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About LinkBacksEvery little helpsOriginally Posted by sammorris
Moogle: heh, 1-2 Celsius, WOW.
It's always like that
Every little helpsMoogle: heh, 1-2 Celsius, WOW.
It's always like that
You're right, that's not bad. It's also not true.
The heatsink with 1366 mounting kit is £46 alone.
Stop worrying me! Though I have now had two spinpoints bugger up over the last couple of years, samsungs RMA service is exemplary and I got a replacement drive in under 48 hours.I hope they fixed the reliability issues of the 1TB F1s... I'm sure they have by now, but I know someone who had every single one of his five 1TB F1s fail within a few weeks... ouch.
Lol @ selling a top end CPU just for a hard drive. I've been there too!
I just cant tell which one is which right now for my second one, if I get a second F1 as I plan too, I will remember to put a sticker on it so I can tell them apart. I need two drives for backup reasons and dual boot too, dont need 2x 1 TB, but the price makes it more worthwhile then buying a new smaller drive.
I have to sell all the old parts including CPU regardless. I just have the motherboard left to remove and box and need to find the AMD backplate and manual for the Silent Knight II which I saw somewhere a few days ago. I keep everything including all the boxes and parts. If no one buys them on ebay, including after a reduced price re list, then I try the forums. My 4850 sales were ruined with the current 4800 price drops, so I now have to sell them for less than I expected.
And other 4870s are now a little less cheaper then mine, but gigabyte are top quality with a longer warranty so I dont mind.
>Sigh< need the new hard drive and then I can play again. Good thing I have mobile broadband in the meantime.
I read that if a heatsink isnt made as compatible with 1366, then it will have bad contact with the CPU even with an aftermarket retention plate.You're right, that's not bad. It's also not true.
The heatsink with 1366 mounting kit is £46 alone.
The Asus Triton 88 is just uber nice. It is expensive, but much bigger with lots of heatpipes, so I dont really think that paying an extra £10-20 for a better HSF is a bad idea.
The back fan also sits on top of my ram modules, so it will pull hot air away from them as well.
True, it isn't the extreme, but it performs so closely it doesn't really make much difference. Besides, the TRUAs are lighter, more flexible (fit any fan, not the terrible ones usually supplied with stock coolers) and usually, beter to install.
Still haven't figured out more heatpipes don't make a better cooler?It is expensive, but much bigger with lots of heatpipes, so I dont really think that paying an extra £10-20 for a better HSF is a bad idea.
Well, no, but I like lots of heatpipes and big fins, I would assume they dissipate the heat a little better.
I would need to read a direct comparison review to believe which one is better, but there arent any reviews for the Triton 88.
But it does hold whichever two fans you want, and the built in fan is fine. 3 fan CPU cooler with 12 heatpipes and huge fins.
Will find out how it performs over the next week.
Not necessarily, and adding an extra fan certainly doesn't improve anything, the IFX-14 proved that.
Glee !!!
Super PI and Orthos stressing it right now.
It works:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5140/stocka.jpg
Last edited by Bhavv; 22-04-2009 at 08:59 PM.
The proximity of those graphics fans makes me cringe...
I quite like the blue LED P182 though, nice. Much better from the outside than inside though, the effect of all those fans is (IMO) ghastly, good thing the 182 doesn't have a window... haha
Yea, I wanted a windowed case at first, but now I dont anymore because of how ugly it is.
No where near as nice as my previous copper loops were:
But you couldnt even see it through the window because of the two side fans that blocked it all, so that was pointless.
The lights on the P182 from the fans do look nice from the outside. Windowed cases are just tacky anyway, and so is this PC on the inside, so theres an advantage for having a nice sleek Antec P182 to look at instead.
The Zalman bracket that I got wouldnt fit. Oh well, I'll keep it in a box somewhere and look for one of my PCI fan cards instead.
The LEDs on my ancient Vantec Spectrum fancard are buggered now and it doesnt light up, also I have a powercolur exhaust and single fan card, and one of those Akasa exhausts. Will have to look for them and put in whatever fits.
Last edited by Bhavv; 22-04-2009 at 10:22 PM.
Actualy I prefer the rigid square look of your new build to the old one I just don't like that LED effect... I have the same problem with my current system now where you can't see anything for the side fans (4x120mm) except for the top section.
Realistically, due to the way internal GPU coolers work, I found slot coolers a waste of time. A good side intake fan, and a good rear exhaust fan were the best option (or better yet a side exhaust)
Are you sure you don't need any more fans wrapped around the CPU? Only 5?!.. And not even Deltas!!!
No I dont need anything more for the CPU.
I want a fan below the graphics cards.
Less is more.
Yes... gotta say that those two extra fans you put on the heatsink are probably 99% pointless. Looks a bit silly too.
And are probably 99% of the GPU cooling problem.
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