Recent content by Beary

@Solaris - I'll give that a go in a bit. @Jetster - Good suggestion didn't even think of that. Didn't work though unfortunately. Card is the Asus HD 7970 DCII. @animal - Yep. Both power LEDs on the card are green. There are two 6+2 pin pci-e inputs on the card. It attaches as 8 pin but 2 pins...

Thanks for all the help lately with my build guys, much appreciated. Now though I'm facing a more serious problem. My HD7970 is failing to post. Specs: 3930k Asus Rampage IV Extreme 4GB ddr3 generic ram (my corsair vengeance hasn't arrived yet) AX850 Corsair Crucial M 512GB Cosmos II...

So I have my new build all fitted now I'm just about to wire it up. The two inputs at the top of the h100 are confusing me though, what exactly do I put in there? Is it necessary? Bonus question: edited out, I was just testing you guys...

Brilliant thank you :)

3930k doesn't come with a stock cooler but I think I understand a little better now. Cpus are shipped with the paste pre applied to the stock coolers and not the cpu itself correct? This will make it just fine for me to slap the h100 on the 3930k with stock paste.

Hi. I have these components ready right now but I'm confused on the thermal paste question. I have AS5 + Arcticlean. I've heard that the H100 comes with pretty decent pre-applied paste so my question is 1. Does the 3939k come with pre-applied paste? 2. If not should I apply AS5 to the...