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Good to see. I'm a bit sceptical of the temp the CPU is reporting as 14C is lower than the surround temp. Unless you've got the rad for it in a very cold room it's not possible.
 
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Good to see. I'm a bit sceptical of the temp the CPU is reporting as 14C is lower than the surround temp. Unless you've got the rad for it in a very cold room it's not possible.
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yea hw monitor, corsair link and speccy give the same readings as I was a bit sceptical my self but ive been told that the fx chips don't give a very accurate reading when down in the low temps.
the radiator is sitting right at the front so it is pulling in cold air but I know its not as cold as reported.
 
just ordered a new set of speakers..
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not sure what folk will think on here but my mates got a set and I was really impressed on the sound from them.

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so ive played with my fans.. ive also added a fan to the system.
so 5 case fans in total now not counting the liquid cooler

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still to tidy this modifacation up a bit. but also still looking at other cases...
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I have thought about just removing the hard drive bays but this seems to be working ok.
the second fan here does make a difference. its dropped my case temps down by 2c drops my hard drive 3c and lets the 7950 idle at 30c rather than 32c to 33c
 
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spoke too soon... MSi afterburner giving me error msgs again and closing.. its now uninstalled and im trying asus gpu tweak

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I didint like asus gpu tweak.. so I tried msi AB again but without monitoring and all seemed good. so ive turned monitoring back on but ive uninstalled asus Ai suite so will report back..
 
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so I made a step forward to get knocked back a step..
I got a new case finally.
I got a Phanteks enthoo Pro M which In my eyes is a really nice case.

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so the swap of the internals went ahead lastnight and everything went to plan until I tried to boot it up..
it wouldn't post!! so I checked all the connections and re-seated the ram and gpu but still no post..
so I thought the sabertooth may not have survived the swap.
I had a gigabyte 990xa ud3 board with the phenom ii x6 1090t installed so I tested that and it posted.
I then removed the FX-8350 from the sabertooth and fitted it to the 990xa ud3 and tried it again.. no joy it wouldn't post. I reset the bios just incase but still no joy.
I then fitted the 1090t to the sabertooth and hey let there be life!! so my FX-8350 has went south :(
at least im still up and running.

so I had been planning on an upgrade from the 7950 next but looks like that's on hold as im now in the market for a new CPU.. Im thinking along the lines of a 9370 or 9590 but time will tell.
 
Is the green card wifi? I ended up plasti-dipping my TP Link wireless card as the green looked horrible. Looks almost hidden now.
 
yea the green card does stand out a bit.. Ill need to go looking for a new wifi card me thinks..

I have been tempted to go down the Intel route and might just keep my eyes open for a nice bundle
 
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