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mav451
United States1596 Posts
There's a reason I have this view on Seasonic in the first place, even if the power delivery itself is just fine. I left my 620HX on a shelf in favor of the CWT TX750 because the coil whine was that bad. The Enermax Modu+ series at that time was also free of the squeal. I confirmed this by trying my GTX260 in my friend's rig too (who also had a Modu+ at that time). | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20341 Posts
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On September 13 2013 17:59 Cyro wrote: I really want to see my actual idle power, i'm sat looking at TL now, listening to music, talking on skype etc. 800mhz CPU, package power reported 18w. My GPU reports a bit over 5% of tdp in usage (12-13w) and RAM 10 watts. I'm sure there's a ton more usage than that, but it seems pretty awesome. My 2500k's package useage reported is only 7.5W at 1600MHz, what is this? | ||
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Brett
Australia3822 Posts
What is your current build? Win 7, 64 bit home prem edition Intel i5-2500k, OC'd to 4.7g Noctua NH-D14 2 x GTX570's in SLI (Asus OC'd versions, I've upped the voltages slightly in the past to get stability out of the cards) Corsair HX1050 Power Supply Gigabyte z68-UD5-B3 mobo 8GB (2x4G) GSkill DDR3-1600 RAM Raven 02 B-EW Case System is 2.5 years old What is your monitor's native resolution? Monitor is 1920 x 1080, 120hz Why do you want to upgrade? What do you want to achieve with the upgrade? As my monitor is 120hz, and I enjoy gaming with lots of eye candy, I want to be able to play coming games at very high to max settings, 1080 resolution and 120+ FPS. I'd also like to add a SSD. What is your budget? ~$2000 (don't mind going a bit over if it's worth it) What country will you be buying your parts in? Australia If you have any brand or retailer preferences, please specify. PCCaseGear.com Centrecom.com.au Not sure if it's worth retaining any of the parts or whether I should just start over; my typical upgrade cycle is one big purchase every 2-3 years anyway. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20341 Posts
Take a look at this - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/831?vs=764 Linked vs Titan, because the custom cooled 780's* are neck and neck with titans on the stock bios's and even if you're an extreme overclocker, titan is only a bit better (paying like 50% more for 10% better performance) but really, for the average person, they're basically identical. See this: http://www.overclock.net/t/1400319/titan-vs-780-stock-bios-reference-card-oc-battle/0_20 If you wanted to iterate on the CPU, we've got Haswell-E coming probably with solder (so it'll run cool) and 6-8 cores in second half of 2014 to first half of 2015 on the enthusiast platform, or Skylake coming with faster quad cores and maybe a mainstream intel 6 core in 2015-2016, which would basically be 2500k/2600k equivelants in the market and hopefully be more of an upgrade *I meant like the windforce model, for example. Titan only has(had? i have not heard much from them recently) a reference cooler which looked great but performed pretty bad in terms of GPU temperatures relative to the offerings from asus, gigabyte etc, but nvidia locked down the titan models and didn't let anybody sell them with anything but the reference cooler, at least at first. I'm not certain that this is still the case, but there's still little reason to buy a titan over a 780, they're soo close in performance unless you want some niche features (6gb vram, fp64 performance) or are an extreme overclocker (bios flashed, water block etc) | ||
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TechTornado
27 Posts
On September 11 2013 23:22 Myrmidon wrote: i7-3770k is not really any better for gaming. The difference in performance from the RAM is small, and some of the supporting components are just more expensive but don't really improve any performance. i5-2500k should be plenty fine if it's overclocked. Just replace the GTX 560 with another graphics card. Thank you for the quick reply! I have already ordered an EVGA Titan, added cooling and OCed the 2500k to 4Ghz from stock (3.3ghz) Any chances of bottlenecking the Titan? | ||
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Rachnar
France1526 Posts
On September 14 2013 11:35 TechTornado wrote: Thank you for the quick reply! I have already ordered an EVGA Titan, added cooling and OCed the 2500k to 4Ghz from stock (3.3ghz) Any chances of bottlenecking the Titan? What's your cpu cooler? Because you can def OC higher then that. And an i5 OC'd will rarely bottleneck you except in a rare few cases and games (sc2 being one of them, but i haven't read your previous post so don't know which ones you are talkign about), and even then it should only be a light bottleneck. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20341 Posts
And 4ghz 2500k isn't the strongest (paired with highest end gpu's), many games are CPU bound | ||
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TechTornado
27 Posts
Got the TITAN cause it was particularly at a good deal I had the contac29 (fan) have no idea what I added lol but at 4ghz cpu temp is 50ish (light use not load), is this healthy? | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20341 Posts
what did you pay for titan vs 780 cost? | ||
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lOstHeaven
Canada212 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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lOstHeaven
Canada212 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20341 Posts
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lOstHeaven
Canada212 Posts
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lOstHeaven
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lOstHeaven
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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lOstHeaven
Canada212 Posts
 the problem is when we go into bios mouse/keyboard works fine but when the windows start it goes offline and stay offline. We are unable to install windows. | ||
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lOstHeaven
Canada212 Posts
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