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Tmac
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Badass. Does your mom bring your dinner to you or does she make you eat in the kitchen?
Leadsalad
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Get something to test your cpu, like Cinebench R23, try each of the settings out. Let it run for at least 10 minutes to heatsoak your cooler.
The other thing is if you can get the fans to reference of that water temp you’ll have way less ramping up and down than if you have them reference off of the cpu temp directly. The water temperature is far more stable and reflects actual head load versus a spot die temp when a core wakes up, loads some process, spikes to 70, then idles again without actually generating heat your cooler could ever respond to.
For example, my custom loop has the water around 7c higher than ambient temps while sitting at the desktop. Full load has the water temp going up only about 10c over that (cpu+gpu, so your aio might be less). You’ll learn pretty quickly what it’s min and max are if you pay attention to it for a couple of days, especially if you have controlled room temp (I don’t, so my computer is running in 95f ambient during the summer).
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Lanx
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corsair ps sale
Corsair RMX White Series (2018), RM850x, 850 Watt, 80+ Gold Certified, Fully Modular Power Supply - White, 80 PLUS Gold (CP-9020188-NA)
best price in forever
Corsair RMX White Series (2018), RM850x, 850 Watt, 80+ Gold Certified, Fully Modular Power Supply - White, 80 PLUS Gold (CP-9020188-NA)
best price in forever
Mist
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Userbenchmark is a clickbait site that abuses SEO to show up in Google searches, not a real benchmark or a source of any technical information.
Brahma
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Big Phoenix
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Download 3dmark. Run it and compare your results to those of similar computers.
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Brahma
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Lanx
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download msi afterburner
doesn't matter if you don't have msi card
msi afterburner also includes msi kombuster, which will stress test your card (less shit to download and confuse yourself)
just have fun with the sliders and push your card, it's impossible to brick your video with the thermal protections in place these days (only if you did something physically really bad like didn't use thermal paste, or left the sticker on there... etc)
um, i'll try to find a more easy to follow guide later, but msi afterburner is all you need, don't download other programs cuz you'll confuse yourself if you're in virgin territory
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eh msi has their own guide
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Xexx
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Picked up a 5900x yesterday but may completely swap over to intel next month depending on their announcements next week. It really all depends on how long until their ddr5 variants of the 690 boards are available. Granted a 5900x and the ek x570s board are about 1100 but selling my 5950x and meg ace yields slightly lower so the trade off is rather inconsequential, their is also the chiplet refresh of the 5900x that will be out in jan or feb that may be worth waiting for - for its 10-15% gains.
Evernothing
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I have been recruited to help a friend build a new system around $1000. It's been a few years since I have done this.
I found this list on pcpartpicker, but an i3 sounds underpowered?
This will be used for 1920x1080 gaming, but obviously not looking for super high graphics settings. He mostly plays EQ and MTG:Arena.
Would anyone be kind enough to list me some component ideas?
I found this list on pcpartpicker, but an i3 sounds underpowered?
This will be used for 1920x1080 gaming, but obviously not looking for super high graphics settings. He mostly plays EQ and MTG:Arena.
Would anyone be kind enough to list me some component ideas?
Lanx
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don't bother
just tell him to buy a premade something like this
if it's too expensive, buy a xbox xs then
youre not gonna be able to build a pc w/o sourcing the video card, and unless he moonlights as a robot, he's not gonna get anything
there are other deals for 100 or 150 less, but you have to look for them
Kirun
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Hopefully AMD changes their chipset driver software on top of it. Holy fuck is it a piece of dogshit.