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mav451
United States1596 Posts
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ghindo
United States58 Posts
On April 10 2013 15:50 Myrmidon wrote: Not sure how many drives yet. I might be building one for work too, so it could be quite a few.How many drives? btw those freebie Rosewill power supplies are pretty trashy. AL-8250SFX. It's a Deer I think, very poorly regarded. I think some of the In Win options (with included power supplies) are better. Regarding the APU, we're talking C-60 here, Bobcat cores (competitive with low-end Atom). You don't really get (much) cheaper or lower power than that. That's fine. But is there a reason to go with that board if you're not using its SATA ports? I guess the APU is heatsinked well and passively, but hard drives and other noise sources would drown out a small CPU fan anyway. Thanks for the advice about the power supplies, I'll look into better ones  | ||
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Dreadsithar
Canada49 Posts
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Blaec
Australia4289 Posts
On April 12 2013 01:11 Dreadsithar wrote: What I am wondering is after buying all the individual parts how hard is it to build the PC itself? Pretty easy as long as you are careful and patient. It is like (even more) expensive lego. | ||
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azngamer828
United States137 Posts
and have a quick question. is a sound card neccessary? i dont know how much it would affect when either watching videos or playing starcraft 2 if it is necessary, would you mind recommending me some? please and thanks | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On April 12 2013 01:11 Dreadsithar wrote: What I am wondering is after buying all the individual parts how hard is it to build the PC itself? Fairly easy; there are plenty of wonderful tutorials online as well. I'm pretty sure newegg has some tutorial vids. the most important part is making sure all the parts you have are compatible. On April 12 2013 01:28 azngamer828 wrote: im thinking of getting the ASRock Z77 Extreme3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard and have a quick question. is a sound card neccessary? i dont know how much it would affect when either watching videos or playing starcraft 2 if it is necessary, would you mind recommending me some? please and thanks Sound cards are not necessary; unless you have a sick ass audio setup. But if that were the case you'd already know the answer to that question. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20333 Posts
Here are my screenshots that show more detail: Idle: http://i.imgur.com/KxDopCa.jpg?1 Load: http://i.imgur.com/OKZvkhn.jpg?1 Memory: http://i.imgur.com/pg0ufkp.jpg?1 I manually set the vcore to 1.1 and started working up the turbo multiplier 1 at a time starting from 42 and I got up to 45 with everything working great and decided I didn't need to go higher so I stopped at that. But as I have read about this motherboard it doesnt have offset, so manually setting vcore means it never changes from 1.1 even when idle, so I set the vcore back to Auto which now means the vcore decreases during idle, and even at load my vcore was reading around the same as when I manually set it to 1.1 - which I am very happy with. So here's my main concern - from what I've read my vcore seems to be really low for a 4.5ghz overclock, which in CPU-Z show as 0.8v at idle and have never gone above 1.088v at 4.5ghz. At first I thought my CPU-Z was lying to me, so as I already had my multimeter to hand from testing the 12V on my PSU (you can see in the SS that HWMonitor thought my 12V was giving under 8, which scared me, tested it though and it was telling fibs!) I used the GD65's onboard voltage checkpoints and the multimeter seems to agree with CPU-Z. I say 'seems to agree' because my multimeter is old school so its a needle readout instead of digital which obviously isnt as accurate. But never the less it was reading under 1v at idle, and slightly over 1v with Prime95 running. So have I just got really lucky and landed myself an amazing chip? Or can you see / think of anything that seems to be too good to be true? I have to admit im freaking out a little over this, crazy new batch? I think it qualifies. 49c second hottest core under load 4.5ghz on a HR-02 Macho? There's no way you'd have those temps with higher than the listed voltage. well, im still under 70C with prime running Effortless 5ghz No comments on this for 3 hours? I am dissapointed :0 Pretty big deal to have a teamliquid forum member make a new build and get this haha | ||
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
More silence, Nanoxia FX Evo – 1000, and little less silence but more cooling, Coolink SWIF2 120P. Any Scythe is good too (SY1225SL12LM-P). | ||
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20333 Posts
Took a big amount of pushing to have a single failure at 1.275v bios across various tests (which was not reproducable running the fft lengh it failed on for 20 mins), so went up to 1.285. I doubt it'll fail overnight custom blend or IBT. This is 5ghz - pretty crazy. Temps more than acceptable without delid, because voltages are so low. http://i.imgur.com/I1DwriU.jpg ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/I1DwriU.jpg) You could probably go 5.1 or even 5.2 24/7 with this kind of chip with just a hr-02 macho and no delid, wouldn't want belial to get his hands on one >.> | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
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ZeratuLsc2
Canada426 Posts
On April 08 2013 05:35 MisterFred wrote: @Hellfury You can go cheaper not overclocking (i5-3470 + whatever bottom-priced B75 mobo, no CPU cooler), but if you want to stream SC2 overclocking will absolutely be worth learning. You could spend more on GPU if maxxing out graphics in every game is important to you, but this is going to perform very well for 1920x1080, and above the 7870 LE you start to hit diminishing returns. Overall, this build has a fair number of luxury components. Also, regarding pricing. Specials may change in the middle of the week, so be warned about that. And NCIX, like other major canadian retailers, price-matches. So you can shop around, find out who's offering the lowest price on a given component, and then use price-matching to buy all at once place. I didn't go to that trouble. i5-3570k ($240) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=70541&vpn=BX80637I53570K&manufacture=Intel&promoid=1277 Gigabyte z77a-hd4 mobo ($120) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=78646&vpn=GA-Z77-HD4&manufacture=Gigabyte&promoid=1360 Zalman CPU Cooler ($35) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=51106&vpn=CNPS10X Performa&manufacture=ZALMAN TECH Powercolor 7870 Tahiti LE ($255) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=80887&vpn=AX7870 2GBD5-2DHPPV2E&manufacture=PowerColor Corsair 2x4gb 1600mhz RAM ($68) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=62841&vpn=CML8GX3M2A1600C9W&manufacture=Corsair Bit Fenix Ghost Case ($80) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=73006&vpn=BFC-GHO-300-KKN1-RP&manufacture=BitFenix&promoid=1277 XFX Core 450w ($52) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=63238&vpn=P1450SX2B9&manufacture=XFX Samsung 840 120gb ($100) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=77210&vpn=MZ-7TD120BW&manufacture=Samsung Memory & Storage&promoid=1277 Seagate 1.5tb HDD ($90) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=70854&vpn=ST1500DM003&manufacture=Seagate Samsung DVD-burner ($23) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=76258&vpn=SH-224BB/BEBE&manufacture=Samsung Total: $1063 Placed my order earlier today Even saved and extra $50 by pricematching. Thanks again, quite excited for my parts to arrive. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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ZeratuLsc2
Canada426 Posts
On April 12 2013 18:17 skyR wrote: Should have posted before you ordered because you could have done better in some places. I did posted before I ordered, that's where I got the build from. | ||
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20333 Posts
On April 12 2013 10:52 mav451 wrote: Haha Cyro - I'm more impressed by true 24/7 OCs...so I'll await his overnight 1792K P95 custom blend proofs 13 hours: http://i.imgur.com/AENE6DH.jpg Didnt hit 1792k might manually test the tricky ones but if it can do this, it's probably good. Any in particular? Got 1792, 1344, 4096, but it already did 1344. 56, 63, 59, 58 current temps under p95 with 70/78/80/74 absolute max for undelidded 5ghz is just awesome. | ||
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20333 Posts
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findingthelimit
Hong Kong219 Posts
the default one is 50 celcius, and my computer is extremely extremely loud, even when i'm on the windows desktop. quite strange, as i have a good i5 3570, 8gbs of ram, and a modest 450w gold-cert psu. my gpu is 7870 if it matters... are the asrock motherboards just stranger than the other ones? i have a h77 pro4-mvp. also, there are built-in fan controllers in my antec 900, but i've set them all on low manually already. i don't think it made much of a difference. | ||
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