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micell690

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Edit: Never mind - I've just realised that 'EK' is the brand.

Hey Guys,

So I've just bought a liquid cooled PC, but I'm curious about the fittings used in the build.

I'm just a little concerned about the maintenance regarding water cooling - I've done my research but I wondered if anyone knew the parts used or had any experience with liquid cooled builds from PC Specialist?

Here are my build details:

Case CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ AIR 740 GAMING CASE
Custom Liquid Cooling Kit Liquid Series High Kit - EK
Graphics Card Cooling EK FC Nickel & Backplate - For Two Identical Graphics Cards!
Coolant Colour Mayhems Pastel Red
LED Lighting 2x 50cm White LED Strip
Change to: 2x 50cm Red LED Strip
Overclocked CPU: Overclocked Intel® Ten Core i7-6950X (3.0GHz @ up to 4.3GHz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 Ultra Gaming: ATX, LG2011-3, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs, RGB Ready
Memory (RAM): 128GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2666MHz (8 x 16GB)
Graphics Card 11GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 Ti - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - GTX VR Ready!
2nd Graphics Card 11GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 Ti - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - GTX VR Ready!
1st Hard Disk 1TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 3.5" SSHD - UP TO 5X FASTER THAN HDD!
Change to: 250GB Samsung 850 2.5" EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 1TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 3.5" SSHD - UP TO 5X FASTER THAN HDD!
Power Supply CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Braided Power Supply Cables Coloured Braided PSU Cable Kit - Black/Red
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Extra Case Fans 2x 120mm Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans

Many thanks for anyones input.
 
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Rakk

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micell690 said:
I'm just a little concerned about the maintenance regarding water cooling - I've done my research but I wondered if anyone knew the parts used or had any experience with liquid cooled builds from PC Specialist?
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I believe PCS recommend sending the Liquid Series PCs back for maintenance after 2 years - though the Liquid Series PCs haven't been available for very long yet so no-one will have done this yet afaik.

PS. Everytime you edit your post it ends up back in the moderation queue when you are new to the forums and so the post disappears from view until approved - and this is probably why not many have seen your post yet.
 
Oussebon

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Overclocked CPU: Overclocked Intel® Ten Core i7-6950X (3.0GHz @ up to 4.3GHz)
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Just in case you're not aware Intel have just launched a new CPU lineup which, long story short, would seem to offer more performance for less cash.

The i7-6950X still seems to be on sale for ~£1500. The new lineup has a 10 core CPU (Core i9-7900X) with boost clocks up to 4.3GHz (plus turbo boost 3 of upto 4.5GHz) for $999. For $1699 (which might end up equating to say £1600) you could get 16 cores and 32 threads.

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https://videocardz.com/70005/intel-launches-core-x-series-with-up-to-18-cores-for-1999-usd

The X399 motherboards will also commonly have things like 3 M.2 slots.

AMD is also pushing Threadripper out the door, which will do the same kind of thing for presumably a good deal less cash.

Obviously there's always new tech coming out, but it seems like you could get 40-60% more cores, running with higher IPC and not dissimilar frequencies out of the box as Broadwell-E overclocks to for the same kind of cash by holding off until they're on the shelves. Or you could get a 10 core CPU with higher IPC for like £500-£600 less than the above. It's not a good time to buy Broadwell-E.

In your position I'd cancel the order.
 
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