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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    Ended up with:

    http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/VLWk7P

    But swap that case for the Sharkoon VS3V

    I will just turn off the underclock on the 8320E.

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    Quote Originally Posted by Marcvs View Post
    Ended up with:

    http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/VLWk7P

    But swap that case for the Sharkoon VS3V

    I will just turn off the underclock on the 8320E.
    So you will effectively overclock the CPU. Good luck with the build.

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    poor overall cooling on the sharkoon. Your going from a 7 fan case to a 3 fan case.

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    Quote Originally Posted by dfour View Post
    poor overall cooling on the sharkoon. Your going from a 7 fan case to a 3 fan case.
    More fans doesn't always equal better cooling, sometimes fewer fans might lead to a more efficient and quieter cooling solution.

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    Quote Originally Posted by KeyboardDemon View Post
    More fans doesn't always equal better cooling, sometimes fewer fans might lead to a more efficient and quieter cooling solution.
    True but I would doubt that in a £23 case. If you have a case with more cooling potential you can choose to use as muc or little as you like but if you have only 3 fans your stuck with that.

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    Quote Originally Posted by dfour View Post
    True but I would doubt that in a £23 case. If you have a case with more cooling potential you can choose to use as muc or little as you like but if you have only 3 fans your stuck with that.
    What if anti vibrational rubber pins for FANs are used.I have them and they do actually work by reducing vibrations from the FANs to the case being transmitted.

    But I have to say, so far 3x FANs were always enough in my builds. And weren't even at full speed.

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    FWIW the two stock fans in my R3 seem fine for cooling a 280X (internal venting) and Phenom X6. The front fan is behind a filter and because the middle drive bay isn't removable in the R3 (unlike the newer iterations) its airflow is more restricted.

    An extra fan in the roof of the case would probably bring temperatures down a touch, but they're not concerning as-is and that would mean negative pressure in the case (so perhaps more dust would make it around the filters).

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    Quote Originally Posted by Bonebreaker777 View Post
    So you will effectively overclock the CPU. Good luck with the build.
    Just ordered the parts; ended up with the 8320 Normal .

    Though the E and normal are the exact same chip just with a slight voltage adjustment and clock speed adjustment, total came to £494.08

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    It seems the E CPUs are binned for lower leakage, which as a trade-off may mean less extreme overclocking potential.

    The Stilt talks about it here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post5237937
    Last edited by watercooled; 28-01-2015 at 05:47 PM.

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    Re: £500 Gaming Tower - Review My Choices

    Its no matter now anyway; ended up with the normal Edition as they were out of stock and for overclock was only going to 3.5 (the stock of the normal).

    I will try and post some pics once its built, but will probably be a week or two.

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