Not bad at all. Not too sure about the green and 212 EVO, but the specs are decent. Which monitor do you have? (hoping it isnt the one shown in Speccy)
Not bad at all. Not too sure about the green and 212 EVO, but the specs are decent. Which monitor do you have? (hoping it isnt the one shown in Speccy)
212 EVO is a great CPU cooler. Use it myself and can't complain. Keeps temps low even while CPU is at 100%. No thermal throttle.
Sadly it is haha. Held off on a monitor until I decide what I'm going with. Split between a single 1080 monitor with 144hz and 1ms response or a triple 60hz setup. And as for the 212, it's an amazing cooler.
Sadly it is haha. Held off on a monitor until I decide what I'm going with. Split between a single 1080 monitor with 144hz and 1ms response or a triple 60hz setup. And as for the 212, it's an amazing cooler.
I'd go for either a 1080p 144Hz or 1440p IPS (144Hz if you have the money) to start with. Gaming on triple monitors is very overrated, most don't support it very well anyway. It's also a lot less useful in FPS games than you'd think it is, the extra screen space doesn't really help with awareness as you have 3x the area to look at and assess.
As for the 212, I only really see it as a low-mid range cooler. It's decent for the price, but if you're planning on overclocking (which you should be, given the unlocked i5 and Z97 board), something like an NH-D15/14, Phanteks PH-TC14PE or Cryorig R1 Ultimate would probably have been a better choice.
Project SleeveAllTheThings is coming along nicely. Quite time consuming, but after seeing it start to come together I would say it's been worth the time spent slicing my fingers open, starting to look fairly respectable.
Still to do are most fan/PWM cables, 1x PCIe 8pin and a whole bunch of other stuff like molex, SATA, header cables and so on. Total spent so far (not including tools I already had like heatgun etc) is $12 on eBay paracord, $8 for heatshrink and $15ish for proper pin removal tools (staples work fine though if skimping).
As some guy once said and I shamelessly stole, my cable management consists of whether I can get the side panel back on. This is amazing and I want it.
Hah! Looking at the picture on my work PC, it's pink. Looks nice and red on my tablet. Oh well, downsides of a cheap screen, I guarantee that it's a nice bright red IRL. (This is a prime example of why I shouldn't use Photoshop on a $150 tablet haha..)
Sleeving and management is actually easier than you'd think if you take your time, you should definitely have a crack at it if you have a couple of hours on and off to do bits and pieces. I've been doing one cable per day, ATX24pin counting as two. Relatively cheap if you sleeve existing cables, and the results are worth it.
Funnily enough, it looks a very nice red on my (perfectly calibrated) IPS displays. It's your work PC's screen that's cheap, right, not your tablet?
Definitely going to try at some point, though probably not for a while. I've recently gotten into nice watches, which, if you know anything about them, you know they cost A LOT of money. Maybe I'll do it when I finally go X99 (X119, maybe?).
Where'd you get your connectors? Lutro0 customs (now called Mainframe Customs)? I've been looking for connectors myself and I don't really like the price of theirs, but I can't find them anywhere else. (And I definitely do not want to sleeve existing cables, need them as a backup.)
Tablet screen is, it's a HP Omni10 - rather decent tablet for $150 secondhand though. Current monitor is a BenQ GL2450, looks red-pinkish. *shrugs* Who cares.
Connectors are original RM750 (i'm sleeving existing, I have CX750M cables as backup if needed), that said though, I do have some 18AWG wire, SATA power connectors, RM peripheral connectors and plenty of heatshrink on the way from ModDIY to make up some custom SATA power cables with perfect distance between connectors for the Enthoo HDD cage. Will be a lot neater. I also bought some PWM fan connectors with pins to shorten or lengthen fan cables as needed as I sleeve them, along with a dupont crimping tool to match.
Case: Cyberpower X-Titan Black/Red Full-Tower Case
Monitor: ASUS VN247 (1920x1080@60Hz)
Other Peripherals:
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit Edition
Other notes: Was stupid buying a prebuilt, yes, but Best Buy messed up and I got a $1700 dollar computer for $1500. I've since upgraded the GPU from a 750ti to the current 770.
The original SuperNova NEX series weren't great in voltage regulation and had some ripple issues (They'd hold up, but not in the most ideal way). I honestly wouldn't recommend buying an EVGA power supply unless you're willing to spend a fair bit more for the G2 power supplies, which are excellent.
B2 and GS are pretty nice as well. Though I'm a fan of the Rosewill Capstone 550w for $30-40. (Assuming it's still priced at that.)
Leviathan just done got upgraded >:)
Pictures inbound
Added second 970, upgraded to XFX TS850W PSU, only thing needs to get added is a better cooler, this thing is holding me back maybe replace that 120 in the back with two 140s for lulz
Ok I'll get some pictures when I have good lighting, but the X61 is pretty neat. Idle temps are great, I idle at around 29-30 and max out at around 65 when stress testing my 1.39v 4.5ghz i5 6600k on the silent profile, so temps are fine but that should be obvious with a 280mm rad on a low power quad core chip. The fans don't even need to spool up at all. It looks great, also duh.
There are two issues that are bugging me however. One is that the RGB LED sucks. It CANNOT display orange, just reds or shades of yellow, sometimes even yellow green. The closest I got was setting it to brown and got a somewhat orangish color. Also a lot of other colors aren't that great. It'll do reds, blues, greens, and purple/pink great but yellows and oranges are awful, and some lighter colors end up looking white or have a lot of another color blended in. So no matching the LED to the orange LED strip on my motherboard :/
Second is pump gurgling, some days when I turn it on it will gurgle really badly for an hour or more, even if I set the pump RPM to max to try and force out air bubbles, tip the case around to move air bubbles around, whatever it'll gurgle and it really annoys me. Then it'll stop, be totally silent, I'll turn off my PC, nothing the next day, day after that I'll turn it on and gurgling is back. Even though I never moved it and I thought the bubbles had worked themselves into the reservoir area. So hopefully that'll stop because it's kinda loud and not a constant background hum like fans which you can ignore.
Lastly for the first day the pump was making a rattling noise, I thought it was broken but it turns out you have to go into your bios and turn whatever fan header you have it plugged into to FULL SPEED/100%/MAX VOLTAGE or whatever, because if it is on a normal or dynamic or low voltage setting the pump does not get enough power and rattles and runs badly. They don't mention this in the documentation and I had to find that online.
So yeah I got it for its looks and not performance because I didn't need the performance, got a lot of performance anyways, but gurgling can get annoying at times and the RGB LED sucks. However I feel like the gurgling issue is going to be an issue with any CLC, at least asetek CLCs so the only way to escape that and get a truly silent PC is to go air cooling.
That's extremely expensive and my case isn't that big, it's definitely doable in an S340 but it would still be a little cramped and I'd need something like an EK predator with the pump and res combined with the rad to fit it all in. Most of the time the CLC is quiet so I don't really have to worry, it's just for an hour or two after I turn on the PC which is annoying but I can live with it.
Not bad at all. Not too sure about the green and 212 EVO, but the specs are decent. Which monitor do you have? (hoping it isnt the one shown in Speccy)
K95 RGB / Logitech G502 PS / Alienware AW3418DW / ViewSonic XG2703-GS / Sennheiser HD 598
212 EVO is a great CPU cooler. Use it myself and can't complain. Keeps temps low even while CPU is at 100%. No thermal throttle.
Sadly it is haha. Held off on a monitor until I decide what I'm going with. Split between a single 1080 monitor with 144hz and 1ms response or a triple 60hz setup. And as for the 212, it's an amazing cooler.
My rig: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/cyNNnQ
I'd go for either a 1080p 144Hz or 1440p IPS (144Hz if you have the money) to start with. Gaming on triple monitors is very overrated, most don't support it very well anyway. It's also a lot less useful in FPS games than you'd think it is, the extra screen space doesn't really help with awareness as you have 3x the area to look at and assess.
As for the 212, I only really see it as a low-mid range cooler. It's decent for the price, but if you're planning on overclocking (which you should be, given the unlocked i5 and Z97 board), something like an NH-D15/14, Phanteks PH-TC14PE or Cryorig R1 Ultimate would probably have been a better choice.
K95 RGB / Logitech G502 PS / Alienware AW3418DW / ViewSonic XG2703-GS / Sennheiser HD 598
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Computer Technician
Magnus IT Computer Repair
Project SleeveAllTheThings is coming along nicely. Quite time consuming, but after seeing it start to come together I would say it's been worth the time spent slicing my fingers open, starting to look fairly respectable.
Still to do are most fan/PWM cables, 1x PCIe 8pin and a whole bunch of other stuff like molex, SATA, header cables and so on. Total spent so far (not including tools I already had like heatgun etc) is $12 on eBay paracord, $8 for heatshrink and $15ish for proper pin removal tools (staples work fine though if skimping).
Worth it.
K95 RGB / Logitech G502 PS / Alienware AW3418DW / ViewSonic XG2703-GS / Sennheiser HD 598
Hah! Looking at the picture on my work PC, it's pink. Looks nice and red on my tablet. Oh well, downsides of a cheap screen, I guarantee that it's a nice bright red IRL. (This is a prime example of why I shouldn't use Photoshop on a $150 tablet haha..)
Sleeving and management is actually easier than you'd think if you take your time, you should definitely have a crack at it if you have a couple of hours on and off to do bits and pieces. I've been doing one cable per day, ATX24pin counting as two. Relatively cheap if you sleeve existing cables, and the results are worth it.
K95 RGB / Logitech G502 PS / Alienware AW3418DW / ViewSonic XG2703-GS / Sennheiser HD 598
Tablet screen is, it's a HP Omni10 - rather decent tablet for $150 secondhand though. Current monitor is a BenQ GL2450, looks red-pinkish. *shrugs* Who cares.
Connectors are original RM750 (i'm sleeving existing, I have CX750M cables as backup if needed), that said though, I do have some 18AWG wire, SATA power connectors, RM peripheral connectors and plenty of heatshrink on the way from ModDIY to make up some custom SATA power cables with perfect distance between connectors for the Enthoo HDD cage. Will be a lot neater. I also bought some PWM fan connectors with pins to shorten or lengthen fan cables as needed as I sleeve them, along with a dupont crimping tool to match.
Figured I might as well do a good job of it.
K95 RGB / Logitech G502 PS / Alienware AW3418DW / ViewSonic XG2703-GS / Sennheiser HD 598
You just found me my new PSU, thanks!
B2 and GS are pretty nice as well. Though I'm a fan of the Rosewill Capstone 550w for $30-40. (Assuming it's still priced at that.)
• CPU: Intel Core i3 4150 @3.5GHz
• Mobo: ASRock H97M Anniversary
• Ram: Kingston Fury HyperX Black 8GB(2x4) @1866MHz
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 2GB GDDR5
• PSU: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified
• HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
• HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB
• Case: Lian Li PC-50
• Monitor: Acer P221w 22" 1680x1050 60Hz
• Headset: Kingston Fury HyperX Clouds
• Mouse: Razer Deathadder 3.5G 3500DPI
• Keyboard: Cooler Master Storm Quickfire Rapid w/ Cherry MX Blues
Added second 970, upgraded to XFX TS850W PSU, only thing needs to get added is a better cooler, this thing is holding me back maybe replace that 120 in the back with two 140s for lulz
i5-4690K @4.6GHz ~ ASRock Z97X Fatal1ty Killer ~ EKWB Supremacy MX ~ Watercooled SLI STRIX 970s
Project RedShift
My desk. Its a little messy. Don't judge
Here is the specs for these computers
My PC
My Toshiba Satellite Laptop
Just waiting on an NZXT Kraken X61 that's in the mail. I mostly got it because it'll look miles better lol.
i5 6600k 4.6ghz / MSI 280X / 8Gb 2666 DDR4 / Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 / TX550M / 500Gb 850 EVO / NZXT S340 / Corsair K65 / Corsair M60
My YouTube Channel --->https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM70mQPHXT9RC8skS5pK6Vg
Sweet keyboard. Where did you get it?
not sure the exact store, but you can find it on pcpartpicker
My YouTube Channel --->https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM70mQPHXT9RC8skS5pK6Vg
Let me know how the x61 is, that's the one I was considering getting for this thing
i5-4690K @4.6GHz ~ ASRock Z97X Fatal1ty Killer ~ EKWB Supremacy MX ~ Watercooled SLI STRIX 970s
Project RedShift
Ok I'll get some pictures when I have good lighting, but the X61 is pretty neat. Idle temps are great, I idle at around 29-30 and max out at around 65 when stress testing my 1.39v 4.5ghz i5 6600k on the silent profile, so temps are fine but that should be obvious with a 280mm rad on a low power quad core chip. The fans don't even need to spool up at all. It looks great, also duh.
There are two issues that are bugging me however. One is that the RGB LED sucks. It CANNOT display orange, just reds or shades of yellow, sometimes even yellow green. The closest I got was setting it to brown and got a somewhat orangish color. Also a lot of other colors aren't that great. It'll do reds, blues, greens, and purple/pink great but yellows and oranges are awful, and some lighter colors end up looking white or have a lot of another color blended in. So no matching the LED to the orange LED strip on my motherboard :/
Second is pump gurgling, some days when I turn it on it will gurgle really badly for an hour or more, even if I set the pump RPM to max to try and force out air bubbles, tip the case around to move air bubbles around, whatever it'll gurgle and it really annoys me. Then it'll stop, be totally silent, I'll turn off my PC, nothing the next day, day after that I'll turn it on and gurgling is back. Even though I never moved it and I thought the bubbles had worked themselves into the reservoir area. So hopefully that'll stop because it's kinda loud and not a constant background hum like fans which you can ignore.
Lastly for the first day the pump was making a rattling noise, I thought it was broken but it turns out you have to go into your bios and turn whatever fan header you have it plugged into to FULL SPEED/100%/MAX VOLTAGE or whatever, because if it is on a normal or dynamic or low voltage setting the pump does not get enough power and rattles and runs badly. They don't mention this in the documentation and I had to find that online.
So yeah I got it for its looks and not performance because I didn't need the performance, got a lot of performance anyways, but gurgling can get annoying at times and the RGB LED sucks. However I feel like the gurgling issue is going to be an issue with any CLC, at least asetek CLCs so the only way to escape that and get a truly silent PC is to go air cooling.
i5 6600k 4.6ghz / MSI 280X / 8Gb 2666 DDR4 / Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 / TX550M / 500Gb 850 EVO / NZXT S340 / Corsair K65 / Corsair M60
That's extremely expensive and my case isn't that big, it's definitely doable in an S340 but it would still be a little cramped and I'd need something like an EK predator with the pump and res combined with the rad to fit it all in. Most of the time the CLC is quiet so I don't really have to worry, it's just for an hour or two after I turn on the PC which is annoying but I can live with it.
i5 6600k 4.6ghz / MSI 280X / 8Gb 2666 DDR4 / Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 / TX550M / 500Gb 850 EVO / NZXT S340 / Corsair K65 / Corsair M60