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 Posted: Wed, 14th Mar 2012 21:55 Post subject: |
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Well sure, if you're willing to push just a bit more - the i7 is by far the better choice, but I still recommend switching the cooler to one of the liquid coolers, either the Kuhla or the H80. That ends up bumping the price by over £100, up to £507 instead of £399 for the i5.
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Mar 2012 23:21 Post subject: |
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The good noctua coolers are on par with the closed circuit water coolers in my experience, also they don't come with the risk that watercooling does.
I'm currently using a NOCTUA NH-D14 and I'm very happy with it since it effectively cools my 2600k@4.5ghz keeping it around 45-58 degrees depending on workload, prime95 pushed it to 64 during my initial stresstest.
It's also very quiet at 17db which is around the same level of noise you'd have in a water cooling kit due to radiator.
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Mar 2012 22:43 Post subject: |
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Thats very strange, this is my third Noctua cooler I've had them in my last 3 systems, never had those issues. They generally get favorable reviews aswell.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Mar 2012 22:45 Post subject: |
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I have D14 as well, and it is fantastic. 
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Mar 2012 22:52 Post subject: |
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The heatsink never seemed to absorb any of the heat, it was ice-cold to the touch 24/7, no matter the load, and the CPU temps were way too high. I RMAed it and the customer support was excellent, replaced the heatsink at no charge for the device or the postage and didn't even ask for the old one back. Same deal. Absolutely no heat transfer of any kind. I RMAed it again, once more; same deal. I never had any trouble on my previous AC Freezer Pro and I've had no trouble with my current H80.
I'm not saying Noctua coolers are bad, just that mine didn't work.
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Apr 2012 22:50 Post subject: |
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So I went with the following, still waiting for delivery, I believe its still going through the OC testing:
i7 2600k (OC'd to 4.7Ghz)
Corsair H80 Cooler
Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 Gen3
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3
Going to be running it with the following that I currently have:
XFX 5870
Antec P190
NeoLink 650P and NeoLink 550S PSU's
I got the H80 thinking the H100 wouldn't fit in my case, then realised it would after buying.. hopefully it will still do the job. Now I need to go find the 200mm fan it used to have strapped inside of it that I had to remove to fit the HSF in my current build!
It better arrive tomorrow :\..
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Mar 2013 02:18 Post subject: |
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NECRO!
So.. I have found myself a new injection of cash and despite the wedding I have to pay for I've decided I deserve a new GPU. For those who recall my threads a long long time ago now, my GPU has always been a major pain in my ass:
- Crashes (drive) when trying to do video acceleration in flash/media players
- Some odd issues with on monitor constantly changing resolutions to 640x480 and being a pain to change back.
- Screen tearing on the desktop..
Any who, its been fucked for ages but as it still technically functioned I've not replaced it.
How should I upgrade? Spec is still as above (although I have SSD now too). I run at 2x1900x1200 1x1280x1024.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 09:35 Post subject: |
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Werelds
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 09:50 Post subject: |
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Assuming prices for you are the same as they are here in NL: 7950 or 7970.
I just cannot recommend a 680 when it's 100 EUR more expensive than a 7970, same for a 670 over a 7950 (670 costs the same as a 7970 atm). Nvidia are riding the marketing train, feeding off the "ZOMG TITAN R FASTEST" hype to sell their existing stuff at inflated prices.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 11:27 Post subject: |
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7950 with good aftermarket cooler, you should buy "Boost" edition to be sure that you can overclock your card, since like 90% of 7950/7970 are voltage locked now :/ Boost edition uses 1.25V bios which should take your card to 1100-1200 core if its a good overclocker.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 17:48 Post subject: |
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No point in any of the liquid all in ones unless you're getting the Swiftech. Might pay a bit more but you're getting a Swiftech manufactured pump with the ability to add more tonthe loop.
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 18:27 Post subject: |
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The H80 has done me well these past few months but I wish I'd either waited and gone the whole hog with full on watercooling. Still, for the price, its doing a fantastic job at cooling with minimal effort and the same cost as a air cooler (pretty much).
Thanks for the advice about going for ATI, slightly upsetting as I was hoping to avoid ATI given the disaster I had with the last card.. but if its the best for the price it makes sense. I'm so far behind in GPU hardware these days, are we expecting any new releases soon that will bring the current gen prices down?
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 18:28 Post subject: |
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Dont think we are gonna see anything new this year, expect some overpriced Titan "cut down" versions from Nvidia.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 19:26 Post subject: |
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No, we won't see anything until late Q4 this or Q1 next year
And I'm pretty sure you just got unlucky on your card, my 5870 had absolutely no issues. Quite the opposite in fact, considering I could get to 975 MHz on stock voltage with mine 
That said, considering you run multiple monitors, Nvidia is still shit as ever with that. When I have multiple turned on and set to extend, at completely random points shit starts lagging in Windows. Literally just drops to like 10 FPS. Similarly, it is a 100% guaranteed Aero warning ("Do you want to disable Aero for performance?"). I have not had that message since I disconnected my secondary monitor. Not once. And neither my 5870 nor 6950 ever had any problems with that
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 20:23 Post subject: |
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its good cooler but nowhere near of Accelero Xtreme tho. The voltage is now locked on most cards, but that doesnt really matter if you buy GHZ card, it will have stock 1.25V which is pretty much max guaranteed safe voltage (1.3V max in afterburner). So a 7970 with 1.25V is gonna for sure hit 1100 core atleast, after that its lottery.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 23:02 Post subject: |
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Werelds
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Mar 2013 23:58 Post subject: |
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Yep, go for the Vapor-X - although I must admit I haven't actually read any reviews on the 7970 Vapor-X, the previous ones were always among the best, if not the best
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