Well for the price I paid for it I could have gotten a much better set of ram. I could have gotten 3200mhz CL14 off newegg, or much higher frequencies at the same latency. All is well though, stuff happens. I will play with ram overclocking once I get a stable cpu overclock that I'm happy with.Why is a 3200Mhz CL16 ram a worst ram possible?
Guys aren't we getting a little carried away here?
Downloaded that software and it said they are hynix chips. I guess I bought the worst ram possible, what a waste of money lol. Maybe I can get lucky with a decent overclock though. Stupid me and stupid wife for rushing lol.
I had some Corsair 3200 CL16, it did not overclock for crap. Turns out it is Hynix not Samsung B-Die. I hope you have better luck than I did.The memory is the Corsair dominator 3200Mhz CL 16 set. I’m running it on its XMP profile right now. I’ll eventually push it too.
I’m not sure yet. For now I need to do serious stability testing. It’s been perfectly fine for games and such. I think I’ve got the gpu dialed in at 2050 MHz core and 5950 MHz memory. I put the msi water cooled bios on it which is a dual 8 pin bios instead of the originally hybrid cooled 8+6. The new bios allows up to 330W, but the spec on my connections is only 300W. I can go up to 310W without it crashing, but it can’t take more than that. It seems I have a middling GPU. Now that I’ve unlocked the voltage and allowed more power it reaches up to 37C (about 5C more than before). It unfortunately has a bit of a cool whine now, but not much I can do about that other than clock it down some.
As far as the cpu, I need to sit down and learn the Gigabyte bios. I always used Asus boards in the past so the different option set isn’t familiar yet. I will potentially push it up higher once I am more familiar.
The memory is the Corsair dominator 3200Mhz CL 16 set. I’m running it on its XMP profile right now. I’ll eventually push it too.
I like the water cooling. It keeps things a pretty low noise.
I am as well unfortunately. I will be thoroughly testing it out once I get my overclock on my cpu dialed in. Luckily if this chip isn't above average, I have another one coming in tomorrow xD
Corsair CMPSU-750TX, purchased in 2009, no issues so far
Nice man. Yeah this is my first time with water cooling and I'm definitely a convert.
I'm pretty sure that Nov 11th is their first batch of 8700Ks.Silicon Lottery must have sold out of the 8700K fast, next target is Nov 11th.
I didn't even see the different bins listed earlier this morning
Your video card would largely be your biggest consumer of power; however, if you're not doing SLI or Crossfire of high-end cards, you should be fine with 750W. I don't see you going over 50-60% usage in most cases.
Your video card would largely be your biggest consumer of power; however, if you're not doing SLI or Crossfire of high-end cards, you should be fine with 750W. I don't see you going over 50-60% usage in most cases.
Custom water cooling loops are definitely nice in regard to noise and thermals, but suffer a bit from high cost and time. One thing that frustrated me the most is that you usually can't do anything quickly anymore in your system. Swapping a video card goes from being a quick, five minute job to potentially a half hour at best. This isn't a horrible thing, but it can be annoying. Also, cases seem to be designed and maybe some radiators, but pumps have largely been an issue for me. I first used a Corsair 800D, which was fine, but it just didn't have good room for radiators. I swapped to the Corsair 900D, which had tons of radiator space, but it has nowhere to put the pump! (I also built a custom setup for mounting the reservoir that didn't involve drilling into the case.) Thankfully, companies like EKWB have fan-based mounts, which help alleviate that issue.
I'll admit that I was tempted to go with water again, and fortunately, I do have some of the components (pumps, reservoirs, etc.) left over, but I'd still spend a few hundred on blocks and radiators. To note, I also didn't really use quick disconnects in my previous systems. Using those can help alleviate excessive time due to allowing parts to be removed separately without a full loop flush.
That's why I went with a Thermaltake the Tower 900. Plenty of room for whatever you may want to do.
We are in the same boat kind of. I have the corsair 900D as well and planned on doing a custom loop but ended up grabbing an AIO to get my system up and running immediately.