3kish Build, Stage3/4 Cooling

Hey all,

Was thinking of ODE3 a few months ago, but have a bit bigger budget now. Was looking at

ticket number: 622144
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1920/1080 reso(Dell Ultrasharp U2312), have had heat issues before so willing to overdue it to put my mind to ease.

Main Questions:
1) What temps can I expect with Stage 3-4 cooling? Why CPU only? Does the GPU matter?

2) Whats the difference in these motherboards: Sabertooth P67 vs. P8P67 Deluxe?
3) Would the 1000W DS or 1050W Corsair PS be enough ? Or is 800 fine?
4) In SLI, in the future, could I replace one of the 570s with a newer model and they would work fine if not exactly the same?

Thank you. Looking to take advantage of November sale of $ money/warranty upgrade.

Edited by Wipeout - 24 Nov 2011 at 7:08pm

Ok great, thank you. Diggin' that green case..

Eager to hear DSTs response, my main issue is living in areas where room temps are around 75-80+ at times.

Edited by Wipeout - 24 Nov 2011 at 11:17pm

jm299 made the correct changes (psu, case, hdd, hdd setup/etc), but first I'm gonna say we gonna go off his build.

now off of his build, everything is right, just change teh case lighting to uv, since your stage 4 lc has uv tubes, they need uv light to glow.

he gave you the nvidia version of haf which basically has 200mm green led fans, giving great airflow and green led.

now some info:

a. if your room temps is high, lc is not gonna help you much, both air and lc use fans, blowing 80f or higher air is not gonna help those fans help you with high temps.

b. for hdd with go with the 1TB BC or wait, hdd prices have tripled in the past months or so, they should come down again, so perhaps its best you wait and add the hdd in a few months yourself.

now your questions:

1. load temps depend mainly and first on your room temp, then your cooling.

why cpu only? not sure you picked cpu only, you can lc the gpus if you like but the cost goes up high.

LC is not a necessity its a luxury, so you can do cpu only or cpu and gpu, gpus will have better load temp on lc again given that the room temp is below 80f, otherwise heat is gonna be an issue.

3. the 1000w hx has a long record for reliability and performance, the hx line and the ax line are the highend best psus from corsair, I only use hx and ax models for that reason and only recommend those, both 1050hx and 750w hx have a 7 year warranty, the 1000w from DS is from a reseller (technps), we dont know the real maker, we don't know the track record, and it only has a 2 year warranty. For best gaming experience and to make the pc last a long time but feel powerful, we recommend you upgrade sli in 2 to 3 years, now if in the future you want to upgrade the sli to future cards and they have needs of a 580 sli the 750w/800w can't do it.

4. as jm299 said in sli you are as good as your weak card, so its best to match vram and clocks, I'm not sure if 570 and say 670 will work in sli and even if they did you would match sli 570 performance since you are as good as your weak card.

Edited by DST4ME - 24 Nov 2011 at 11:25pm

Noctua/a70 are king, till you get to stage 4, but they won't help you with high room temps, best bet is to lower the temp of the room with a small mobile ac unit.

Edited by DST4ME - 24 Nov 2011 at 11:41pm

I miss the os with 16GB or the lighting all the time