Your Gaming comp?
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Re: Your Gaming comp?
I actually went and did my fan upgrade a few days after posting my rig here.
Went for these two nice fellas:
That is:
beQuiet! Shadow Wings 80mm (pwm)
beQuiet! Silent Wings 120mm (pwm)
The little one as exhaust in the top back and the bigger one as intake on the side. By this I work against heat build-up in the general CPU/above GPU area and create a better airflow with a chimney effect (do you call it like this in English?) from bottom front to rear top.
The intake on the side also directly aids the downblower on the CPU. I figured that would suffice as I don't overclock and temperatures topped at 65°C anyways. A real heatsink may be a project for the future.
I created some nice fan profiles and reworked the existing ones. My mainboard offers a nice feature for that - you can put together linear functions dependent on temperature for the individual fanspeeds.
By this I actually lowered the GPU temperature under full load from like 78°C to about 74°C.
Did a little research on my card, and it's actually designed to work at full load with 80°C. It only gets dangerous at above 95°C.
Went for these two nice fellas:
That is:
beQuiet! Shadow Wings 80mm (pwm)
beQuiet! Silent Wings 120mm (pwm)
The little one as exhaust in the top back and the bigger one as intake on the side. By this I work against heat build-up in the general CPU/above GPU area and create a better airflow with a chimney effect (do you call it like this in English?) from bottom front to rear top.
The intake on the side also directly aids the downblower on the CPU. I figured that would suffice as I don't overclock and temperatures topped at 65°C anyways. A real heatsink may be a project for the future.
I created some nice fan profiles and reworked the existing ones. My mainboard offers a nice feature for that - you can put together linear functions dependent on temperature for the individual fanspeeds.
By this I actually lowered the GPU temperature under full load from like 78°C to about 74°C.
Did a little research on my card, and it's actually designed to work at full load with 80°C. It only gets dangerous at above 95°C.
Re: Your Gaming comp?
Bequiet fans, are they any good? I have also done some upgrading recently such as H80i hydro series cooler, 1tb seagate sshd, and two 120mm cooler master sickleflow fans for the front intake which im not really happy with, yeah good air flow but they seem to have an annoying sound when on low speed which are controlled via my f6xt control panel, im sure i can live with that . changed over from a arctic cooling freezer 13 to H80i hydro series, on idle now temps sit at 24-25'c, whereas it was 30-32'c so pleased with the result on that. Havent benchmarked yet just need to "bed" it in a little before using AIDA 64 extreme benchmark and stress test Just need to get a full tower case next as space was limited anyway with the mid tower im using now lol, little mods had to be done to fit the H80i rad. :roll:
Re: Your Gaming comp?
Might as well post my specs while I'm here
GPU: GeForce GTX 680
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 7.68 GB
HD: 931 GB
Monitor: BenQ G2410HD (1920 x 1080)
Mouse: TeckNet X9800
Sound: Some Logitech speakers, I dunno, can't find the info for their specific model. I've been using my Sony ZX600 headphones lately anyway.
If I missed anything out, let me know.
GPU: GeForce GTX 680
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 7.68 GB
HD: 931 GB
Monitor: BenQ G2410HD (1920 x 1080)
Mouse: TeckNet X9800
Sound: Some Logitech speakers, I dunno, can't find the info for their specific model. I've been using my Sony ZX600 headphones lately anyway.
If I missed anything out, let me know.
Re: Your Gaming comp?
No idea about PSU (dunno what that is), keyboard is Microsoft but I don't know the model, don't know what clocked means so I'll just say the i7 is stock.
Re: Your Gaming comp?
PSU: Power Supply Unit
and MIG is probably talking about overclocking (raising the speed of the CPU).
And yes, beQuiet! is totally awesome. German high quality.
The fans and the PSU both put out very good power in terms of airflow and are barely audible and even under full load very quiet.
They are very easily installed and offer good decoupling from the chassis.
and MIG is probably talking about overclocking (raising the speed of the CPU).
And yes, beQuiet! is totally awesome. German high quality.
The fans and the PSU both put out very good power in terms of airflow and are barely audible and even under full load very quiet.
They are very easily installed and offer good decoupling from the chassis.
Re: Your Gaming comp?
I wouldn't know how to find out about my PSU and I'm not even going to try overclocking.
Re: Your Gaming comp?
sounds good faxter my other fans which are aerocool shark red, they are low audible but only have sleeve bearing so i found out the two i had in the front as intake only lasted best part of 12months or so, still work but resistance is obvious in them. fluid dynamic bearing fans i think i want next
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Re: Your Gaming comp?
Post by Scoutgeek144 »
Umm I kinda dont wanna show off my weakling of a PC to you lot but pah i'm bored atm!
From memory:
nvidia gt 620
i5 8gb ran
and a motherboard that I cannot remember what it is.
The most FPS I have ever got out of it in a game apart from source games is 20 on JCMP so yeah....
From memory:
nvidia gt 620
i5 8gb ran
and a motherboard that I cannot remember what it is.
The most FPS I have ever got out of it in a game apart from source games is 20 on JCMP so yeah....
Re: Your Gaming comp?
With that setup you should be able to get more than 30fps on games that are not like "supernew and gfx-heavy". I am not that up to date on what exactely which gpu and cpu can take, but that does look like a medium/medium-good setup.
Do you get that low fps even on lowest graphics settings?
Do you get that low fps even on lowest graphics settings?
Re: Your Gaming comp?
[quote=Scoutgeek144 post_id=46419]Umm I kinda dont wanna show off my weakling of a PC to you lot but pah i'm bored atm!
From memory:
nvidia gt 620
i5 8gb ran
and a motherboard that I cannot remember what it is.
The most FPS I have ever got out of it in a game apart from source games is 20 on JCMP so yeah....[/quote]
Scoutgeek : Exactly what Aras said. I had an old first generation i5 and it could handle things a lot more demanding than source engine games so whatever i5 CPU you have it should be fine. However graphics are another story as even Intel's latest on board graphics chips (Haswell CPUs) can beat your dedicated GT 620. Spend as little as £50-£60 on a new card and you'll get much more fps as your GT 620 is quite basic. If you want any recommendations just ask, there are plenty of us to give you advice.
From memory:
nvidia gt 620
i5 8gb ran
and a motherboard that I cannot remember what it is.
The most FPS I have ever got out of it in a game apart from source games is 20 on JCMP so yeah....[/quote]
Scoutgeek : Exactly what Aras said. I had an old first generation i5 and it could handle things a lot more demanding than source engine games so whatever i5 CPU you have it should be fine. However graphics are another story as even Intel's latest on board graphics chips (Haswell CPUs) can beat your dedicated GT 620. Spend as little as £50-£60 on a new card and you'll get much more fps as your GT 620 is quite basic. If you want any recommendations just ask, there are plenty of us to give you advice.
Re: Your Gaming comp?
Don't remember if i posted this but why not.
CPU: AMD Phenom™ II 1050T @3.2Ghz (Stock 2.8 )
MOBO: Asus M5A99X EVO
RAM: 8GB DDR3 gskill ripjaw @1600 (i think not sure)
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE in SLI (yes this means i have 2 of them)
Case: Cooler Master Storm Scout (Mid tower)
HDD: OSZ Agility 3 120gb SSD
Western Digital 1TB Black
Seagate 320Gb
Power: Crosshair 800w (dont remember the exact name)
Cooling: Shittonn of fans in different sizes Akasa Venom on the CPU
CPU: AMD Phenom™ II 1050T @3.2Ghz (Stock 2.8 )
MOBO: Asus M5A99X EVO
RAM: 8GB DDR3 gskill ripjaw @1600 (i think not sure)
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE in SLI (yes this means i have 2 of them)
Case: Cooler Master Storm Scout (Mid tower)
HDD: OSZ Agility 3 120gb SSD
Western Digital 1TB Black
Seagate 320Gb
Power: Crosshair 800w (dont remember the exact name)
Cooling: Shittonn of fans in different sizes Akasa Venom on the CPU
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Re: Your Gaming comp?
Post by Scoutgeek144 »
OK, thanks for the input about my little pc but quick question about GPUs. Whats going to get me a decent card for under £100. Also side note a machanical keyboard I am thinking about for Christmas as I am fed up with teh lag I get get from my wireless keyboard I am using.