I have a phanteks C_14 and the thing keeps my ivy bridge pretty cool at 4.0Ghz. It helps I'm running it in a Df-85 cause the air coming out of this thing could double as an air conditioner. Not hot at all.
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Thanks I love it to death, but the thing runs hotter than the sun. Haven't noticed any problems though and I'm working on the cooling situation at the moment.
That's strange. The third generation processors should be consuming less power than sandybridge and thus producing less heat...
Nah those things are monsters with heat. It's due to them running hotter at lower frequencies. so a 4.2Ghz ivy is like a 4.5 Sandy They run the same and have same heat output, but the ivy bridge needs less frequency to do more calculations. It's an odd thought. You'd think with their latest proc they'd allow you to go as high as ever and hit 5 on air.
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I's integrated but it's an actual card basically. It should be fine for release day, remember the game isn't optimized yet. Just give it till release see if it's fine then, if it isn't get a cheap upgrade if you got some cash to spare, a good 100 dollar card will get you mid graphics.
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How does D3 handle crossfire? any micro-stuttering or any big flaws in it?
Smooth as can be for me. Haven't noticed any stuttering at all or any real big flaws. Just a couple odd things when tabbing in and out that usually fix themselves in a couple seconds,but most games do that with crossfire. With everything cranked up in CCC, MSI Afterburner showed their usage at about 70%.
hrmm.. A lot of people say Xfrie and SLI have so many problems so I'm reluctant to double up on 6950's and instead pawn it and get a 680 Still not sure which I'm getting.
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Eh, suppose I could do my specs and stuff. I suppose at I could also take a picture or something,but that would take effort so tomorrow or something. Anyways.
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Processor: i5-2500k @ 4.5Ghz
Memory: G.SKILL Sniper 8GB DDR3 1600
Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
CPU Cooler: CORSAIR CAFA70 120mm A70 Dual-Fan CPU Cooler
Hard Drive: Crucial M4 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD)(boot/gaming) and 2TB storage
Graphics Card: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6850 1GB x2 in crossfire
Power Supply: Corsair GS700
Case:APEVIA X-TROOPER Series X-TRP-BL Black / Blue Steel
How does D3 handle crossfire? any micro-stuttering or any big flaws in it?
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In the end though what you have is two cars that can go 300km/h and 350km/h, the thing is you really only need to go 120.
Well put. Simply you don't need it but you might as well for the future cause you've got the money to blow. I'd like to add that If you wait for the next gen CPU, you'll hear about their even more next-gen cpu and then want to wait for that. If you're set on buying something just do it. Don't wait around otherwise you'll have to rethink your build based on different prices and performances.
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BTW DO NOT BUY THE FX CPUs, yet. The Bulldozers are just not good. They fall short in almost every way compared to PHenom II x6 110T. Plus they're more expensive for absolutely NAUGHT!They might be decent when it comes to multi-tasking but honestly the jump from Thuban to bulldozer is shit, wait for their next-gens which should be out mid year to see if AMd still has a shot at competing with Intel. If not then I'd advise against AMD CPU's forever, but praise their GPU's over Nvidia.
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You really only need an i5 2500k unless you're going to be doing CPU intensive tasks, Streaming while gaming, Lots of Physics processing, Running lots of background applications, Video rendering. If you're a photo editor get a 2011 board with 64 Gigs of Ram, It HELPS A LOT, same with video editing really, you need a lot of RAM for those. For gaming though 8Gig of DDR3 @ 1600MHz is enough to last till four years. a 6870-6950 is perfectly priced with amazing performance. and a i5 2500k or a Phenom II X4 965 are more than enough. The only other upgrade really is an SSd to load games much quicker. Anything else is really unecessary unless you're an audiophile in which case a good soundcard like the HT OMEGA eClaro or CLARO XT , and the ASUS Xonar STX are very good choice.
I feel like a lot of people go way overboard when buying their systems just because "they can" and they assume more price and more stuff equals better performance. In actuality, only proffesional programs such as Adobe's line of products, Sony Vegas will use all 4-8 cores, let alone the 12 threads on the Hexa core i7's or the 24 threads on the dual Xeon boards. They're basically useless to us as gamers. Same goes with RAM, I always choose 16 Gigs DDR3 @ 1600MHz because I sued Photoshop and illustrator sometimes and make some cool designs that have alot of brushstrokes and layers. If I didn't do that I'd cut it down to 8 maybe even 4 Gigs because it's just a waste of an extra 100 bucks for the 8 gigs. same way it's a waste to get a soundcard if you're not an audiophile or really care about audio at all. The GPU, HDD/SSD, and monitor are the only things a gamer needs to worry about. The GPU is needed to push the monitor, and the monitor has to look its best so our games don't have shit colors, and the hard drives need to be somewhat fast so it can load our games quick, a 7200 RPM will be fine but once you go SSD, there's no going back.
Most importantly if you're lookign to build a rig only for Diablo, get an AMD PHENOM II x2 get a board that can unlock the other cores, unlock them have 4 gigs of ram and a HD 6850 and you'll run the game max.
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My advice would be to increase the PSU power by about 100W, just to be sure. And possibly make the 6870 a 2GB version. Again just to be sure. After all, you're buying this PC to last I guess. You never know when 1GB will start being small. Could be later this year. Technology is really fast and quite unpredictable.
I've heard the extra gig on a GPU card isn't really worth the extra price. It might be eventually if the prices on them drop a bit, but as for now I'd rather spend that extra money in other places.
Depends on the use. If you're just using a single 1920x1080 screen 2Gig's is overkill 1 Gig will be fine, but if you're running three 1920x1080 monitors that is where 2-4 gigs will come in handy. You need the extra ram to deal with the extra screen real estate. So if you're getting a 2560x1600 monitor or a 2560x1440 monitor 2 gigs is what you'll need to run that shit because it has a bigger pixel count.
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Nah those things are monsters with heat. It's due to them running hotter at lower frequencies. so a 4.2Ghz ivy is like a 4.5 Sandy They run the same and have same heat output, but the ivy bridge needs less frequency to do more calculations. It's an odd thought. You'd think with their latest proc they'd allow you to go as high as ever and hit 5 on air.
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Does anybody think a Phenom II X6 1100t will bottleneck a GTX 680, and if so should I go with a FX 8150?
Well put. Simply you don't need it but you might as well for the future cause you've got the money to blow. I'd like to add that If you wait for the next gen CPU, you'll hear about their even more next-gen cpu and then want to wait for that. If you're set on buying something just do it. Don't wait around otherwise you'll have to rethink your build based on different prices and performances.
I feel like a lot of people go way overboard when buying their systems just because "they can" and they assume more price and more stuff equals better performance. In actuality, only proffesional programs such as Adobe's line of products, Sony Vegas will use all 4-8 cores, let alone the 12 threads on the Hexa core i7's or the 24 threads on the dual Xeon boards. They're basically useless to us as gamers. Same goes with RAM, I always choose 16 Gigs DDR3 @ 1600MHz because I sued Photoshop and illustrator sometimes and make some cool designs that have alot of brushstrokes and layers. If I didn't do that I'd cut it down to 8 maybe even 4 Gigs because it's just a waste of an extra 100 bucks for the 8 gigs. same way it's a waste to get a soundcard if you're not an audiophile or really care about audio at all. The GPU, HDD/SSD, and monitor are the only things a gamer needs to worry about. The GPU is needed to push the monitor, and the monitor has to look its best so our games don't have shit colors, and the hard drives need to be somewhat fast so it can load our games quick, a 7200 RPM will be fine but once you go SSD, there's no going back.
Most importantly if you're lookign to build a rig only for Diablo, get an AMD PHENOM II x2 get a board that can unlock the other cores, unlock them have 4 gigs of ram and a HD 6850 and you'll run the game max.
Depends on the use. If you're just using a single 1920x1080 screen 2Gig's is overkill 1 Gig will be fine, but if you're running three 1920x1080 monitors that is where 2-4 gigs will come in handy. You need the extra ram to deal with the extra screen real estate. So if you're getting a 2560x1600 monitor or a 2560x1440 monitor 2 gigs is what you'll need to run that shit because it has a bigger pixel count.