Spec me: 8700k Build

Amraam said:
Keeping the 980ti for now. It'll do the job for what I play especially with the low fps dips being helped by the 8700k.

I was looking at the meshify but something about it just didn't seem right. Can't remember what now;ive been looking at so many cases ha.
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Quite small , if you have AIO a front need short GPU.

Check out Jonsbo ;)
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Quite small , if you have AIO a front need short GPU.

Check out Jonsbo ;)
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That may have been it, however I think the windforce would be OK. I'd need to check. I've not heard of the jonsbo cases, but the rm4 looks nice. It's double the price of the 340 elite. What makes them so premium?
 
Amraam said:
That may have been it, however I think the windforce would be OK. I'd need to check. I've not heard of the jonsbo cases, but the rm4 looks nice. It's double the price of the 340 elite. What makes them so premium?
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Aluminium and dual glass . U4 looks nice . Had UMX4 which was stunning but more for Air cooling as getting an AIO to fit is a pain in the backside !
 
Amraam said:
I was just looking at that and yeah, it looks amazong. No front ventilation though?
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Cool air via bottom, hot air out the top :)

Had mine with silent wing 3s, and set at 100% for intake at the bottom and rear. Had custom water AIO at the top, one fan failed, didn't replace it for a while as the attic pressure and wind tunnel effect was huge it pushed more air out then the exit fan that was left standing

They also make their own cases, like in win and Lian Li etc, find OEM can charge what ever they like .
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Cool air via bottom, hot air out the top :)

Had mine with silent wing 3s, and set at 100% for intake at the bottom and rear. Had custom water AIO at the top, one fan failed, didn't replace it for a while as the attic pressure and wind tunnel effect was huge it pushed more air out then the exit fan that was left standing

They also make their own cases, like in win and Lian Li etc, find OEM can charge what ever they like .
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Ah got you. Shame about their support for AIO coolers, as I'm 100% set on the x62 kraken. Hate big, blocky air coolers.
 
Amraam said:
I'm going 280 front mount most likely. As much cooling for the 8700k and Vrms the better I'm thinking.
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Would be tower or top down cooler if your really worried about VRM temps . Though they can operate at 125c , well most anyways

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Thanks for the reply the suggestions. I'm not super worried about them but I saw a review about the gigabyte aorus board having problems with performance due to vrm temps. Haven't seen any mention of them with Asus boards and the blowers in the GPU will provide some airflow across the vrms, albeit warm air. There's always aftermarket heat sinks I could attach for a little better cooling.
 
Amraam said:
Thanks for the reply the suggestions. I'm not super worried about them but I saw a review about the gigabyte aorus board having problems with performance due to vrm temps. Haven't seen any mention of them with Asus boards and the blowers in the GPU will provide some airflow across the vrms, albeit warm air. There's always aftermarket heat sinks I could attach for a little better cooling.
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Haven't read issue with performance on any brand board fornz370 tondo with vrm ... ??
Gets hot but haven't have my Aorus Or Gigabyte throttle down from it . Had a Strix z270 with high VRM, around 100c running 5.2ghz on my i5 7600k. Slapped on some 17 wm/k Alphacool thermal pads and boom, temps down to 80 odd but the heatsinks were just as hot .
Hopefully high temps and reviewers stating it will get vendors to slap decent pads on them . Using 4 wm/k pads on VRMs that can handle 125c is just a bit crazy
Can have the biggest heatsink in the world but if the heat transfer material is aweful, so much trapped heat

Worth experimenting when you get your board , forgot what thickness Asus use

You going for the white or black Strix ?
Doesn't the white one come with WiFi ?
 
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orbitalwalsh said:
Haven't read issue with performance on any brand board fornz370 tondo with vrm ... ??
Gets hot but haven't have my Aorus Or Gigabyte throttle down from it . Had a Strix z270 with high VRM, around 100c running 5.2ghz on my i5 7600k. Slapped on some 17 wm/k Alphacool thermal pads and boom, temps down to 80 odd but the heatsinks were just as hot .
Hopefully high temps and reviewers stating it will get vendors to slap decent pads on them . Using 4 wm/k pads on VRMs that can handle 125c is just a bit crazy
Can have the biggest heatsink in the world but if the heat transfer material is aweful, so much trapped heat

Worth experimenting when you get your board , forgot what thickness Asus use

You going for the white or black Strix ?
Doesn't the white one come with WiFi ?
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I can't remember where I read or watched it but it session that some 370 boards can hit pretty serious vrm temps when u feels heavy cpu load. Now, that's not a huge problem for me being primarily a gamer, but I don't want any instances of thermal throttling. Didn't realise there was a colour choice, so most likely black.
 
Amraam said:
I can't remember where I read or watched it but it session that some 370 boards can hit pretty serious vrm temps when u feels heavy cpu load. Now, that's not a huge problem for me being primarily a gamer, but I don't want any instances of thermal throttling. Didn't realise there was a colour choice, so most likely black.
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There's only thermal throttle when CPU hits it's max temps. If vrm hits over safe operating temps, it'll just blow or maybe have an Independence Day explosion :D
 
Ordering now. Gone a bit nuts ha:

OEM 8700k
Asus ROG Maximus Hero X
512GB SM961 NVMe SSD
x62 Kraken 280 AIO
GSkill 16GB Trident Z RGB 3200Mhz
Case TBD but probably S340 Elite Black

Ordering from various sites due to prices and stock.
 
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