[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[Titanium Man]

Will I be able to use 2 cards with that PSU?

650w with 2 cards is risky

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[naturemon]

mechanical or not?

Doesn't matter as long as it's not extremely expensive or filled with features I probably will never use.

I also would like to take the time to thank you as pretty much every time I post you're there with a helpful response.

[Cut Glass]

Thinking about water cooling options for my computer, I currently have a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120 mm PWM Fan. I bought a i7 4770K on friday and I am going to overclock to around 3.8GHz, maybe 4.0GHz depending on temps.

What i'm asking is would water cooling be a better option than my current cooler? Would I get better temps? My current temps with my i5 at 3.2GHz is around 45C° when gaming.

If water cooling is a good option, what cooler would be best? I have a $120 budget.

[Treynolds416]

What? You probably don't even need the evo if you're only overclocking to 4 ghz, that's almost nothing. Don't bother getting water cooling unless you have money to blow and you're going to overclock as high as you can

[naturemon]

What? You probably don't even need the evo if you're only overclocking to 4 ghz, that's almost nothing. Don't bother getting water cooling unless you have money to blow and you're going to overclock as high as you can

That's what I was thinking but I wasn't too sure. Especially since I was under the impression that's all I'd need to do it myself with the same CPU.

[Cut Glass]

What? You probably don't even need the evo if you're only overclocking to 4 ghz, that's almost nothing. Don't bother getting water cooling unless you have money to blow and you're going to overclock as high as you can

I know bare minimum of overclocking CPU's how high can I clock my i7 with my evo, and how high with a water cooling solution?

[Tokthree]

Is there a way to force my FX 4350 to always run at 4.2 Ghz?

[BuildaBox]

Would a Phenom II 3.4 GHz quad core bottleneck a 7870? If so how much would it?

[Tokthree]

Would a Phenom II 3.4 GHz quad core bottleneck a 7870? If so how much would it?

I had the same combo until recently. After upgrading to a FX 4350 I've noticed a significant improvement in how well almost all of my games run. Don't get the wrong idea though, the Phenom II X4 3.4 Ghz shouldn't hold the 7870 back too much but if you do upgrade to a newer CPU you'll definitely see a difference.

[BuildaBox]

I had the same combo until recently. After upgrading to a FX 4350 I've noticed a significant improvement in how well almost all of my games run. Don't get the wrong idea though, the Phenom II X4 3.4 Ghz shouldn't hold the 7870 back too much but if you do upgrade to a newer CPU you'll definitely see a difference.

Ok, thank you

[Cut Glass]

Thinking about water cooling options for my computer, I currently have a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120 mm PWM Fan. I bought a i7 4770K on friday and I am going to overclock to around 3.8GHz, maybe 4.0GHz depending on temps.

What i'm asking is would water cooling be a better option than my current cooler? Would I get better temps? My current temps with my i5 at 3.2GHz is around 45C° when gaming.

If water cooling is a good option, what cooler would be best? I have a $120 budget.

I know bare minimum of overclocking CPU's how high can I clock my i7 with my evo, and how high with a water cooling solution?

I would like to add, I am looking into liquid cooling for my video card, would using liquid cooling for my CPU and GPU be good? My new case I got is a NZXT 630, black.

[Treynolds416]

I know bare minimum of overclocking CPU's how high can I clock my i7 with my evo, and how high with a water cooling solution?

You can probably get up to 4.5 on air, and if you're lucky 4.7 on water
As for gpu, the same thing goes: don't bother with watercooling unless you're planning on maxing an OC

[Cut Glass]

You can probably get up to 4.5 on air, and if you're lucky 4.7 on water
As for gpu, the same thing goes: don't bother with watercooling unless you're planning on maxing an OC

I mostly just want to get temps down on my GPU, I run at 65C° max on games (Only by running my fan up to 70-80%.  I'd like a more silent setup and also get the best temps. And usually my card automatic overclocks to around 1215MHz.

[Titanium Man]

closed loop coolers are generally just stuff that you shouldn't bother with. just keep the 212 evo and OC to 4.2ghz.

[Tokthree]

Is there a way to force my FX 4350 to always run at 4.2 Ghz?