Soldato
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- 19 Nov 2011
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Hi fellow Overclockers,
I have been a long time lurker on these forums and have finally managed to create a worth gaming system. Actually to be honest to look back the costs are far more than I expected, but we all know that all familiar upgrade itch don't we?
Anyways to my point, I have tow questions:
1. What improvements would you recommend to my system, possibly not very expensive ones.
2. I am planning on getting a sound card (This one: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-015-AS&groupid=701&catid=11) And I was wondering if it will effect my PCI bandwith speed, currently i'm running @x8 with two GPU's. And am kinda stumped on where the best place (if any) would be for a new sound card.
Would the sound card knock the GPU's bandwith down to lets say x4? or x1? I don't really understand how the z87 chipset works, and how it divides it all up you see.
Below are some pictures of my rig:
So that's what it looks like inside, would you say it looks tidy and all?
Anyways, regarding the sound card, do I need to connect the HD audio from he case to it? It's just it is routed under my mobo, and is a right pain to get to lol.
My system specs are as follows:
Core i5 4670k @4.4ghz
Avexair Ram 8GB 2400mhz
2x Amd R9 270x GPU's OC'd to 1130 core ( Not sure how to go about memory clocking, any suggestions?)
Asrock z87 Extreme 6 (Page located here: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z87 Extreme6/?cat=Download&os=BIOS)
1x 120GB kingston v300 SSD
2x 500GB HDD's
Corsair H100i Corsair link enabled
Corsair RM750 PSU
Corsair air 540
and that's it for now.
so what would be my options regarding all the things I asked? (Sorry I know there is a lot, but I'm curious you see ahaha)
I have been a long time lurker on these forums and have finally managed to create a worth gaming system. Actually to be honest to look back the costs are far more than I expected, but we all know that all familiar upgrade itch don't we?
Anyways to my point, I have tow questions:
1. What improvements would you recommend to my system, possibly not very expensive ones.
2. I am planning on getting a sound card (This one: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-015-AS&groupid=701&catid=11) And I was wondering if it will effect my PCI bandwith speed, currently i'm running @x8 with two GPU's. And am kinda stumped on where the best place (if any) would be for a new sound card.
Would the sound card knock the GPU's bandwith down to lets say x4? or x1? I don't really understand how the z87 chipset works, and how it divides it all up you see.
Below are some pictures of my rig:
So that's what it looks like inside, would you say it looks tidy and all?
Anyways, regarding the sound card, do I need to connect the HD audio from he case to it? It's just it is routed under my mobo, and is a right pain to get to lol.
My system specs are as follows:
Core i5 4670k @4.4ghz
Avexair Ram 8GB 2400mhz
2x Amd R9 270x GPU's OC'd to 1130 core ( Not sure how to go about memory clocking, any suggestions?)
Asrock z87 Extreme 6 (Page located here: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z87 Extreme6/?cat=Download&os=BIOS)
1x 120GB kingston v300 SSD
2x 500GB HDD's
Corsair H100i Corsair link enabled
Corsair RM750 PSU
Corsair air 540
and that's it for now.
so what would be my options regarding all the things I asked? (Sorry I know there is a lot, but I'm curious you see ahaha)
