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    Lightbulb New Work/Gaming/Entertainment System

    Hey guys,

    Looking to buy a new machine for work & play. Really want to make sure it's something that can scale and will last me for at least 4 years. I built this on IronSide because I heard good things about the company. If you would recommend a different company please let me know.

    The last thing to keep in mind when looking at this build is that I don't want it to get too noisy. Iron Side doesn't offer any noise dampening options like other competitors but wanted your opinion on how much they really help. Shouldn't water cooling be the main source of noise reduction?

    Also if you think I am wasting money anywhere please point it out. My budget was to stay under 2k for the box.

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    Case - NZXT Phantom 410 Black (Mid Tower) [Level 2 Iron Tundra Ready](10% off)
    Additional Case Fans - 2 x 120mm Cooler Master Sickleflow High Performance Fans
    Internal Lighting - 12" Blue Cold Cathode Lighting
    Intel Processor - [Overclockable] Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz, 3.9GHz Turbo Boost (Quad Core)
    CPU Cooling - Corsair Hydro H60 Liquid Cooling
    Liquid Cooling Tubing Color - Clear / None
    Intel Motherboard - [x-fire, SLI] ASRock Z77 Professional [VGA DVI HDMI] SATA 6Gb/s USB3 {4 DDR3 Slots}
    Overclocking Processor - Stock Speed
    Overclocking Graphics Card - Stock Speed
    Overclocking Memory - Stock Speed
    Memory - 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz
    Memory Cooling - None
    Primary Hard Drive - 1TB 7200 RPM
    Hard Drive Cooling - None
    1st Optical Drive - Blu-Ray Reader / DVD Writer
    Graphics Card - Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 2GB (Min. 650 Watt Power Supply)
    Power Supply - Standard 800 Watt
    Networking - Internal Wireless N 300Mbps
    Fan Controller - NZXT Sentry 2 Touch Screen Fan Controller & Temperature Display

    Sub-Total: $2,025.90

    Also forgot to add: I purchased a 240gb SSD awhile ago which will be my main drive for installing programs onto. Also this setup is being displayed on 2x24inch 1980x1200 displays.

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    Are you willing to build yourself? I understand you're using IronSide atm, but I still personally putting together the rig yourself.

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    I have built every computer myself up to this point, but with work keeping me so busy I don't mind paying the extra ~200 it seems to have this built and shipped.

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    Looks like a descent enough build but please change the PSU if you can? They usually have something from Corsair, 650W +- is fine if you wanna be ready for SLI you'll want t look at 750-850 ones.

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