Final build check

olivier renault · 19 Jul 2011 at 19:25

How much overclocking you planning on doing? Either will do 4.8GHz when pushed.

Anything over (or even up to) is silly given the amount of juice you will need to put through the CPU. Unless you just wanna bench and bragging right, which is fine. Then more VRM = better, but extreme overclocking would require watercooling, ect... And these dudes use Maximus boards, golden sample CPUs and stuff like that. It's all getting a bit expensive.

If you just want a fast stable board to say, 4.6GHz without going silly with voltages, either will do the job perfectly. I would tab on 4.4GHz myself and not bother with anything higher whatever the board (under 1.35V anyway). Voltages are everything, and the quality of the batch dictates how much voltage you need to reach a given speed. A good chip at 1.35V may give you 4.6GHz, medium chip 4.4GHz, a bad chip 4.2GHz, a uber chip 4.8GHz. With these boards they will be stable as rock at those voltages as it wont be pushing then near their limit. Anything above 1.38V is not recommended by Intel and frankly I don't think the risk warrant the fractional performance increase.

welshdragon · 19 Jul 2011 at 20:41

Extreme 4 it is then. Anyone use this lucid virtu, a gimmick or as good as it sounds. With the silencio case it would be good for the 570 to idle more unless gaming for heat reasons...

TwistNut · 19 Jul 2011 at 21:00

here a geart video explaine and showing the benifits of lucid virtu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZCGt9BIjjw

olivier renault · 19 Jul 2011 at 23:55

With CUDA enabled, you'll see better transcoding performance. Still, QuickSync is quick. Quicker still than GPU accelerated transcoding, while maintaining quality, according to this.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/9

welshdragon · 20 Jul 2011 at 19:58

Right, finally I'm agonising over which cpu cooler to use. Height being the issue (silencio case takes coolers up to 154mm in height) I am down to:

Coolermaster TX3 or Hyper 212plus
Gelid Tranquilo
Akasa venom nano
Antec Kuhler 620 (lack of pwm control puts me off though)

i5 will hopefully be clocked to 4.5

welshdragon · 20 Jul 2011 at 22:37

Any ideas on the above, edging towards the 620 due to cooler height limitations ont he silencio case.

Final build check:

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stulid · 22 Jul 2011 at 23:39

You can go with that, sorry I didn't respond earlier, was out of the country.

welshdragon · 23 Jul 2011 at 16:02

Cheers for all your help guys. Made a slight last minute revision. Decided to give air cooling a bash and if teh temps are high will get the kuhler, so ordered a Thermolab Bada 2010 which did well in tests looking at reviews. And decided to stick with WD and ordered a shiney new 1 tb wd caviar black drive. Can't wait.

welshdragon · 30 Jul 2011 at 12:30

New build is up and running. Its a touch noisey and I can't decide wetehr its the cpu cooler (which is at full tilt) or the gfx card. I think its the cooler as there's limited airflow in the case.

Temps wise after a good game, and with ambient temps int he room hgihe rthan average due to the warm weather the cpu is hitting 60 ish and 70 on bench and the gfx card 80. Are these temps ok? Its currentl on 4.4ghz as well.

I'm going to put a second intake fan in the front of the case and I am considering changing the cpu cooler for my original idea of an antec kuhler. Probably a 920 unless anyone thinks the 620 would be better?

welshdragon · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:19

Do my temps look okay guys?

Decided I'm going to get the kuhler 920 on Monday and move the exhaust fan to the front so I have two low rep intake fans

Idle 35 and load 60/70 on cpu

gfx card idle 40 load 80

The cpu is oc'd to 4.4 too

Jony27 · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:34

why are you swapping the 620 for the 920, the temps seems fine, you probably wont notice much difference in temp between the two.

welshdragon · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:36

I didnt go with the 620 in the end. Went with a thermolab bada air cooler which, due tot he heat in such a padded case is running near full tilt all the time. So decided will get a kuhler. Decided on 920 for pwm control , larger rad and fan software etc

Jony27 · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:39

oh i see.

welshdragon · 31 Jul 2011 at 13:53

Those temps look alright?

Anyone with experience of the kuhler 920? Is it good and quiet?

welshdragon · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:02

Stulid are you around, any thoughts?

Jegethy · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:09

welshdragon said:
Those temps look alright?

Anyone with experience of the kuhler 920? Is it good and quiet?

I'd like to know this too as I'm considering getting one, though I've heard that mid-range air coolers can out-perform it.

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:10

welshdragon said:
Stulid are you around, any thoughts?

Im here, temps are normal for a medium cooler.

What speed you got it at?

welshdragon · 31 Jul 2011 at 20:52

Hi Stulid

Running the chip at 4.4 using the oc menu with everythign else left on auto. Not seen the vcore go higher than 1.34. In time I'll do some testing to see if I can get that down. It's also done 4.6 with no issues, but cause of the temps I knocked it back down. Haven't tried for 4.8 and dont think I will whilst temps are high.

I'm thinking of getting the Kuhler 920, and placing the exhaust fan in the front so I ahve the two intakes. That should help temps I feel?

What temps ahve you been getting?

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 20:58

welshdragon · 12 Aug 2011 at 17:23

Decided to go for a Kuhler 920. Will stick my two akasa viper case fans on the rad and the two stock coolermaster fans as intakes on the front of the case. The thermolab bada is running nera full all the time to cope which is noisey.