Water cooled or not water cooled computer survey

Lucky Guy! Yeah I went to Seymour for the day (Central Victoria) to visit my mum and sister and it got up to 45. It was about that in Melbourne too, but thankfully a cool change came through later in the day. At one stage my car (outside temp display) actually said 47!!

I think I had a quick look at Scorptec. I was looking around for quite a while, probably 3 months. Originally I was waiting for GR-Tek to upgrade their builds to i9-9900k and RTX 2080 Ti, but they didn't for ages, and they also have limited options with components. I got my last build from them, and it it still going strong 7 years later, but this time unfortunately they didn't have what I wanted. I was then looking at PC Case gear, and they had 90% of what I wanted, but I really wanted the OC version of the Asus ROG 2080 Ti. They did have it one day, but then not the next. Apparently there is/was a severe shortage and delay with many RTX series cards, which is amazing considering the cost of them. I was waiting on them for weeks to change their build back to what they had originally been.

Then I tried Centrecom, and they actually allow you to choose/buy anything in the store, and they will build the PC from what you choose. I originally chose the Asus ROG Strix 2080 Ti OC, but then they had issues getting them in also. Eventually I opted for the non OC version. My reasoning was that I wanted my new rig up and running, and also it runs a few degrees cooler, going back to the climate here in Aus. I spent a LOT, but I got what I paid for and hopefully this PC lasts me another 7 years.

Cheers,
 
My parts list

WD Black 2TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD2003FZEX

Intel Core i7-8700 Coffee Lake 6-Core 3.2 GHz (4.6 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151 (300 Series) 65W BX80684I78700 Desktop Processor Intel UHD Graphics 630

Seasonic FOCUS Plus Series SSR-550FX 550W 80+ Gold Intel ATX 12V Full Modular 120mm FDB Fan Compact 140 mm Size Power Supply

G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-2666C15D-16GVR

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 ZT-P10620A-10M 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card

Microsoft Windows 10 Professional - Full Retail Version 32 & 64-Bit (Download)

MSI Z370 PC PRO LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel Z370 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard

I looked at some pre builts and think the components (parts) would be of better quality.

After all is assembled then I can grab a copy of latest P3d and hopefully, catch up (for awhile)

Hope most of my addons will convert - some of my addons have P3D V4 install options.
 
PC components these days also seem to require less power than a few years ago. My new RTX2070 has a PSU requirement of a minimum of 550 watts, while a couple of years ago 750-1000 watts was required for high end systems.
The cooler I used on my previous CPU works fine on my current one too, despite being faster and having more cores.

A good air flow through the case and preferably a slightly negative pressure (More air out than in.) is important to keep everything cool.
 
Ferry_vO said:
PC components these days also seem to require less power than a few years ago. My new RTX2070 has a PSU requirement of a minimum of 550 watts, while a couple of years ago 750-1000 watts was required for high end systems.
The cooler I used on my previous CPU works fine on my current one too, despite being faster and having more cores.

A good air flow through the case and preferably a slightly negative pressure (More air out than in.) is important to keep everything cool.
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Thanks for the HU.. good info :encouragement:
 
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