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Mazty on 12 February 2013
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CGI-Quality said:
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No real point in water cooling. It's great when you want to do horrific overclocks, but that's all it really enables and frankly that money is better spent elsewhere. 

Firstly, closed loop systems can be noisy as hell, whereas the better full loop system costs a lot of money and in most cases is over-kill.

Second of all, you can get phenomenal performanc using something like the SilverArrow, a good case and the right fans, whilst saving cash.

Instead of wasting cash so you can overclock, with your budget you may as well get the top of the line cards instead of overclocking their smaller siblings. 

No plans to overclock anytime soon and a GTX 690 + i7 3970X combo is as top of the line as it gets right now. So I'm already covered there as well. 


Why that i7? Get a cheaper one and double up on the GPU? Using top of the line 2.4Mhz DDR3?

Because this isn't just for gaming anymore and there's zero need to double up on a 690 unless you are running more than 3 screens and / or extreme OC'ing.


Metro 2033 on ultra with x4/x8 AA plus we are on the advent of a new generation.

Well if it's not just for gaming I can't think of anything that really requires that CPU. You'd be better off getting a much cheaper one and making an AMD rig instead  freeing your gaming from media intensive tasks.