The LianLi case finally arrived and I loosely fitted the parts together for a trial spin. Along with the case Coolit sent me a couple of extra parts...a Vantage cpu cooler and a Omni gpu cooler. The Omni has a 5870 backplate so I will not be using that here. I had intended to use a Boreas TEC in this rig until I saw the Vantage unit... I decided to give it a chance. So far these are the parts installed:

LianLi PC-P50 case
Biostar TP67B+ mb
Intel 2600K cpu
4GB GSkill DDR3 2000
Silverstone Decathalon 1000w psu
Coolit Vantage cpu cooler
Lite-On DVD burner
Sapphire 5970 gpu
WD 1TB hdd
SuperTalent 32GB ssd
Silverstone HDDBoost
Creative X-Fi sound card

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The Omni gpu cooler which will not be used here...
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If I intend to use the Vantage unit I will have to do some surgery to the top panel so it will fit around the rad/fans...
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I was skeptical of the Vantage cooler at first, but after some online gaming and benchmarks at 4.5GHz I was impressed with the little unit's performance. I'm thinking I will roll with it for this gamer.

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I really see no need for me to run it any harder than this...it nets me nothing in online gaming that I can tell...


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Nice work man,

I would agree, 4.5 is way kool for gaming ...

That is what I plan to run mine at when I get a board .........

should have held onto the WS till new boards were availible :ohcrap:

Now it is the waiting game for me .....

Killer setup Rick :thumbsup:

Nice rick.. why do you have hyperthreading on. doesn't that hurt most RW performance? Especially games?

(If I asked that before just ignore me.. my 920 I ran at low low voltage disabled HTT and let i run cool and easy... only thing I could tell it suffered on was that video encoding app.. Handbrake..

Not tried it out...I will give it a go for effect. :)

EDIT: A little cooler with HT off, but no real difference in online gaming.

Revised the Vantage mount and removed the two top fans so I could fit the top cover without any further butchery. Good news it it didnt seem to effect temps much at all.

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Oh, did I mention the ridiculous frame rates? :taunt:

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camper :scared::taunt:

Marshmello's anyone ......... :laughing:

I'm through with this...on to gaming. Nothing fancy or artful, just a solid game rig.

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