While I love my MM Extended Ascension, I've decided to do a rebuild in a Pinnacle 24 (mostly due to wanting a smaller PC).
Question 1:
My current build has an i930 + EVGA Classified 760 cooled with two pumps + 2 3x120 radiators. The 2nd loop has one pump/3x120 radiator cooling two HD5970 cards.
I've always known that was a little overkill, but wanted to confirm that reducing the cpu/MB loop to one pump+one 3x120 would be sufficient.
Question 2:
I'm currently using a Corsair HX1000 to run all of this.. a while ago I threw in another PSU I had lying around to take some of the load off that HX1000 due to messing around with OCing the CPU and the HD5970s. Everyone says the HX1000 can handle whatever is thrown at it, but using the PSU calculator it looks like I'm going over the wattage when OCing.. so to alleviate this I threw in the extra PSU.
For the new build, I obviously cannot use two PSUs.. so I'm thinking about selling one of the HD5970s.. I'd like to keep them both, but I'm worried that I'll blow the HX1000. Any thoughts? (assuming I don't go out and get a 1200 or 1500 watt PSU).
Thanks!
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