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  1. lostredneck
    Personally I like the Fractal Design Define R6 or Phanteks Evolve X (not actually in production yet)
  2. lostredneck
    By your choices I can assume your gaming since both are marketed to the gaming crowd. Going off that assumption i would suggest the mouse. A good mouse is vital in a most every game especially anything requiring precision. Whereas having a good keyboard is also beneficial I feel as though the majority of the time only 4 keys will be used so the mouse would be more practical
  3. lostredneck
    I can't imagine something like that being practical. It would pull an enormous amount of power from the USB of you went with electeomagnets of you went with standard magnets any small scrap of metal with any amount of iron would immediately foul up whatever key it got under
  4. lostredneck
    The only think I have ever heard of similar to what you are asking for is the Optimus Maxumus keyboard. It had 113 fully programmable keys each with a small OLED screen. Unfortunately that keyboard was discontinued 12 years ago. When it was in production it cost around $2000
  5. lostredneck
    Ok thanks that does make sense.
  6. lostredneck
    I can understand there is negligible difference throughout the loop as a whole, what I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is the difference in cooling potential on the GPU. Since the water has already been saturated with at least some heat from the CPU it seems like there would be less cooling potential left in the water when it hits the GPU. Again I could be talking out of my ass on this since the water is moving so fast there's no way it's getting anywhere near its heat threshold while passing over either components regardless of they are in a series or parallel.
  7. lostredneck
    I have never done a custom loop before, always just sticking with AIO's. I'm trying to work up the courage to try it with my new build but there are a lot of things I dont know. I went to the EK loop builder web site and they suggested 2 360mm rads for my loop to cool the CPU and GPU, that part I understand pretty well. What I dont understand is why they suggested putting the whole thing in the same loop. It seeks to me the water is going to soak the heat from the CPU before it hits the GPU so it will cool the GPU less effectively than it could. Wouldn't it be better to do 2 separate loops 1 for the CPU and 1 for the GPU? Then I dont understand the dual radiator idea, what's the benefit of running rads in a series like that instead of using separate loops. Thanks
  8. lostredneck
    My case is a Fractal Design Define R6, I'm already going with a 360mm aio in it so the lines are already not going to be a clean as going with a hard line custom loop or fill air cooling
  9. lostredneck
    It seems like the GPU market is still trying to stabilize after the boom from cryptocurrenty mining. Right now I can buy a EVGA GeForce 1080ti FTW Hybrid Gaming for $20 less that I can buy a EVGA GeForce 1080 ti FTW gaming. They both have the same clock speeds out of the box although I plan to overclock whatever I get. I know that a blower style shroud is good for pulling hot air out of a case and lowering the internal temp but the GPU suffers, and open air is preferable in that cases and AIO+blower helps get the GPU down the open air temps or a little less in those tighter cases but is there a benefit to open air if it costs more? Usually the drawback to hybrid is it's cost.
  10. lostredneck
    Well spoken. I actually haven't looked into raid drives since the early 2000's
  11. lostredneck
    I'll be running an intel 8700k.
  12. lostredneck
    I'm building a new computer for gaming mostly, but also a little bit of everything. I originally had a 1tb 979 evo in my build plans, but then thought to myself, why dont I get 2 500 GB drives in raid 0? Faster response and the same size for about the same price. After that I got to thinking about those great optane drives and lo and behold the last gen optane is about $100 more than the 2 evo's. I'm not sure which would be faster though. Any thoughts? Edit I understand the storage space difference but which would be faster?
  13. lostredneck
    I have seen a lot of builds in here go with that Barracuda drive and I just don't understand. 2 years ago I worked as a PC repair tech for a rather large multinational pharmaceutical company. Their machines all used Seagate drives. They fialed so much we coined Seagate as a system where the drive failed. I probably swapped out 30 drives every week. I have honestly NEVER heard on a reliable Seagate drive since the old 15,000 RPM data server drives that ran on SCSI cards some 20 years ago. When did they become reliable? Or is it just tossing a cheep drive on a system to fill up with data you really don't care about?
  14. lostredneck
    I haven't figured out what kind of monitor im going to go with. I planned on crossing taht bridge after the system was done. I was looking more closely at those ultra wide screen things though like that 35" predator. Still doing research on that part of the project, but that will be a couple of months after I build the system
  15. lostredneck
    I would prefer the single GPU an custom loop with high quality parts throughout the system. I know if I go that route I want to run hard lines but doing that work myself is just beyond me. I could probably figure out soft lines myself but I would prefer to test that theory out on my current machine once I buy a new one before I try on the new system.
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