The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

Well, what I've been waiting for has finally been announced!

http://www.techspot.com/news/53343-...-inch-4k-ultra-hd-monitor-arriving-in-q4.html

Time to start saving :/

I'd be surprised if this falls short of $3000 upon release.

 

OMG I want one!!!!!!!!!

 

This again? haha. Have fun with that guys.

I got a blue LED Yate Loon 140mm fan out of a dead Best Buy power supply. Looked up the specs and it's roughly equivalent to the Cooler Master case fans, all 1400RPM and 65CFM. Middle of the road-ish. Added it as a front intake in the drive bay to feed the larger cooler fans. Got a prime95 drop of 2-3*C on both CPU and Northbridge All wired in like a pro.

 

Are you telling me you don't dream of having the best of the best?

 

Read my edit. I'm taking my cooling in new directions. I have a passion for getting the best with what I can scavenge. I would call it frugality if it weren't so satisfying to do.

Also, my monitor is satisfactory for my needs

 

Ha ha, I can appreciate that. I have so much hardware laying around, I could probably improve my situation with what I already have. Sometimes it just easier to read statistics online, and click the buy button :S

 

Yeah but this one's a Dell Ultrasharp, rather than an obscure foreign brand, a Japan import-only model or an Asus. I know they still use the same panel, but still. It's my hope that Dell manufacturing the display will lead to it being a bit more mainstream and therefore slowly coming down in price. Seriously though, as I've said before, 'cool' as it'll be, this isn't for gaming, it's almost exclusively for the unbroken desktop real estate it offers.

 

I just got my 4GHz. It was a lack of cooling power holding me down

NorthBridge speed is at 2600MHz. NB is needed to attain stability and offers large performance benefits with diminishing returns above 2600MHz.

CPU-NB - 1.15->1.25v
CPU-VID - 1.325->1.525v
Memory - 1.52->1.56v as Thubans sometimes require a voltage bump on memory when NB is OC'd.

1.525v is the highest I am comfortable with, and the temp seems to agree. I will be doing a few more mods before this is done, or it probably won't hold stable in the long run. They have a pre-defined ceiling. It's all influenced by cooling for Phenom IIs. The cooler, the less voltage needed, the cooler, haha.

 

Sammy I hope you have a great paying job, I to would love to have one of these bad boys, but I would have to sell drugs on a street corner to afford one.

 

Heh, I wish. Going to be a long hard slog to save up that sort of money...

 

You never know Sammy, in 6 months time the way things have been going the price might be cut in half.

 

Someone say they have drugs for sale? What's the price per gram on your finest hashish?

 

LOL, I haven't tried that since the 60's, here in the Philly area I don't think it has been available for years, pot and hard drugs is what's avialable if that's anybody's thing, I haven't even messed with pot for years, the other stuff I'm to old, most likely would get a heart attack, if was fun years ago today I'm stuck being sober, my new high has been messing with computers, less expensive and a whole lot of less trouble.

 

Which would still make it two months' salary

 

Yeah, my current part time job would take a VERY long time to save funds. Hopefully I'll be full time in months to a year. 3 years after I become full time, I'll make 70 - 90K Some people make more. Can't wait. There's so many good things I can do with that money. And I'm not just talking about myself

 

I'm getting there with the skill set for a decent salary, it's just the experience being built now. Current plan is to be on the equivalent of $35,000 by the end of the year. Am hoping to be on the equivalent of $50,000 by the end of my 20s (not so long away now! :S)

 

A go getter, that's what I like to hear!!!!

 

Got the heatsink swapped out to the heatpipe cooler from the 790X-UD4P. About a 2-3*C difference I would say. Can't tell if it's the enw TIM application or the heatpipe, but there is definitely a difference.

64*C on the northbridge is still a little warm for me, but most sources are saying it's within the realm of what I should expect under Prime 95. Good thing I don't run Prime 95 24/7, haha. Am going to be adding a 40mm fan to it very soon as well. Should bring it down below 60 at the least

1.5v I believe is also the highest they recommend trying on these chips without liquid cooling, but my core temps at 1.525 aren't touching the stability wall of 55*C so I think I'm okay.

 

45ºC on the cores? Which of those three sensors is the CPU temp, the 36 or the 54?
Normally you'd expect core temps to be 10-15ºC higher than TCase, if the reverse is true, I think the Tjunction must be set wrong, surely?

Nice little collection of hard disks in that PC too, one of each

As long as it's stable at that temp and not overvolted, the chipset will probably run at 64ºC for years. I personally don't like to have a chipset over 60ºC as I've started seeing issues there, but I've often had to overvolt chipsets to get the best overclocks, hence the high temps in the first place. If it is overvolted, I think you might be shortening its lifespan quite considerably at that high a temp.

 

This is definitely designed for a business monitor, however it may not fit into drug sales on your local corner? LOL Great call Fred....

Stevo