My Crazy 3 way SLI GPU/CPU Water Cooled Gaming PC Build - 3 GTX 780 (FINISHED page 4,5) (more Benchmarks pg 10)

[ramdisknet]

Isnt amd the same one that said their bulldozer cpu would eat the i7s for breakfast? Oh yeah wait.......

You dumbass. I said GPU not CPU..

[79 cutty]

I don't do anything with computers, and don't know crap about building them, so I think the simple solution would just be to use EVERY thermal paste out there, and slather it all over every surface possible! Problem solved!

[n8ball2013]

Isnt amd the same one that said their bulldozer cpu would eat the i7s for breakfast? Oh yeah wait.......

You dumbass. I said GPU not CPU..

Easy there pete the pc pirate evidently you srent quick enough to know that amd tends to overinflate their claims. Did you catch it that time or do you need me to type slower.

Oh and strike one

[audiofanaticz]

Sorry Steve.. Get a refund for them GTX 780's! http://www.maximumpc.com/amd_r9_290x_will_be_much_faster_titan_battlefield_4

Also, why didn't you get a pci-e or a couple of SATA III SSD's? All that speed and you have hard drives! (From what I can see in the pics anyway)

yea because a 1tb ssd is way too slow for playing battlefield 4

As for the 290X

JUNK!

I waited for this card, I talked this thing up and waited.

Thought AMD would finally come out with a legit card..

After the 2nd or 3rd pushed back presale of the card news of 780s price drop surfaced followed, followed by the 780ti...

Me, Im glad I didnt buy that AMD card because it runs hot, it runs loud, and it runs slow compared to the 780ti, or even a slightly overclocked 780.

AMD got the hype so huge on the card so dang fast and could of been a great seller, but they missed it with its never confirmed release.

Sure the 290x beats the titan on 2 games out of the 7 games.... That really made it the claimed "titan killer" it was claimed to be, and it actually took nvidia to release the real titan killer card.

Fact is, the cards run hot, even with water cooling they cant be oc'ed for crap and a REFERENCE gtx780 with the stock air cooler being overclocked will walk all over a 290x, not to mention the gtx780 is $50 bucks cheaper.

Its a matter of opinion if you think that card is better, but usually thats just fanboys supporting the product. I myself love AMD processors, and was really pushing for that 290X, but I just couldnt do it..

Not to mention, AMD claimed that those red lines on the heatsinks where going to be illuminated? what ever happened to that? did they ditch it because it took to long to produce or what? Lol

[Hikato]

I'm no fanboy, but I laugh when AMD kids talk about how awesome their AMD processors are because of their true 8 cores.. lol

Personally, I find Haswell was a disappointment, as the only real difference 3770k vs 4770k is better integrated graphics and a higher TDP. I guess maybe I'm a little biased as I already run a 3770k, so I don't see it worth upgrading. As for video... I almost sold my 660 Ti to grab dual 770s/780s, but I figured it's overkill and I really don't do anything that would require a single 660 Ti, much less SLI'd 660 Ti's.

The Titan wasn't very special, either. Granted, it is a pretty nice card (and some of the builds people have done are pretty sexy), but there's so many better options (such as dual 780s). That 290.. I'll pass.

Edited December 16, 2013 by Hikato

[meade916]

Also, I'm sure this is the last thing Steve wants to see, but despite the manual claiming that pattern was the way to go from the pictures it does look like you put way too much paste on (but maybe that's just how ti looks in pictures, and is deceiving me). Applying thermal paste in arbitrary patterns will decrease effectiveness because it will be thicker in some places than others, which makes the cold plate contact less reliable.

so i should ignore the manual and go with "jeremy, from the internet's" advice instead?

and just know this, the 2nd and 3rd cards, i went out of my way to make those "lines" in the pattern as thin as possible so i wouldn't have to listen to the know-it-all's again. Guess what happened? it self leveled again, spreading out on the chip on it's own, and started too look like too much AGAIN. But i know it isn't too much. As for the pattern itself, most of the bulk of it gathers at the center, where all the lines criss-cross making most of the blob in the middle. Also, guess what else? the temps are great, no problems at all. Honestly, 1/10th of 1000% of the people on my forum, facebook, twitter and youtube have never pulled apart a perfectly good video card and replaced the heat sync with a water block......so i am not sure where all the experts are coming from. I would say the usual "you read too much and don't DO enough"....except for if you READ, it tells you, i did it right.

I'm not saying you should ignore the manual, I'm just going by experience from actually playing around with different methods of applying thermal paste. I personally would have tried both methods and see which worked better just out of curiosity. And yes, I said that it LOOKS THICK but is probably deceiving me, maybe you should read things. Speaking of reading things, being a senior IT field technician for an IT firm in DC, and doing federal government contracting ..you're absolutely right, I don't do enough.

And obviously it spreads evenly across the middle, however because of the pattern *repeats self* "Applying thermal paste in arbitrary patterns will decrease effectiveness because it will be thicker in some places than others, which makes the cold plate contact less reliable."

Again, follow the EK Waterblock manual to the T, or listen to Jeremy, from internet?. LOL hard decision. Sorry bro, but i would GUESS what i needed to do before calling on you. Only because i have more experience in the matter then you do. That is unless you have been building computers since the early 90's and owned them since the early 80's. Like me.

I mean, even if it was too much paste I wasn't saying you were going to damage anything..the entire point of thermal paste is that it's thermal based, and non conductive..

All in all I imagine the difference would really only be a couple degrees so obviously you're not going to have any problems as you stated you don't have any, but what do I know, I'm just Jeremy from the internet.

PS: Wasn't trying to start a flame war

By the way, liquid cooling is so 10 years ago. Get with the times, Steve..it's all about Kingpin cooling.

exactly, and i said many times i have been WATERCOOLING for over 10 years. Almost 15. You can't tell me to "get with the times" if you aren't on my level yet...just sayin'.

[meade916]

Sorry Steve.. Get a refund for them GTX 780's! http://www.maximumpc.com/amd_r9_290x_will_be_much_faster_titan_battlefield_4

sell my stuff because some day there will be a faster card? ummm too late, the Titan, TI and 690 is already out. My card is still in the top 5 fastest and there is 3 of them. Sell your own shit....lol

[Venhar Bara]

Hey Steve, i dont se any premium single sleeved cables in there !

[meade916]

Isnt amd the same one that said their bulldozer cpu would eat the i7s for breakfast? Oh yeah wait.......

You dumbass. I said GPU not CPU..

and you are a dumb fuck if you think im taking out a Nvidia card for an AMD. You are also a dumb fuck for not knowing that he is telling you basically it isn't the first time AMD has made a claim that failed. Im not an AMD hater at all but you AMD fanboy's are annoying.

by the way, you don't like being called a dumb fuck, don't call my admin a dumbass. Watch the way you talk to people if you don't want the same in return.

[SoCaLBaMF]

All I see is should have done this, should have done that. I feel like I'm on steves youtube channel reading the now disabled comments. Just sit back and drool people!