phew, well I finished installing my corsair h70 cpu cooler. Not bad temps, but I'm getting high 30s C to very low 40s with no load. Under some load playing call of duty black ops it goes to around mid 50s. Haven't tried any benchmarks like prime yet. I bit dissappointed because my old noctua nh-u12p was giving perhaps just a few degrees warmer. That and the noctua was huge (taking up a lot of space), and the radiator of the h70 is about the same size as the noctua, but just stuck to the back to the case, instead of the middleish of the mobo.
while I had the case open, I also took out 1 of my hhd in the raid, so now it's 3x seagate 1tb raid 0, with 80gb intel ssd, instead of 4x 1tb for the storage. That and I moved the 1tb hhd drive into the NAS server, so now it's 3x 2tb WD caviar green, and 1x seagate 1tb (I was also worried about the power consumption of all the hardware in the case, with just a 1000w corsair psu). Happy with the build for now, but just waiting for my next gpu (2x gtx580 sli, to replace the 2x gtx260).
Here's a question for everyone:
What do you think the best gaming/all round case is, considering an unlimited budget? So far I'm leaning heavily on getting the coolermaster haf x. Looked at about just everything under the sun, including the thermaltake level 10 (it's just not functional enough)
phew, well I finished installing my corsair h70 cpu cooler. Not bad temps, but I'm getting high 30s C to very low 40s with no load. Under some load playing call of duty black ops it goes to around mid 50s. Haven't tried any benchmarks like prime yet. I bit dissappointed because my old noctua nh-u12p was giving perhaps just a few degrees warmer. That and the noctua was huge (taking up a lot of space), and the radiator of the h70 is about the same size as the noctua, but just stuck to the back to the case, instead of the middleish of the mobo.
while I had the case open, I also took out 1 of my hhd in the raid, so now it's 3x seagate 1tb raid 0, with 80gb intel ssd, instead of 4x 1tb for the storage. That and I moved the 1tb hhd drive into the NAS server, so now it's 3x 2tb WD caviar green, and 1x seagate 1tb (I was also worried about the power consumption of all the hardware in the case, with just a 1000w corsair psu). Happy with the build for now, but just waiting for my next gpu (2x gtx580 sli, to replace the 2x gtx260).
Here's a question for everyone:
What do you think the best gaming/all round case is, considering an unlimited budget? So far I'm leaning heavily on getting the coolermaster haf x. Looked at about just everything under the sun, including the thermaltake level 10 (it's just not functional enough)
Any favorites out there?