JereHawk

Wow thanks a ton for the huge wall of text jasonlylevene. Was insanely helpful. You should be able to see your influence in the parts I picked haha. ^___^ As far as holding off for the newest and greatest hardware...gah I feel like I've been doing that for years (mostly cuz I was too broke to buy anything). Here's my current system: MB: P5K3 Deluxe Proc: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU @ 2.4ghz Memory: 2x ddr3-1600 2gb 9-9-9-24 and 2x ddr3-1333 1gb 9-9-9-24 Windows says ram is running at 1066mhz, I guess that's the compatible speed of the 2 types of chips and the MB? Video: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 4gb Monitor: Some very old flat panel (4" thick?) 40" Samsung 1080p OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit (DirectX 11) I read your response a bit late Cespenar. Already "built" my rig (picked out parts on newegg) and decided against water cooling. WC just seems like a lot of work vs air and not really worth it. At least it did till I read your post. I was so into phase cooling (sub-ambient) that I decided either phase or uber easy I guess (so closed loop wc or just air). This is what I came up with http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=27361266 Please let me know if I overlooked something: will have some kind of bottleneck, really skimped, went way overboard on some aspect, am missing some required obvious part (

Thanks for the response GabrielTessin. I have posted this question on a few different forums and the consensus seems to be "don't bother with phase change." I am a novice (did a tiny bit of air cooled OCing years back dinking around). I have spent the past week or so reading up on all things overclocking and it's very interesting/fun/overwhelming sounding. Basically I was willing to try if it would give me more bang for my buck haha. I noticed newegg has several closed loop liquid cooling systems for CPUs but I didn't see any for video cards. Do you have any suggestions for nvidia based cards? As far as $4k that's a pretty soft number (subject to change) and is my total budget for the entire setup (PC, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse). The more I look into building this the more questions I come up with the more I have to research /infinite loop. At this point I have no idea what monitor I want other than a decent 3d monitor. I forgot there's this new ultra hd thing out now huh. I need to research that too haha.

I am looking to build a 3D gaming PC. I