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YowZman

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  • Birthday Mar 29, 1911

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  1. As I understand it, fully populating 4 slots on a two channel system puts more of a strain on the IMC and makes over clocking harder.
  2. Only word of mouth. I've only had mine for about 5 months, so I can definately confirm that they will last that long xD. The switches are rated for something like 2 million cyles between failure, that's a long frickin time.
  3. Thanks guys. Yeah, it is an endless debate. I just wanted to put it out there, that it really doesn't matter that much xD.
  4. Thanks man, £2200 over 12 months... totally worth it xD
  5. Depending on what material you are going to use, welding or riveting. No matter what you make it out of you will want it laser cut. Search the internet for companies that do this. Then you will want various parts folded, any sheet metal workers with a press brake will be able to do this. Designing it is the tricky part, you will need a reasonable competency at a CAD suit. I personally use Solidworks which has a sheet metal element to it, if you can get hold of that, it'd make your life super easy.
  6. I wouldn't bother at the 70 dollar price point. Dem switches by pricey. Pay the money and get a Filco or a Ducky, even if you have to save up for longer, its worth it because itll be awesome for at least like 20 years.
  7. Hail! Im also from the UK, bought my keyboard from www.keyboardco.com. I've never used a Das Keyboard, so I can't comment, for typing, Filco and Ducky and pretty much the head of the herd and are about the same money as a Das keyboard. Read reviews and check as many forums as you can, Das might be just as good, I do not le know.
  8. First there's the cooling part of things, with a density of approximately 1000kg/m^3 water is around 830 times denser than air at 1.2041 kg/m^3. Air has a specific heat capacity of approximately 1 kJ/kg/K whilst water at 25 degrees C is about 4.2 kJ/kg/K. Multiply out these factors, and you end up with a cooling performance of around 3500 times the performance of air by volume (factors such as boundary layer thickness and turbulence excluded). The flow rate of the water is going to make a factional difference to you cooling unless you've got a preposterous amount of things in your loop like 4 gpus, 3 rads, cpu, hard drive coolers etc. We are literally talking 3-4 degrees at most, certainly nothing worth worrying about. Secondly, there's the way pumps perform. Pumps do NOT create pressure. They create flow. Resistance to flow creates pressure. The more resistance, the more pressure at any given flow rate. If your pump is only capable of sustaining a certain pressure differential across its inlet and outlet, as you increase the resistance, the flow rate will decrease until the system balances. So for dual pumps... It really depends on your loop order, if you have a huge number of components in series, they represents a very large resistance to flow. Placing two pumps in series will allow the pumps to provide a much greater effort in terms of pressure, as the maximum pressure they can support for a given flow rate is essentially doubled (think of this as simply adding pressure). Placing two pumps in parallel, the pumps both produce the same volume of flow, and this flow as you would intuitively think adds together. It gives you no advantage in terms of pressure. You would only use this configuration if you had a vast number of components in parallel. And I mean 4 or more upwards before you start to notice a difference. Of course, what speed you wish to run your pumps at will introduce sensitivity much much earlier. I barely have my DCP4.0 turned on because its a noisy ****er and I HATE noise. Despite my CPU GPU and GPU all being in parallel, I noticed only about a 6 degree rise in my delta temps between this and when it was just my CPU and radiator and my pump running at full pelt because my fans were too noisy to hear it. Its really very very marginal and essentially, you shouldn't worry about it. but if you do for any reason, and your loop is entirely off the chain, then it might be worth planning you loop and pump config to get the best noise to flow ratio. You'll have plenty of water either way.
  9. ditto, use EK's compatibility checker, its really neat. and then get the EK block from a shop in your territory :D. EK Blocks are the best.
  10. ducky or filco, if you're more about typing. if you're more gaming, probably something like a coolermaster quickfire.
  11. true, but I only have my own user experience that I can reliably go on. and comparing the two. it'll be a while before I touch an asrock board again :/
  12. for a similar price bracket, I have a pair of ATH A500x's that are just incredible.
  13. a single 360 is enough, but if you can fit a 420 then definately go for that. it will give you better temps, slower (more importantly quieter) fans, and more room for overclocking etc, or even upgrades.
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