EPTSo that's this cable coming from the PSU:
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Going into this cable:
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Which then goes into the GPU
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Sverigevader
Sweden388 Posts
So that's this cable coming from the PSU: + Show Spoiler + Going into this cable: + Show Spoiler + Which then goes into the GPU | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Sverigevader
Sweden388 Posts
 Edit: And length because of how I want to route my cables. | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On October 03 2013 14:52 Cyro wrote: Why the face? :0 Because you're always up to something in that vein, it was a face of mock disapproval. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
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pcpatchers
Australia10 Posts
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Craton
United States17233 Posts
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TechTornado
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Long story short, just upgraded PC happy with it, now thinking of trade-up to an Alienware 18 for mobility since I am out of the house 85% of the time during the day and quite frequently travelling out of town/country for work. Will be great to be gaming on the go PC: I5-2500k OCed to 4.3Ghz EVGA GTX690 8Gb Ram 1333mhz (4x 2gb no more slots in mobo) 1 TB HDD + 128 SSD Nothing has warranty left except GTX690 (18mths) and SSD (23mths) Aftermarket cooled to max 60C CPU and 70C GPU at load 23" Monitor to Alienware 18 i7-4930mx GTX780m SLI 32Gb Ram 1600mhz 1TB SSD Quad Play RAID 0 11 months left warranty Don't know about load temps It will be a 1500-1800USD trade up By Trade-up I mean selling the PC part by part and adding cash to the sales I live in a place where second hand parts sell high Am I looking forward to any performance improvement? Do you think the money will be well worth it in terms of item value? I am not looking forward to PC + Laptop combo as I would love to manage the data in one spot Thank you in advance | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
It's good if you'll carry it from house to hotel room and you'll be sitting there for a while, but you don't want to lug a 18inch SLI notebook to meetings or places like that. It's wide, tall and thick. Those laptops work as semi-portable gaming stations where you can move it from place to play but you don't want to carry it all day. So in a sense, it's good for your uses... but whenever you go out, you'll want to have a more portable laptop. And again, I want to stress that I'm not kidding. A while ago, I had a friend who asked me a similar question and despite my warnings, he ended up buying a 17.3" laptop (not even a heavy gaming thing - just a large mainstream laptop). For a week or so, his ego had him carrying the thing around. But after a week, it was just sitting on his work desk and he was bringing paper and pen to class. He was a tall, large guy, too. But 17.3" is a big hunk of tech. | ||
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scott31337
United States2979 Posts
I would honestly recommend a MSI laptop over Alienware - http://www.msimobile.com/level2_productlist.aspx?id=6 Asus has some decent "desktop replacements" as well. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
My mother board is an Asrock P67 if you need that. Would prefer not to spend more then 60$ if possible, but I will take a look at anything. Would prefer something that isn't a pain in the ass to put in also. | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On October 05 2013 13:56 blade55555 wrote: So I am looking to get a water cooler for my i5 2500k that wouldn't be to difficult to install. I would like to be able to overclock preferably to at least 4.2 if possible and not have to spend to much. My mother board is an Asrock P67 if you need that. Would prefer not to spend more then 60$ if possible, but I will take a look at anything. Would prefer something that isn't a pain in the ass to put in also. CLCs are very noisy and expensive compared to air coolers. A cheap $20-30 air cooler will is sufficient for any 2500k to reach 4.4/4.5GHz easily. Are you sure you want a CLC? Although you might need to remove the motherboard for a backplate mounting i suppose with air. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
Closed loop water cooling just fucking suck. You pay a premium for them being small, not because they perform better. | ||
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TechTornado
27 Posts
On October 05 2013 13:56 blade55555 wrote: So I am looking to get a water cooler for my i5 2500k that wouldn't be to difficult to install. I would like to be able to overclock preferably to at least 4.2 if possible and not have to spend to much. My mother board is an Asrock P67 if you need that. Would prefer not to spend more then 60$ if possible, but I will take a look at anything. Would prefer something that isn't a pain in the ass to put in also. Hi man I have the same exact processor as you and from my personal experience it is not necessary to watercool for OC to 4.2ghz. An aftermarket fan cooler is enough, cheap and they are easy to install too I am sitting at 60C max under load at 4.3ghz Hope this helps | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20275 Posts
Also, i'm not sure on sandy bridge voltage curves. If it's anything like ivy bridge and haswell, 4.2 is basically stock voltage. Intel could sell the chips at 4ghz if they wanted to. So many misconceptions it's pretty funny, people in general seem to hear $500 of custom water equipment = better than $50 air cooler, and associate the cheap closed loop liquid coolers with extremely loud stock fans with them, h80i for example costs 1.5x as much as high end air here. It's significantly worse, on the order of >10c worse temperatures while the fans make 37dba of noise each compared to the 21dba each of the fan models i have on my Silver Arrow. I don't know the decibel scale very well, but it's not at all linear Custom water is good, expensive and somewhat complex. Closed loop coolers, on the low end, are only sold because of strict size restrictions or uninformed customers, and on the high end, for people who want to spend 2.5x as much as high end air for a slight improvement in temperatures with their own fans. Maybe the market is less harsh on them in the US, but they have little place, and certainly don't belong on stock voltage sandy bridge  The Hyper212 heatsink took off somewhat because you could OC sandy bridge and some other CPU's well with it cheaply. $20 for ~4.3 - 4.7ghz normal i think people were doing, something along those lines, and significantly stronger cooling at less noise is available if you want to pay a chunk more than $20, it's just typically not liquid-based unless you're in a micro-atx case or want to scale cooling past $100 for the highest end overclock reasonably 24/7 achievable without your own custom loop | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
I did buy a vortex cooler master plus yesterday and didn't make much of a difference, but I think I know why and am going to fix that right now and hope that makes more of a difference. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20275 Posts
At 1.3vcore, sandy is like 30c cooler than Haswell which is ridiculous. If you have temperature issues on anything that is worth much at all, then you probably have it mounted incorrectly or an issue like that. That cooler you mentioned is low profile w/ a 92mm fan so it'd be a lot worse than the 212+ that people used to get all the time for $20-25 4ghz is easy, the majority of CPU's can actually clock to 4ghz and run COOLER than stock because they don't need the overly aggressive voltages that intel often sets, and voltage is way way more important than clock speed for heat I've got two CPU's (one ivy bridge one haswell) one of them will do 4.2ghz on 1.07vcore (i swear i'm gonna put a h100 on this thing), the other will do 4.0 on it. Both CPU's use about 1.15vcore for stock settings + turbo boost, so they'd actually draw more power and get hotter while on the stock settings, than low overclock the first part of overclock is just pushing and getting rid of the voltage headroom you have, because you can clock up a bit, sometimes a lot, without raising voltage or really heat. After that, you've got some more headroom with reasonable voltage increases, then somewhat of a wall where you need more voltage per 100mhz but can still push a bit further, at least with ivy bridge and Haswell. Sandy might be different, but it's not a difficult CPU to overclock nor hot at all compared to newer stuff with the IHS issues | ||
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Soap
Brazil1546 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On October 06 2013 06:39 Soap wrote: Meanwhile I just tried 3.2 on a A6-3670k (2.7 stock @ 1.41v) and it outright corrupted Windows boot. Yea I'm jelly. Those 4.0 mentioned aren't much higher than normal speeds on those CPUs. They run up to 3.8 (i5) or 3.9 (i7) at turbo speeds. That means they have the required voltages for those speeds tested and programmed into them at the factory, giving them a very good chance to run 4.0 fine without adding voltage. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
gtx 760 i5 2500k 8 gigs ddr3 1600mhz ram For anyone curious ended up not able to boot my machine, machine fans would spin for .1 seconds and just auto shut off. Tried different power supply same thing, tried all sorts of things. Think I am just going to be happy with stock settings from now on lol. | ||
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