Project Heavy Case

[tomisafish]

Well, I have decided I am not going to buy sleeved cables but am infact going to sleeve them myself using paracord.

I am gonna go for either red and black together:
http://www.suntekstore.co.uk/goods.php? ... ource=gbuk

or buy some individual red and individual black cables and kinda go stripey:
http://www.hunterscampingandbushcraft.c ... -red-50ft/
http://www.hunterscampingandbushcraft.c ... lack-50ft/

It is super cheap and I have seen people do really great stuff with it inside their cases.

[tomisafish]

I am considering going for a GTX 670 as it fits more in my price range than a HD 7950.
Any opinions/knowledge on how it stacks up to other GPUs?

[Pri]

The GTX 670 is the only high end GPU worth purchasing. See graph:

[tomisafish]

Well, that settles that.

[tomisafish]

The mobo I was planning to get seems to have rocketed from £170 to £240 everywhere. I like the specs of a lot of the Asus £150-£200 boards but they are all SO BLUE! (I would rather red or all black).

Ideas on where to go from here?

Main things I want:
-Not blue.
-Nice bios.

I did see this but kinda feel bad going mATX with such a massive case and I would feel really limited on the PCI front.

[Pri]

The sound on that board is top notch. As good as any of the current sound cards on the market. So that will save you a PCIe slot. And you can do SLI or Crossfire on that board.

Personally in my own builds I never have any expansion cards installed except for graphics. If you're anything like me in that regard I don't see the mATX form factor as being a limiter for you. It's a great board has amazing features and the best EFI GUI of any manufacturer.

Your only real alternative for a Black and Red board apart from Asus is EVGA but you'll probably be looking at even higher costs there and their EFI implementation isn't as good.

[tomisafish]

Ok cool, I wonder if there is anything I can do with the abundance of free space if I did go for it. I think I would rather a small red/black board over a big blue thing.

I did re-consider the Sabertooth but that armor is pretty repulsive when you look carefully.

[tomisafish]

About to order my stuff from Scan, Aria and SpecialTech. The cooling kit I am going for doesn't include and fluid. Can you recommend or advise what I should be looking for, there seem to like 10 different types. UV, non-UV etc and stuff.

[Pri]

Get a fluid that looks nice. Personally I use the EK Fluids they are well made. Mayhems fluids are also known to be quite good. The UV fluids are kind of a waste of money as the UV part of the fluid dissipates pretty fast.

[tomisafish]

Is your blood red a light red or a more deep red? I'm in a throw up between red, black or clear. Red is off the list if the EK blood red is too light.