Advice on spec please

Mr Paul

Mr Paul

Mr Paul

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Hi all, wanting to upgrade my old Haswell system.


MSI MPG Z690 EDGE WIFI DDR4
Intel Core i7-12700K
Corsair iCUE H150i PRO XT RGB Liquid CPU Cooler
Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB PCIe 4.0
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz C18

This will be in my current Corsair Air 540 case with a Corsair 850w PSU. I'll reuse my 1070Ti for a few months.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance
 
Mr Paul said:
Hi all, wanting to upgrade my old Haswell system.


MSI MPG Z690 EDGE WIFI DDR4
Intel Core i7-12700K
Corsair iCUE H150i PRO XT RGB Liquid CPU Cooler
Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB PCIe 4.0
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz C18

This will be in my current Corsair Air 540 case with a Corsair 850w PSU. I'll reuse my 1070Ti for a few months.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance
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Nice rig man.

You waiting for RTX 4000 series?
 
You could save quite a bit of money by going with a 12700/F, B660 board and a cheaper cooler such as the Scythe Fuma 2 Rev.B. Money saved could go towards the gpu.
 
AIO seem worse than the best HSF these days.
I got a D15 and gaming I've only seen 40-50c, playing death stranding earlier in a 30c room and my cpu was sitting at 40-44c playing at 3440x1440 res.

in benchmarks that push the cpu I hit 67c with stock vcore, after adding a -0.100 offset my cpu only hit 60c in benchmarks.
glad I didn't go with an AIO now as it would likely have been worse temps, more noise and worrying about a pump dying.


Samsung pro is definitely the way to go for NVME drives even though loads of people on here usually say to get the sn850 to save cash.
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I have both and the Samsung is almost twice as fast at IOPS which is where the performance is going to count.


32GB of ram is overkill but I did the same, I've never seen actual ram usage above 14gb yet apart from windows having 18gb of crap in standby cache

I doubt anyone would notice the difference between 16 and 32gb without looking at task manager


I'd swap the Z690edge for a Tomahawk it looks to be the exact same board apart from different appearance, the edge has more usb 2.0 ports but less 3.2 ones.

the extra money seems to be going in the accessories that come with the edge which is basically extra stickers, some crappy looking screw driver things and RGB extension cables you probably never need anyway
 
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arknor said:
AIO seem worse than the best HSF these days.
I got a D15 and gaming I've only seen 40-50c, playing death stranding earlier in a 30c room and my cpu was sitting at 40-44c playing at 3440x1440 res.

in benchmarks that push the cpu I hit 67c with stock vcore, after adding a -0.100 offset my cpu only hit 60c in benchmarks.
glad I didn't go with an AIO now as it would likely have been worse temps, more noise and worrying about a pump dying.


Samsung pro is definitely the way to go for NVME drives even though loads of people on here usually say to get the sn850 to save cash.
nvvQFLJ.jpg

I have both and the Samsung is almost twice as fast at IOPS which is where the performance is going to count.


32GB of ram is overkill but I did the same, I've never seen actual ram usage above 14gb yet apart from windows having 18gb of crap in standby cache

I doubt anyone would notice the difference between 16 and 32gb without looking at task manager
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It’s true when I upgraded my rig I really didn’t think 32GB would be needed for a few years but the idea was to try and build something that would also last a few years without needing to upgrade so 32GB it got.
 
arknor said:
AIO seem worse than the best HSF these days.
I got a D15 and gaming I've only seen 40-50c, playing death stranding earlier in a 30c room and my cpu was sitting at 40-44c playing at 3440x1440 res.

in benchmarks that push the cpu I hit 67c with stock vcore, after adding a -0.100 offset my cpu only hit 60c in benchmarks.
glad I didn't go with an AIO now as it would likely have been worse temps, more noise and worrying about a pump dying.


Samsung pro is definitely the way to go for NVME drives even though loads of people on here usually say to get the sn850 to save cash.
nvvQFLJ.jpg

I have both and the Samsung is almost twice as fast at IOPS which is where the performance is going to count.


32GB of ram is overkill but I did the same, I've never seen actual ram usage above 14gb yet apart from windows having 18gb of crap in standby cache

I doubt anyone would notice the difference between 16 and 32gb without looking at task manager


I'd swap the Z690edge for a Tomahawk it looks to be the exact same board apart from different appearance, the edge has more usb 2.0 ports but less 3.2 ones.

the extra money seems to be going in the accessories that come with the edge which is basically extra stickers, some crappy looking screw driver things and RGB extension cables you probably never need anyway
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Couple more diff between the tomahawk and edge. Edge, all 4 nvme slots are gen 4 (3 x gen4, 1 x gen3 on the Tom), and vrms, Tom 16+1+1 70A, 16 +1+1 75A on edge..then just the rgb for looks...think some of the usb ports on back are faster on the edge too(but think you put that)
Mr Paul said:
Hi all, wanting to upgrade my old Haswell system.


MSI MPG Z690 EDGE WIFI DDR4
Intel Core i7-12700K
Corsair iCUE H150i PRO XT RGB Liquid CPU Cooler
Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB PCIe 4.0
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz C18

This will be in my current Corsair Air 540 case with a Corsair 850w PSU. I'll reuse my 1070Ti for a few months.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance
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I've got the h150i pro xt rgb cooler. Runs fine, everything cool. rgb is on the cpu header, fans don't have rgb if that matters to you. Swapped mine out for QL120's to match rest of fans. If I bought again, and went corsair, I'd get the h150i elite capellix version. It comes with a commander core in the box which is useful for hooking up extra fans etc (I ended up having to buy a commander pro for that), and if you ever decide to want to upgrade to lcd screen over cpu, you can..that's not compatible with the pro xt version..
 
Thanks all, I'll swap the AIO to the one with the commander pro, good call.

The tomahawk will probably do actually, so I'll go with that.

Is the RAM optimal?
 
Mr Paul said:
Thanks all, I'll swap the AIO to the one with the commander pro, good call.

The tomahawk will probably do actually, so I'll go with that.

Is the RAM optimal?
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The sl ram is low profile, which wont make any diff really with the aio. I have the non sl variant so it's just under 6mm taller, and bought 2 dummy sticks to populate all 4 slots of the mobo...
You can get the newer look corsair vengeance rgb RT gunmetal 3600c16 which will be slightly faster for £139 away, just Google to see if you like the look, otherwise the 3600c18 is good enough
 
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