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Getting together a high-capability machine, probably like to start ordering needed parts this week. Let me know if you guys have any input/suggestions.

1st Water-cooled Rig

Build Thread Question Answers:

  1. Target Budget: 2500USD.
  2. System purpose: CAD, VM, video edit, remote desktop, gaming
  3. Monitors: eventually 2 23†monitors. It will start with 21.5†monitors that I have for another machine.
  4. Peripherals: have, may upgrade later. OS: Will purchase either Win7 or 8, not sure yet
  5. Upgrade reason: Currently no systems with dedicated graphics cards or the proposed levels of processor power

Color Theme: Black and Green

Watercooling Parts:

PC Components:

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Getting together a high-capability machine, probably like to start ordering needed parts this week. Let me know if you guys have any input/suggestions.

1st Water-cooled Rig

Build Thread Question Answers:

  1. Target Budget: 2500USD.
  2. System purpose: CAD, VM, video edit, remote desktop, gaming
  3. Monitors: eventually 2 23” monitors. It will start with 21.5” monitors that I have for another machine.
  4. Peripherals: have, may upgrade later. OS: Will purchase either Win7 or 8, not sure yet
  5. Upgrade reason: Currently no systems with dedicated graphics cards or the proposed levels of processor power

Color Theme: Black and Green

Watercooling Parts:

PC Components:

I would go with WD Caviar Blacks personally, also, something like a Samsung 840 Pro, a Kingston HyperX, SanDisk Extreme, or Intel SSD would be better IMHO.

And AsRock Motherboards? No, never. Better off with the big three, ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte.

And I tried my best to clean up the OP, so maybe C&P it.

But if you C&P it and it works, DO NOT edit it, it will be fucked up again.

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Getting together a high-capability machine, probably like to start ordering needed parts this week. Let me know if you guys have any input/suggestions.

1st Water-cooled Rig

Build Thread Question Answers:

  1. Target Budget: 2500USD.
  2. System purpose: CAD, VM, video edit, remote desktop, gaming
  3. Monitors: eventually 2 23†monitors. It will start with 21.5†monitors that I have for another machine.
  4. Peripherals: have, may upgrade later. OS: Will purchase either Win7 or 8, not sure yet
  5. Upgrade reason: Currently no systems with dedicated graphics cards or the proposed levels of processor power

Color Theme: Black and Green

Watercooling Parts:

PC Components:

I would go with WD Caviar Blacks personally, also, something like a Samsung 840 Pro, a Kingston HyperX, SanDisk Extreme, or Intel SSD would be better IMHO.

And AsRock Motherboards? No, never. Better off with the big three, ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte.

And I tried my best to clean up the OP, so maybe C&P it.

But if you C&P it and it works, DO NOT edit it, it will be fucked up again.

What's up with ASRock motherboards? I've never known anyone to have a problem with them in particular.
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Hey, welcome to the forum. (I shouldn't be talking much though since I haven't really posted much since I joined...)

Anywho, new board sounds good. Might want to wait a little bit though until you see reviews just in case. This board is a revision so theoretically, you shouldn't see any problems that weren't present in the original unless MSI totally screwed up the engineering, which I find unlikely. Right now, the Asus boards seem to have the least problems but how about giving us some info on what influenced your choice for board? That'll help us give advice.

Edit: You probably want to edit your op and just list the parts instead of link to them for the time being until the issues get fixed. That's vBulletin 5 for you...

I'd say go for the Xonar Essence STX if looking for an internal sound card. If you're interested in a USB DAC, check out the Essence One. Both are from Asus and excellent choices. Personally, I have a X-Fi Titanium HD because I still play games that benefit from hardware EAX. (Yes, I know Asus emulates it but I found it wasn't as good).

Current Rig
AMD Ryzen 5900X - Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming WiFi 2 - 32 GB GSkill TridentZ RGB
GeForce RTX 3080 - WD Black SN850 1TB  - Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL

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Update: changing fittings from Bitspower to Alphacool for cost and availability reasons.
That's actually not a bad choice given that the rest of your stuff appears to be copper. Alphacool is the only company I know of that produces copper fittings. Most of them are brass.

Current Rig
AMD Ryzen 5900X - Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming WiFi 2 - 32 GB GSkill TridentZ RGB
GeForce RTX 3080 - WD Black SN850 1TB  - Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL

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