The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

I heard a rumor that a sub 500$ hexa-core will be out soon, although that doesn't really make it any much more affordable. While the 980GX might not be outside of every one's financial ability, it should be safe to assume the regular posters are all sane enough to not spend that kind of money on a cpu lol.

 

Here are the results. Looks like the Freezer cooler is going back on the 940 deneb. No doubt its better than the stock cooler for 965 deneb, as seen here. And once again, temp 3 is apparently the CPU temp.

The only discernible difference is the fans rpms. Which are probably not worth noting...

Please note that this is for 940 deneb, NOT to be confused with the 965 which runs wayy cooler.

 

That wasn't my point, I'm not saying nobody here can afford it, I'm saying nobody here is so filthily rich that they should be buying it, not the last I heard
As for the sub $500 CPU, that will be more interesting, as CPUs in that price range are more common. Realistically, there is a 'sweet spot' below which the sales of CPUs shoots up, which is £250, or $360.

 

Well...I'm about as surprised as can be. I made an attempt to access files that are on the primary, from my secondary. SUCCESS! Somehow, windows 7 corrected the problem on its own. Weird...
However, I cannot access files on the secondary, from the primary. Which doesn't bother me I suppose. Because I have EXACTLY what I wanted. My secondary should have no problem accessing BD rips from the primary now. Excellent!

 

Bigwill has one on order from microcenter for his next build.



joking,,,lol

6 cores does sound nice for some serious video encoding. the days of transcodeing will be long gone!!!!!!!

OM7 or anyone else. do you know if speed fan will work with the GA-EP45-UD3P MOBO? i know it wouldnt with my EP45-DS3R.

 

I'm afraid intel boards are not in my credentials LOL! One day no doubt...

It would appear the Ripbot264 uses a great deal more potential on the second pass of BD/MKV encoding(95-100%), as opposed to the first pass which averages a mere 80-90%. And since the average current quad processor can take 3-5hrs on that pass, it could be considered a decent stress stability test

 

If anyone has any opinion why the following occurs, much obliged

Windows 7 installs slowly on all my gigabyte boards(30min), where an MSI is smooth as a babies patootie(15min). Same/similar issue with a flash drive of mine. 16Gb Kingston Flashdrive. Recognized rapidly by the MSI Nforce board, where each Gigabyte board takes upwards of 30 seconds to recognize.
Isn't this strange? LOL!

I always did like that Nforce board. Was always smooth...

 

I've not seen Speedfan's fan control work on any gigabyte motherboard... ever.

Omega: It's brand, not chipset. nforce 6 board had same delay during Vista install.

 

Heh. I wonder if the same issue, is causing the flashdrive acknowledgment to hang.

Gigabyte is generally not supported by speedfan eh. Thats unfortunate. I was just starting to like speedfan again LOL!

 

Speedfan's not been updated properly for years. The only program that can really detect stuff properly seems tobe Everest, but it seems to leak interrupts, so it will gradually slow your PC until it hangs or BSODs unless you close it promptly.

 

since haven the UD3P i havent been able to use everest. it wont recognize the board. keeps saying something like unknown board something like that. ive heard there is a newer version so i might need to get it. i dont leave everest running for more than a few minutes anyway. long enough to view temps volts and such then shut it down.. kinda boring haven the system built and the way i want it. no tinkering to do any more. other than trying to bump a couple mhz out of a OC, not worth all the time and hassle. guess its time to get into gaming now???? lol i do have a couple old ODD's laying around i think im gonna take the face plates off and experiment with painting them and then paint the ones in my 922 to match the rest of the paint job.

 

it works fine with mine RoBo if you need help holla at me, I'll send you the items you need to get it working if you want?

 

First encode with Ripbot264 was a complete success. 6hrs and 13min to complete a 101min clip(I am Legend). Awesome movie LOL! Such a shame it can't utilize the GPU. The GPU would probably make much quicker work of it
There are probably better ways to do this. But I treated Ripbot more like an entry level BD encoder. VERY simple to use. Probably not for the complete laymen, but it is relatively simple anyhow.

It may for instance have the ability to simply convert to MKV without compression, in which case a quicker encoder can be used. Don't know. But I definitely have a working encoder, and another way of testing stability. Once again, the 940 is stable at 1.4v 3.5Ghz. And that's probably all I'll get from her, without more cooling, and possibly removing 2 sticks of ram. She sure isn't using 8gb anymore. I might just sell the other 4Gb. Not sure about that yet. The poor thing was pushing 55C+. I might just consider putting an intake fan(80mm) adjacent to the cpu cooler, and modding the top of the case, for a top exhaust fan. Seems like a good idea to me If I'm not mistaken, it will take slightly larger than a 120mm.

Looks like the video suffered ever so slightly. Others would probably argue this, but I am HIGHLY critical about video quality. It appeared to me, that dark scenery was sacrificed. I might just consider going for Super high quality 720, rather than compressed 1080. Seems logical.

I had both PC's running when I went to work. One was encoding, one was idling. WOW is it warm in here LOL! It was liking walking through a heat barrier! No joke LOL!

 

I'm strongly considering this one for my Top exhaust
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233036
Quiet, large, and moves substantial amount of air. This will probably quiet down that stock Cpu 4,000Rpm fan LOL! I certainly hope so. Sucker is somewhat noisy. Which is O-K really. I sleep like a rock, even with 2 computers running next to me In fact, in some ways it's comforting. Yes, I'm a freak LOL! Unfortunately, My case is roughly 175-178mm Wide. So a 180mm fan is out. I'm sure the 140 will do well. I'll be looking into an intake as well. Probably open to sizes there. Though I don't wanna go TOO large LOL! It would cut into my PCI intake fan. Since I'll be modding anyway, I'm open to any fan you wonderful people can recommend for a CPU intake fan. I'd like to see If I can simply use the Stock 965 fan as is, with better intake. I guarantee a lot of its heat, is due to insufficient cooling. It's a VERY tight case LOL! At least for an ATX board. And a semi hot Processor.

 

Will,
I somehow missed this. You are correct, your CPU and Motherboard temps are reversed, the way mine was with Everest 4.60. With Everest 5.30, all my temps are correct as are my voltages. First time I've ever seen that on any computer. Apparently 5.30 recognizes the MA790X-UD4P's Chipset properly, but doesn't see your Intel EP-45 correctly.

Don't feel bad, this is the first version of Everest I've ever had that actually gives me all the information correctly, so it's worked perfect with 1 out of 8 possible motherboards, going from my Dell 3000 to present day!

Russ

 

My E6600 has idled at temps in that range in the summer ;P Only long enough to load windows and check temps though lol.

 

Wow. That's a pretty warm idle. I've never seen my processors hit that at idle. Not even my 1.4 Thunderbird. And that sucker ran warm. I think the warmest Idle I saw on it was 51C. I believe that was summer.
I have noticed that Intels generally run pretty warm. Much like GPU's run extremely warm. Maybe that's simply the way they're designed.

 

Windows 7 never ceases to amaze me. Whatever the problem was, it seemed to correct itself completely. Each computer has access to the other. Everything I could hope for. If I want the other computer to have access, all I have to do is share with homegroup. Couldn't be easier Which means the secondary can access BD files that are on the primary.
All that remains...Gotta get the cooling figured out. I may even have materials on hand

 

Omega: So it's warm with two CPUs that use 150W or so, you can imagine what it's like with four GPUs that use 125W each, in addition to a 150W CPU right? It was absolutely sweltering in here playing Left 4 Dead 2 the other night, and that was a not a warm day outside...
Highest idle temp I had was with my XP 3000+ Barton, which idled between 61 and 66ºC.
I wouldn't say Intels run particularly warm. They run warmer with the stock cooler as the stock coolers provided are much weaker than those provided for AMDs. However, since most Intel CPUs are only 95W TDP or less, it's not so much an issue. AMD have a lot of 125W+ TDP CPUs to take care of. Even when overvolted to 1.375V and clocked to 4.1Ghz, if I keep my case fans on low-medium speed instead of off, my CPU idle temp is only 30ºC, I wouldn't really call that 'running warm'...

 

Touche. LOL! 30C is very good. What's weird though, is my CPU REALLY wants to run at 40C. I don't understand it. I uninstalled Easytune, Speedfan has zero effect on controlling fan speeds, and the bios says nothing about controlling/holding 40C. The CPU itself must be possessed LOL!