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Originally posted by DST4ME What is the native res of your monitor and what kinds of games do you play? right off the bat I can tell you to change your ram to 1600MHz, drop the fan upgrade, change your cpu cooler to noctua, forget the fan controller, it won't control all your fans, and the temps are not accurate. there are probably other changes but the things mentioned were done so because they did not better your perfomrance and in some cases actually hindered in some way. Other changes will be recommended when we know what the use of the pc is for, aka games/work/etc and for gaming we need to know the res of the monitor and types of games.

thanks for the replies guys.

curious to the 1600mhz ram instead and cpu cooler upgrade? do it block more airflow or way overkill?

i will admit the fan controller looks cool, but i know the temps will fluctuate a lot since the sensors aren't that great.

for my monitor it's a dell ultrasharp 24" iirc 1920 x1080, mainly play BF3 on it.

TIA for the advice - i've jut begun my research last week, almost pulled the trigger on an overpriced alienware ALX at $3,500 even with my employee discount.

i also agree with DST's suggestions as well as bprats

The Vortex 240 isn't true water cooling in the sense of a seperate resevoir, pump, and etc.  It's a sealed unit, maintenance free but can be noisy.  The fans can be adjusted to lower rpm with resistor pac, etc but will be noisier than Noctua.  They are popular though, so your choice of course. 

Originally posted by Alex Yes, the Noctua is just as great. But, is it really worth the massive size and look inside the PC?

Why yes, yes it is.

i think i might go with one of the hydro solutions, the noctua is awesome - but it is massive and blocks the ram, therefore limiting my choices.

forgot to ask, will upgrading any parts (like RAM, upgrading processor etc void my 3 year warranty?

The 3 year warranty is one year parts and 3 year labor/tech.

For gpus no matter what you pick in around 3 years you gonna have to upgrade. Best bang for the buck right now is 670 for your res and as bp said sli 670 if you want to play bf3 with all bells and etc.

for gaming 8GB of ram is more then enough, if you are worried get 16GB of ram, I don't think you will ever need it, with that you don't need to mess with ram/noctua, and if you know whats good for you, you would go with noctua, it has a great track record for reliability/perfomrance.

You won't be upgrading things like processor on this pc, the new processors will not fit current motherboard, the only way to do that is basically new mobo/cpu which also means new ram.

thing to upgrade easily in this pc would be hdd/ssd/gpus.

I can't justify going to an lc system that gives me air cooled performance Plus the noctua for the most part if it breaks down its a fan and that takes seconds to fix.

these closed loops can have fans go wrong, pump fail, leak, and most of those will requier changing the whole cooler.

Perhaps thats why us old timers so no reason to go from a perfectly proven reliable air cooler to these closed looped LC systems with more possible headaches and same perfomrance and more noise.


Edited by DST4ME - 26 Mar 2013 at 3:03pm

Originally posted by DST4ME Originally posted by armoredsaint wow- so i call your sales dept, what an arrogant and impatient rep, i was ready to place the order worth $3k, but i just had a simple question on how many fans are in the 942 and he kept putting me on hold. he really sounded annoyed and i just gave up...    Thats not normal, you should let us look over your build anyways. the 942 comes with 230mm red front led, 2 x 200mm non led (side/top) and it has room for optional 200mm on top, plus I believe a rear 140mm fan.

thanks - you're good as usual he told me that no fans come with the 942, but when i asked him to confirm that because i didn't believe him that's when he became bitchy to me.

i guess i just don't have time for people with sh*tty attitudes when i am about to lay down some of my hard earned money - i could always just get a ho desktop from wal-mart

I agree 100% with DST..... don't let a bad phone conversation turn you off from getting an awesome rig with great support.   What you heard is not the DS we know.   Maybe a meeting or out of office committment put someone on the phone filling in.    Not an exceptable excuse but things happen.

If you have any questions, ask us on the forums.    

Originally posted by Alex Originally posted by armoredsaint wow- so i call your sales dept, what an arrogant and impatient rep, i was ready to place the order worth $3k, but i just had a simple question on how many fans are in the 942 and he kept putting me on hold. he really sounded annoyed and i just gave up...    Sorry to hear about that. That does not sound like a normal experience, I'm not sure what happened, but, mistakes can occur, perhaps the team was unable to switch back. We would love to have you be a customer. Feel free to send me an email: [email protected] and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions and take care of you. I'll let Management know about your situation as well nevertheless.

i will say that somehow a chat option popped up yesterday with Brian Benoit and he was really helpful in answering more of my questions.

how do i get the chat window up again during business hours?

Hey guys - I noticed some of cables in the videos are "sleeved" in different colors, I didn't see that as a choice for the Dreadnaught, any way to get that option?

Also instead of 4x4GB, can I get 2 x 8gb instead?

Here is my 99% final build, thoughts?

I know some don't like the closed loop cooler from Corsair, I do like the noctua, but not the large size and it limits my future RAM upgrades with heat spreaders etc. The H100i does have large dia tubing.

Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Cooler Master 942 HAF X
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K 3.50 GHz (Unlocked CPU) (Quad Core)
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE (Intel Z77 Chipset) (Higher Overclocks and Unique Wi-Fi Features)
System Memory: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Dominator DHX (High-Performance)
Power Supply: 1050W Corsair Pro Silver 1050HX (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (256GB Solid State (By: Samsung) (Model: 840 Pro Series)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: 1x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4GB (PhysX) (Classified Overclocked EVGA)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 2: Corsair H100i 240mm Radiator Liquid CPU Cooler (Extreme-Performance Edition)
H20 Tube Color:- Not Applicable, I do not have a FrostChill or Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System Selected
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (Red)
Enhancements: - No Thanks <b></b>
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
LaserMark: - No Thanks
Boost Processor: Stage 1: Overclock CPU 4.0GHz to 4.4GHz
Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Boost Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory
Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit Edition)
Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows CD)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Game: FREE NVIDIA Bundle - Assassins Creed III (Digital Download Code for all GeForce GTX 600 Series)
Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
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Edited by armoredsaint - 26 Mar 2013 at 8:12pm

We usually include the wire sleeve for the Aventum, but, if you would like them, it's $99 to get them for your PC. Make sure you include the request in the special notes.

Any other DS models to consider around my price range of under $3k? I am want to make sure I'm not overlooking other options too.