PC Tech/Gaming Info Thread

[firstchoicett]

anyone here using Flows?

[Chiney]

yep that setup there real sweet, how long it take you to complete everything there? from start to finish

Thanks Elyon and Casper.


Took me around 2 months... to get everything..and the cutting and fabrication took me 8 hrs of constant work in my room.

Started at 6 and finished about 3am, funny thing is I didn't plan at ALL anything. So as the challenges and ideas came, I just dug up material and built whatever.

[Elyon]

8 hrs? wow, gotta hand it to you, that's dedication, what's impressive is that you managed to fit the entire watercooling setup inside the case, if i'm not mistaken that's a thermaltake element V black. I have a friend with a lian li pc-p80 but he has an external water cooling rad so all the tubes has to go outside.

BTW what kind of coolant do u use? distilled water or something better?

[jm3]

anyone know of a water cooler for the backside of the motherboard?
the other side of the processor i want to overclock my new rig a bit but last time i pushed my old rig too far it warped the board its actually bowed out at the socket, managed 4.8ghz on a 955 though lol my new rig will have a corsair h100 as soon as the thing arrives

[todd61]

anyone know of a water cooler for the backside of the motherboard?
the other side of the processor i want to overclock my new rig a bit but last time i pushed my old rig too far it warped the board its actually bowed out at the socket, managed 4.8ghz on a 955 though lol my new rig will have a corsair h100 as soon as the thing arrives

Don't think it have coolers like that lol,but i could be wrong

[Chiney]

Your case would have to support that buddy. My thermaltake Xaser did.

[jm3]

my current case has the backside all open for that the vent is big enough for an external 80mm fan i have a dremel though

[speedaholic]

anyone know of a water cooler for the backside of the motherboard?
the other side of the processor i want to overclock my new rig a bit but last time i pushed my old rig too far it warped the board its actually bowed out at the socket, managed 4.8ghz on a 955 though lol my new rig will have a corsair h100 as soon as the thing arrives

you pushed your 955 to 4.8ghz??? tell me more... i have a 955 also... running @ 3.8 stable now.. idle temps are reletively low... under load goes up to around 55C max...

[jm3]

anyone know of a water cooler for the backside of the motherboard?
the other side of the processor i want to overclock my new rig a bit but last time i pushed my old rig too far it warped the board its actually bowed out at the socket, managed 4.8ghz on a 955 though lol my new rig will have a corsair h100 as soon as the thing arrives

you pushed your 955 to 4.8ghz??? tell me more... i have a 955 also... running @ 3.8 stable now.. idle temps are reletively low... under load goes up to around 55C max...

tbh 3.8 is the sweet spot for that processor,
i ran mine at that for day 2 day,
when you go over 4ghz is when the trouble starts,
4ghz is relatively stable and easy to keep temps below 55 4.2ghz starts to get unstable you'll need to only go up on fsb from then on i had a problem with the multiplier where it would get very unstable at 19.5+ as you encounter instability bring the vdd up and the nb v,
bsod's are normally the rams fault depending on your ram you'll have to downclock the ram to get it stable again there was a table i found that has the correct ram values for the fsb and multiplier values,
remember as the voltages get higher temp becomes the problem if the cooling is insufficient it will go thermal very quickly,
so make sure you have safe guards in place absolute max is the 60 deg mark aim to keep it below 55 degrees 45 degrees i think is optimum (these are stress test temps) when you test stability try and get 20mins for it to be good enough to cpu-z validate it and i think around 1-2 hours for daily use.
have fun but be careful i have been through so many mobos over the past few years its getting silly.

[Chiney]

If your RAM is affecting your OC, I suggest digging up with the Ratio. That would allow you to get a pretty stable speed for the RAM or even just put it back to stock speeds.

[speedaholic]

i think i'll stick with the 3.8 clock for now...:\ my ram is shitty patriot CAS 9 ddr3 1333

[iM@st@1]

Got some Kingston Hyperx 12gb ddr3 for a bess price on Amazon

[Chiney]

^ Good ram!

[iM@st@1]

Boy I shocked at the price I can get 12-16gb of ram now. Mustbe paid twice that for the 8gb of corsair I have now.

[Chiney]

Paid 300TT for my Corsair 8gb kit ( Vengeance)

[speedaholic]

i will upgrade RAM in due time... this works for now.. maybe when i upgrade GFX i will upgrade RAM also... Arkham city is a bit laggy..

[5forward]

jus finished NFS the run.It was frickin awesome ,short an sweet.im sweating here!.The best need for speed in my opinion.Good come back in the aspect of the game being on the streets with police.thats the way nfs was meant to be!.Graphics and handling of vehicles are a lot more realistic.One of my best gaming experiences...especially with the surround sound car audio system and logitech g25 wheel

[thermaltake]

HEY TUNER I'M USING A GTX550TI EVGA WHILE PLAYIN GAMES I NOTICE THE TEMPERATURE GOES UP TO 70 TO 74 SOMTIMES. IS THIS NORMAL? WHAT IS THE NORMAL TEMPERATURE FOR THIS CARD?

[HCCA]

HEY TUNER I'M USING A GTX550TI EVGA WHILE PLAYIN GAMES I NOTICE THE TEMPERATURE GOES UP TO 70 TO 74 SOMTIMES. IS THIS NORMAL? WHAT IS THE NORMAL TEMPERATURE FOR THIS CARD?

Seems your temp normal enough.

[indianlove]

my evga gtx 460 goes up to 70°C with the fan set on auto. when i set the fan speed to 60% it goes up to 50-61°C.

[jm3]

jus finished NFS the run.It was frickin awesome ,short an sweet.im sweating here!.The best need for speed in my opinion.Good come back in the aspect of the game being on the streets with police.thats the way nfs was meant to be!.Graphics and handling of vehicles are a lot more realistic.One of my best gaming experiences...especially with the surround sound car audio system and logitech g25 wheel

That game was pretty good but the way they described it before it came out i thought it was going to be one continuous race across america that's the game i wanted.

[jm3]

HEY TUNER I'M USING A GTX550TI EVGA WHILE PLAYIN GAMES I NOTICE THE TEMPERATURE GOES UP TO 70 TO 74 SOMTIMES. IS THIS NORMAL? WHAT IS THE NORMAL TEMPERATURE FOR THIS CARD?

Seems your temp normal enough.

don't for get ambient air temperature in trinidad is higher than when they test the cards in the states so it is harder to get low temps in trinidad unless you have ac and even in ac its actually warm in comparison 16 degrees is a nice day elsewhere lol

[todd61]

HEY TUNER I'M USING A GTX550TI EVGA WHILE PLAYIN GAMES I NOTICE THE TEMPERATURE GOES UP TO 70 TO 74 SOMTIMES. IS THIS NORMAL? WHAT IS THE NORMAL TEMPERATURE FOR THIS CARD?

When in reaches in the 80's or higher then you have problem.

[5forward]

^agreed.when i now started i couldnt care less about temperatures.kept raising settings which required more from the card n temperatures kept going up...until it burned one day.but i was good into the 90's lol,n iirc i even saw 100(degrees celcius) on very hot days

[Chiney]

Thank God for AC!!

[thermaltake]

hey tanx guys.. anyone know of any cod4 clans in trinidad recruiting?

[HCCA]

don't for get ambient air temperature in trinidad is higher than when they test the cards in the states so it is harder to get low temps in trinidad unless you have ac and even in ac its actually warm in comparison 16 degrees is a nice day elsewhere lol

True eh. Usually they test around 22-25 degrees C ambient temps.

That's why i went full gpu/cpu liquid cooling on my desktops, caribbean weather ftw

No a/c either.

[speedaholic]

jus finished NFS the run.It was frickin awesome ,short an sweet.im sweating here!.The best need for speed in my opinion.Good come back in the aspect of the game being on the streets with police.thats the way nfs was meant to be!.Graphics and handling of vehicles are a lot more realistic.One of my best gaming experiences...especially with the surround sound car audio system and logitech g25 wheel

i finished it a couple days ago...! co-signed everything u posted! game was epic!

[bushwakka]

no AC for me

[jm3]

don't for get ambient air temperature in trinidad is higher than when they test the cards in the states so it is harder to get low temps in trinidad unless you have ac and even in ac its actually warm in comparison 16 degrees is a nice day elsewhere lol

True eh. Usually they test around 22-25 degrees C ambient temps.

That's why i went full gpu/cpu liquid cooling on my desktops, caribbean weather ftw

No a/c either.

boy get some a/c liquid cooling is just more efficient at getting down to ambient you can't cool past ambient without some kind of sorcery like a phase change unit or a peltier the best oc's i ever got were at home in the winter and having to wear a coat in my bedroom all the time lol