General computer talk/advice

In that case should I just add an intake fan in the side? Right now if I try to play even moderately intensive games my GPU hits 70 deg Celsius.

 

So long as you have intake fans on the front of your case most of that hot air will be forced trough the rear slot covers hence why they're vented. Also 70c isn't that hot, my GTX 760 at 1300Mhz hits 80c+ depending how demanding the game is, and thats with my cpu being liquid cooled so there isn't any heat from that in my system, also your PSU exhausts from the rear of your PC, and it is quite high wattage so I doubt its putting out that much heat because I doubt it's probably being loaded much, so if you really, really, really, want to lower you GPU temps I, personally, would suggest liquid cooling, but honestly, 70c is fine.

 

70c isn't bad for a GPU. :|

 

I remember back in the days of fermi cards like the GTX 480, they would hit well in excess of 100c.

 

See if the problem was to be addressed then yes, 120 or 140mm side intake will do nicely. But like the others say, 70c, while not a great figure, its not too bad either.

Or a GPU waterblock is an equally valid solution, expense though.

 

I just ordered 16GB of HyperX Fury for $30.

It went unavailable right after I ordered. Aw yeah.

So I'll replace the 8GB of HyperX Blu in my PC with the new kit and put the 8GB into my server and then I'll just have a spare 4GB of PNY.

 

My PC will auto shutdown when my CPU or GPU hits 100 degrees. I'm honestly thinking of either getting a new case or creating a new side fan slot in my current case.

"Moderately Intensive" is also about the level of medium graphics iRacing and ETS2.

The bottom fan is also being used to cool my hard drive. I'm not sure if I should move that to the top fan slot so more air can enter the GPU/PSU.

 

Add a extra fan to the front of the case you will get much better airflow, also add any missing top/ rear fans, adding fans to the inside of your case will not do much if anything to cool you power supply because you should have it in taking air from the bottom of your cause i.e. Fan facing the floor (if your case supports it) if your case does not your PSU will be drawing air away from your graphics card, your graphics card should be able to max ETS 2 and I racing because, well, my GTX 760 can and that is a mid range GPU your r9 290 should max most if not all modern titles without problems so max settings on ETS 2 and watch the temps, if it stays below 90c you'll be fine.

 

I can't fit my side fan in because my CPU Cooler (Cooler Master Nepton 120XL) overlaps the side slot.

I've done all I can with my case and I think it's time to move to a full tower. I'm looking at the NZXT Phantom, if it's another glorified piece of shit let me know of any good towers.

 

I got a Dell Latitude e6230. 13", Ci7 3540M, 8 GB RAM and an SSD. I wanted a smaller laptop and this was my father's 'old' one.
Thus, I'm selling my HP laptop (specs below). I can trade it for a tablet (a gadget I'd like to have), more specifically a new Panasonic FZ-G1. It has a Ci5 5300U, 4GB RAM and 128 GB SSD. It has an excellent IPS screen and very good battery life. The guy (trustworthy) got it as a gift but is looking for a laptop. Is it a good trade? It should be an excellent tablet based on reviews.

Side note: I don't need quad core power and a dedicated GPU, as I'm not doing ArchiCAD & stuff like that anymore.

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My GTX 580 is 75c when playing Cities:Skylines.. It produces a quite a lot of noise (have to turn my music up a bit) thanks to the custom fan curve I made in MSI Afterburner.
I guess I don't need a heater this winter

 

70C is normal for an R9 290. My 970 hits 62-63C under load (lower intake is blocked by HDD cage, should be better with a fan in the bottom slot).

 

Yeah, but it's not getting much air either. There's no side fan and the lower front fan is blocked by my HDD.

I might as well drop 100 bucks on a new case, I'm out of room to begin with.

 

alright guys. im trying to setup up a private lan. I have 2 computers and and a router. I plug one(a linux machine)into the router, and i get an ip. I then proceed to plug the second machine in. But the 2nd machine doesnt get an ip. i have reset the adapter(disable, then enable). the second machine has a pci realtek ethernet card with correct drivers.


EDIT. i think it was the cable i was using. tried a different one, seemed to work. yay

 

Decided to throw all my parts back in my well used Corsair case, probably going to sell it soon 4770K that don't overclock isn't much fun, might do a AMD build this time maybe a GTX 970 with a old phenom x6 or a first gen I7 if I can find one.

 

Why would you downgrade from a 4770K to a 5 year old CPU? You'll have some horrible CPU bottlenecks, unless you go for an i7 Extreme, even then won't last for very long. It's a terrible idea.

 

boredom really, I would like to start something new, something that can go past 4Ghz without wetting the bed and needing 1.4v vcore to live, old Intels overclocked like champs, I would get a 2600k if i could find one for less than £200 I know a lot of people who are still rockin old sandy's though I would really like to try something from the AMD buffet, I've never had a AMD since the single core athlon days, ahh, memories, it would either be that or some form of used/ refurbished gaming laptop, I would like the portability. And with a good overclock on a i7 950 I don't think the bottlenecks would be that bad, besides the less money spent on a CPU can go into GPU horsepower.

 

A mid-end first gen i7 is about as powerful as a Haswell i3 or low end i5. 990X, top of the line CPU, barely matches an i5-4590 at stock clocks and only because it has 2 more cores, single threaded performance is significantly worse. Probably almost as expensive too, it was $1K new.

Buying old parts is almost never worth it, unless they're one generation old and cheaper than the new ones. For example, buying a 4690K over a 6600K, there isn't a big performance difference and the 4690K will end up about $50 cheaper with RAM and motherboard.

 

Got finished overclocking my GTX 650.
Got +217MHz on the core and +600MHz on the memory, for final clock speeds of 1267MHz on the core and 3100MHz on the memory.

 

Yes, I will admit the first gen i7 are getting a little old now but I'm budgeting £600 for this new build, and I plan on cramming as much GPU HP in there as possible, one cool idea I had would be to make a eGPU setup with my ThinkPad, Get a nice i7 2760qm/ 2720qm, and a GTX 970 and it could take the place of my desktop for much cheaper, and as a added bonus I get the lovely build quality and reliability of my trusty lenovo notebook, I will admit a first gen i7 would be quite silly. (but doing something like that is what I like to call Eastham logic.) I might go with the egpu option because it leaves me with cash to persue other things like finally insuring my bike.

 

Crap. Idk what happened, but the driver just crashed and now the card refuses to clock to more than 540MHz on core and 810MHz on memory.