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Originally Posted by SlipoftheKnife
A8N32-SLI
ATI HD 3870 w/ 512 starting off with one but eventually going dual
4 gig PC3200
I'm going with a D-Tek Fuzion waterblock 1/2" barbs.
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Check the compatibility of that video card with that motherboard...I don't think they work together, though the card mfgrs may have come up with a patch. Besides, there are very few motherboards that support ATI cards in Crossfire on an AMD platform, nor any ATI cards run in SLI on any motherboard.
With 4 gigs of memory you'll have to run a 64 bit O/S. You'll also have to underclock the memory in order to get 4 sticks to run. Other than video rendering or editing
very large photos, there no practical reason to use 4 gigs of memory. No programs/games will use more than 2 gigs. With Vista x64 and a multi core CPU, you may see some improvements in multitasking, but that's about it. Software and O/Ss just are not sophisticated enough to manage multi cores effectively yet.
Yes, the nozzles will help.
The D-tec Fuzion works better with multi core CPUs. But a better choice (in order) would be:
1.) Original Storm
2.) Original Swiftech Storm
3.) Later Swiftech Apogee (a modification of the Swiftech Storm)
4.) Swiftech Apogee GT
No need to W/C the NB/SB/memory/HDDs.
For video card cooling do not get a "full coverage" (i. e. GPU and memory) block. That locks you into a specific card. Use something like an MCW60 and ram sinks. Then you can move the block to a new card.
That's a good pump.
Use a T-line instead of a rez. Yeah, bleeding will take longer, but you only do it once. It's a good idea to add a drain line too.
Go here, read this:
http://www.over-clock.com/ivb/index.php?showtopic=20277
Then go here, read the thread and download the spreadsheet:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=151627
Read these:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=77260
http://translate.google.com/translat...hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=178575
....how's that ben333? add anything?