Soldato
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Sweet build, reminds me of...
Operation Fresh Toast H440 Watercooled
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Not bad.
In the entire 2 years of PC building, I have only built in white cases. A whole 2 cases - impressive, I know.
Just simply prefer them as I find them to look a lot more modern than the industry standard of back this, black that, black everything.
And a rofls inspired gif. Never dance alone Rufus.
Just simply prefer them as I find them to look a lot more modern than the industry standard of back this, black that, black everything.
And a rofls inspired gif. Never dance alone Rufus.
OK so huge update time.
I received the CPU, Mobo and RAM. I also bought a voyager go for my phone/tablet and a temp probe for my loop.
However the guy had lapped the 3570K. Or he did something. May have gotten bored with an angle grinder. Or combine harvester.
Big image so you can inspect the damage
New motherboard is quite sharp.
So I have been having problems with CPU temps and stability. I tried the 3570K and new RAM and it was unstable at stock so I assumed it was the operating system.
The temps were still a problem. The 2550K would be around 70C at stock under load and 3570K got to 75C+. Measuring water temps showed that they didn't change so I assumed it was the block not transfering heat into the loop.
I mounted and remounted. Checked and rechecked. Yet the temps would not drop. I issued an RMA to the retailer of the CPU block.
Bored I installed windows 8.1 on a partition on my SSD and put my 2550K back in to see if the chip is still fine. And for whatever reason the temps are now absolutely fine. The chip also overclocks as well as it used to so is now running at 4.5GHz and 1.4v (experimenting with the voltage at the moment).
Back to the 3570K. Temps are still awful. Made a whole thread trying to get to the bottom of the problem. It's either the awful TIM that ivy bridge suffers or theangle grinding lapping.
So I am going to try the 3570K under my old D14 to rule the loop completely out of the temp problems.
Now I am experimenting with fans orientation in my system to keep temps as low as possible.
I am also going to test whether plugging a 6 pin PCIe into the Mobo will help with my very nearly stable overclocks.
Lastly the GPU backplate can be used as a shelf!
I received the CPU, Mobo and RAM. I also bought a voyager go for my phone/tablet and a temp probe for my loop.
However the guy had lapped the 3570K. Or he did something. May have gotten bored with an angle grinder. Or combine harvester.
Big image so you can inspect the damage
New motherboard is quite sharp.
So I have been having problems with CPU temps and stability. I tried the 3570K and new RAM and it was unstable at stock so I assumed it was the operating system.
The temps were still a problem. The 2550K would be around 70C at stock under load and 3570K got to 75C+. Measuring water temps showed that they didn't change so I assumed it was the block not transfering heat into the loop.
I mounted and remounted. Checked and rechecked. Yet the temps would not drop. I issued an RMA to the retailer of the CPU block.
Bored I installed windows 8.1 on a partition on my SSD and put my 2550K back in to see if the chip is still fine. And for whatever reason the temps are now absolutely fine. The chip also overclocks as well as it used to so is now running at 4.5GHz and 1.4v (experimenting with the voltage at the moment).
Back to the 3570K. Temps are still awful. Made a whole thread trying to get to the bottom of the problem. It's either the awful TIM that ivy bridge suffers or the
So I am going to try the 3570K under my old D14 to rule the loop completely out of the temp problems.
Now I am experimenting with fans orientation in my system to keep temps as low as possible.
I am also going to test whether plugging a 6 pin PCIe into the Mobo will help with my very nearly stable overclocks.
Lastly the GPU backplate can be used as a shelf!
Cheers dude!
Many thanks dude, I love the white. I hope the thread was worth the read and it was clear that I have very little idea what I am doing.
The 2550K is stable at 4.6Ghz and 1.365V. I am going to continue trying to pull that voltage down.
The 3570K was put on a ghetto NH-D14 test bench at stock and it was still super hot, nearing 80C with the fans on max.
The 3570K was put on a ghetto NH-D14 test bench at stock and it was still super hot, nearing 80C with the fans on max.
So I have been struggling to keep temps down whilst remaining quiet. I didn't want to have to ramp up fans whilst gaming cause there is no easy way to do that on my mobo + I can still hear them through my open headphones.
Read this review which highly rates Arctic Cooling F12s. I had one and tried in on a rad and definitely could feel more air through the rad at the same noise level as the rest of the system. So...
I didn't take any actual pictures of the fans as I wanted to quickly get them in for testing. And the results show that 4 for less than one high end fan these things are pretty damn good. Definitely got a good few degrees lower in the temp department and now have quite a lot of highish value noctuas to sell.
Read this review which highly rates Arctic Cooling F12s. I had one and tried in on a rad and definitely could feel more air through the rad at the same noise level as the rest of the system. So...
I didn't take any actual pictures of the fans as I wanted to quickly get them in for testing. And the results show that 4 for less than one high end fan these things are pretty damn good. Definitely got a good few degrees lower in the temp department and now have quite a lot of highish value noctuas to sell.
Get some of these http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18623130
I know the colour isn't the best but if you want lower temps these look good.
I know the colour isn't the best but if you want lower temps these look good.
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Mmmm toasty! I dunno - not sure if the blue would look good or not in that build.
News broke on how good these were after I bought the F12s so buying them now would be a waste of money. Either they are better than these F12s and I have wasted money on then or they aren't worth the cost and I would have to pay to send them back. They are also twice the price and blue doesn't match the build, not to mention I am sceptical on how good they are. I will wait for now and I can consider the build complete after the next update.
Soldato
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Love the toaster!
By the way, how is your fluid 40c? That's hot.
By the way, how is your fluid 40c? That's hot.
that 3570k doesn't look to have been lapped very well. looks more like they've used 50 grit sandpaper 
its strange to see another 2550K in an mpower board. mine is sitting right next to me now at 5ghz on 1.4v on air cooling. your case is much newer and cleaner looking than mine though. yours is all shiny and white, mine is more stealth and black.
its strange to see another 2550K in an mpower board. mine is sitting right next to me now at 5ghz on 1.4v on air cooling. your case is much newer and cleaner looking than mine though. yours is all shiny and white, mine is more stealth and black.30C was my ambient at that time and pictures were taken between rounds of BF3 load so it was the hottest it is going to get.
that 3570k doesn't look to have been lapped very well. looks more like they've used 50 grit sandpaper
The 3570k is pretty awful. But it is being sent back.
My 2550K requires a big jump in voltage for 4.7ghz, though I do not know what most of the voltage controls do for helping stability.