New Haswell Build Finished - How did I do?

mattacuk

mattacuk

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Hey guys,

This week I finally gave in and ditched my "old" i5 750 rig for a Haswell build and I am really pleased I did.

I just bought myself a reference GTX780 graphics card first of all, and I really felt as if Id put a ferrari engine in a ford capri :p

Anyhow my final specs are as follows:

i7 4770K @ 4.7Ghz on 1.25 volts (Im assuming from what ive read on the boards this is not bad at all)
8GB (soon to be 16GB) Kingston 'Hyper' RAM
Gigabyte z87x-oc Motherboard
3 x OCZ Agility SSD's
MSI GTX780 3GB Graphics card

I have so far only run Intel Burn Test (20 runs) and 3D mark to completion 3 times so I need to test further but on the face of it the OC seems stable. Temps are pretty high during testing (up to 90's) but idles at around 40c and normal use does not see overly high temps.

Should I clock down to 4.6Ghz do you think or leave it as it is? ;)

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High temps under stress testing are different from high temps under regular load - try a demanding game and check your temps. If they're ok, 4.7GHz is a very nice OC.

If it's just for gaming, don't bother upgrading to 16gb RAM, it won't improve performance.
 
teppic said:
High temps under stress testing are different from high temps under regular load - try a demanding game and check your temps. If they're ok, 4.7GHz is a very nice OC.

If it's just for gaming, don't bother upgrading to 16gb RAM, it won't improve performance.
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Just seems to be under stress testing at the mo. Ok I will stick with the 8GB of ram, maybe I will invest in a window side panel instead :D
 
One thing - it looks like you've got your card in the 2nd PCI-E slot? If so check with GPU-Z that it's running at x16, the board may have dropped it to x8.
 
teppic said:
One thing - it looks like you've got your card in the 2nd PCI-E slot? If so check with GPU-Z that it's running at x16, the board may have dropped it to x8.
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Good point! I would not have know this, thanks, I will check that now :)
 
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