True, that's why I said it just depends on the purpose. I just like to have a lot of screen for multitasking, but I don't care about fps.

 

I hear ya, I'm so used to 100-120 fps now, anything less is a sideshow.

 

We just ordered this service for our office.... to go along with our uverse 12mb connection. can't wait. Were gonna route all of our email traffic and ticket system database thats hosted offsite through the uverse and use the brighthouse for raping the internet.

 

Lol raping the Internet .

 

Lol raping mine would be considered necrophilia, ****s been dead.

 

Ahh technology, now if my landline was up to par.

 

Looks very very LOUD. Also, bigass fans and mechanical drives are so 20th Century. Unless you use headphones and no one else has to hear it I guess.

I would personally go with massive heatsinks and SSDs for a silent rig. You can even do that with a less "military-looking" desk.
Of course, you could always just duct A/C vent directly to it. I did that back in the day at IBM when we first started overclocking P5 chips.

 

You can find very quiet 120mm fans, can hardy hear my gentle typhoons.

 

Didn't know my system was so noisy until I built a water-cooling system for my new one and used SSD's instead of mechanical drives. Now my wife and I don't have to talk OVER the fans anymore.

 

I like the sounds of my fans. I sleep in the same room with two computers going full force. I like it since I can't sleep if it's too quiet!

 

I'd like to do a custom loop, but my corsair H80 + gentle typhoons will do for now.

 

It's a pain in the *** the first time. It's actually better for me because of the noise reduction than it is for the cooling. I have 4, 4GB GTX 680's and they never ran over 70C with just the fans; the problem is that half a dozen chassis fans and four GPU fans running all at once is about as loud as my wife's blow-dryer. Much quieter with the liquid cooling, and for what it's worth, the GPU's never reach above 55C. Neither does the CPU or the Mobo. It's probably overkill, but then the entire system is overkill.

 

IMO, anything worth doing is worth overdoing ... if it makes you happy.

 

Holy crap, what are you doing with 2500 worth of gpus?

 

lol...trust me, if it had cost me that much, or anywhere near that much, I wouldn't have them. I helped an individual out of a really tough spot and his response was to thank me by giving me three of them. I bought the 4th with some rainy-day money I'd squirreled away for that very purpose. The rig itself came together after I had the four cards and wanted to see just what I could do with them and a 3930k on a rampage extreme IV x79 and 64GB of memory. So far, as I'm sure you can imagine, I have yet to stress the system even in the slightest. Heheh.

 

It is. It's a lot of fun doing this with computers, especially when you look at what you just built and compare it to what you built 6-7 years ago. This is how I've built my computers since I graduated high school: build the best system I can afford and max it out as much as possible. The result is a system that usually is capable of hanging with at least the above-average systems several years down the road. This one will probably be functional (provided I don't burn anything out, of course) all the way into 2020. At least, I hope so. I don't play as many games as I used to, in fact I have just three installed on this computer now. But who knows. I'm curious to see just what I can get this system to do. Might not really find its limits for a year or two.

 

Oh gotcha, was gonna say its pretty overkill, my 670 with a heavy oc can keep bf3 nearly maxed 100+ fps most of the time. Can't imagine 4 680's, you must have a monster psu.

 

Yes, the Lepa G1600.

I'm slowly increasing oc on the 680s and the CPU. I'm being overly cautious, partly because I don't want to burn up such a valuable GPU, but also partly because the system just doesn't need it. I've had guys tell me I should oc it to the max and score it, but its so far beyond most other systems in hardware that there's really not much point. It scores really on hardware alone, without me doing anything at all. Not really much of an accomplishment to me when it's 99% hardware and 1% me.

 

Yeah I was afraid to oc at the start but at this point they design CPU/gpus to be oced out of the box. I'm still running a old i7 920 @ 4.0ghz, she does great.

 

Yeah, the i7s are really good processors. They have a great track record for stability even at very high oc values.