Water Cooling or SLI??

[Colomon84]

I'm working on my new 6700k build right now and cannot decide between getting another GTX 980ti and run them in SLI for 1440p gaming greatness OR.... keeping my 1 card setup and just run a full custom loop through it. Listed below are things to keep in mind when giving your opinion:

 

1. 1440p Gaming (I want a constant 60-144hz with no major dips)

2. Games like Guild Wars 2, Total War, Men of War, Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous and some single player games like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3

3. Quiet and as powerful as possible are my goals!

4. I currently have a single 27" 1080p monitor however I'm looking into upgrading to either 34" 1440p or 27" 1440p

 

Thanks for everyone's help

 

PCPer Links:

 

6700K SLI Build

 

6700K Custom Loop

[GSTARR]

Personally I would deal with the sound and go sli

[Colomon84]

18 hours ago, GSTARR said:

Personally I would deal with the sound and go sli

Why SLI over water cooling? Just for the performance factor?

[brob]

20 hours ago, Colomon84 said:

I'm working on my new 6700k build right now and cannot decide between getting another GTX 980ti and run them in SLI for 1440p gaming greatness OR.... keeping my 1 card setup and just run a full custom loop through it. Listed below are things to keep in mind when giving your opinion:

 

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PCPer Links:

 

6700K SLI Build

 

6700K Custom Loop

The Phanteks EVOLV ITX case would be much better for a custom loop build.

 

You might consider a 2x16GB memory kit in the SLI build. It will leave two memory slots free for an upgrade. Good choices are G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory or G.Skill TridentZ Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2800 Memory. The later would also look pretty good in the mini-ITX build.

 

 

[Archarin]

I would get an NZXT Grid+, connect all your fans to it, except the X61 fans, and put in some noise dampening foam maybe? I have the same setup with an X61 and NZXT Grid+ in an H440 and it's pretty quiet. One thing, if you're spending that much a computer and care about silence, I would get better headphones.

[Colomon84]

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[Colomon84]

8 hours ago, Archarin said:

I would get an NZXT Grid+, connect all your fans to it, except the X61 fans, and put in some noise dampening foam maybe? I have the same setup with an X61 and NZXT Grid+ in an H440 and it's pretty quiet. One thing, if you're spending that much a computer and care about silence, I would get better headphones.

I like your point, I'm looking into two SLI builds right now and can't decide between the two. One is 6700K and the other is a 5820K. Please help me decide between the two. Literally only $30 difference in price!

[brob]

1 hour ago, Colomon84 said:

I like your point, I'm looking into two SLI builds right now and can't decide between the two. One is 6700K and the other is a 5820K. Please help me decide between the two. Literally only $30 difference in price!

Check out Asus motherboard fan control features. Very sophisticated. Generally more than adequate to control all the case fans.

 

5820K offers better performance in highly multi-threaded work. 6700K offers much better performance in lightly threaded environments - the vast majority of gaming titles. (Both overclock reasonably well. Not a lot of statistics yet on the 6700K, but what there is suggests these cpu will oc proportionally as well as 5820K.)

[Streetguru]

On 2/16/2016 at 1:12 PM, Colomon84 said:

I'm working on my new 6700k build right now and cannot decide between getting another GTX 980ti and run them in SLI fr

You should get a 4k display rather than a 1440p 144hz display, it'll be better for daily desktop use, however if you're stuck on that display type, then you'd save about $150 going free-sync rather than G-sync

$550 Free-sync

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/acer-monitor-xf270hu

 

$700 G-sync
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/acer-monitor-xb270hubprz

[Kryptyx]

Go with your SLI build. I would suggest getting a Samsung 950 Pro ssd instead, much better performance.