[kylezo]

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Are you referring to this particular post of head-fi itself? Either way I agree

Just the way the conversation was like, "nice rig, what's your soundcard?" "oh, idk what sound signature I'm gonna have for my next cans so I'm not sure yet" hahaha
 

 

[Emporio]

Intel i7-950 cooled by a corsair H80
Intel DX58SO mother board
Nvidia 470 GTX
2 x Seagate 1TB Harddisk
Windows 7 Home Premium 
Coolermaster GX 750W Bronze
NZXT Hades Computer case
3 x 2 GB RAM

That's it, quite an old setup! Looking forward in getting a new GPU ^^ Recommendations anyone?

 

[music_man]

i have a new spec. h100. first one was defective. overheat shutdown in 10 seconds. second one idling at 18c, 36c under full load! cool! lol.

 

[music_man]

just a question guys please. i lowered the pwm fan control from stock 1.75 to 1.50. i was wondering if it can still go max fans if it needs to? thanks.

 

[nihaz]

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just a question guys please. i lowered the pwm fan control from stock 1.75 to 1.50. i was wondering if it can still go max fans if it needs to? thanks.

I'm fairly sure that it depends on the motherboard... Some do and some don't.. Does it have a quiet mode or performance mode?
 
IE: My CPU cooler fan is always rotating at the same speed, regardless of the temperature of the CPU
 
edit: Why lower the fan speed? The cooler the better, even if the noise it quite loud...

 

[music_man]

because i am trying to listen to music in here lol. it is a digital controller on the front of the case bot the motherboard. they will still spin faster the hotter it gets but it is rpm per c. so i will not have as much cooling at any temp as on max. max is like a friggin jet engine. no good for me. right now it is turned way down and it is idling at 21c. prime95 gets it to 41c. that is good enough quite frankly imo. sure, the colder the better but i can't stand it that loud. at max i kind of guess i could break 5ghz but i don't really mind 4.5. the 6 core does not o/c as good as the 2500k to begin with.

 

[blufox4900]

Recently upgraded my computer
 
8gb DDR3 1600 ram
Sapphire HD 6850
AMD FX-6100 Stock
1TB Western Digital HD
64GB Crucial M4 SSD
Asrock 970 Extreme 3
Antec BP550 psu
 
Quick question, if the cpu socket is AM3+ should older amd cpu coolers work on it? I bought an aftermarket sunbeam core contact freezer cooler for my cooler but for some reason it wouldn't fit, off by just a cm but just won't fit regardless so I'm sticking with stock cooling for now. 

 

[Cheapy]

Thought it was the same mounting as AM3 which is the same as AM2+. Only think I could think of was that you got somthing back to front etc or if its clips onto the CPU socket frame mayby that has changed slightly?

 

[phantomgrave]

- Antec 900
- i5 2500K @ 4.3/4.4Ghz (can't remember)
- Asus P8P67 Rev. 3
- MSI GTX560Ti Twin Frozr II/OC
- 8GB GSkill Ripjaws 1600
- Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
- Corsair HX850
- Logitech MX518
- Logitech K800
- Windows 7 x64
- LG W2353V
 
 
I pretty much only boot it up to play Battlefield 3. Everything else is done on my 13" MBP (early 2011) with 8GB RAM and 500GB Seagate Momentus XT upgrades.

 

[Astrozombie]

So i moved my rig over to the plasma to play games, watch movies n such a whole lot easier. Then i set up some cheapo rig in my room, lol it was...
 
P4 1.8ghz Willamette
512mb DDR
VIA Savage S3 graphics on MSI mobo, upgraded to Radeon 7000 hoping for native 1680*1050 and it still wouldn't work.
80gb IDE HDD
 
And i loaded Windows 7 on it! Haha! Not sure if it was the RAM or CPU, probably both, but it was just unusable! Replaced it with:
 
Athlon 64 3000+ (which is awesome cause it was my first gaming rig CPU)
1GB DDR
Asrock board that just so happens to have AGP and PCI-E, woot!
HD3450, woohoo full screen!
Xonar DG
200GB SATA
I ordered that Logisys clear case i always wanted for it as well! Should be here soon.
 
Of course my rig was:
C2D@ 3ghz
4gb
GTX460
Xonar DS
WD 640GB
Corsair modular 520W
 
Family rig:
Athlon X4 (soon to be X6)
2GB
GT240
Xonar DG
WD 320GB
OCZ modular 500W
 
All of them crunching World Community Grid, if head-fi doesn't have any crunching teams we need to start one! Helping find cures for cancer, mapping the internet, math equations or looking for aliens, it's all good fun!
 
 
 

 

[Rebel975]

I broke down recently and bought a HP ZR2740w. Such a beautiful monitor, and the anti glare coating doesn't bother me at all. I just need a graphics card with a displayport output and everything will be perfect.

 

[music_man]

guys i read most sandybridge boards like to run the "auto" vcore setting around 1.36. the cpu takes 1.2. won't this kill the cpu? i lowered it manually to get 1.2 which was actually setting it at 1.08 and got instant bsod. perhaps the readings and sensors are just not accurate on this stuff? i am just worried about killing the cpu. thanks.

 

[2deadeyes]

ABS Canyon 695
Corsair HX850 PS
Intel i7 990X
12GB RAM Corsair Dominator
nVidia GTX580 SLI
Samsung 830 512GB for OS/Apps
Crucial M4 128GB for games (BF3 99% of the time)
2x2TB Samsung Spinpoint for storage
B&W MM-1 speakers
Razer Mamba
NEC LCD3090WQXi
 

 

[nihaz]

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ABS Canyon 695
Corsair HX850 PS
Intel i7 990X
12GB RAM Corsair Dominator
nVidia GTX580 SLI
Samsung 830 512GB for OS/Apps
Crucial M4 128GB for games (BF3 99% of the time)
2x2TB Samsung Spinpoint for storage
B&W MM-1 speakers
Razer Mamba
NEC LCD3090WQXi
 

Beautiful set up, I must say though... that the mouse pad you have is incredibly large... what sensitivity do you usually use for BF3?
 

 

[2deadeyes]

Thanks! I switch mouse sensitivity on-the-fly when scoped with sniper rifles in BF3 (I believe from 2000 to 800 dpi) so the large surface area is definitely needed. I also like the extra granular control I have when editing images, especially zoomed in, using the large mouse pad and low dpi.