Thanks all for showing me what I know, here is my new build with what I have learned

[Rinji07]

Well after learning so much from you guys here is my new build I can post pictures later my room is a mess and I don't want to defame my new beauty with a messy room!

MB: Asus Maximus Extreme / Newegg.com - ASUS Maximus V EXTREME LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard

CPU: I7-3770k / Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770K

Ram - Corsair Vengeance 32gb <-- only in here till I get dominator / Micro Center - Corsair Vengeance Series 32GB DDR3-1600 PC3-12800) CL 10 Quad Channel Desktop Memory Kit Four 8GB Memory Modules) CMZ32GX3M4X1600)

PSU - 850 OCZ ZX series gold / Newegg.com - OCZ ZX Series 850W Fully-Modular 80PLUS Gold High Performance Power Supply compatible with Intel Sandybridge Core i3 i5 i7 and AMD Phenom

HDD - OCZ Vertex 4 / Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-256G 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (256GB) / Then I have a WD Black sata 6 2tb storage.

GPU - EVGA 690 GTX / Newegg.com - EVGA 04G-P4-2690-KR GeForce GTX 690 4GB 512-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Case - HaF XM / Amazon.com: Cooler Master RC-922XM-KKN1 HAF XM Mid Tower ATX Case with USB 3.0 and External SATA X-Dock: Electronics

Monitor - Asus x3 / Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more!

USB Light lol - Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more! >>>Invaluable

Headset - Logitech Newegg.com - Logitech G35 USB 2.0 Connector Surround Sound Headset

Speakers - Cheaped out on these cause I mainly use headphones ^ Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more!


After the amount I spent on the hardware I am just using a basic multimedia Keyboard and mouse lol, (for now) But i had to get alot of it here locally from microcenter as newegg was giving me ALOT of trouble with ordering, I had to buy the 690 from amazon I will post screenshots and pictures here in a bit again thank you all, and the monitors are getting replaced I am going to go with a dell ultra sharp. I hope I made some of you proud / happy at least!

[Rinji07]

Hey Guys I was wondering what My cpu temps should be, I am bouncing between

32 31 28 30 - c / lowest

then I ran Prime95 and played some mmos and these temps are what came back

64 70 68 67 - c / highest

shut off prime 95 and my mmo, they dropped to

34 33 30 32 - give or take 1-2 c on each for variance.

is this good for the 3770k on air? or should I be looking into water cooling? Also I am using innovations cooling thermal compound it is applied correctly and a hyper 612

[Rinji07]

http://imageshack.us/a/img4/8910/rea...me95sensor.jpg


^ Photo of realTempGT + prime 95 sensor test

[ShyguyXPC]

Well, the Ivy Bridge chips do run a bit warmer than Sandy Bridge, so that might account for the warmer Idle temps, not sure on the load temps, but generally looks OK.

also have to take into account the ambient room temps, and airflow in case, is it uniform, and all in one general direction?


Also is this at stock clock speeds, or is it already Overclocked?

[Rinji07]

Well, the Ivy Bridge chips do run a bit warmer than Sandy Bridge, so that might account for the warmer Idle temps, not sure on the load temps, but generally looks OK.

also have to take into account the ambient room temps, and airflow in case, is it uniform, and all in one general direction?


Also is this at stock clock speeds, or is it already Overclocked?

All stock I atm, I am / havent over clocked anything atm I am going to return this cpu cooler because I have a push / pull setup atm but the from fan pushing the 612 air through is set slightly higher because of the corsair ram heat spreaders being so damn tall. It is only about 3/8 of an inch higher on the heat sink then it should be the room temp I would say is between 73-75.

[Rinji07]

But the problem I run into with that is finding a CPU cooler that isn't like this
Hyper 612 PWM - Cooler Master <-- btw this is what i got

The front intake fan is to much if it wasnt there it would be perfectly sized, The asus maximus board doesnt give me to much room lol if only the ram dimms was 25.4MM / 1 inch more to the right.

[ShyguyXPC]

They do make lower profile Vengeance kits: 4x Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more!

not sure why you have 32GB RAM, if this is a gaming rig just 8GB is over kill.

[Rinji07]

They do make lower profile Vengeance kits: 4x Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more!

not sure why you have 32GB RAM, if this is a gaming rig just 8GB is over kill.

Not Just a gaming rig but if it was that would be overkill yes I am more or less using it for blu ray ripping for a personal back up of the legit movie i already own, autocad and some adobe software.

[Rinji07]

I call it Tytan. yes I am a nerd.

[ShyguyXPC]

I see, yeah AutoCAD or any other 3D modeling/animation software will eat that up easily enough, same with Adobe Video Editing software, and some 2D Photo software sometimes.

[ShyguyXPC]

I'm only running 6GB of the same Vengeance RAM you have, and even then, some of the highly detailed high polygon 3D models/meshes I load in Carrara and other programs will eat up most of my available RAM.

Several times now, I have some Star Wars Meshes I try to load, and tends to bog down, lag or ultimately crashes Carrara, and takes for ever to load the meshes up when it does work.

I tried that on 3GB RAM, things improved a bit on 6GB, but I feel thats not even enough, sadly I'm running Win7 Home Premium 64-bit so most I can have is 16GB Of RAM, if I moved to Pro I could use my systems max of 24GB if I wanted.

[Rinji07]

They do make lower profile Vengeance kits: 4x Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more!

not sure why you have 32GB RAM, if this is a gaming rig just 8GB is over kill.

AWESOME FIND!!

Edit, Id like 32gb

[Rinji07]

I'm only running 6GB of the same Vengeance RAM you have, and even then, some of the highly detailed high polygon 3D models/meshes I load in Carrara and other programs will eat up most of my available RAM.

Several times now, I have some Star Wars Meshes I try to load, and tends to bog down, lag or ultimately crashes Carrara, and takes for ever to load the meshes up when it does work.

I tried that on 3GB RAM, things improved a bit on 6GB, but I feel thats not even enough, sadly I'm running Win7 Home Premium 64-bit so most I can have is 16GB Of RAM, if I moved to Pro I could use my systems max of 24GB if I wanted.

I thought pros limit was 192 like ultimate?


wait nevermind i see what your saying, due to motherboard lol sorry man its late.

[ShyguyXPC]

AWESOME FIND!!

Edit, Id like 32gb

There's a reason I put "4x" in front of the link.

you have an existing 4x 8GB Kit, buy 4 of those individual 8GB Kits and its the same, you end paying a bit more, but its only $10 or so more, for the convenience.

See if you can exchange the existing kit back in for the lower profile ones.

[Rinji07]

There's a reason I put "4x" in front of the link.

you have an existing 4x 8GB Kit, buy 4 of those individual 8GB Kits and its the same, you end paying a bit more, but its only $10 or so more, for the convenience.

See if you can exchange the existing kit back in for the lower profile ones.

shy, that wont work for me I only have 4 dimm slots...

Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more! 8gb yes but it is 2x4gb sticks it says

[ShyguyXPC]

eh, was looking at the pic for it, shows a single stick, didn't see it was a dual stick kit.

Corsair does sell single sticks though, Newegg has them if MicroCenter Doesn't.

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Vengeance LP 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model CML8GX3M1A1600C10

Actually comes out to be cheaper than MC as well.

the 32GB low profile kit is actually even cheaper yet:

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Vengeance LP 32GB &#40;4 x 8GB&#41; 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 &#40;PC3 12800&#41; Desktop Memory Model CML32GX3M4A1600C10

[Rinji07]

eh, was looking at the pic for it, shows a single stick, didn't see it was a dual stick kit.

Corsair does sell single sticks though, Newegg has them if MicroCenter Doesn't.

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Vengeance LP 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model CML8GX3M1A1600C10

Actually comes out to be cheaper than MC as well.

the 32GB low profile kit is actually even cheaper yet:

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Vengeance LP 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CML32GX3M4A1600C10

I gave up with new egg due to how much trouble they gave me when I tried to order my 690gtx, I had to go through amazon to get it and I am rather annoyed with them also atm. I prefer to pick it the memory somewhere here in columbus, But it seems microcenter is all I have since best buy here has got next to nothing.

[ShyguyXPC]

what was the trouble with newegg?

[Rinji07]

I tried to order my 690 from them and they kept declining my card they wouldnt call me and gave no reason as to why it was declined i go to amazon and had it ordered in under thirty seconds, after the first attempt on newegg got the confirmation order email then i got declined so i tried again verified i had everything correct and i did, so same thing again and no call so im like wtf ok. So I tried one last time and it said that I have ordered to many in 48 hours im like great... yea here i come amazon.

[ShyguyXPC]

I see, maybe some kind of limit or something on the card that they accepted or some troubles with their systems processing with your bank.


normally I don't ever experience that problem with them, but considering the dollar amounts of items you ordered could of been related to that.

Anyways...