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HaJa

Hardcore
Hi LP,
I do believe your CPU is warm. My 955BE over clocked to 3.5 is 39 degrees idle and never go above 55 in full load! The CPU should not exceed 60 degrees if possible.

I have the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo on it. Suggest you try first to remove the stock
cooler and reapply thermal past. Preferably Arctic silver 5 paste.
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
Little P just out of curiosity, did you try disabling the Aero Theme and forcing Vysnc in NVIDIA Control Panel?

BTW, the CPU is socket LGA1155 as I've seen the question asked earlier.
 

little P

Super Mod
You're going to owe us all head by the time this things built little PP.
I know right. Best thing is I'm GREAT at it :icon_redface:

Look at Engy trying to pretend he don't want some...

Ok, well, all I need is to get myself a motherboard then! I've already got the psu, hdd and gpu. And now thanks to you fine chaps a cpu and ram. Question is, which one do I get.

This is another minefield for a pc building n00b such as myself.

This one looks ok but no SLI support, but would I ever need that? I'm not sure, it seems most people say it's better off having one good card than two older ones? Thinking of the future here. I also like this has 4 ram slots where most of the cheap ones only have two...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-B75M-D3H-SKT-1155-B75M-D3H-Motherboard/dp/B007R9CRGW/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1376681090&sr=1-1&keywords=GA-B75M-D3H#productDetails
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
For you I would recommend SLI simply because it does give you a boost but it varies a lot game to game. The only reason I would ever go SLI again is to attain a minor upgrade on a budget.

For most one good card is the best solution but for those on a budget my guess is 2 cheaper cards is the way to go.

Just know that this has the potential to make GPU Heavy SLI/Crossfire unoptimized games playable with only one card enabled at reduced quality.
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
Alright d00d you're locked in now as I just reserved my 3770K and will be picking it up in an hour.
 

little P

Super Mod
I literally am lost in a sea of motherboards...

Does 4 ram slots really matter? Two slots are a LOT cheaper. Finding SLI capable pci-e 3.0 ready motherboards is not easy. I haven't found one yet that isn't silly money...

Do I really need SLI? Let's face it, I'd propbably break something if I tried to do that anyway surely? :icon_wink:

I've spent hours, I wish there was a site that allows you to select what you want from a drop down menu and then give you options. So many motherboards out there and I have literally NO idea what is good or not... :eek:
 

Kitlope

Hardcore
You can't really go wrong with any motherboard, I threw the cheapest Asus one (Asus P8B75-M $80.00 Cdn) a year ago into my den pc (which acts strictly as a secondary BF3 gaming pc for when a friend or two come by) and everything works great. I would spend the extra little bit and have the second slot for SLI because as it sounds like you stick with a build forever you just may want that option in the future. The cheaper mb have 2 slots for ram, the better ones 4. In the end it doesn't really matter as you'll want 8 GB either way. Just make sure it's a socket 1155, try not to buy the absolute cheapest model (but it will still work fine) and everything will be ok. Stick with the quality manufacturers like Asus and Gigabyte, don't by some lousy uber cheap Chinese knock off. *edited to add* Get a m/b with 4 slots then you can use Wappy's 2 sticks and just add 2 more which won't be much because ram is cheap like borscht these days. If you get a m/b with 2 slots then Wappy's ram won't do you any good as 4 Gb doesn't quite cut it for a current gaming machine running windows 7. I find 8 gigs is a nice round number using 4 slots because many diiferent ram configurations can be utilized. It's good for the "bang for yer buck" factor.
 
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Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
Why don't you give us links to what you're looking at little P and we can help more? You admittedly don't know what you're looking for so it's best that you let us help you rather than just throw out differing suggestions that we'd all likely have.

Personally, I wouldn't go for 2 RAM slots simply because Wappy is giving you 2 sticks of RAM at 4GB which isn't much when running Win7. You will want to add RAM at some point so I'd personally recommend 4 slots.

The thing here little P is, do you want a computer that is good enough for now with little to no upgrade path or do you want to milk some future out of it?

You can never truly future proof but you can get increased longevity with little extra cost. Yes there is extra cost but when compared to building a new system as you are now it is very minimal indeed.
 

little P

Super Mod
Ok, So I need 4 ram slots, and SLI. And PCI-e 3.0 support. I can't find anything with those three things. It all seems to be crossfire stuff which is no good to me as it's an Nvidia card... There's so many out there I'm lost in it all!

And does it matter about micro-atx atx etc. will any of these fit in my case? This is a steep learning curve :eek:

The one Smack suggests I can get for £50. It has pci 3.0 but only one slot, and two slots for ram.

To get one with four slots and pci 3.0 is pushing £100

To add SLI is getting on for well over £100.

Two sticks of 4gb Corsair Vengeance 1600 is on sale for £58, making a total of £108 for mobo and ram, but losing SLI functionality which I may or may not use at all.

Or... spending loads more on a mobo and using wappy's graciously offered old 1333 ram, and still having to buy more ram to get it up to 8gb anyway.

Links;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/P8B75-M-LX-Motherboard-PCI-Express-Socket/dp/B008P4ZS64#productDetails

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9-Vengeance-Performance-Desktop/dp/B004CRSM4I/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1376702027&sr=1-1&keywords=ddr3+8gb
 

Kitlope

Hardcore
Duke, what is the particular processor your sending off to Little P? I ask because depending on what it is, it might not support PCI-e 3.0
 

little P

Super Mod
AH. after reading that kitty, I've done a quick check and it looks like the cpu doesn't support 3.0 anyway.

Duke said it's a: 32nm Intel i7 2700K Sandy Bridge Socket 1155 Quad Core running at 3.5 Ghz

But also from what I've been reading it only matters at ridiculously high resolutions anyway? So maybe pci 3.0 isn't that important after all? I don't know
:icon_neutral:
 

Kitlope

Hardcore
Yup, looking like the older (but still kickass) Sandybridge series don't support PCI-e 3.0, as it's the following Ivy Bridge and now Haswell that support it. PCI-e 2.0 will work just fine. 2700K still a beauty chip, I wouldn't worry about a m/b not supporting PCI-e 3.0...
 

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