Question on upgrading.

[infernox]

Hello All,

I am having a bit of a brain ache with regards to a couple of questions.

First. I currently have a Zotac 560ti 448. Which has been great. Although Runs pretty hot. Now it can play pretty much everything I want too. But hoping for a little more power. The problem I have is. If I buy another one to SLI they will both get hot and melt together.

I don't play my PC that often so was possibly thinking of selling my 560ti and getting two of a better cooler design? Gainward or someone. Is this a bad idea? Advise please. (Considering these cards are like £70)

Another one.

I'm running out of storage for games, films and stuff. VMware seems to completely hammer storage. I was thinking about buying another SSD and doing some Raid 0. But not sure wether I need the speed or the capacity, probably the capacity, but I don't have any spare bays in my case. (Not willing to buy a different case. I like it too much) Would external storage be too slow for VMware testing and Plex?

Sorry for the confusing questions.

Also how is the Hyper 212? Good cooler? My i5 is pre Devils Canyon so if its not up to the task, recommend something better?

 

[infernox]

Would something like 4.4 be achievable? Or is it the case of how hot am I comfortable with.

 

[infernox]

The CM should be good enough, and the 4670k is pretty much the same as the 4690k clock for clock, just a better TIM iirc

I would sell the 560Ti on the MM or similar, then perhaps upgrade to a single better card, better idea than getting two 560Tis. One card will most probably be faster, have a bit more VRAM and run cooler/less power. For £155 you can get an R9 280 or £200 a 780Ti/290X

For storage a single 1TB/2TB HDD sounds okay, though perhaps a bit slower at running games

Thank you for your suggestions. I presume you mean external drive? I think a 780ti would be a waste on me to be honest. I will see how desperate I get. Would a 580 run okay?

 

[infernox]

What PSU do you have?

600W OCZ Unit. I think. Not been at that side of my case in a while.

I do know that some of these cards will need a better PSU, was thinking about a EVGA Unit.

 

[infernox]

What games do you play? You are running at 1440p right? For storage an internal drive would be good, bit easier than having an external drive should your motherboard and case support adding another one

Yes, was at 120hz aswell but that was hurting quality a bit too much. dropped it to 96 until I can get something with some oomph behind it.

I don't have the drive bays for another internal one. Ill have another look. Otherwise I'm going to have to swap my 1TB Drives for a 2TB/3TB

I play WoW, Dota 2, Smite, CS GO occasionally and other random games that take my fancy.

 

[infernox]

People always ask why I have a crappy graphics card. I don't feel the need to spend X amount on it. Should I not need it.

I mean, seems a waste to have all that power to play minecraft etc lol.

Should a game I want to play, require more, I will upgrade.

I will look at a 670. Do they have reference coolers? My Ambient temperature inside the case are pretty high. Don't want to make it worse. Although that might get better with a 212 Hyper

 

[infernox]

Depends on the 670 you buy, I have one with a custom EVGA cooler, the £100 one in this thread has a reference/blower style cooler

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18650083

How much more powerful would that be than my 560ti?

I'm guessing quite a lot.

 

[infernox]

Yes my 560ti is faster because of the same core count as a 570

 

[infernox]

Have made him an offer.

Will purchase a 212 Hyper as well. WD black the one to go for?

 

[infernox]

I stray from Seagate where I can. They have stupidly high failure rates here at work. 5 year warranty sounds nice. Not too worried about a tenner or so.

 

[infernox]

I love my Samsung F3s tbh. Shame they don't make them no more?

 

[infernox]

Hmm £99 for a WD Black. There must be a build quality difference if they are £40 more than the Hitachi Drive.

 

[infernox]

2TB £109

 

[infernox]

That would explain it. Will look at my options. But most likely going to be the WD Black.

 

[infernox]

My new (well not new) GTX 670 should be here soon. Gonna order the heatsink too. Hard drive will have to wait a little. Give me an excuse to put in my new motherboard tray Parvum sent me I might put some pics up if anyone's interested.

 

[infernox]

Suggest I pull the cooler off or just give it a spray?

 

[infernox]

I have isopropl. Did have some mx-3 I think. Might have to get some more. Any one use pads for the MOSFETs or anything?

 

[infernox]

I will do just that then. Thanks.

 

[infernox]

Just got the graphics card. Its pretty dusty so will clean it all up. Will wait until the paste and the Hyper 212 gets here. I will then give my PC a good teardown. Its a 2GB Card but considering I was reasonably happy with my 1.25GB Card it can only be better.

Check the MM soon if anyone is after my 560ti. Its got a good chunk of its 5 year warranty left also

 

[infernox]

Well cleaned the card up. Was fairly easy to take a apart. The heatsink was difficult to put back with new paste while trying to make it straight, line up with the holes and not make a mess of the Mx-4 I just put under it. We will see from temperatures. (Whats the average temp of this card?) First time doing that though.

Next conundrum. I have my motherboard tray to put in and the Hyper 212. Although I cannot find a Allen Key anywhere. I have a friend coming over later to help me out.

Sorry on the quality. It seems my very expensive LED Lighting in my room is not ample enough. 13MP Sony Shooter should do better than that though.

It also seems like I have my Ram in Single Channel mode. How awkward. haha.