Thanks for the responses, I appreciate it.
Looks like the hyper 212 is a monster of a cooler. Not sure it will fit in my case. I saw the Freezer 7 Pro had some good reviews. Any thoughts on that one?
Clearly the stock cooler on my i7 930 is junk.
I'm not into overclocking, just need a beast of a machine to do video editing and rendering.
The stock cooler works fine for idling and medium-load tasks. But when rendering video the CPU runs at 100% and brings the temps to 90C! If I could keep...
I'm looking at putting a 9800 GTX+ in my system and it is calling for at a minimum a 450w PSU with 24 Amps on the 12V rail.
I've got a 450 watt power supply. Check. It is a Corsair VX series 450w. I'm a little uneasy as this is the bare minimum that the card is calling for.
However, this PSU...
I'm building a new machine and came across this power supply calculator.
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
From that information, I bought a Corsair 450w power supply (33A on 12V rail). To run the following rig.
i7 930
Asus P6T SE
12 GB Corsair DDR3 1600
DVD-RW
2...
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