So I accidentally bought a new computer.

[Otis Da HousKat]

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Hi there, Rex.

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[ase]

you should accidentally buy one of these for your computer so you can overclock your processor without much heat problems

[Otis Da HousKat]

Yes we already considered phase cooling. A bit too expensive for our budget though.

[Righteous One]

What was the i7-980x computer used for?

I believe that bittech used a $600 cooler and they could only clock the 980x so high. It is obviously impractical. Interesting choice of case there...

If you do get it water-cooled at one point you should post pictures.

[Otis Da HousKat]

What was the i7-980x computer used for?

We aren't done building it actually yet. As I said the video card and cooling system will be upgraded soon. We are using this computer for high definition video encoding and streaming actually.

When not doing that it's just used as a gaming PC.

[Righteous One]

I can't imagine that it was cheap. I would guess off the top of my head about $2k overall..?

[Otis Da HousKat]

I can't imagine that it was cheap. I would guess off the top of my head about $2k overall..?

Something like that. The entire budget came from a 2008 Mac Pro we sold for over $2000.

I don't get why people don't like the HAF 932 and 942. I have a 932 and the super pooter is in the 942. I love them both.

[Righteous One]

I used the HAF 922 for a few months and I loved it. It was almost silent and the cooling was impressive. I wasn't a huge fan of the look though so I moved on to the FT02.

Great case if you ever want one like the TJ07. The stock cooling on it is quite impressive because of the 3 180mm air penetrator fans. I was able to get a 360mm radiator at the bottom too and still have 1 180 for the HDD.

How many gaming computers do you have now?

[Otis Da HousKat]

The look of the HAF series is my favorite part about the case.

Well, we will have three I guess. Super pooter, my new one, and my old parts are still halfway decent for gaming. We have some spare cases so my brother was gonna take my old parts and set up a computer for his Final Fantasy XIV bazaar mule. The computer he currently has the mule on can barely run FFXIV at super minimum settings; the amount of people you can see at one time is based on your CPU's power and his own character model doesn't even load it's so bad.

[JD]

The look of the HAF series is my favorite part about the case.

Well, we will have three I guess. Super pooter, my new one, and my old parts are still halfway decent for gaming. We have some spare cases so my brother was gonna take my old parts and set up a computer for his Final Fantasy XIV bazaar mule. The computer he currently has the mule on can barely run FFXIV at super minimum settings; the amount of people you can see at one time is based on your CPU's power and his own character model doesn't even load it's so bad.

My friend's dad played that game a lot, on the highest settings.. (I remember seeing him walking around in really crowded areas, too) I can only imagine the processor he has in that machine.

[Marcem]

My friend's dad played that game a lot, on the highest settings.. (I remember seeing him walking around in really crowded areas, too) I can only imagine the processor he has in that machine.

FFXIV is really new, you may be thinking of FFXI.

[Otis Da HousKat]

OK, so my accidental computer is now built and running.

I was flipping stuff when it wasn't even posting when power was applied. Turns out I just had the RAM in the wrong set of slots.

[Valen]

I've been thinking about getting water cooling, what are you going to be getting?

[Niliscro]

For $600 you can't really complain, besides the fact that it was unplanned.

[Reactor Worker]

Interestingly enough, my friend was having difficulties with his gaming laptop so he decided it was time to build a computer. It still had to be portable, but be more powerful than his existing hardware. Budget was around $800. This is what we decided on in the end.

Not the nicest looking case, but it is small and packs in plenty of features. The i5 750 is a great mid-range processor for gaming. The original plan was to go with a HD5770 but he decided to upgrade a little at the last minute, hence the HD5830. All the other parts were chosen based on afford-ability without sacrificing quality. A nice bonus we tied in was the ability to later add in a second graphics card for ATI Crossfire thanks to a compatible motherboard and a decent power supply.