Id say storm trooper over HAF any day
chuckles ...GPU this month ..case and new cooler next month then upgrade is finally complete
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***Official Ivybridge Overclock Thread***
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chuckles ...GPU this month ..case and new cooler next month then upgrade is finally complete
ohh yeah and a SSD at some point I forgot that
ahah Im running my system off of my SSD atm thankfully Ive got a 2TB external for everything thats not OS
yeah Im loving ivy too
Yeah i am loving mine too! I came from a E8400 so its a massive improvement for me!
I cant believe how well the IB chip performed in Fallout New Vegas! I had it on high settings and got between 20-40 frames a second with around 25 being the sweet spot.
ahah
I came from an E6500. really cheap system I only made last march but it was dying on me. Once this build is finished it would have come to a toasty 1.5K~ but will be worth every penny obviously 
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Yeah I brought my SSD, hard drives & monitor across from my old build so that kept costs lower than they potentially would have been.
My 7970 will be going in tomorrow so I am looking forward to seeing how well that performs in BF3 and Skyrim with mods, but I am very impressed with how well the onboard GPU performs on the Ivy chip.
I can load Skyrim on Low settings with the HD4000 graphics. But I really need to get my ENGT240 to work so I can have proper graphics again. Getting a 670 next month I think but really need something between that xD I had to buy the SSD after I found out the Extreme6 doesn't have IDE where as the Extreme4 does *facepalm*
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Bumping up the iGPU's clock speed to 1450Mhz has managed to get skyrim to run at 1200p at medium settings and BF3 at 1200p at low settings
Bumping up the iGPU's clock speed to 1450Mhz has managed to get skyrim to run at 1200p at medium settings and BF3 at 1200p at low settings
What kind of a difference has bumping the clocks on the iGPU had on temps if any?
Do you have something chugging along in the background? Web browsing for me means about 2 - 5% CPU usage. Normal activity means 21 - 31 degC for the CPU (Antec Khuler 620), and that's running at 3.8GHz with Intel turbo.