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AVeryLargeRadish posted:The H110i was really designed with the larger chips in mind, to the point that Corsair said in their reviewer guide to test with the i7-5960X because the quad core Intel CPUs simply do not put any stress on the cooler. I have the slightly older H110, and they're absolutely right: my 5820k@4.5 full tilt hangs out in the low 80's with the fans turned down to silent. If I bother to turn them up it'll keep it as low as the upper 60's. At 4.5GHz. The thing is crazy good.
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Aug 4, 2016 09:14
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The most expensive one. Or the cheapest with the features you want. Actually it would depend on what you wanna do with it.
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I'd just make sure it has a 4x M.2 slot on it and USB 3.1. There are enough reasonably priced options out there right now that there's not much of an excuse not to.
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Asus Strix or the X99 Deluxe boards are really good for OC and good features. ASRock for tons of features at a great price (but watch those Memory slots. You want 8 not 4 with X#9 boards)
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My ASRock X99 Extreme4 was priced OK and performs very well.
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I might have to go with a 5820k then...hmm....
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thunderbolt 3 is only on few boards if that matters to you
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Perplx posted:thunderbolt 3 is only on few boards if that matters to you What possible scenario in a desktop environment could warrant Thunderbolt 3 when you're building the machine yourself or having it built?
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Boiled Water posted:What possible scenario in a desktop environment could warrant Thunderbolt 3 when you're building the machine yourself or having it built?
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So, something I've noticed with my 6600K that I'm now curious enough to ask about - is it normal for the base clock to oscillate between 99.9 and 100.1 MHz? If so, what's up with that?
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HMS Boromir posted:So, something I've noticed with my 6600K that I'm now curious enough to ask about - is it normal for the base clock to oscillate between 99.9 and 100.1 MHz? If so, what's up with that? IINW something to do with mobo clock spread spectrum to comply with FCC regulations for reducing RF interference. Old school mobos used to have the option to disable it as a loophole but now nobody offers that anymore.
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Boiled Water posted:What possible scenario in a desktop environment could warrant Thunderbolt 3 when you're building the machine yourself or having it built? if you have a thunderbolt 3 laptop it's the cheapest and easiest way to get 10Gb ethernet but yeah pretty niche
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Aug 5, 2016 16:26
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What do you call a man with no arms, no legs, and is squeezed between two metal plates?
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Timmy.
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The problem with cheap 10gb ethernet is that your switch is still $100 per port.
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NihilismNow posted:The problem with cheap 10gb ethernet is that your switch is still $100 per port.  (Actually I guess that's what he meant, just hook up the laptop and desktop with a cable and there's your 10gb connection)
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Palladium posted:IINW something to do with mobo clock spread spectrum to comply with FCC regulations for reducing RF interference. Old school mobos used to have the option to disable it as a loophole but now nobody offers that anymore. Is that not still an option in the mid to high end boards? Leaving Spread Spectrum enabled can cause ever so slight issues with Overclocking so I have always left it off to make sure my #'s remain solid instead of that slight flux. Overall it just makes all the monitoring apps look silly with slight off my .1 numbers in the maths and I'm not even OCD. If someone was and had this when overclocking....
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http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/07/10/motherboard_players_see_2030_drop_in_2q16_shipments/quote:Sources suggest that companies are seeing as much as a 30% decline in motherboard shipments due to weakened demand and other issues that include the delay of Intel's Kaby Lake platform. The good news for us is that prices are getting slashed in an attempt to boost sales. Overall 54M sold in 2015 (itself -21.7% YoY over 2014) dipping to projected <48M in 2016, ouch. ECS and Biostar had already called it quits a while back, IMO it's a matter of time before MSI and Asrock does the same. Though I doubt Intel will be losing much sleep when they have ~260M OEM shoes to fill.
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Palladium posted:Old school mobos used to have the option to disable it as a loophole but now nobody offers that anymore. Some do, the Asus z107i has spread spectrum disabled by default.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/10576/more-details-on-broxton-quad-core-ecc-up-to-18-eus-of-gen9quote:One of the big plus points for Broxton will be the support of dual channel ECC memory. This opens up a few more markets where ECC is a fundamental requirement to the operation.
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Palladium posted:http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/07/10/motherboard_players_see_2030_drop_in_2q16_shipments/ Doesn't Asia own asrock? Or do I have it backwards and were they a spinoff?
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I believe Asrock was once the lower-end subsidiary of ASUS, but they were spun off into their own company some years ago.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I believe Asrock was once the lower-end subsidiary of ASUS, but they were spun off into their own company some years ago. And now they're arguably better at ASUS in everything except Workstation-level boards and specialist poo poo.
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I hope the AMD Zen turns out as pretty competent and isn't just more hot air. Because that raises the chances that 8core -E CPUs will drop in price (hopefully).
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140w cpus are no joke overclocked to 4Ghz:  This is using a Coolermaster Hyper 612 which is a drat large air cooler with 6 heat pipes. Never thought I'd say this, but water cooling might have been a better idea. redeyes fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Seems normal. I also get to 85°C with Prime95 on a Dark Rock 3 cooler form BeQuiet. I've an 5820K overclocked to 4GHz. But that's with these silly benchmarks. During normal use, it ends up more at 65°C when pinned. I have a vague interest in water cooling, but longevity of these things is what has me concerned. Then again, it looks like upgrades every three years, anyway. That and any sort of high pitched noise they might produce. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:I hope the AMD Zen turns out as pretty competent and isn't just more hot air. Because that raises the chances that 8core -E CPUs will drop in price (hopefully).
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redeyes posted:140w cpus are no joke overclocked to 4Ghz: We have a thread for you if you wanted to talk about such insanity! Join the aquatic community, you know you want to
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PerrineClostermann posted:We have a thread for you if you wanted to talk about such insanity! I don't want to, don't trust the stuff at all. Have had to deal with many failures. Thanks though.
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redeyes posted:140w cpus are no joke overclocked to 4Ghz: Thought about trying the Noctua NH-D15? In benchmarks it's super close to water cooling if not better than half the AIO coolers
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Haquer posted:Thought about trying the Noctua NH-D15? In benchmarks it's super close to water cooling if not better than half the AIO coolers It would be my first port of call (well, the NH-D15S, so you don't block the top slot on your 2011 board) before I went to custom water cooling loop crazy town.
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Haquer posted:Thought about trying the Noctua NH-D15? In benchmarks it's super close to water cooling if not better than half the AIO coolers That was the next cooler on my list actually.. for double the price.
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What's the best AIO brand these days? I have a Corsair H50 or something in my current build and it gets my i5-2500k to 4.4GHz with no fuss. Wondering if they're still the standard for my next build.
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HalloKitty posted:It would be my first port of call (well, the NH-D15S, so you don't block the top slot on your 2011 board) before I went to custom water cooling loop crazy town. Yeah, I plan on getting a board that has a 1x slot to be blocked by the cooler with a 16x under it for this very reason. The cooler is loving massive but goddamn it's good. redeyes posted:That was the next cooler on my list actually.. for double the price. It's slightly cheaper than most AIO water solutions. If you want high end you have to pay for it, unfortunately
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redeyes posted:That was the next cooler on my list actually.. for double the price. If you want to justify it to yourself it comes with 2 Noctua PWM fans which cost almost half what the cooler costs retail. When you consider that other premium coolers come with fans that you probably want to replace the price difference seems smaller.
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priznat posted:What's the best AIO brand these days? I have a Corsair H50 or something in my current build and it gets my i5-2500k to 4.4GHz with no fuss. Wondering if they're still the standard for my next build. They are still the standard. There are some other players out there that are also good, but they tend to be more hit or miss, and certainly don't have the availability and support that Corsair does. Swiftech has some neat ones that are easy to drop additional loop modules into, which is nice.
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DrDork posted:They are still the standard. There are some other players out there that are also good, but they tend to be more hit or miss, and certainly don't have the availability and support that Corsair does. Swiftech has some neat ones that are easy to drop additional loop modules into, which is nice. Cool. I had seen Fractal Design has some but they aren't very available in my area. Corsair is a little confusing with all the different H1XX models for the 280mm radiator, but I've heard outside of if you want the "i" features just get whatever, it doesn't really matter.
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priznat posted:Corsair is a little confusing with all the different H1XX models for the 280mm radiator, but I've heard outside of if you want the "i" features just get whatever, it doesn't really matter. Pretty much. They're just minor variations on the same basic design. The radiator size is the big thing, then the "i" if you want some of the connectivity options for some reason.
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redeyes posted:140w cpus are no joke overclocked to 4Ghz: I just noticed that my CPU fan only runs at about 1000 RPM until the CPU gets relatively warm. You could try setting a manual CPU fan curve, maybe the fan just isn't kicking full speed in until ~80 degrees.
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