I have as of now decided to go with the Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 over the ASUS Gene V. My reasoning is as follows... Despite the crossfire/sli slot being the last slot on the motherboard, my video cards (7850) will only take up one slot when I liquid cool them and still leave a good solid inch or more of space between the card and the PSU. Next is the fact that the Gigabyte board retains a PCIe X1 slot which is converted to an mpcie slot on the ASUS board and after looking around I couldn't really find much of anything to use for that while an actual X1 slot will have both immediate and future uses for me and I won't be as restricted on my options of devices. Lastly and most importantly to me, I have personally been using gigabyte motherboards for as long as I can remember and falling back to ASUS boards when there was no gigabyte alternative. I have always found gigabyte boards to be more durable and reliable in the long run while ASUS boards have given me better overclocks which is not the goal of this build and this will be my system until it no longer works and isn't worth fixing vs buying a new system.
To close this all off, if anyone has suggestions on a reservoir I should use or where I should place it I'd greatly appreciate it. I was hoping to have it connected directly to the fill port to avoid needing a T line but as it stands of now I'm not sure if that will be possible....
Hope you're all enjoying my first modding experience!
To close this all off, if anyone has suggestions on a reservoir I should use or where I should place it I'd greatly appreciate it. I was hoping to have it connected directly to the fill port to avoid needing a T line but as it stands of now I'm not sure if that will be possible....
Hope you're all enjoying my first modding experience!
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Chibi
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| CPU | CPU | Motherboard | RAM |
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| AMD Opteron 4386 | AMD Opteron 4386 | SUPERMICRO MBD-H8DCL-6F-O | Crucial 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 1600 SDRAM ECC Registe... |
| Hard Drive | OS | Case | Other |
| Western Digital RE WD2001FYYG 2TB 7200RPM 32MB ... | Windows Server 2008 R2 | SUPERMICRO CSE-825TQ-R700LPB Black | Adaptec RAID 6805 2271200-R |
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