Best Xtreme preformance PC

[Ranger]

What's the best gaming PC for NextGen games?

Cost is not a problem,
but I don't want to spend $8000 on a PC that doesn't meet my expectations.


Alienware... anything better?
I heard of Widowpc, is there anything else?
I'm kinda lookin' for liquid cooling too

[Dreadlorde]

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Oil!

[foq]

Condensation's a bitch. Chilled water, phase change, liquid nitrogen... watch out for water. That's another reason why I like air cooling...

[Efess]

My roomate in school tried to build a computer inside a minifridge order to keep everything cool. Bad idea. He ended up with a motherboard submerged in water because of condensation.

I heard people have had success putting their computer in a tank of cooled mineral oil. A little overkill, but the title does say "Xtreme"...

[Disco]

i opted out of water cooling but my next system might be WC. This current system has 9 fans in it 4 of them were 200 Cubic Feet a Minute fans.. however, the thing is louder than an airplane so i have since taken those 4 out and replaced with much more silent running ones. I was able to OC everything in my system without any issues even on some pretty high settings.

[foq]

Yeah, it will certianly take more power to run a bunch of fans on a rad and a pump than it will to run one or 2 fans on a good aftermarket hsf. There's also extreme measures like peltier and phase change, but that's a whole lot of crap to go through...

[MH]

More power to run the cooling systems? What cooling systems?

Depends. The OP said water cooled, so that's not gonna come cheap.

[Ranger]

This has been really helpful, thanks guys.

[foq]

No way. My cooler serves me well, why would I spend extra money to replace something that works great?

[powerzord]

get a xigmatek Heatpipe Cooler , NEWB

[foq]

Sure, overclocking isn't nescessary. Hell, it never way 'nescesary'. I do it because I can, and it doesn't cost anything (save the $20 I spent on my AC Freezer 64 Pro). Electricity isn't really a factor if you're just overclocking and not overvolting.

More power to run the cooling systems? What cooling systems? You don't need high power cooling systems to overclock. As I said before, I have a $20 air cooler and it's served me well through all the years I've had it. There's no extra power draw involved over the stock cooler with air coolers.

As far as shorter lifetimes goes, that's really a myth. You're only going to get shorter lifetime if you overvolt (a lot), or if your hardware is running really hot. You can get a decent cooler like I did and overclock stuff, and it will still be running cooler than it was at stock with the stock cooler, thus, longer life... until you overvolt it too much.

[MH]

Dreadlorde is right. In most cases hardware is so fast these days that overclocking is just not needed. Not overclocking will give you better reliability and a longer lifetime (and cost less in terms of the old go-juice, i.e. electricity), both important if you're spending lotsa money. Finally, the cost of the shorter lifetime (and the additional cost of more power to run the cooling systems) is likely gonna be more than the cost of just buying a faster CPU - hardware is so cheap nowadays too.

[Disco]

there is if you are bragging to the ladies at the bar about your highest score in 3D Mark06 or how many FPS you get with AA turned off... That kinda talk brings the ladies back for more.

[eieio]

why is that? haven't researched new hw for about 6 years now.

[Dreadlorde]

There's no need to overclock hardware anymore, btw.