Guts thread

>>55883308
nice m8 .. looks pretty sweet

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>ASrock

Id like to buy one its just I dont game

>>55883348
try finding another 1150 motherboard with a yellow and black theme.. wasn't cheap either

Soo... is Pascal out now? I can't really find a definitive answer on Google.

>>55883308
>4670k @4.2ghz
why even run it underwater with those bitch clocks.

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Installed a Fractal AIO today, and like the retard I am I put a big old gash in the side of the radiator.

I plan on expanding the thing with another 120mm rad and an EK universal gpu block in a few months though, so I'll flip it around to hide the damage when I'm doing so.

>>55883407
intel burn test gets the temps up to low 70's with that setup, don't know if i'm doing anything wrong or that cpu just runs hot af

>>55883497
not seated properly? I have my 5820k at 4.4GHz and that's on all 6 cores and i top out at 72c using an H110i GTX from corsair.

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>>55883367
$170 usd

>tfw starting new build
>hard to itemize for all-white theme, no affordable sub-1000wPSUs in white
>no foreseeable 1080s with a white PCB

jfmsu

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>>55883308
Neat asrock board man. Should color scheme with that haha.
>>55883447
pretty nice man.
>>55883942
should move the panel out the way for the picture next time. Nice build though simple.

>>55884039
Ignore me. I just discovered that I'm retarded.

>>55884122
>literally just got that board
white pride world wide

>>55884093
super flower PSUs come in white

>>55884186
Yeah, I'm actually waiting on a 750W Super Flower to come back in stock on a UK website and just ship it overseas, it's been out of stock for forever, though.

>>55884186
>what mother board?
I see everything but ram and a motherboard what an idiot.

>z97 OC Formula
You got it wrong, its the X99 OC Formula that is a great board.
Also, enjoy your TIM'd IHS.

>>55883742
Hash-E has soldered IHS, unlike Haswell, so the temps are not odd at all.

>>55884174
only 1 pin from not being retarded :p
might switch to pastel yellow when putting new fluid in next year or something. that uv yellow looks a bit too greenish

>>55884303
Not bad man but whats with that other pcie power cable? Why not just strap it to the other to hide it?

>>55884274
not getting a new cpu too, this one has to last for atleast a couple of years. that z97 oc formula was the best board that was still available for that socket in the right colors that i could find

>>55884330
Yeah I did afterwards, was just being a massive faggot and rushing to show off at the time

>>55884351
You already know this, but buying a board based on the color scheme components on it have is idiotic.

>>55884274
>Hash-E has soldered IHS, unlike Haswell, so the temps are not odd at all.
still, 4.2GHz vs 4.4GHz, 4 core vs 6 core, and custom loop vs 280mm Corsair Radiator.

I'd expect better.

>>55884399
it's a good board, i wouldn't have bought it if it was a shit board but with the right colours. much better than my old gigabyte that died after 2 years

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for now something like this

>hideous AIO
i know

>>55884442
and it also has conformal coating, so ideal for watercooling

>>55884426
The soldered heatspreader or not, makes a massive difference with load temps. Sandy cpu (soldered ihs) with 0.2V higher vcore than Ivy or Haswell (not soldered) can have 20C lower load temps (exact same clocks, same heatsink, same fan@same RPM, but the older having higher vcore, which directly translates to higher power consumption and heat output).

>>55884367
ahh I see haha. Ive been guilty of that. Thats why I usually build with my friend cause he gives no excuses.

>>55883308

How'd you get the liquid to glow? Just LED's?

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Same shit, different toilet.

>>55884640
it's UV liquid and UV leds

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>>55884122
i've got this backplate coming to stay with the yellow theme

>>55884659

That's sick man. Thanks for the inspiration for my next build!

>>55884678
awesome any other plans for the build? Be interesting if they made that color ram

>>55884655

White is the in thing this year isnt it? Looks good with the usual black components.

Glad to see less red.

>>55884728
i think there are yellow/gold kits out there, but it's abit silly to replace it if it isn't broken. maybe if i have a ram stick that goes bad or something i might look for a better matching kit

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>>55884445
I remember then the H100 had the same hoses, I was always so afraid of breaking them.

>>55884445
>>55885207

I have the CM Nepton 240m, it's my first liquid cooler/AIO. The hoses are super stiff, I didn't expect that at all. Are other AIOs the same?

>>55885303
I think all of Corsair's newer stuff is the thicker diameter braided hoses, they are pretty flexible. The Kraken AiOs appear rubber and are probably flexible to.

>>55883308
>Light blue
>Purple
>Green
>Yellow
What the fuck is this combination? this is HARDCORE ugly.

>>55885634
Lightblue? Wtf? The purple is UV so barely visible, just the liquid is kinda greenish and might be changed to pastel yellow

From what I've gathered out of all these 1080s, is that the OC capability is very weak. Which means it doesn't really matter which version I get?

Yeah?

>>55886291
Ive Read that Most of the highest overclocks Are on the founders editions, that and i wanted to watercool Made me get a founders

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>Semi-finished build.

>>55883308
>Colorful/10

>>55883348
ASRock make good boards, actually, fuck off.

>>55883447
>Using the vertical PCI slot for a fan controller
>GoodIdea/10

>>55883942
>Weird GPU placement/10

>>55884122
>Pretty good overall/10

>>55884303
>More weird GPU placement/10

>>55884445
>I Fucking Love Those EVGA Cards/10

>>55884655
>Supported GPU/10

>>55885207
>Very Good Looking/10
How's your board for color matching with itself? The PCH LED's on mine don't match too well at darker volumes but the rest do.

>>55885842
Well, atleast that matches with the mobo...

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I know my pcie power cable will trigger some of you. Finally have a shipping number from MSI but no email telling me what they did. I hope they aren't sending me back the same gpu i had otherwise ill never but msi products again.

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moshi moshi /guts/ desu

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no gpu yet but...

>>55887722
holy shit check my quad dubs

>>55887722
This post confirms GPU's are not needed, and that AIO's are the best cooling solution,

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>>55887769
u lyk? want more pics

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Just waiting on that SG11B now...
I wonder if this cooler is small enough to fit under the PSU also.
Might have to reverse the PSU fan to...

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>>55887909
May i politly ask you to remove those ethernet sticker next time you open your guts.
They Ruin your perfect ( so far ) Black Guts!

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What would be an appropriate video card for my computer?

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>>55888135
you could likely run a 1070 if you wanted

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>>55888085
Oh yea you're right I forgot those were there. I'm gonna add a 480 nitro as a burner until Vega

>>55888135
>>55888389
A 1070 isn't a bad choice, but for 1080p gaming a 1060 is also an excellent choice. The 1060 is roughly the performance of the GTX 980 for only around $250.

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>>55883348
i know two people that have been using asrock boards for years and even spilled drinks on them and they still work. what is your problem bro.

>>55883348
ASRock are premium boards. Get out from under your (as)rock.

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at least i wasn't the one to trip someones asrock autism this thread

>[email protected]
>1080
>32GB ram
>250g ssd + 2TB HDD

>>55889923
Why dont you activate Windows, anon?

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>>55886356
All the LEDs on my board match up to each other, I also ordered a magnetic LED strip that is compatible with the header on the boards. It looks pretty good.

>>55890417
kinguin sent me a borked key and promptly corrected it, surprisingly

>>55883308
ayy grill, how do you like those Thermaltake Riing fans?

I have a few in the mail and I'm not sure what to expect.

>>55889247
ASRock boards have a coating for that very reason. They're pretty neat.

I don't get the hate. I guess it's just a vocal minority.

>>55890536
>I also ordered a magnetic LED strip
Link to that please?

>>55890965
That's real sexy. I would recommend a white LED to light up the rest of the case, the UV will still work.

do i need a 1080 for my 1440p 144hz g sync monitor?

>>55891000
Its just buttmad asusfags trying to justify their overpriced shit, same thing when the RX 480 came out, just autists trying to justify buying the same thing for more money.

>>55891062
1070 minimum, 1080 good, Titan ideal

>>55891062
>1440p 144hz
>GTX 1080
literally even a 290x can do that
see >>55890965

>>55891026
I live in Canada so I ordered mine from NCIX but here's a link to the cable mod website.

https://cablemod.com/cablemod-widebeam-led-strips/

>>55891050
No my friend has the ROG swift and ran it with a 780 for a while. You won't get the greatest frame rate though.

>>55891050
will look into it

>>55891062
i have a 980ti and it runs very smooth on 1440 144hz
however i would recommend 1070 and up

>>55891081
amd poorfag please fuck off

>>55891103
>being this butthurt that even ancient amd shit can do 1440p 144hz
lol

>>55891103
i can afford the 1080 in my budget but i could use that extra $260 on a really nice chair. I have been torn for the past two weeks deciding which to get and its driving me nuts

>>55891148
why would i be upset at you being poor?

nice try m8

>>55891164
get a 480 or 1060 and buy a Herman miller

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R8 me

>>55891164
get the card m8, you wont regret it .. it will run like a fucking beast on 1440

>>55891173
>Hurr durr poorfags
>>>/v/

>>55891081
>290x

Enough of this bullshit. He obviously doesn't want to play on low

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R8/H8

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>>55884795
Crucial Ballistix Tactical (LP) RAM matches the OC Formula's chipset heatsinks pretty spot on. The drawback is that the yellow is only visible from the sides.

They OC well too, I get 1866 @ 10-9-10-24-1N

there is a dedicated shitposting thread for this up at all times on this board. why the fuck did you need to make a separate thread?
and why the fuck is your 4670k only at 4.2

>>55891195
Mine can do shit like
SW:BF maxed out at 70-90 fps
Doom 4 maxed out at 80-100 fps
Dying Light maxed out minus gaymewerks shit at 60-70 fps
so stop bullshitting you don't need a fucking 1080 to do 1440p you only need anything as powerful as a 290x (1060 or 480)

>>55891089
Thanks anon

>>55891184
Poofan rubber edges kill it. Buy a pack of Noctua's overpriced Chromax corners in Red. They come in 16 packs so one pack should be enough for those two fans.

Other than that it's bretty good looking. Definitely at least 8/10

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Sup /g/uys. No upgrade for a long while reporting in.

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>>55891424
And that's not a PC! That's a hamster.

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I put my build in a new case.

>>55891574
Good shit! Is that the R5 nano or whatever it's called? Itx right?

>>55891628
Yeah, it's called the Nano S.

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update my psu is dieing

>>55891676
What's it like using internet that fast?

>>55891741
im not sure i can only use half on my main drive at a time

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>>55891184
>1080
>4k instead of 1440p 144hz
>intel and sandisk ssds
>the shit colored meme fans

>>55891757
Explain.

>>55891797
my hardrive isnt fast enough to write at full gigabit speeds

>>55891809
So if you are browsing the web or whatever you are limited by your hard drive?

>>55891809
your hard drive can't write at 128MB/s?

886Mb/s is 110.75MB/s

>>55891815
thats not what i said i dont notice any difference between my 300 and 940 connections

>>55891825
i guess not unless steam only allows half speed or something like that

I'd probably get one of them NVMe drives if my hard drive was limiting my internet speeds.

>>55891863
Steam might just be capped at half gigabit connection speed. Check it in your settings in steam
>>55891866
Something else has to be going on. I mean my mechanical 1TB can saturate a gigabit connection on my LAN let alone even a half way decent ssd. My 850 EVO drives can maintain 190MB/s usually when moving files from one ssd to another on the same machine.

>>55883348
ASRock lets you overclock Xeons straight out of the box. If that ain't the tightest shit then get out of my face.

>>55891866
i would need money for that as of current time im broke from moving to texas
>>55891919
my ssd is rated @ 56MBps random read and 85 random write

>>55891965
Mis type its 85 read 56

>>55891965
>my ssd is rated @ 56MBps random read and 85 random write
What ssd is that? That's rather slow.

>>55891770
>Intel SSD's
Not him but, they're actually very good.

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Bring on the h8

>>55891990
KINGSTON SH103S3240G

the 850 evo is rated at 86 write and 94 read random

>>55892018
>intel ssds
Its not a samsung 950 so fuck it
intel is trash

>>55892031
>KINGSTON SH103S3240G
anon, that's rated at 555MB/s not Mb/s

Any SSD should be able to handle 1gbps internet, and most modern 7,200RPM HDDs shouldnt have a problem either

>>55892060
Ive had my intel ssd for years and its never failed me i think its at 16,000 hours or so

>>55892060
>samshit
>no firmware updates without agreeing to data collection

Alright, this is my first time building a PC from scratch. Is it advisable to just search for a build online (Like PCPartPicker) and order the parts that are in that build or get a build from someone here? Also, is it advisable to order the parts as I get the money, or save up and splurge all at once? Balling on a $1500 budget here, trying to make a gaming rig.

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>>55892099
>most modern 7,200RPM HDDs shouldnt have a problem either
>>55892031
Just for reference, here is my Western digital black 5TB HDD

Sequential write speed over 200MB/s which is 1.6gbps

>>55892099
Its rated at 540 sequential write wich isnt what were talking about and i can only get it upto about 75℅ total bandwith usage before it peaks regardless of if its a steam limit or a limit of the drive

>>55892031
Random sure. But downloading such a bulk file like a 50GB game is considered a sustained write is it not?
>>55892099
Not that anon, but he is referring to random read/write
Not sustained.

>>55892102
>>55892103
Samsung 950 > Intel 750
this is a fact samsung is better than intel

>>55892128
>WD 5tb black
>barely faster than a 3tb seagate from 2011

meanwhile the 10tb Barracuda is way faster
why do people still buy wd shit

>>55892141
its not technically a sequential or random load so it should fall somewhere between the two (wich it does)

>>55892191
I paid $160 for it. I didn't buy it for super fast speeds anyway, I have 3x4TB 5400RPM, I wanted a single fast HDD for larger game installs that I dont want on my SSD.

For my OS i'm using a 250GB 950 Pro.

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>>55892219
>buying WD shit

>>55892191
>Barracuda is way faster
This is true. Against /g/'s advice I bought a 2tb Barracuda and it's the fastest mechanical drive I've used.

Admittedly the head parking is annoying, probably the biggest nuisance of any HDD I've used.

>>55892278
well i'm paying under $0.04 per GB for a 128MB cache 7200RPM drive with a 5 year warranty from a company that has been around for over 40 years. I'm fairly confident even if the drive were to fail on me Western digital will still be alive and kicking to honor the 5 year warranty on the drive.

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This is my ssd download of rb6s
KINGSTON SH103S3240G

im going to post my marks of my 3tb hdd
Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH166

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>>55892320

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So anyone else got some good uptime to show off?

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All my cameras are shit

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I added another case fan at the bottom today to suck more air in, maybe move some of the warm air away from the GPU a bit and provide it with some fresh air. Moved the front 140mm fan up a bit too so it pushes across the morbo more.

The morbo temp in speccy is basically my ambient temp right now, so that is part of the reason my temps are high (and coming off the back of doing the benchmarks).

Also, back of the guts photo.

>>55884039
The first thing I noticed is that the perspective on that box is all wrong.

>>55892560
slick, I love mini itx builds

>>55891741
>>55891815
The main problem with Internet speeds this high is waiting for websites to respond.

Sure, you can download files super fast once the connection is established, but the wait for the connection to be established can take longer than the transfer.

>>55889709
>ASRock are premium boards
According to ASRock.

>>55892278
>2016
>/STILL/ using Backblaze to back up your argument

Backblaze's testing methodology has been shown to be shit for years now, anon.

>>55893412
From the looks of this thread, it's actually according to everyone except you.

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>mfw I almost bought an asscock mobo

Their driver download page looks like it's from 1998

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old picture

ill post current sometime today.

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>>55893600
>tfw you bought an MSI board and was worried about it's quality from shit talking on /g/
>tfw you read this circuit analysis
>http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7002/msi-x99s-mpower-intel-x99-motherboard-review/index3.html

>>55892060
samsung ssds are unreliable trash

intel ssds are among the most reliable on the market

>>55893677
msi cheap out on components

gigabyte have the best motherboards out there

>>55893704
You obviously didn't read anything in that link, he's specifically commenting on how MSI didn't cheap out at all with that specific board (the one I bought)

I could care less what they do USUALLY, the board I got is pretty legit.

>>55891358
because half of them even can't reach 4.4 and i haven't tried pushing it yet. and you can't reply to an archived thread..

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>>55893633
most current I could find. Bleeding air in pic.

>>55884445
I like it. It being the AIO.

>>55893793
I love clear tubing/clear coolant so much.

>>55891000
In 15 years i have owned 4 asrock boards
All 4 have failed, 2 of which were never used for overclocking
In 15 years i have owned dozens of boards
All but 4 have been fine
All but 2 have been used for overclocking

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>>55883308
just got the titan X this is a real card guys

>>55894059
so companies can never ever improve? once they made a bad product years ago, the brand is bad for the rest if it's existance?

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>>55887287
What fans are these on the Noctua?? Thats the setup I want when I get rid of this AIO.

>>55890938
they move mad amounts of air, but they are pretty noisy at full tilt, they get up to about 1400 rpm i think, but are running at near silent 500rpm most of the time

>>55894198
Not him but Fractal Design Venturi HP-14 PWM. I considered them also but just can't part with my poo fans. I'm very impressed with Fractal Design fans though. I have 5 of them as case fans in my build.

>>55893793
I like your old tubing runs better with out the tubes crossing over each other at the bottom and that drainage line.

>>55893704
Funny, considering that the only motherboard I've ever had fail on me was a Gigabyte "Ultra-Durable" model. Never had a problem with Asus, that's what I'm sticking with.

>>55894484
>asus
lol rampage have the highest rma rate

>>55894365
Thanks! I guess I will use the "low noise cable" when I get them.

>>55894491
Good thing I've never had a Rampage then. I've never used ROG models at all, actually. I've mostly stuck to their mainstream models, although I'm currently on a Sabertooth.

>>55894570
Ive got 2 3-way splitters and connected them All to my motherboard, and they ramp up with cpu temp

>>55891184
What case is that?

>>55892317
Funny how I read this right after I just placed my RMA for my WD HDD. It just stopped working and all my info is gone.

>>55894484
Two ASUS X99-A died on me within months of each other, I just moved to Gigabyte Ultra-Durable and I haven't experienced a single problem.

This thread just shows how all our brands have their ups and downs.

>>55894695
Absolutely. I never meant to imply that my experiences should be representative of the entire market. Not one of us, regardless of how many parts we buy, has enough to have a sufficient sample size to make that kind of declaration.

>>55884762
I honestly gave no thought to color coordination. Glad you like it though!

>>55893677
>http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7191/asrock-x99-extreme6-3-1-intel-motherboard-review/index3.html

ayy

>>55894953
What does it say? They won't let you look with adblock on.

>>55895537
nigga i have adblock on and it works just fine

>The PWM controller is an Intersil ISL6379 Digitally Controlled Hybrid 6 phase PWM. There is no datasheet, but I would venture to guess that it is a 6+1 phase PWM. To get 12 phases, manufacturers must double the phase count from the PWM since there is no 12 phase PWM in production for motherboards. ASRock uses 6x Intersil ISL6611A which are phase doublers with integrated dual drivers. This saves a lot of space which is important considering the limited motherboard real-estate of the X99 platform.


>It's pretty amazing that ASRock is using the ISL6379 three times on the board. It is overkill, but should provide very nice voltage control. The memory DIMM's main MOSFETs need drivers and four tiny ones are found on the back of the board. The drivers are Intersil ISL6208.
>The audio is powered by an ALC1150 which compliments the Intel Azalia processor in the PCH and two Texas Instruments NE5532 are used to amplify the backpanel and front panel audio outputs. Eight Nichicon gold 100uF electrolytic audio capacitors are used for the analog domain and the audio circuitry is isolated to reduce noise.

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>>55895658
Thanks. This is what I get. What did the MSI one say? It's crap?

>>55895690
Mostly positive. Just some comments about unknown/unbranded chips and some chips that aren't normally used on a motherboard.

>>55895802
Damn, MPower line of mobos used to be the shit back in the day. Sad they went that way.

>>55894652
Fractal Design node 804

damn just oc'ed my 1080 and ran some benches, that backplate gets frickin hot, it deffinitely has good reason to be there, they should've added some more passive cooling to it . also is there a way to get rid of that fucking anoying captcha? tiny pictures of trees

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>>55893677
well fuck you too tweaktown

>>55896053
Yes, buy a 4chan pass.

>>55894404
I liked it too but, the triple parallel block can only have flow come in the top and out the bottom. I had to reverse the flow direction to use it. The stress it takes off my pump is worth it imo

>>55894484

>>55895855
Sad they went what way? It's one of the only motherboards he ever tested with USB 3.0 re-drivers as well as PCI re-drivers and they used pretty overkill parts on most of the rest of the board as well.

>Performance wise, it keeps up with other boards in the performance category; however, where it really shines is storage. The highest M.2 and SATA 6G scores are taken by the MSI X99S-MPower. I did expect as much since MSI used re-drivers to make sure the signal quality stays high. MSI also did a very nice job at ensuring that conflicts between devices stay low, it's possibly one of the only boards I tested where I didn't have to do much tinkering to get the system to boot to my boot drive. The one thing that could be improved is the spacing for SLI/CF; also 3-way performance comes at a price, especially if you use an M.2 drive.


His only real negative on the choice of components was a single chip he couldnt recognize for PCH power. Big deal.

Which z170 boards are considered god-tier currently?

>>55897455
Asus Z170-DELUXE
Asus Maximus Extreme
Gigabyte Z170X-SOC FORCE
Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming G1

MSI doesn't really have a flagship one. Maybe the MSI Z170A XPower Titanium but I had it and it wasn't that great.

>>55897523
>but I had it and it wasn't that great

>4 stars on newegg with almost 50 reviews
>tweaktown review rating of 92%
>Guru3D review 5/5 stars
>hardwareheaven 5/5 Diamond award

yeah must be shit

>>55897565
Sorry MSI is great.

>>55897601
I mean it's literally one of the best reviewed Z170 boards out there and you specifically said it wasn't that great while recommending boards that have worse reviews...

I'm not saying MSI is the best, but they clearly make a decent product.

>>55897611
You're right. Get a dragonboard, OP. They're wonderful.

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>>55883308
>i5
>1080
>1080p
Why? You seem to need the FPS, I would go at least with a 5820K.

>>55898093
I'd recommend making your radiator fans push air out the top.

>>55898093
because i'm planning on getting a 3440*1440 21:9 next, and i wanted to have the hardware to support it before i buy one.

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>>55898176
The radiator doesn't exist anymore, as the 780Ti will be switched to a 980Ti Classified soon. I'm preparing to build a custom loop, but I'm unsure to wait for the 1080Ti, a block is around 100 €.

>>55898269
You'd be nuts to buy a 980 Ti right now. The 1080 Ti could be out very soon and offer like 40% more performance.

>>55897455
I got the asus z170p and dropped an i5 6600k in there. I'm very happy with it. Very nice bios.

>>55893412
>>55893600
buttmad anus fanbois

>>55893600
I don't think that I get ASUS again, its decent build quality but features like the AI suite suck. I think my next board will be EVGA.

>>55900022
EVGA boards are shit too

>>55883308
I have a double core radiator from a 1998 explorer 5.0 V8. its like 3 feet wide....

That'll be enough right?

>water cooling fags....

what's the best 120mm liquid cooler? i know closed loop coolers are a meme but my case can't fit any decent air coolers.

>>55900418
build your own loop you stupid /v/ spillage

>>55900425
but as a stupid /v/ spillage, i probably would screw it up.

>>55897455
>>55897523
what makes z170 better than other motherboards

>>55900505
Everyone makes good and bad motherboards, look up specific motherboards and their professional reviews. If it doesn't have any good reviews I wouldn't bother.

>>55888046
What cooler is this? I can see the Bequiet fan, but is it a bequiet heatsink?

What size fan is this?

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GPU died the other day when I unplugged my screen from it. It had shown weird shit and signs of it dying for the past month.

Got a 1080 coming. AMD never again.

>>55894033
Haha thanks, I've been thinking of doing red but I hear colored fluid can clog blocks

>>55894059
I have a asrock 990fx extreme and it's been killing it for over a year, with no issues.

>>55883348
>inb4 you're using an asus board

>>55894198

hey as >>55894383 said, they are venturis, they are noticeably louder than noctuas (I expected that) but they blow more air and fit the blackout look

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Added RGB LEDs, new RAM arrived, will continue watercooling this WE

Opinions?

>>55900505
z170 is the chipset required for the overclocking of the K series CPUs.

>>55900022
EVGA has horrible design, sadly. And by "design" I don't mean the colors. Their current series of motherboards doesn't have any internal USB 2.0 headers, which makes the use of many AIO water coolers impossible, only 1 USB 3.0 header, which isn't even enough for the front panel of most cases and the 4 pin CPU power at the bottom, sitting right above the PSU, which makes it unusable unless you move the CPU or something.

Also generally horrible features, like $300 board having realtek audio and the cheapest LAN chipset.

Since all you /g/ents in this thread are (presumably) builds, were any of you here lurking/posting in that Pc build general that was up yesterday? Somebody had a pastebin that seemed like a decent way to start off a thread.

>>55900978
>I hear colored fluid can clog blocks
It's not colored fluid, it's shit tubing. When the plasticizer used in most soft tubing breaks down, it gunks up in the more restrictive parts of the loop like the fins of the blocks. People mistakenly attribute it to the fluid because it winds up getting dyed by the fluid and turning out the same color. It can be avoided by using hard tubing, or certain kinds of soft tubing.

>>55901848
is that still a problem if you flush and refill your system yearly?

>>55891866
i got a nvme drive

its great for video editing, way too expensive if you are not working.

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>>55901283
Got my 1080 FE to 2.15GHz

Why are you guys so rich?
I have an old i5 2500k with a 6950 @stock.
Can´t even play Witcher 3 on low.

>>55901869
Well yeah, the tubing is still going to keep breaking down once it's started. I'd use either a plasticizer-free tubing like PrimoChill's PrimoFlex Pro, or change out the tubing when you're doing your flush.

>>55902229
You don't have to be rich. You just have to sacrifice something else. Managing your money is important.

But really, if you can't splurge ~$2000 once every two years then you should reevaluate your situation.

>>55902322
I am a Neet.

>inb4 trash
I know.

>>55902229
nothing wrong with the 2500k
a 6 year old radeon is your problem

>>55902304
Im using the PrimoChill PrimoFlex Advanced LRT

>>55902229
>6950
for what reason

>>55903055
>>>/v/
n/v/idiot cucks like you dont belong here

>>55903070
being this mad
Can you at least accept that AMD is not competitive at the high end GPU market?

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>rez sideways.
iknow, too fucking lazy to buy a new rez that fits atm. sidepanel closes so i'm happy.
also considering to paint my Noctua NF F120 PWM fans black/white and replace the shitty Corsair fans.

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>>55903429
I want to make a loop, or at least buy a high-end AIO, but I'm too afraid it will leak all over my $2000 rig.

>>55883308
Will that cpu bottleneck a 1080 though?

>>55903527
don't fuck it up i guess.

I recently had a leak, the 90 degree over my rez luckily. swapped it added new 280 radiator in the front and filled, no leaks so far. do compression fittings.

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>>55903543
it's the same as a 4770k in games basically.
pic related >>55903429

>>55903543
Depends on the framerate, so far id rather max out All settings than Hunt for that Magic 144fps number

>>55903527
Check out the ek-kit 240. There are a few options but this is an aio, that can be later used for custom loops. There are a few options.

I haven't made one yet but if mine leaked I would just claim insurance. Say I spilled a drink on it.
Leaking is unusual if you test and keep it maintained

>>55903683
>insurance
Holy fuck, that's genius. I will ensure it, that's it.

>>55903611
At 1080 or 1440p? I have the same cpu and was considering buying a 1080, but am afraid of the bottleneck in CPU and may influence me to buy a 1070 or 1060 instead.
Playing @ 1440p

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>>55903698
i wouldn't call a CPU a bottleneck unless its a 2600k series or lower.

>pic related 4690 (4670k) vs 4770k overclocked score in valley benchmark with a 980 ti.

>>55903573
my 4770k at 4.3 ghz with a stock 1080.

>>55903028
That's the one. I can never remember whether it was the Pro or the Advanced that came out first. It's stiffer and a little more difficult to work with than other soft tubing, but it's plasticizer free and better for your loop in the long run.

>>55903698
atm at 1080 and haven't seen any bottlenecking whatsoever. my timespy score http://www.3dmark.com/spy/203239

>>55891062
My 1070 just manages 1440p on ultra settings. Get a solid 55-65fps on Witcher 3. A little less on GTA V.

My results may be skewed buy my old [email protected] but I would go for the 1080 if you can afford it.

>>55884274
My i7-4790k peaks at 75 degrees at 4.7GHz. I think he's just got a bad silicon

>>55892278
I call bullshit on that chart. As a technician I see so many fucking Toshiba HDD's fail in laptops. If I test a HDD and it fails I could bet money its a Toshiba.

>>55903889
i'm hoping the extra 280 rad will drop my temps a bit, i'll reaply the thermal paste too. i've also seen that the orientation of the waterblock can make a difference too, very strange

>>55903969
>i've also seen that the orientation of the waterblock can make a difference too, very strange
It has to do with the way that the water channels inside the waterblock are oriented. East-West or West-East usually works better on LGA115X CPUs because more of the fins inside the waterblock get exposed to the heat from the CPU (the physical CPU is a north-south rectangle). Orientation doesn't matter as much on AM3+, FM2/+, and LGA 2011/1366 CPUs since those are more square in shape.

>>55903743
>>55903823
Awesome, that's good news. Thank you guys.

>>55903743
I've got an i7 2600k w/Noctua D14 cooler. Is it really bottlenecking? I can't tell.

>>55903190
they always have been and always will, keep being a good goyim

>>55903429

but anon, why are you cooling your computer with milk?

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>>55883348
ASRock make good boards.

>>55905818
>mATX in an ATX case
You triggered me.

>>55905818
i have had 0 troubles with asrock boards. They seem to be a good cheap alternative. I hate msi boards personally.

>>55906286
for being a cheaper looking build it looks pretty good.

>>55887287
>buying replacement fans because you didn't like the color


pleb detected.

>>55906360
Thanks. It cost me about 1300$, sinde I am a yurocuck

It has an i5 3450, a 280x, 8GB RAM, a 120GB ssd and an external hdd.

>>55905818
>>55906336
>asrock
>good

haha no.

I deal with Asrock X99 boards all the time, and the bios screen doesn't even have spell-check. Fucking "crucil ram". And they have the biggest failure rates in the D2 channel.

I always pick up the phone and tell the customer to please please switch out their board to asus or gigabyte.

>>55907223
>asus

>>55907136
I had an external i got tired of it and took out the hdd and put in my pc.

i have
Intel Core i5 4590
8.00GB ram
gtx 660 (place holder till my r9 390 comes back)
and a couple of hard drives and an old ocz ssd.

Probably 800 dollars all around i like US prices.

>>55907253

ASUS is the gold-standard of motherboards.

The moment you boot it up, it feels like a ferrari, down to the bios. I say that as a gigabyte user.

>>55907254
Haha, I'd love to go to bestbuy and go nuts. The problem with my HDD is that it makes an insanely annoying clicking noise, whenever it is outside of its enclosure.

>>55907275
Ive had gigabyte and asus they both worked fine for me as well as as rock ive had 2 of them and had 0 problems with them. I really have no preferences as long as it works and is a good price.

>>55907309
Microcenter kicks bestbuys ass i got my i5 for 169.99 plus their mobo cpu deals are the best. Too bad there are only a couple of them im lucky enough to live like 25 mins from one.

>>55907275
>>55907223
>payed asus shills
literally every single asus product i have owned either came to be dead, didnt work, or broke within a few years

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what kind of faggot buys an expensive GPU and water cools their CPU with a custom loop instead?

>>55907347
>literally every single asus product i have owned either came to be dead, didnt work, or broke within a few years

You're probably a homosexual. Asus is automatic when you're dealing with multiple builds. I don't even have to POST test sometimes.

With Asrock, I definitely have to post, not for the boot, but for the shitty QA in general. I also have to have a USB ready for the bios update that they require, especially their shitty x99 boards.

>>55907275

>ASUS is the gold-standard of motherboards.
>The moment you boot it up, it feels like a ferrari

Jesus fucking christ

>>55907625
Asus shills actually think that

>>55907428
All of them do it. I don't understand why they give up after just the CPU. Just suck it up and buy the water block for your card and then post your sick custom loop.

>>55907275
Nigger please. Go read Asus flagship reviews on newegg. Fun stories about factory-bent pins and RAM-killing sockets.

>>55907668
>incomplete custom loops
pukeinganimeloli.png

>>55907744
>>55907625
>>55907656
>poor people

Stop shiting up my shop with crappy AMD builds. Not even ASUS can save you there.

>>55907937
It's all about z170 boards. Sent my z170 deluxe back, because 2 ram slots didn't work. Apparently it's a common issue and half of the boards are DOA.

Gonna buy an MSI xpower now, fuck asus.

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>>55907937

>>55907223
good advice kerpal

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>>55907984
*muffled rawr in the distance*

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>all this ASRock vs. ASUS shitposting
>they don't even realize ASUS owns ASRock

that being said, i'd take an asrock over an asus most of the time.

>>55908754
Your dumb then.

>>55908783
nigger its the same shit for 20% less money

>>55908803
I doubt that's true and even if it was they're ugly. Plus as mentioned above the bios is a chingrish mess.

>>55907347
And every single Asus product I've had is still running. See >>55894795. I don't believe that anyone on this board goes through enough mobos or other components to get an accurate view of the market.

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>>55883308
Who ITX here?

My only regret is this was not my first build.

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>>55883308
>>55909640

I'm a fractal whore so I just switched to a define s from an arc midi r2. Definitely the best move I ever made.

>>55909653
>Water cooling case
>On air
Should have gotten the R5, that case is wasted on you.

>>55909653
Drive cages just fuck up your laminar airflow. If you don't need the the Define is a fine air cooling case because it fits a shit load of case fans.

>>55910113
Realistically it's still one of my first builds, eventually when I attain more knowledge to overclock I will move to liquid cool. You're freaking out man.

>>55910173
I do believe you get it. It looks great without the drive cages and keeps my 980ti around 36c without the fans spinning thanks to all the fans.

>>55910173
As an air cooling case, the Define S is a waste of space. It has that giant open space at the front of the build intended for radiators, reservoirs, and pumps. Using it on air is a waste.

>>55910492
There aren't many cases that don't have that space. S340 if you want a poorly made POS that looks like it was painted by a brush.

>>55901698
I remember them to look sleek and elegant. Much better than the current ASUS boards, I don't like these "gamer" designs, my Maximus V Formula looks much better than current ones.

I would possibly buy used X99 and plan to build a custom watercooling into it. Sound is not needed, my ASUS Xonar STX will suffice.
>>55908754
>This. Asrock lowend boards are shit, but the better ones have ASUS components.

>>55907668
ever heard of testing the card before putting a block on it and probably voiding the waranty?

>>55910593
And then posting a pic of it on the internet?

>>55910600
it's still a functional build, is it not? how about you go whine about people getting an aio without even the option of wc'ing their gpu

>>55910539
True, but there are many cases that don't waste it with open space.

>>55910634
You don't need to test it for that long before throwing a block on it. 12-24 hours in a looping benchmark like Heaven or Valley is more than long enough to sniff out any problems. Use a cheap CPU cooler while you're doing that, and then build your loop after. I know Intel doesn't supply stock coolers with K-Series CPUs anymore, but I'm sure most people with enough interest in computers to build a custom loop have an old one lying around somewhere. Building a CPU only loop just to test the GPU before blocking is extra work, because half of that loop is going to get scrapped anyways.

>>55910539
>S340 if you want a poorly made POS that looks like it was painted by a brush.
It's been what.. 3 years since the S340 was released? First time I have ever read a complaint about the paint.

Where the hell do people get these stories? NZXT, ASRock, Corsair, etc. It's getting quite amusing reading the stories one or two people think up as an excuse to shit on a product for whatever reason.

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>>55910725
The paint is horrible anon.

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>>55910752

>>55910705
the card took a month to arrive, was supposed to be a zotac amp extreme, but it kept being delayed so changed my mind to a founders edition and watercool it. some parts for the expansion of the loop are in backorder so why wait to put the card in?

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S340 still has a fairly big gap at the front. Maybe it looks small because of that wire cover thing. There aren't many cases without it because it limits GPU length and the beast cards are like 300mm+

>>55910776
It's got a gap, but it's nowhere near as big as the one on the Define S. It's certainly not 360mm Alphacool Monsta big.

>>55910799
In the end we are talking about inches. If the empty space bothers you aesthetically I understand but it is there for a functional reason (3x140mm fans in the top)

>>55910823
That space also allows for two 3.5 inch drives in the back mounted horizontally. Anon thinks he knows more about design than the Swedes. Cute.

>>55910839
Correction, 3x3.5 inch drives mounted vertically.

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meh too lazy to edit. i don't know why the 6950x is not showing up anyways waiting on titan x or 1080ti

>>55910857
What are you doing?

>>55910857
>eso
What's your alliance?

>>55910823
What does that third fan cool? There's nothing in the front to draw heat off of or blow air over. The only justification for it is with a radiator, which only backs up my point that the Define S is a water cooling case, not an air cooling one.

>>55910852
Want to guess how many 3.5" drives could be mounted in that space if it weren't left empty for the sake of radiators and reservoirs? Hint: It's a lot more than three. Face it, the Define S is just a waste of space if you're not water cooling. I'm not saying it's a bad design, I'm just saying you're doing it wrong.

>>55910898
shit i don't even remember i bought the game years ago but finally installed it.

>>55884445
Polak detected

>>55900927
I've got a Define R5 and I'm sure it didn't come with those back mounts for HDDs. Is this a different case or are they a separate purchase?

>>55911450
That's a different model. Called the Define S. Doesn't have all the optical bays and crap.

Are there any good cases (that have come out within the past couple of years) that still have drive bays? I've got almost all the parts for my build but I'm considering buying a new case since my old one is showing some wear.

I originally considered the define r5, s340, and carbide 400c but the lack of drive bays for an internal hard drive and usb hub is a no go for me at the moment.

>>55911796
the one i have comes with 6 bays preinstalled, corsair 780t

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mITX is meant to be crowded right?

>>55911854
I had my eye on this case when it came out but unfortunately 180 is just way out of my budget.

>>55910492
Empty space is beautiful. >>55892560

>>55910857
Where is your custom water loop?

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R8

>>55912958
I think a spider go in your PC.

>>55912958
Needs more nylon.