Ordered the beast, stil tingling.

Noodles

Noodles

Active member
I finally ordered it , this powerhouse should last for a few years



Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Six Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz @ max 4.6GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® RAMPAGE IV EXTREME: INTEL X79, SOCKET 2011, R.O.G
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPERX GENESIS QUAD-DDR3 1866MHz X.M.P(4 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
3GB AMD RADEON™ HD7970 - DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
2nd Graphics Card
3GB AMD RADEON™ HD7970 - DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB SEAGATE Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s HDD, 64MB Cache (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£69)
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1050W PRO SERIES™ HX1050-80 PLUS® SILVER MODULAR (£159)
Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Fan Controller
NZXT Sentry 2 Fan Controller with upto 5 Fitted Case Fans
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Mouse
Razer® Mamba 2012 Elite Wireless Gaming Mouse (£109)
Cable Tidy
3 x JML 1.5M Zip Cable Tidy - Professional Cable Management (£10)
Warranty
3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour) (£135)
Delivery
SATURDAY DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (BEFORE 12 NOON) (£19)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 12 working days
Quantity


Thanks to those that responded to my posts over the last couple of months, i am sure i will have some more questions in the future.
 
mantadog

mantadog

Superhero Level Poster
Well I take it you don't like to play on anything other than ultra settings lol

What a machine, enjoy it!
 
Noodles

Noodles

Active member
I asked peoples opinions and did a bit of reading before putting my order in. Not everything is max although a lot of it is. I did however have a decent budget over £3000. I have posted a question to the Techs at PC Specialist this evening and thought I might put it out to forum members in regards to my cooling choice. My choice of air was to keep the noise down and the thought of a leak over my expensive components sent a shiver down my spine. However I am now concerned that air will not be sufficent for the overclock on the 3930 (which I want) and that I should change to liquid. Am I worrying about nothing? I know the Titan Fenrir has a good reputation and reviewed well and that the air coolers have come a long way since my last system, I have also asked if I did get a leak would it be covered by the warranty(platinum)?
 
vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
The Titan Fenrir cooler would do the job,but thats
just my opinion,I would wait on others.
You will be covered as long as your in warranty.
 
tom_gr7

tom_gr7

Life Serving
Personally I'd stick with the fenrir,

1. PCS would not sell you a system with a cpu cooler that wasn't good enough for the job.
2. PCS would cover you if you did have a leak, however, I don't think there has been a single leak from a ECO II model.
3. My opinion stick with air, prevention is better than cure.
 
K

Karnor00

Bright Spark
I just recently bought almost the same setup although mine is liquid cooled so I can't comment on how noisy it would be when air cooled - the case fans on mine are nice and quiet - the case temperature monitors generally sit at about 30C and the GPU doesn't get above 60C.

However I wasn't quite prepared for just how noisy the GPU fans are - whenever they go above 40% they are very noticeable, and above 50% they are beginning to get unpleasantly loud for long periods. And pretty much any gaming activity gets the GPU fans up to 40%. Manually crank the fans up to 75% and it sounds like a jet engine taking off.. And I haven't overclocked the GPUs at all. I'm seriously thinking about getting liquid cooling setup for the GPUs to reduce the noise even though it would be an immense pain to do.

One other thing is that on my system I did initially have some problems with instability - it would sometimes crash when gaming. I turned off the system overclock and this problem went away - however I had also been messing around with various settings (BIOS and GPU) to try and find out what worked best so this could well have been entirely unrelated to the system overclock. I haven't been doing any heavy duty simulation work yet so the CPU overclock wasn't needed anyway.

The above aside, the performance is truly epic when gaming. Every game I've tried I'm getting 60fps at max settings (and with vsync disabled I was getting framerates of 200+ in many games...). And the SSD makes booting windows unbelievably fast. I'm used to having time to get a drink while waiting for my machine to boot up - now I'm just beginning to think it might be time to get a drink when I realise its already booted and has been waiting for me for a while.
 
Noodles

Noodles

Active member
Karnor00

Thanks for that I cant wait to get my hands on my new machine. Re cooling from what I have been told and learned since this post I should not have a problem using air on a 3930k overclock I have also been told the gpus are quite loud from 40db to 50db in gaming my curent system is 8800gtx SLI in a antec case this is pretty loud also .
I used four different DB meter apps from my iphone (gods knows how accurate they are) and they were stating my old rig is on average 50db , If that is true I aint worried about the 7970's.
 
K

Karnor00

Bright Spark
I guess it depends what you are used to. I've been used to an almost silent system for the last 4 years so its a bit of a shock getting used to actually hearing it (although I am beginning to do so).

From what I've read, the 7970's are actually quieter than most other similar performance GPUs on the market so it shouldn't be any noisier than your current system (and quite possibly quieter).
 
keynes

keynes

Multiverse Poster
Karnor00 said:
I just recently bought almost the same setup although mine is liquid cooled so I can't comment on how noisy it would be when air cooled - the case fans on mine are nice and quiet - the case temperature monitors generally sit at about 30C and the GPU doesn't get above 60C.

However I wasn't quite prepared for just how noisy the GPU fans are - whenever they go above 40% they are very noticeable, and above 50% they are beginning to get unpleasantly loud for long periods. And pretty much any gaming activity gets the GPU fans up to 40%. Manually crank the fans up to 75% and it sounds like a jet engine taking off.. And I haven't overclocked the GPUs at all. I'm seriously thinking about getting liquid cooling setup for the GPUs to reduce the noise even though it would be an immense pain to do.

One other thing is that on my system I did initially have some problems with instability - it would sometimes crash when gaming. I turned off the system overclock and this problem went away - however I had also been messing around with various settings (BIOS and GPU) to try and find out what worked best so this could well have been entirely unrelated to the system overclock. I haven't been doing any heavy duty simulation work yet so the CPU overclock wasn't needed anyway.

The above aside, the performance is truly epic when gaming. Every game I've tried I'm getting 60fps at max settings (and with vsync disabled I was getting framerates of 200+ in many games...). And the SSD makes booting windows unbelievably fast. I'm used to having time to get a drink while waiting for my machine to boot up - now I'm just beginning to think it might be time to get a drink when I realise its already booted and has been waiting for me for a while.
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I have GTX 580 3GB in SLI and it is a bit noisy, I haven't yet tested the GPU on a demanding game. May I ask what GPU you have? 7970?
 
K

Karnor00

Bright Spark
rubensolo said:
Thanks for that. I wasn't aware of liquid cooling as an option for GPUs, but as you mentioned, it sounds like a challenging upgrade.
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I don't think PCS offer it, and unlike for CPUs I'm not aware of any decent self-contained systems (other than very generic GPU ones which aren't great). So its basically a matter of buying a radiator, pump, reservoir, fans, tubing, appropriate GPU cover (7970 ones are just hitting the market) and fitting it yourself.

Which of course is a lot of work and risk of leaking (particularly given that I'd be the one fitting it!). So while I'd like a quieter system, the noise isn't bad enough to drive me to do all that work yet!
 
Noodles

Noodles

Active member
Spoke with sales they said they are getting a new batch of 3930k's in on Wednesday, that being the case they reckon I will be going into building as everything else is in stock (fingers crossed)
 
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