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AuShadow
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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 08:18
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Just excited so thought I'd share my new build, well old case with new guts.

Intel i7 7700k cpu
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16Gb DDR 4 ram at 2400mhz
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ASUS Prime b250m5 motherboard



Just waiting on my deepcool maelstrom all in one water cooler to really push the CPU a bit. Loads from shutdown quick as now. Haven't had time to do any GameGuru tests as of yet
PC Specs: Windows 10 home 64-bit, Amd 7900 3gb DDR5 graphics, 8gb DDR3 Ram, Intel i7 3.4ghz

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Belidos
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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 11:22
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I'm actually sitting g at home waiting for my new build to arrive

i7 7700k @4.2 CPU
GTX 1070 8gb GPU
16gb 3200 mhz RAM
2tb Samsung hybrids drive

This has been the longest 2hrs of my life

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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 11:30
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Thought about the hybrid drives but yeah after using it I do not regret at all getting the SSD for at least operating system, I have my old 2 * 1 TB HDDs still but yeah full SSD or m.2 drive for windows for me here on out..... Loads Soo fast
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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 11:33
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Oh and by the way let.me know how you go with temperature on the i7 7700K for encoding video I had to go into bios and turn turbo off as it was going over 90 degrees Celsius almost Instantly, will try again after I get the water cooler for it but yeah ran very hot using a stock air cooler
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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 12:04
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Yeah oc'd will always run hot, so the more cooling the better, water cooling is a definite must.

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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 14:07 Edited at: 27th Feb 2017 14:07
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Yeah but that was stock I didn't change any settings, had to underclock from stock lol
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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 14:14
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are you sure that's the right reading or that the fan is working and attached correctly? 90c would be close to frying the cpu, generally speaking your cpu shouldnt go above 70c under full load, most motherboards have a built in shut off for too high temperatures in my experience.
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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 14:25
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Yeah for the 7700K it throttles down after 100 degrees but I have no Interest in letting it get that high, just using the cooler that was with my i7 2600 until the water cooler arrives and hopefully I can bump it back up again, has been over 40 degrees ambient here as well so that doesn't help.
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Posted: 27th Feb 2017 15:32 Edited at: 27th Feb 2017 15:32
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I used to have the old fashioned water cooling with a big rad.now I have a sealed unit for my cpu,much better.cooling has come a long way.( good luck with the new builds hope they both work well)

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Posted: 28th Feb 2017 16:01
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Quote: "are you sure that's the right reading or that the fan is working and attached correctly? 90c would be close to frying the cpu, generally speaking your cpu shouldnt go above 70c under full load, most motherboards have a built in shut off for too high temperatures in my experience."


Apparently the Kabey Lake processors run a little hotter than other intel processors, normal range is low 40's on idle, up to 60 on low usage, medium usage is up to low 70's, and high usage is up to the low 90's

Mine's running around 32 on idle, playing in a raid last night on world of Warcraft it was hitting the high 40's, and playing overwatch it was managing to hit the high 60's (both on max settings), but that's probably because I only have 5 fans.

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Posted: 28th Feb 2017 16:52
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Ivy bridge and the first series of haswell chips did run hot due to paste being used instead of soldering the hood on the die.
Apparently they use paste again after the refresh of haswell's with a soldered hood.
If that is the case, a very good cpu cooler instead of the stock cooler is certainly preferable.
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Posted: 1st Mar 2017 03:22
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Yeah doesn't help that it's fairly common to have 40 degree days here for ambient temp lol, too expensive to cool the whole house down to low 20's, btw if anyone from Aus reads this and wants to make an offer on any of my old components feel free here is what I have:

I7 2600 3.4ghz
8Gb DDR3 ram
Motherboard with ram.and CPU still installed .
AMD 7900 gfx card I think it was 4gb men
GeForce GTX 670 3gb gfx card

All sitting around doing nothing
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Posted: 9th Apr 2017 15:11
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Quote: "probably because I only have 5 fans."

Not enough?!

I've ended up going for an AMD 1700 here, against my golden rule of Intel, Intel, Intel. I'm hoping it will be a better long term investment with all those extra cores to work with. Will have to see how temps hold up, but I've heard good reports overall.

Anyone tried their new system out in GG yet? Seeing any improvements?


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Posted: 9th Apr 2017 17:14
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Quote: "Not enough?! "


Lol, I was kidding, that many fans is keeping me well below the base temperatures, it can get noisy when ramped up but it works

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Posted: 9th Apr 2017 18:58
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But we all love fans and lights ...erm and more light and fans = silent fans pipe more lights lol I have an alienware x11 case and it lights up like an xmas tree lol propebly costs me more for the lights than it does the heating bill.
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Posted: 9th Apr 2017 19:12
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Quote: " lights "


Nope, nope, nope, just no! I can't stand lights on a PC, they 're pointless and just annoying, my latest PC I built specifically without a glass panel because I hate lights on my PC, but it still had Aura on the board, and even with an enclosed case the shifting lights were coming through the vents etc and actuqally keeping me awake, took me a week to work out how to disable aura, never buying Asus again.

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Posted: 10th Apr 2017 15:14
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I have a MSI board on the way that apparently lights up all over, but pretty sure the case will cover it. That is of course if I put the sides back on ;p not to see the lights, but because that's normally how my PC's live. This newish craze of lighting up your PC's like a Christmas tree, I haven't ever really seen the point. I mean I spend 99.9999999% of the time looking at my monitor, not the insides of my Tower. I think my CPU fan lights up as well, joy ;p


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Posted: 10th Apr 2017 16:40
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The youth is quite attracted to it, there is a broad fanbase for case modding.

Lights on the mainboard, fans with light in them, the ability to change colors, a design case, watercooling with light and coloured fluid.
And of course it is a plus if the mainboard has many features including a nice layout or theme.

For me it must be essential and practical, so i'll buy a B350 board with a 1700 (or newer version) when i've saved enough money for it in 2 years time.
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