welcome you're list looks great only one suggestion a seasonic 860 platinum psu is not only better then a corsair 1200i it costs less money too.

HI mate, welcome to rog forums,, I'd go with a bigger PSU,, 1200w would be better. AND I see in your list that your looking at 2x 4x8gb ram,, you'll have nothing but trouble buy 2 ram kits and trying to run them together.. If your going to run all 8 slots you have to get a one 8 tile kit.

Hi and Welcome,

I agree with Abvolt, 32Gb is hardly ever necessary unless you are planning to do massive photo shopping or video editing. For most other programs hitting the sealing memory wise, will not happen. On top of that the more sticks the more strain on the memory controller (when overclocking this might be an issue). If you want to use ram disk it might come in handy to have at least 16 Gb.

About the dram: my advice, if you are going to spend some serious cash, take the Gskill Trident X 2400 c9 instead. They overclock better than the RipjawsX.

On the cooling part : my advice: get another radiator, 1x360mm radiator is cutting it, but no more than that. So another 360mm or even a 240mm would be better.

As for RAM cooling : take note that ram water blocks tend to have small channels. The fluid flow rate of the total waterloop will be influenced by that. I did some testing a while ago, I believe the flow rate dropped by at least 25% and puts more strain on the pump. When I use the water cooled ram, I added a 2th pump.

You might want to consider using an inline thermal sensor for the waterloop and a flowmeter (Koolance or other). That way you can keep a close eye on what is going on in the loop. Hope this helps.

Do not ever double up on RAM kits. If you need 64 gig, you need to buy a 64GB kit of chips binned together as one 64GB kit. 64GB for you is likely overkill however. I would drop down to 16 or 32GB and get a TridentX Kit like someone already suggested unless you absolutely need that much RAM.

1200W is overkill. You can get away with 1000W if the price in NZ is vastly different. Either Seasonic 1000 Gold/Platinum or an eVGA 1000 Gold Platinum which in New Zealand might show up on the market as Seasonic and Super Flower Leadex Gold/Platinum. Beware the Leadex is white and has white LEDs in the modular connectors if you get the original OEM variant. The eVGA is black. Do not get 860W as you said you might run 2x cards and I always like to play the 'safe' card with a little more watts.

As someone already stated when you get RAM heatsinks they are high-restriction and aren't really needed even if you are overclocking the ram. You can get away with the spreader alone and some airflow from a fan. The same goes with the motherboard chipsets, high restriction and the VRM section is made to take heat. It does look cool however so if you want to do it... The pump in the res is the PMP-400 which has a TON of head pressure so it should be able to do it Maximum Head Pressure: 5.5m (18ft)!!! Just note that it doesn't add anything except for looks cool.

You do have a problem however. You're right at what I would say is the 'safe' zone radiator wise. I would say run a 240 + a 360 here ESP because you said you want to have a 2nd card coming down the line. That case can fit a 240mm additionally vertically in the front but I don't know. You might have to change up the case.

If you get tubing, get Primochill Advanced LRT, not just LRT, Advanced LRT.

Wait for june/july. Haswell-E and DDR4, and 8 cores.
IB-E users are going to be seriously outdated.

Belgemine wrote:

Memory: x2 32GB (4x8GB) G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 2400MHz

The RipjawsZ were designed for this platform so I'd recommend you grab those over the Ripjaws. Not saying that the Ripjaws won't work, but the RipjawsZ works flawlessly. There's a ton of kits with different capacity and frequency available. Once you've decided how much and how fast you want for your kit, I can send some recommendations down your way.