i7 cooler and Ram help?

andob4

andob4

andob4

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Hi, I've just bought a second hand set of parts for my first stab at an i7 build - that is an i7 920 (C0), Asus P6T, 3GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 (3 x 1GB).

I'll use my existing Antec P180, 4890 and OCZ 600W (E8400/Tuniq/4GB DDR2 will go to my son's rig)

I hope to clock to 3.8 which seems feasible with the C0?

What cooler do you recommend? - Corsair H50-1 (I've never used water and fancy a dabble albeit a gentle start) or which air cooler would be a good alternative.

I'll start with the 3GB Dominator kit but suspect I'll want to move to 6GB - would I be best to buy another 3 GB or sell it and buy 3 x 2 GB. If so, which brand is best value and should I add cooling to the Ram? I guess that is partly down to the CPU cooling route too?

Thanks, Andy
 
ive had no problems with my nero cpu cooler, comes with rubber screws to attatch the fan to the heatsink, one side note that you should regularly take off the fan and remove dust as it builds up very wuickly here.

The best in the market is the coolermaster v10 for air cooling:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-027-CM&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

it offers the best performance (and highest cost - you get what you pay for) but there has been issues with the cooler being so big that taller RAM cards cannot actually fit into their slots when the v10 is in place.

For ram look at the kingston modules their good value. If your going to overclock the RAM then i would suggest water cooling but not if your going to keep them at manufacturer settings.

hope this helps
 
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I'll start with the 3GB Dominator kit but suspect I'll want to move to 6GB - would I be best to buy another 3 GB or sell it and buy 3 x 2 GB. If so, which brand is best value and should I add cooling to the Ram? I guess that is partly down to the CPU cooling route too?
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i wouldnt bother with 3x 1gb get a 2x2gb dual channel kit and then sell it on when you want to get 3x 2gb.
triple channel isnt that much faster than dual channel anyway though but undoubtedly 4gb in dual channel is better than 3gb in triple channel in real world situations
 
demonfatality said:
its i7 you should go for ddr3 triple channel memmory
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http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15967/7

barely makes a difference in most games.

the only reason some of the triple channel kits look so much faster in some of the other benchmarks is because they use much faster triple channel memory kits aswell as the slow ones but only use slow dual channel which bizarely beats some of the triple channel kits in some of the benchmarks anyway
 
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