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Advice on new custom computer I swapped my laptop for?
So after getting tire of my laptop being a bit shitty, I posted it on Kijiji to try and sell it with the intention of using the money towards a proper gaming desktop. Someone replied back offering to swap for his own gaming pc, and here we are.
It has an AMD FX-8350 with a watercooling setup, a Nvidia GTX 780, MSI 970A-G46, 16GB ram, SSD + HDD, and a metric tonne of wires.
My questions are:
1. How do I maintain a water-cooling system? Do I have to drain the system every so often and replace the coolant?
2. This system is capable of being overclocked, and can be done through the BIOS's GUI. How do I figure out what the maximum overclock the system can handle?
3. I don't really like how the top fan juts out so much, and the upper front fan is partially obscured by the front cover. But they cannot be mounted on the other side because that's where the radiators are secured. Is it possible to replace the front 120mm fan with a thinner one or one that allows more ventilation around it? Is there any fan or fan sheath I can buy for the top so I don't have the screws sticking out like that? I can cut the fan wires, feed them through a screw hole, and splice them together again inside the case. Do I even need those two fans? the radiators have their own (smaller) fans on the inside.
Thanks.
Last edited by FuturDreamz; 11 Sep 2016 at 16:56.