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carolkarine
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Okay guys, I just sold some bitcoins and made exactly 700 dollars. I want to hold onto as much of this as possible while accomplishing the following goal:

 

I hope to adequately cool a 290.

 

what I have in my system now:

 

gigabyte 7870 (@1260 mhz)

3570K (stock)

H60

Asus mitx board (not the P8-Z77I-Deluxe, although that is the next upgrade. but because it's so unnecessary, I won't be doing that this time around.)

2 WD 3.5in HDDs

Corsair CX600w

 

now, my two different plans for cooling this monstrosity.

 

Arctic Accelero x3

 

pros:

  • cheaper than other option
  • cools well

cons:

  • permanent application of heatsinks.

 

NZXT G10 and X40

 

pros:

  • cools very well
  • not permanent
  • can be moved to another card later
  • can swap out AIO cooler

cons:

  • more expensive
  • may have trouble cooling vram (the power delivery is directly underneath the fan, so it should be fine, but the vram is not. to be fair, I don't plan on up-clocking the memory, and I don't see it getting terribly hot anyways)

 

So guys, which one? please note I will be getting the g10 and x40 (if I do) on the black friday sales, so they're only (at most) 20 dollars more. (together they are 100 USD. deadpool over on the OC.net confirmed the sales)

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Case: Red Prodigy CPU: i5 3570K @ 4.3 GHZ GPU: Powercolor PCS+ 290x @1100 mhz MOBO: Asus P8Z77-I CPU Cooler: NZXT x40 RAM: 8GB 2133mhz AMD Gamer series Storage: A 1TB WD Blue, a 500GB WD Blue, a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB

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bitcoin is now worth a 1065$ each, unlucky you....

http://www.bitcoinspot.nl/menu-wisselkoersen/bitcoin-wisselkoers-dollar.html

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bitcoin is now worth a 1065$ each, unlucky you....

http://www.bitcoinspot.nl/menu-wisselkoersen/bitcoin-wisselkoers-dollar.html

Maybe he had less than one bitcoin? (I sure hope this is the case...)

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bitcoin is now worth a 1065$ each, unlucky you....

http://www.bitcoinspot.nl/menu-wisselkoersen/bitcoin-wisselkoers-dollar.html

Maybe his graphics card cost $300

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NZXT has my vote

Rig CPU Intel i5 3570K at 4.2 GHz - MB MSI Z77A-GD55 - RAM Kingston 8GB 1600 mhz - GPU XFX 7870 Double D - Keyboard Logitech G710+

Case Corsair 600T - Storage Intel 330 120GB, WD Blue 1TB - CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D14 - Displays Dell U2312HM, Asus VS228, Acer AL1715

 

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Maybe he had less than one bitcoin? (I sure hope this is the case...)

 

I sold them about 5 days ago. money just came in because coinbase has a standard 4 day waiting period for people who haven't provided their SSN to avoid money laundering. when I sold .9 BTC it was around 790 or so.

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Case: Red Prodigy CPU: i5 3570K @ 4.3 GHZ GPU: Powercolor PCS+ 290x @1100 mhz MOBO: Asus P8Z77-I CPU Cooler: NZXT x40 RAM: 8GB 2133mhz AMD Gamer series Storage: A 1TB WD Blue, a 500GB WD Blue, a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB

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nzxt seems to be the clear winner, but I'll leave the poll up for a bit longer so more people can vote.

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Case: Red Prodigy CPU: i5 3570K @ 4.3 GHZ GPU: Powercolor PCS+ 290x @1100 mhz MOBO: Asus P8Z77-I CPU Cooler: NZXT x40 RAM: 8GB 2133mhz AMD Gamer series Storage: A 1TB WD Blue, a 500GB WD Blue, a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB

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I sold them about 5 days ago. money just came in because coinbase has a standard 4 day waiting period for people who haven't provided their SSN to avoid money laundering. when I sold .9 BTC it was around 790 or so.

You still made out pretty good. I'm hoping i can make out half decently from the LTC mining. 

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