Anyone have any insight? Evga just approved my RMA and my replacement 690 should be here tomorrow. I really want to use this cooler since it performed extremely well. I want to believe that it was just a coincidence that my card happened to die two weeks after installing it. What kind of things should I be cautious about?
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Anyone have any insight? Evga just approved my RMA and my replacement 690 should be here tomorrow. I really want to use this cooler since it performed extremely well. I want to believe that it was just a coincidence that my card happened to die two weeks after installing it. What kind of things should I be cautious about?
Cannon Goose
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Is going from a 560 Ti to a 670 a decent upgrade? I've been looking at these two
Galaxy GeForce GTX 670 GC 2GB
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 WF2 2GB
Which would be better?
Galaxy GeForce GTX 670 GC 2GB
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 WF2 2GB
Which would be better?
Did you apply the VRM heatsinks well?
Do anything with max power draw and overclocking?
Yes, and either the Gigabyte OC model (3 fans) or the ASUS. Dunno which has better warranty service in AUS.
The Tom's article seems to point to about 10% speed boost per clock which isn't that big a deal. Dunno about pricing or SKUs or how well they OC or what is changing on the mobo chipset. If you can wait the new socket should support the next jump of chips. I think. I actually haven't checked.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
What is the price on this?
DeVeAn
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I had this problem as well. When I went to put the fan back on it moved. I had it as tight as possible though.
If one core is running hotter than the others by like 4C degrees should I worry?
Better than normal
A 4C swing is perfectly fine. Like Hazaro said, that's a tighter range than most people get.
When I had mine (in retrospect) half-off, it ran like the stock cooler except quieter. Fixing it gave me about 15 degrees in Prime95 and 20+ in less demanding tasks, at 300mhz and 0.1 volts higher. So it's pretty obvious in operation if you're not clamped down all the way.
Ran OCCT through the night on my 3570K overclocked to 4.5Ghz.
Everything went swimmingly. So happy with this build and much props to the OP and help from anyone else that contributes.
Some of the parts never would have been on my radar.
That 212 Evo really does an excellent job for an air cooler. CPU stayed consistent at 68C (give or take 2 degrees at times), almost never jumping up to 70 or 71.
Much props. Machine is so damn fast. This is my first SSD as well, and got damn does it make a difference.
Everything went swimmingly. So happy with this build and much props to the OP and help from anyone else that contributes.
Some of the parts never would have been on my radar.
That 212 Evo really does an excellent job for an air cooler. CPU stayed consistent at 68C (give or take 2 degrees at times), almost never jumping up to 70 or 71.
Much props. Machine is so damn fast. This is my first SSD as well, and got damn does it make a difference.
fivehorizons
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Bought some Corsair fans to replace CM Evo Fan it was making a ton of noise and rear case fan. CM 690 case. Incredible difference in sound and even the temp on CPU went down a few degrees under load with new SP fan.
Out of focus but child was trying to assist with unboxing.
Out of focus but child was trying to assist with unboxing.
So I should be able to add this card to my mobo and get 4x extra sata ports for JBOD, correct?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816117173
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816117173
OriginofHysteria
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When installing a new motherboard bios, do i have to wipe my OS too? I've only done it with a fresh hard drive and never with a HDD that already has an OS and the old motherboard BIOS on it
Mods, downsampling, high res texture packs, and potentially next gen games that push the current cards harder.
You don't have to wipe your OS.
No need to do anything to what's on the HDDs. Just run the flash update and no software should be effected.
I will say that the current pack-in promo that Nvidia is running is one of the lamest I've seen in a long time. "$150" worth of F2P game vouchers. Yippee...
There was a pretty killer one running a while back, think it had Borderlands 2, Hitman: Absolution, and Sleeping Dogs.
There was a pretty killer one running a while back, think it had Borderlands 2, Hitman: Absolution, and Sleeping Dogs.
Wasn't Hitman and Sleeping Dogs AMD? I remember the Nvidia promos being Borderlands 2 and AC3.
Yeah you might be right. I just remember it being a far more attractive offer than a bunch of worthless F2P credits. Hell, even now, AMD is offering Bioshock Infinite + Tomb Raider, and that's for a $250 card.
Hell you get that on cards as low as $180.
Koroviev
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Crossfire isn't worth anything right now. Either a single 7970 or a Titan. No such thing as future proof, so perhaps go with the card that is on the price/performance curve unless you have triple monitors or the need to have the very best.
Know of any graphs that have Piledriver comparisons?
Edit - Found some for the 8350 http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd-fx-8350-processor-reviewed Tech Report actually seem to like the 8350 for the most part
Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
I had a $1500 budget and this came in just under $1400. So worked out great.
My usual budget for a new system the last 2-3 times I built one was $750-$900 but I always end up bottle necking myself or buying something that is already outdated.
This one should last me a long time and be very upgrade friendly if I need to.
Might be worth looking at changing budget CPU away from the Pentium in the OP
"Just make sure that CPU isn't the Pentium G2120, whose woeful performance in a couple tests proved to us that you probably do need 3-4 cores, or at least threadsor, you know, maybe AVX and higher self-esteemto run today's games optimally."
http://techreport.com/review/23662/amd-a10-5800k-and-a8-5600k-trinity-apus-reviewed/16
"Just make sure that CPU isn't the Pentium G2120, whose woeful performance in a couple tests proved to us that you probably do need 3-4 cores, or at least threadsor, you know, maybe AVX and higher self-esteemto run today's games optimally."
http://techreport.com/review/23662/amd-a10-5800k-and-a8-5600k-trinity-apus-reviewed/16
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
What would you choose between i7 3820 and 87 3770k without considering overclocking?
3820 seems better for less money, no? Or will the motherboard cost nullify any advantage?
Edit: motherboard cost brings it to about price parity here, so what's better?
Edit: nevermind I guess, this seems to answer that.
3820 seems better for less money, no? Or will the motherboard cost nullify any advantage?
Edit: motherboard cost brings it to about price parity here, so what's better?
Edit: nevermind I guess, this seems to answer that.
If you're not looking to overclock I've another CPU to throw into the mix, the Xeon E3-1230
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115083
They can have lack ECC memory, must look into that as I don't quite understand the downside of not having it
You'll be paying more for a 2011 motherboard and unless you're doing something to take advantage of the the 2011 platform you're paying more for less as the 3770k outperforms the 3820 for gaming. That said you'll have the advantage of being able to update to a better SB-E processor and IB-E which is coming down the road. LGA1155 is done as far as upgrading goes.
Haswell is out in 3 months with the new 1150 socket if you're in no rush, it's only around 10% faster mind but if you're in no rush to upgrade part of me would say wait to see when it launches.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I just clicked to order the motherboard and ram...
Why didn't anyone tell me that's gonna happen when I was asking if we're close to any such hardware changes
I can probably still cancel it.
Do you think they'll have a comparable CPU with the current price of the 3770K or that this one's price will drop then?
In European pricing.
Wikipedia lists the 4770K as $450 but I don't know if that one's comparable to 3770K (+10% as you say) or a higher end.
I assume motherboards will have higher pricing too for a while... But still this could lead to price cuts for Ivy Bridge, yeah?
Why didn't anyone tell me that's gonna happen when I was asking if we're close to any such hardware changes
I can probably still cancel it.
Do you think they'll have a comparable CPU with the current price of the 3770K or that this one's price will drop then?
In European pricing.
Wikipedia lists the 4770K as $450 but I don't know if that one's comparable to 3770K (+10% as you say) or a higher end.
I assume motherboards will have higher pricing too for a while... But still this could lead to price cuts for Ivy Bridge, yeah?
I just clicked to order the motherboard and ram...
Why didn't anyone tell me that's gonna happen when I was asking if we're close to any such hardware changes
I can probably still cancel it.
Do you think they'll have a comparable CPU with the current price of the 3770K or that this one's price will drop then?
In European pricing.
Wikipedia lists the 4770K as $450 but I don't know if that one's comparable to 3770K (+10% as you say) or a higher end.
There hasn't been any official price announcements AFAIK but keep in mind Intel always launches at about the same price as what they're replacing. So the 4770k will most likely release at the same MSRP as the 3770k. Individual retailers might lower the price of the 3770k but Intel won't.
There were no price cuts to the 2500K and 2600K when the 3570K and 3770K came out. You aren't really missing out on much (most likely). If you can return/cancel the order and don't mind waiting until June/July. Then cancel and wait. If nothing else the socket will last slightly longer.
But the reality is - hardware currently is SO FAR ahead of software that unless you're doing super high end stuff the difference between the CPUs is minimal.
But the reality is - hardware currently is SO FAR ahead of software that unless you're doing super high end stuff the difference between the CPUs is minimal.
longdi
Banned
needs to get the V2 Ivy bridge version though.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Thanks, I've gone with the i7 3770K and I finally ordered everything as every time I look things up I keep changing mind and reconsidering and waiting, since last year even. They should all arrive in a few days (different stores were used), then I'll set it up all stock and later on look into better cooling (more case fans which has room for ~10, a better CPU cooler - actually I have one already that I'll see if it fits in this case, though I don't yet have fans for it) to OC with (not extreme, maybe 4GHz?).
I'll take a photo to show the difference between noob/stock and mkenyon/elite if it's not too embarrassing of a result.
I'll take a photo to show the difference between noob/stock and mkenyon/elite if it's not too embarrassing of a result.
This is what you get with two 7970s right now:
That budget build is just so people can get a working PC, not just for playing games. The reason the pentium is in there is that if they do want to upgrade at a later date, they have the right chipset/RAM.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
That's the whole point of SB/IB/SB-E, is that you get 30% extra linear performance. So, including overclocking, the 3820 for sure. 3820s can fairly reliably get to 4.8-5.0 with the right cooling, 3770K realistically is in the 4.3-4.5 region for a 24/7 OC.
TY
I thought the same thing! Even the sticker on the side of the PSU is yellow. Was a total accident.
I'm not sure what the final MSRP was when he bought the parts. Maybe $1200 or so?
FIFY
FIFY
LOL, thanks, I wasn't even thinking of AMD when I said that. I really meant differences between the 2500/3570/4570 cpus.
MidgarBlowedUp
Member
It's tough not to just go for it at that price though as performance is right at a GTX570. I won't purchase ATI consumer cards anymore, I'm sure the 7800's are great cards but, I also use my rig for development and editing. Nvidia consumer cards have always worked for me, and the have CUDA, but, every ATI card I've used gave me problems eventually. Even the ones in the newer macs screw up and overheat when rendering.
I'll look into it. Thanks.
Alright so GTX 670 is installed, latest drivers installed via USB from the website. Now I am left with this.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1kq2k2bwrg6ahzr/IMAG0144.jpg?m
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4wlnehbgs3aqtk/IMAG0145.jpg?m
The color was fine when I was using the 3570k built in GPU to do all the installing of Windows and Drivers etc. Is the card borked or the lanes borked?
The card has both 6 pin connectors plugged in, each running to the PSU itself(HX750), it is seated and everything seems to be running fine. I plan to run this via HDMI to my HDTV when I get home, I plan to try another monitor soon.
Also the card won't bring up the BIOS when I press DEL or F2(the buttons used on the AsRock Z77 Extreme 4). But it will boot into Windows and give me the color scheme above.
The only thing I have not done yet is update the BIOS of the mobo itself.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1kq2k2bwrg6ahzr/IMAG0144.jpg?m
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4wlnehbgs3aqtk/IMAG0145.jpg?m
The color was fine when I was using the 3570k built in GPU to do all the installing of Windows and Drivers etc. Is the card borked or the lanes borked?
The card has both 6 pin connectors plugged in, each running to the PSU itself(HX750), it is seated and everything seems to be running fine. I plan to run this via HDMI to my HDTV when I get home, I plan to try another monitor soon.
Also the card won't bring up the BIOS when I press DEL or F2(the buttons used on the AsRock Z77 Extreme 4). But it will boot into Windows and give me the color scheme above.
The only thing I have not done yet is update the BIOS of the mobo itself.
metalshade
Member
Hey guys, I am running an currently stock 2500k on a P8Z77-V LK with 8gb of 1600 ram with a corsair cx500 watt 80+ certified psu.
When they arrive, will my cm 212 CPU cooler and gigabyte 7950 pull too much for my supply?
I am planning to oc to about 4.4 ish fairly soon too.
Sure hope dabs still have a supply of those free codes for crysis and bioshock.
When they arrive, will my cm 212 CPU cooler and gigabyte 7950 pull too much for my supply?
I am planning to oc to about 4.4 ish fairly soon too.
Sure hope dabs still have a supply of those free codes for crysis and bioshock.
I do not, first build in 6 years and I was just using a cheap laptop for school purposes.
For some reason I thought the AMD APUs were at the same price point as the G860 in the US as it is in the UK as a viable alternative but apparently not, so ignore me
I've been having a stupidly ridiculous internal struggle about which GPU to buy in order to upgrade my GTX 465. Considered going to a 7950 or a 7970. Now I'm at the point where I'm considering a GTX 680. I have no goddamn idea what to do anymore.
I'll ask this. If they were the exact same price; 7970 or 680? Also, any reason to wait for the Next Big Thing?
I'll ask this. If they were the exact same price; 7970 or 680? Also, any reason to wait for the Next Big Thing?
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