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System Name | not very good (wants throwing out window most of time) |
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Processor | xp3000@ 2.17ghz pile of sh** /i7 920 DO on air for now |
Motherboard | msi kt6 delta oap /gigabyte x58 ud7 (rev1.0) |
Cooling | 1 green akasa 8cm(rear) 1 multicoloured akasa(hd) 1 12 cm (intake) 1 9cm with circuit from old psu |
Memory | 1.25 gb kingston hyperx @333mhz/ 3gb corsair dominator xmp 1600mhz |
Video Card(s) | (agp) hd3850 not bad not really suitable for mobo n processor/ gb hd5870 |
Storage | wd 320gb + samsung 320 gig + wd 1tb 6gb/s |
Display(s) | compaq mv720 |
Case | thermaltake XaserIII skull / coolermaster cm 690II |
Audio Device(s) | onboard |
Power Supply | corsair hx 650 w which solved many problems (blew up) /850w corsair |
Software | xp pro sp3/ ? win 7 ultimate (32 bit) |
Benchmark Scores | 6543 3d mark05 ye ye not good but look at the processor /uknown as still not benched |
ok guys i'm not going with the i7 990x just yet, as some of you may have read that i was going to get
( some reasons far to expensive plus they have bumped the price up 70 bucks and i have my eyes on the 2011 cpu as a future buy )
so i need some advice on what heatsink to buy for my current rig
my machine:
well it's a i7 920
3gb corsair dominator xmp 1600mhz
gigabyte 5870 graphics card
ax 850 watt psu
so why don't i use the cooler that came with the i7 920?
well i'm pretty sure that i bent the motherboard the last time i put the thing on, and that's why i had problems with the psu making pop noises,
so i might take the fan off and bin the stock cooler
my preferences ?
well i don't intend to overclock much, so i don't need watercooling so that 's not a suggestion i need,
as my name suggests i love emulators, so i need to tickle a bit more speed out of my cpu maybe taking it up to 3 ghz
noise :
well i like my pc quiet so it need to be a fairly silent cooler
ease fitting it: hm well i need it to be reasonably easy to fit (in other words something i don't need a phd in science for )
please give reasons why you think your suggestion would be the easiest to fit, what weight it is and so on
these are the 3 places i'm likely to be ordering from
http://www.dabs.com/category/components-and-storage,cases--cooling-and-power,cooling/11258
http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/all/coolers-air/intel-cpu-coolers
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=57&sortby=nameAsc&subid=1395&rows=0
thanks in advance guys and gals
( some reasons far to expensive plus they have bumped the price up 70 bucks and i have my eyes on the 2011 cpu as a future buy )
so i need some advice on what heatsink to buy for my current rig
my machine:
well it's a i7 920
3gb corsair dominator xmp 1600mhz
gigabyte 5870 graphics card
ax 850 watt psu
so why don't i use the cooler that came with the i7 920?
well i'm pretty sure that i bent the motherboard the last time i put the thing on, and that's why i had problems with the psu making pop noises,
so i might take the fan off and bin the stock cooler
my preferences ?
well i don't intend to overclock much, so i don't need watercooling so that 's not a suggestion i need,
as my name suggests i love emulators, so i need to tickle a bit more speed out of my cpu maybe taking it up to 3 ghz
noise :
well i like my pc quiet so it need to be a fairly silent cooler
ease fitting it: hm well i need it to be reasonably easy to fit (in other words something i don't need a phd in science for )
please give reasons why you think your suggestion would be the easiest to fit, what weight it is and so on
these are the 3 places i'm likely to be ordering from
http://www.dabs.com/category/components-and-storage,cases--cooling-and-power,cooling/11258
http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/all/coolers-air/intel-cpu-coolers
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=57&sortby=nameAsc&subid=1395&rows=0
thanks in advance guys and gals