Building a pc for the first time.

[electricsheep26354]

Personally I would just get the stock Titan Black over the hydro-copper - save the money for future upgrades.

The stock card will easily overclock to the same speed as the the hydro-copper (and well past) on it's stock cooler without any problems. There is no difference between these cards apart from the cooler and the bios settings.

The problem with the hydro-copper edition is it doesn't water cool the VRMs (Voltage regulator module) and this limits any serious overclocking, so you're really not benefiting much from the water cooling other than lower core temperatures - you could always add a third party water block to the stock card now or at a later date - I use this which gives excellent performance and fully covers all key areas of the card: http://www.ekwb.com/shop/blocks/vga-blo ... tx-ti.html and is relatively easy to fit.

Either way your only talking a few percent performance difference in real terms on stock clocks between these cards unless you plan to push the overclocking on them.

[lost_gypsy]

Thanks. I found one at a local store for 900.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 13225938:s

I also got this power supply for 120. 850 should be enough right?

[electricsheep26354]

Cool, yes 850w is more than enough, will do you for SLI as well if you upgrade in the future

Enjoy your new card - the Titan is quite a beast

[lost_gypsy]

I don't have it yet. Nvidia is building it for me right now. Will have it by the 24th.

[--JawZ--]

I thought I would post this How-To clip about watercooling Kit review and installation. Just in case there will be users rading this and want to install water cooling kits either custom kit or pre-built kit.

HiTechLegion - XSPC Raystorm 750 EX240 Liquid Cooling Kit Upgrade - Video review
HiTechLegion - XSPC Raystorm 750 EX240 Liquid Cooling Kit Upgrade - Text review

Some useful library of product manuals at XSPC
XSPC - Product Manuals


I might post more links to video clips, text guides, reviews as well as Tips & Tricks in the future, so this can become a "go-to-learn" thread for people new to building and/or upgrading their PC's.

[OhKay]

maybe this might too be of interest to beginners

How To Build A PC: From Component Selection To Installation

[--JawZ--]

Good addition there OhKay.

[OhKay]

i have built many rigs for friends, family and myself. nothing too fancy, just put them together. what i have now, aesthetically in mind it's also a display case on top of my desk with a large window. add some lights, it makes great ambient lighting at night.