Computer Build Resource Thread - Page 1045

On April 22 2012 06:44 GosuSwarm wrote:
I do not plan on overclocking my cpu, I just want things nice and simple and to run smoothly, so this case seems like it would do fine

On April 22 2012 07:03 skyR wrote:
Earthwatts is a good unit and a good choice at that price but it isn't modular.

That is a joke right? You're going to pair an Intel stock heatsink with a 3820... really?

The entire reason why 3820 doesn't include a heatsink is because including a heatsink no one will use is an absolute waste of money for Intel.

On April 22 2012 07:13 STYDawn wrote:


well, if someones selling it, somebody clearly needs it.

On April 22 2012 07:26 phar wrote:

Just because they sell it does not mean it's a good deal. You can also buy like $50 adapters from Apple when a $4 equivalent one from Amazon or cablestogo does the exact same thing.

You're saving money in the wrong spot. If you instead got a 2500k and a beefy cooler for less money than a 3820, you would get better performance for basically everything.

On April 22 2012 07:49 Shauni wrote:
Intel Thermal Solution is best Thermal Solution. I especially enjoy the plastic pin fasteners where you need a gigantic amount of brute force to lock it down, and you still won't be sure if the thermal is even. And those motherfucking plastic bits (the ones that actually lock it) are so fragile that remounting the CPU another time will surely cause them to bend.
The cooler is pretty fucking loud at idle, and it doesn't cool nearly as well as the Phenom II AMD stock fans (cause it doesn't do 8000 rpm).
You'd think that they would hire a team to develop an acceptable mounting solution, but NO.
I'm sure you can find something more acceptable for 20-30$.

On April 22 2012 07:50 STYDawn wrote:


you have to be smoking some hardcore stuff, the only way a 2500ks gonna beat a stock 3820 is if it on like liquid nitro or somethin.

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-BXRTS2011LC-Thermal-Solution-Liquid/dp/B006588Z7G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335048188&sr=8-1

not really familiar with LC, idk if its gonna be compatible with the case.

On April 22 2012 07:55 phar wrote:

YES!

ALSO

WOLF T-SHIRT BEST T-SHIRT http://www.amazon.com/The-Mountain-Three-Short-Sleeve/dp/B002HJ377A



I'm not sure if you're serious, but I will respond assuming you are:

a) no, the comparison was 3820 + intel stock vs. i5-2500k + something like an h100 or nh-d14. In this case, the i5-2500k pushes 4.5~5.0 GHz with ease and smokes the 3820 out of the water for games and other not massively parallel applications. Unless you are doing something that can actually use 8 threads.
b) That's not actual liquid cooling

On April 22 2012 08:01 STYDawn wrote:


a)if i wanted to game i wouldn't be using i7, but rather an i5 and an expensive GPU
b)it is.

On April 22 2012 08:06 phar wrote:
Ok let's back up here. What are you building? What are you going to be doing with it? If it's not gaming, have you considered looking a Xeons or Operterons instead?



And it's a matter of definition of 'liquid cooling.' I wouldn't call a closed loop CPU cooler a 'proper liquid cooling' solution. It's akin to the hxx[x] stuff you get from corsair. Not really any better (temp- or noise-wise) than a high end air cooler.

On April 22 2012 08:19 Myrmidon wrote:
Nothing's upgradeable for a long time without a new motherboard.

The Xeons and Opterons use the same architectures as the consumer chips, just sometimes in scaled-up configurations. Plus they support ECC memory, which is not particularly something you seem to need. However, the ones with more cores are way out of your price range, so you shouldn't bother.

I don't particularly see a compelling reason to get an i7-3820 over an i7-2600k for this purpose.

On April 22 2012 08:24 phar wrote:
What's your budget? Do you need stuff like ECC, 32~64++ GB of RAM? How parallel are the applications are you running? Do you need like 16+ threads?

If the answer is mostly no to those, then Xeon/Opteron is probably not worth it. Personally at work, "they" decided that some of the above things are necessary, so we use Xeons.

It's really hard to answer without some concrete requirements (specifically what programs do you need to run, how fast, in what time, and can you link similar benchmarks?), an actual budget #, etc.

On April 22 2012 08:24 phar wrote:It's really hard to answer without some concrete requirements (specifically what programs do you need to run, how fast, in what time, and can you link similar benchmarks?), an actual budget #, etc.