wonderboy1953
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Why isn't this a sticky?
Certainly has a great deal of interest in this thread.
Certainly has a great deal of interest in this thread.
Post A Pic Of Your Pc Here :)
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Spesh
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Cheers man, glad you like it.
When is red and black not sexy!?
It's not sexy when it's not on my desk..... so send that sh*t
Someone's jelly
I am very jelly.... but it's ok.... once i am done my pc build... i might make you jelly
Aastii
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My fans and memory came today.
Can't use the CM fans as one had a fan knocked off during shipping, I'm waiting on OcUK to get back to me so I can return them.
I moved my rear fan too. I wasn't going to use it, however found that my temperatures are much better with it moved to the very bottom of the case. More air is getting pulled into the main compartment from the fan that was originally there, plus more is taken into the hard drive fan.
Finally, I moved every cable behind so not a single cable can be seen (apart from where they have to be visible to connect of course).
I was previously on ~35 degrees idle, now 15 degrees idle
The system with it all together. The flash makes the cables at the top seem much more visible than they actually are, in reality they are pressed against the back and therefore blend in and are near invisible.
The memory, however now installed in the other slots and the memory was just about too high for the heatsink.
and sorry for the blurriness, but that is the fans and memory in there, minus my heatsink and video card. All exhausts dragging air straight out of the top. The only thing I dislike about this setup now is that I can't put my feet behind my computer to warm them up now
Can't use the CM fans as one had a fan knocked off during shipping, I'm waiting on OcUK to get back to me so I can return them.
I moved my rear fan too. I wasn't going to use it, however found that my temperatures are much better with it moved to the very bottom of the case. More air is getting pulled into the main compartment from the fan that was originally there, plus more is taken into the hard drive fan.
Finally, I moved every cable behind so not a single cable can be seen (apart from where they have to be visible to connect of course).
I was previously on ~35 degrees idle, now 15 degrees idle
The system with it all together. The flash makes the cables at the top seem much more visible than they actually are, in reality they are pressed against the back and therefore blend in and are near invisible.
The memory, however now installed in the other slots and the memory was just about too high for the heatsink.
and sorry for the blurriness, but that is the fans and memory in there, minus my heatsink and video card. All exhausts dragging air straight out of the top. The only thing I dislike about this setup now is that I can't put my feet behind my computer to warm them up now
Aastii
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but you could use it as a foot rest
No I couldn't, the clearance between the desk and the case is ~2 inches...a little less than my leg
you are forgetting that my case is over 3 foot tall, in case you couldn't tell from the picture haha
jonnyp11
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i don't know your setup, but that is a good point, but if your cold enough you can always just shatter all the bones, then it'll fit. and what is that case? you don't have it in your sig, but it looks like a corsair to me, maybe cooler master. and since i just noticed the corsair fans i'll say corsair, but what case exactly, guessing obsidian series
linkin
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Might want to update your sig dec, pretty sure those Ripjaws X aren't made by Corsair
Which speed did you get? I got the 1600MHz ones.
And I'm pretty sure you can take the latch thing on the cooler apart and mount the cooler vertically, drawing air from the drive bays instead of off the back of the 560ti. I think we had this discussion before and you said it was impossible
Which speed did you get? I got the 1600MHz ones.
And I'm pretty sure you can take the latch thing on the cooler apart and mount the cooler vertically, drawing air from the drive bays instead of off the back of the 560ti. I think we had this discussion before and you said it was impossible
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I was previously on ~35 degrees idle, now 15 degrees idle
uhh, really? You have a damn cold ambient temp for that. Normal room temperature is 21-22c.
I was previously on ~35 degrees idle, now 15 degrees idle
What the hell, do you live in a fridge? I live in Canada (aka cold central) and i don't come close to that. Simple fact i need to heat up my house so water lines don't freeze.
Aastii
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Might want to update your sig dec, pretty sure those Ripjaws X aren't made by Corsair
Which speed did you get? I got the 1600MHz ones.
And I'm pretty sure you can take the latch thing on the cooler apart and mount the cooler vertically, drawing air from the drive bays instead of off the back of the 560ti. I think we had this discussion before and you said it was impossible
1600 MHz. Didn't get em for the speed though, just capacity
I can't put it sideways, the heatpipes don't allow for the latch to go over, and even so the drive bays are completely sealed off from the main compartment, the only space for air to more in that compartment is at the top, bottom and rear.
The way that the airflow is, it is literally like a wind tunnel in there now from bottom to top, so there really is no reason to switch it all around. The rate of air coming in and going out, the air passing through the CPU really isn't hot at all. Feeling above my case the air is barely even warm. The temperatures I'm seeing prove just that.
I have to say though, the last time I put my cooler on I put the thermal paste on like a gimp, there wasn't really enough there so that was probably adding a good 3-5 degrees at least, but even so, dropping ~20 degrees is nothing to sniff at
Yep, really. You have to remember this was on a ~5 degrees night, we hadn't had the heat on and the door to the hallway which is damn cold was open, meaning ambient was maybe 13-14 at best.
It isn't the coldest my system has ever been, I used to have it upstairs where the room it was in had two outward facing walls and a crappy rad, meaning in winter the temperature outside = temperature inside, making for a system that, for a week or two, idled at ~8 degrees.
Right now, 10% CPU usage is about 20 degrees, so near enough idle temperatures
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funkysnair
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some old photos of my baby, i do miss tinkering on with her but the love of gaming was over...
sad day for me
them dual d5's made a very attractive swirling motion in the resivour, nice to look at but i tink they might have been a little too pwerfull lol
sad day for me
them dual d5's made a very attractive swirling motion in the resivour, nice to look at but i tink they might have been a little too pwerfull lol
