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When using this resource, please read the opening post. The Tech Support forum regulars have helped create countless of desktop systems without any compensation. The least you can do is provide all of the information required for them to help you properly.
KapsyL
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden704 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-25 12:32:30
December 25 2013 12:11 GMT
#3321
http://www.inet.se/kundvagn/visa/4393444/2013-12-25
will this work + i need cpu cooler. you spoke about clc but i dont know.. what are the benefits to air? is it more work? dust? noise? if its good plz recommend one to this build thx

edit: seems my build is pretty much exactly what op has made i went ahead and added Noctua NH-U14S.
any comments on this or could i just order away asap?
Jurg Jurg Jurg
Blaec
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia4289 Posts
December 25 2013 13:54 GMT
#3322
On December 25 2013 14:19 IMKR wrote:
How do i make a desktop PC have wireless so i can connect to the internet with wifi?


If your motherboard does not have wifi (not standard) then you need a wifi card

Basically a small card that sits in a graphics card slot (pcie) that gives wifi.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
December 25 2013 14:47 GMT
#3323
By the looks of things, my gpu is inhibiting me a bit when I get into high res textures.


A few modded console ports like skyrim and i think gta4 are extremely hungry for VRAM (heard people complaining that 3gb isn't enough) but there's no game right now that will heavily limit you at 1080p with 2gb VRAM on a single card; 3/4gb is good for future but it's hard to justify buying on a 770 unless you have niche use like highly modded skyrim or maybe SLI but you don't want a 290/780
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-25 14:56:33
December 25 2013 14:50 GMT
#3324
On December 25 2013 21:11 KapsyL wrote:
http://www.inet.se/kundvagn/visa/4393444/2013-12-25
will this work + i need cpu cooler. you spoke about clc but i dont know.. what are the benefits to air? is it more work? dust? noise? if its good plz recommend one to this build thx

edit: seems my build is pretty much exactly what op has made i went ahead and added Noctua NH-U14S.
any comments on this or could i just order away asap?


Air is quieter and cheaper, if you have something like a 240mm/280mm CLC mounted as intake with 2-4 good fans on it you can pull away notably in performance; short of that (with just like stock fans mounted as top exhaust) they're nothing special for performance and quite noisy, and the single-fan width (120/140mm) rads are bad performance, price and noise-wise, but somewhat usable for small cases etc

Air is somewhat more reliant on case temperatures than a clc mounted as intake too (as that would take outside air, while a heatsink in the case has to work from case temperature air) so if you have a lot of gpu power (sli 770/280x, volted 780/290) or low airflow it will be inhibited more

You have to clean dust from both (both use fans; just air uses fans on a heatsink and clc's use fans on a radiator that's full of liquid and pumped around to transfer heat) and it's not a major concern IMO (as long as you get it every ~6-12 months)

Your PSU stands out, it's an 850w rated 80+ bronze PSU but your average power draw under a game that highly loads CPU and GPU will be in the leagues of like 350w (maybe a bit more) unless you bios mod the 780; you should target a ~500-550w unit with free choice if you want to sit good on efficiency curve, but could do fine with a good quality 450
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Rollin
Profile Joined March 2011
Australia1552 Posts
December 25 2013 15:02 GMT
#3325
On December 25 2013 21:11 KapsyL wrote:
http://www.inet.se/kundvagn/visa/4393444/2013-12-25
will this work + i need cpu cooler. you spoke about clc but i dont know.. what are the benefits to air? is it more work? dust? noise? if its good plz recommend one to this build thx

edit: seems my build is pretty much exactly what op has made i went ahead and added Noctua NH-U14S.
any comments on this or could i just order away asap?

I assume you're overclocking, if not you're wasting a lot of money.
I assume you're using the computer for professional purposes other than gaming, otherwise you're wasting a lot of money on the RAM and 4770k.
Throw off those chains of reason, and your prison disappears. | Check your posting frequency timeline: http://www.teamliquid.net/mytlnet/post_activity_img.php
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
December 25 2013 15:24 GMT
#3326
^i talked about RAM in the last few pages
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
KapsyL
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden704 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-25 15:38:36
December 25 2013 15:25 GMT
#3327
since budget isnt much of a hassle in this build i figured i would rather have plenty of PSU and then be able to add a second 780 if required. i7 4770k instead of i5 4670k is just epeen lol.
however im a lazy person and im thinking about getting inets own building thing for 50 euro or whatever it is. they have some requirements though. i meet all of them except the cpu cooler cant be heavier then 650g and only 1600mhz RAM for whatever reason.
edit: after rereading your ram post i think ill downgrade to 2x4 1600mhz also since apparantly higher mhz is considered overclcok and gives more trouble which is bad for someone so nuuby like me.but now i need a less heavy cpu cooler. since its been brought up before, does clc coolers weigh less? if so that might be a option


oh and yes im overclocking :D
Jurg Jurg Jurg
KapsyL
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden704 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-25 15:52:24
December 25 2013 15:47 GMT
#3328
http://www.inet.se/kundvagn/visa/4395492/2013-12-25
updated list. new cpu cooler which weighs less then 650 and 1600mhz ram. i have never seen this ram on inet before, is it quality and just diffrent color or wut

added some arctic silver cos im out

is this thermalright macho 120 any good btw? lol
Jurg Jurg Jurg
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
December 25 2013 15:58 GMT
#3329
It's a lower end cooler
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
KapsyL
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden704 Posts
December 25 2013 16:02 GMT
#3330
but is it enough for haswell overclocking ?? from what i understand things like the 212 isnt good enough anymore??
Jurg Jurg Jurg
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
December 25 2013 16:28 GMT
#3331
On December 26 2013 00:47 KapsyL wrote:
http://www.inet.se/kundvagn/visa/4395492/2013-12-25
updated list. new cpu cooler which weighs less then 650 and 1600mhz ram. i have never seen this ram on inet before, is it quality and just diffrent color or wut

added some arctic silver cos im out

is this thermalright macho 120 any good btw? lol

It's not at the top but it is so good and so close that it won't ever make sense to upgrade to the top air cooler. I feel it's a weird choice for your build. You are throwing around a bunch of money and should probably buy CLC for this PC if you don't want the strongest air coolers. I'm thinking expensive cooler and cheaper i5 CPU would beat expensive i7 CPU and cheaper cooler, and that's what makes it feel weird to me.

About your question of weight of a CLC cooler... overall they are heavy, but the radiator is getting screwed into the case, not the board. So if you look at the weight on the board's CPU socket, they are lighter than a large air cooler. That's what should make it possible to choose them for that 50 € deal you mentioned your shop has for assembling a PC.

Look at the CLC coolers where you see two fans side-by-side on the picture and think about if you would like one of those. Examples are CM Seidon 240M, Corsair H110. The CLCs where the radiator is only a single square are not really that much better than an air cooler like NH-U14S, not good enough for their price I feel.

Arctic Silver 5 is super old and not a good choice anymore! Check out new stuff like Arctic MX-4 or something, no burn in time like AS5. All brands sell something good so if you buy an expensive cooler, the paste will be alright, better than AS5. Noctua NT-H1 is great for example, Thermalright Chill Factor 3 is great, etc.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
KapsyL
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden704 Posts
December 25 2013 16:39 GMT
#3332
i just throw words around without knowing what im doing. thanks for clearing things out lol
Jurg Jurg Jurg
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
December 25 2013 16:42 GMT
#3333
Anyone have a good program for migrating shit from an HDD to an SSD? (Santa was really nice to me this year)
maru lover forever
KapsyL
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden704 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-25 16:50:37
December 25 2013 16:49 GMT
#3334
what do you mean if i buy a expensive cooler the paste will be alright?
also they only have these
https://www.inet.se/kategori/144/kylpasta
Jurg Jurg Jurg
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
December 25 2013 16:52 GMT
#3335
On December 26 2013 01:42 Incognoto wrote:
Anyone have a good program for migrating shit from an HDD to an SSD? (Santa was really nice to me this year)

I bet "MiniTool Partition Wizard" can do it. It can copy partitions (and shrink and stuff). I'd disconnect the HDD afterwards, and if the SSD does not want to boot, it can probably be fixed by using the Windows installation disc and searching online about what to do to fix boot sector and boot loader and stuff.

MiniTool Partition Wizard has an "Align" option in its menus for aligning partitions on an SSD, so it hopefully knows what it's doing regarding things that are special about an SSD.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
December 25 2013 17:05 GMT
#3336
On December 26 2013 01:49 KapsyL wrote:
what do you mean if i buy a expensive cooler the paste will be alright?
also they only have these
https://www.inet.se/kategori/144/kylpasta

For example, if you buy a Noctua cooler, you get a syringe of Noctua NT-H1 paste. It's good paste, so you don't have to buy anything separately. If you buy a Thermalright cooler, you get Thermalright Chill Factor, also good paste. I assume it works like that for most brands.

Some are a bit weird, for example Corsair seems to pre-apply a layer of paste on the cooler itself (it's good paste), so if there's mistakes when installing the cooler and you have to redo it, you'll probably still need to buy separate thermal paste like you want to do currently.

I would choose Arctic MX-4 from that list. It's better than Arctic Silver 5 in tests. Arctic promises you won't need to reapply it for several years (no idea if that's true). The old Arctic Silver 5 would need a bunch of days before it worked best, and that's also fixed with MX-4.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
IMKR
Profile Joined August 2012
United States378 Posts
December 25 2013 17:10 GMT
#3337
i just finished my bros build and installed the OS.

when I watched other peoples guides, they make a partition and then choose which one to put the OS in.

what does this do?

also, is it important? i didnt do this step
KapsyL
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden704 Posts
December 25 2013 17:15 GMT
#3338
Okay. I looked up h110 and it fits with 750D so I decided to put it on the list(stop me here if im wrong lol). I will have inet's guarantee so if the paste sucked they'll have to fix it for me. Ordering a tube of MX4 anyway cause it's never bad to have.
Jurg Jurg Jurg
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
December 25 2013 17:24 GMT
#3339
On December 26 2013 02:10 IMKR wrote:
i just finished my bros build and installed the OS.

when I watched other peoples guides, they make a partition and then choose which one to put the OS in.

what does this do?

also, is it important? i didnt do this step

You did everything right. There's a bunch of weird, small partitions that Windows and the BIOS want to have nowadays, and the installation disc can't create those without empty drive. If you want to have additional partitions beside C:, you can just shrink C: afterwards in Windows' Disk Management or other partitions management programs.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
KapsyL
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden704 Posts
December 25 2013 17:31 GMT
#3340
Ok then
http://www.inet.se/kundvagn/visa/4396075/2013-12-25
thanks for all the help
with this i should be able to SLI, overclock and get to play games like bf4? ill probably be back to bother you guys a bit more later on since i dont plan on ordering until 2014xd
Jurg Jurg Jurg
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