Bro Cave: @ChrisorDevon

Prepare to feel shame–lots of it. We’ve seen plenty of drool-worthy rigs in the past, but this one just plain hurts. I’ve always wanted to go with liquid cooling, but have never committed to do so, based on both price and potential upkeep cost. This week, we give our top honors to Chris, a lad from the UK who made the decision to take the plunge.

Hi, my name’s Chris. I’m 24 from the southwestern UK, and I spend most evenings either gaming, down at the pub, or working. I have only just recently (like in the last year or so) gotten into PC gaming, as I used to play Xbox 360, spending most of my time thinking I was Grizz until I was shown Promod by a friend. Luckily I just bought a PC off eBay (yes, it was as bad as it sounds) for £300, a quad core AMD with 8GB of RAM that I used for editing. Anyway, I played a few low scrims at 70fps and even though it was horrible (and I was horrible), I loved it, so it all started from there, first buying a new graphics card (XFX 6870), then upgrading to a bigger case (HAF 922 and then a 600T), better CPU and so on, just learning as I went until it brought me to this current build.

Specs:

Case: Corsair 800D

CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.9GHz

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz

Mobo: Asus Maximus IV extreme-z

Video Card: EVGA GTX 680 Superclocked (OC’d to 1370MHz)

PSU: Corsair AX 1200W

SSD: 60GB OCZ SSD

HDD: 640GB WD /2x 1TB Toshiba drives

Watercooling specs:

EK Supreme HF CPU block

EK FC680 VGA block

Laing D5 Vario Pump

EK 360 Rad

EK 120 Rad

EK Multioption 250 advanced Res

EK compression fittings 7/16

Akasa Apache 120mm Fans in black

Peripherals:

2x LG Flatron IPS225 22″

Razer Black Widow Ultimate keyboard

Razer Deathadder mouse

Steelseries FNATIC mouse mat

Sandstrom 2.1 Speakers

Steelseries Serbia v2 headset

Black Magic Intensity Pro (bought this so I can record some things but can’t get it to work so I’ve gone back to Fraps)

Upgrades for the future:

Corsair fully braided PSU cables (they’re on the way to me now)

Possibly another GTX 680, but not really needed at the moment