianoite depends on game dude :D

[animekub2]

I'm still using that case too for my 2500k!

[Nosoulnomore]

I'd stick some grommets on the sidepanel where they lines go into the case proper, just for tidy's sake as the rest of it looks nice

Moto

[srbananaphone]

@Nosoulnomore ya that was planned, ive just been lazy :P youre right though i do gotta get around to doing that

[seriousman006]

well...thts a helluva of a quiet computer O.O

mine looks like a vaccum cleaned due to the cooler fan and the gpu O.O

btw...just asking...i recently did an oc on a i5 to 4.3...and its running at 36º idle and 76 full loda on prime95...and im wondering if its too much...should i underclock it again, cuz i played crysis 1 the whole day the night before and it showed zero flaws and 0 crashes...thnx in advance :3

[srbananaphone]

@seriousman006 thanks hah. the fans i bought pull the most cubic feet per min of air with the least noise possible. is your i5 a sandy bridge model? like an i5-2500k? if so your idle is good, the load is high, you should try not to hit more than 65C load, 76C wont kill your CPU but it isnt very good for it. what voltage are you giving the cpu? what heatsink fan do you have? try lower voltages by tiny amounts. otherwise you need a bigger heat sink and fan for lower temps.

[seriousman006]

@srbananaphone ima be honest...i have no idea whts the voltage XD

i bought a sabertooth p67 and hit the perfomance button on the bios (graphic interface bios who'd have thought) and it mostly set the bios automatically, so its gave me like 4.3 ghz and all of my components were sped up to almost their limit, and yes it is a sandy bridge one ,my heatsink is a hyper tx3 form cooler master

[XxXCrOuChXxX]

This is great !!

[srbananaphone]

@XxXCrOuChXxX heh thx.

[Reaper2794]

You get 60C on full load even with that cooling?

[srbananaphone]

@Reaper2794 running Prime95 overnight with all cores at 100% the whole time, fans running at half speed on the rad, pump on 2/5 for speed yes the highest i saw was 60 C on one core. im considering adding 3 more of the gentle typhoons to try a push/pull. right now just running 3 in pull.

[jurlol12]

how can i measure my full load temp, is it when i am playing a game? cuz then it would be 47 C

[srbananaphone]

@jurlol12 use a program like Prime95 and when it runs it maxes out all your cores to 100% use, let it run for a few hours and watch the temps. youll get a good idea of worst case scenario temps. games dont usually load modern cpus to 100% constantly, just briefly.

[tangoseal1]

Damn boy thats purty nice. Now gotta get that GPU wet! Do you think that MCP655 is strong enough for all that mileage of tubing?

[srbananaphone]

@tangoseal1 thx hehe, i know, gtx 570 will go under water as soon as i get bored heh. the mcp655 is doin great, i only have at at half speed. 2.5/5 on the variable speed selector.

[srbananaphone]

Total, about $700. That's including all the fittings, barbs, quick disconnects, cpu block, pump, fans, reservoirs, lcd fan controller, liquid temp sensors, radiator, and materials like acrylic and aluminum, bolts and nuts, brackets, misc. were about $100

[Animalm0ther]

how much in total did you spend on that cooling system?