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Big_Gun
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 Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2008 17:44 Post subject: Got my new i7 systems together and running. . . |
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asus p6t Deluxe Mobo
6 gigs of G.sklii 1333 DDR 3 Ram
EVAG NVidia Gforce GTX 280 Graphics card
Several case fans
COOLER MASTER NV 690 NV-690C-KWN1-GP Black SECC/ ABS ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
intel i7 920 CPU
Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Heat Sink
Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste
4 500 gb Seagate Sata Hard Drive
Corsair 750 watt PSU
It took 3 days to get this thing running right.
The main problem was trying to run 2 sata drives in 2 SAS ports. Regardless of what I read, where SAS ports are supposed to be backwards compatible, I could not get it to see them. So I moved everything over to strictly SATA ports. Once that was accomplished, I installed the OS with no hiccups.
After I updated the bios (which I SHOULD have done before I did anything I suppose since it can be done through the bios itself) it went wonky and wanted to install device drivers for all my sata HDD. So, I reinstalled windows again. Everything went smooth. Then, I noticed my CPU temperatures were really high. Like 60 Celsius idle and shooting up to 78 on load with prime 95. Hoped on my computer. Went to intel's website to look at specs on the i7 920 temperatures. The line for thermal operation/limits was blank. Seriously. It's freaking blank.
Ok. So i take the monstrous heat sink off. Looked at how the thermal paste spread. Was obviously not enough. Put another line of arctic silver 5 but a little wider this time. Reapplied heat sink. Temperatures went down to 38 Celsius idle and around 68 on load.
Today after the Arctic 5 has had some time to cure, I am seeing Idle temps of 34-33 Celsius and around 62-63 on load. Much much better. Realtemp is telling me I am 66-68 degrees away from TJ Max. Very good.
I am posting that in case someone builds one of these things and wants to know about temperatures. There's very little info out there about. The new RealTemp has calculations in to for the i7 chips. It is in beta as of now but it seems to work.
I haven't installed any games yet. But, i can tell you that Photoshop CS4 is so damned fast and smooth now that it is going to take some getting used to. The stamp tool used to lag a little bit... not any more. I suspect this is going to be one fast ass system. I'll post some test results later on when I do some.
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2008 20:32 Post subject: |
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I know im a fan boy of lian li and all but if you want to see your temps drop even more, get a lian li case that has this kind of case deisgn
http://www.xoxide.com/lianlipcv1000b.html
Reverse MOBO design. Hard drives and PSU are isolated at bottom so the heat doesn't interfere with your board, And fans at the bottom to take care of that heat.
The holes in the case design work excellent for radiating heat, which during the winter it can be best felt when you put your feet on it 
The hole design follows nearly all the case, so even on the bottom, theres more holes. And the great thing about those holes is you can mount fans to them using something like thumb screws or whatever.
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Big_Gun
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Location: My mother's womb originally. . .
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| SpykeZ wrote: | I know im a fan boy of lian li and all but if you want to see your temps drop even more, get a lian li case that has this kind of case deisgn
http://www.xoxide.com/lianlipcv1000b.html
Reverse MOBO design. Hard drives and PSU are isolated at bottom so the heat doesn't interfere with your board, And fans at the bottom to take care of that heat.
The holes in the case design work excellent for radiating heat, which during the winter it can be best felt when you put your feet on it
The hole design follows nearly all the case, so even on the bottom, theres more holes. And the great thing about those holes is you can mount fans to them using something like thumb screws or whatever. |
Yeah, but for the money this cooler master is pretty nice. only thing i don't like are the power buttons. It has the power supply at the bottom with the power supply fan drawing air up from the bottom and out the back but it isn't sealed off like that. It has 6 120 mm fans in it. 2 at the top (exhaust) 1 in the side (intake) 1 at the top right behind the CPU cooler (exhaust), 1 at the bottome (intake), 1 in the front (intake), and it has a place on the back to mount an 80 mm fan but it takes a thin 80 mm. It mounts right under the area where the CPU sits.
the power buttons really suck though. they feel flimsy and I dont like where they placed them. But, for the price it is good.
I will definitely look at a lian li my next build or down the road. But this quad core is going to run hot on air. Period.
I actually read reviews where they bench marked this case against lian li and it faired pretty well. Within a degree or so. But i do like the lian li cases.
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