Water cooled, i7 860 for 1099.???

Santilli

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I was looking at laptops and came across this system: Pretty amazing setup for the money.
Heck, water cooling alone is about 500 dollars...

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Produc...Sp=C&hierPath=84*56670*78129*&topnav=#reviews



Processor:

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Intel Core i7 860 CPU (Maximize your gaming and multitasking!)
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CPU Speed: 2.8Ghz
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CPU Cores: 4
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L3 Cache size: 8MB

Processor Cooling:

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Liquid Cooled
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Entirely Sealed
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Zero Maintenance

Memory:

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DDR3-1600 ( (Double the memory bandwidth of DDR3)
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8GB (2GB x 4) Dual Channel (Run more, with no more slowdowns!)
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Upgradable up to 16GB

Motherboard:

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Intel P55 Chipset
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Socket 1156

Graphics:

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ATI Radeon HD5670 1GB Discrete Graphic Card
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Support Direct X 11

Hard Drive:

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Capacity: 1TB
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Speed: 7,200 RPM
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Interface: SATA II

Optical Drive:

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24x SATA DVDRW

Network:

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10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Port

Audio:

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Realtek High Definition 8 Channels

Keyboard & Mouse:

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iBUYPOWER Keyboard (104 Standard Keys and 18 Multimedia Keys)
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iBUYPOWER Optical Mouse (Includes Scroll, Forward, Backwards buttons)

Expandability:

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4 x 5.25" drive bays (external) (3 available)
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0 x 3.5" drive bays (external)
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7 x 3.5" drive bays (internal for hard drive) (6 available)
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2 x PCIe x16 (Support Cross-fire)
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1 x PCIe x 1
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1 x PCI

Ports:

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10x USB 2.0
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1 x PS/2 keyboard and 1 x PS/2 Mouse
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2 x Front Audio Jacks
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6x Rear Audio Jacks
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1 x Coaxial Audio Port (removed)
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1 x Optical S/PDIF Audio (removed)
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1 x RJ-45 (Ethernet)

Operating System and Software:

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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

Additional Information:

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700-watt power supply
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Dimensions: 18.9" H x 20.79”D x 7.72" W

Warranty and Support:

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Hardware Warranty: 2-year limited hardware parts and labor from date of purchase
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Email: techsupport@ibuypower.com
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Phone Toll Free: 1(888) 618-604
 

ddrueding

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You can do water cooling for much less, but I wouldn't want to trust my system to cheap WC components. They say "sealed, no maintenance" so I wonder if they are just heatpipes and some exaggerated marketing...technically that is phase-change cooling ;)
 

Pradeep

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Yup that wouldn't be the first time a company has claimed "water cooling" when it's just using a bloody heatpipe heatsink. Would be a complete waste on such an entry level machine
 

LunarMist

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What improvement exactly is achieved with water cooling over a high-end heatsink/fan, maybe +10%?
 

Pradeep

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Actually that's pretty impressive at the 800 rpm setting. 26 over ambient with 125W load at 34db, basically silent.
 

Pradeep

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I would hazard that your GTX295 would easily drown out even the max speed of that cooler.

Frozencpu.com sells some stuff that has higher capacity.
 

Pradeep

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I would hazard that your GTX295 would easily drown out even the max speed of that cooler.

Frozencpu.com sells some stuff that has higher capacity.
 

Santilli

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You may be right. it does make a LOT more noise then my server now...
 
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