Hey all!
Sorry its been so long, have been rather busy! I received my 4790k a while back when OcUK had their first stock. I used my old OcUK fathom cooler off my old AMD build as cooler and also added another 8gb of avexir ram.. because... why not! Want this to be future proof for a while.
CPU:
Altogether:
CPU in situ:
Unfortunately I was so excited at having everything installed I managed to forget to take a picture of everything in place! Have since clocked the CPU to 4.6Ghz at 1.28v and its running so much better than my old AMD build. I have to say, I am surprised by how much smoother everything runs. Case in point is War Thunder, where there was always a fair amount of lag every time I start/end a game and every time I check scores - this has now completely disappeared!
However, I have had some problems. With two 290xs in the case, things do get rather hot. The top card after about half an hour is straight up to 94C and starting to throttle, while the bottom card is at mid 80s (when in a game using crossfire). In addition I had my CPU cooler as an exhaust, meaning that I was trying to cool with 80C air... leading to 80C CPU temps! Changed it to an intake and temps instantly dropped to 60C!
Still not happy with GPU temps so there was only one possible solution... My stuff arrived today. I leave you with a teaser below
Sorry its been so long, have been rather busy! I received my 4790k a while back when OcUK had their first stock. I used my old OcUK fathom cooler off my old AMD build as cooler and also added another 8gb of avexir ram.. because... why not! Want this to be future proof for a while.
CPU:
Altogether:
CPU in situ:
Unfortunately I was so excited at having everything installed I managed to forget to take a picture of everything in place! Have since clocked the CPU to 4.6Ghz at 1.28v and its running so much better than my old AMD build. I have to say, I am surprised by how much smoother everything runs. Case in point is War Thunder, where there was always a fair amount of lag every time I start/end a game and every time I check scores - this has now completely disappeared!
However, I have had some problems. With two 290xs in the case, things do get rather hot. The top card after about half an hour is straight up to 94C and starting to throttle, while the bottom card is at mid 80s (when in a game using crossfire). In addition I had my CPU cooler as an exhaust, meaning that I was trying to cool with 80C air... leading to 80C CPU temps! Changed it to an intake and temps instantly dropped to 60C!
Still not happy with GPU temps so there was only one possible solution... My stuff arrived today. I leave you with a teaser below
