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boatium
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boatium

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CPU: i7-4790K, not overclocked yet, too lazy
Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16 GB total, 2x4GB with fancy heatspreaders, 2x4GB low profile. 1600 MHz, CL9
GPU: ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 970 4GB featuring 3.5GB of GDDR5 and 0.5GB of junk
Case: Thermaltake Core V31
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB, WD Black 1TB, WD Green 3TB
PSU: Corsair CX750
Displays: 2x ASUS MX239H for pretty colours current RS client, 1x BenQ XL2411Z for smooth frames anticipating NXT client
Cooling: A carelessly chosen Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, with Be Quiet! case fans slapped all over
Lighting: NZXT Hue, soon to be replaced with Hue Plus
Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013
Mouse: Razer Deathadder Chroma

25-Dec-2015 06:18:52 - Last edited on 25-Dec-2015 06:24:45 by boatium

Jakir

Jakir

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Fourth Order!
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Components so far:
Week 1:
Tower - Corsair 750D atx
SSD - Crucial BX100 250GB SATA
Hard Drive - wd caviar black 2tb

Week 2:
Psu - Evga 220 p2 1000 80+ platinum 1000w
Ram - 4x 8gb (32gb total) Corsair Vengeance Lpx ddr4

Week 3:
Cpu - Intel i7 6700K

Christmas:
Cooling - Corsair H100i liquid cooling

25-Dec-2015 16:14:27 - Last edited on 25-Dec-2015 16:19:37 by Jakir

boatium
Jul Member 2013

boatium

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Jakir said :

Week 3:
Cpu - Intel i7 6700K

Christmas:
Cooling - Corsair H100i liquid cooling

Be especially careful not to overtighten at all the block onto the CPU. Skylakes are the bendy straws of CPUs.

26-Dec-2015 11:07:46 - Last edited on 26-Dec-2015 11:08:09 by boatium

Jakir

Jakir

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boatium said :
Jakir said :

Week 3:
Cpu - Intel i7 6700K

Christmas:
Cooling - Corsair H100i liquid cooling

Be especially careful not to overtighten at all the block onto the CPU. Skylakes are the bendy straws of CPUs.

Thanks for the heads up. Also I found out that I ordered the i7 6700 and not the i7 6700k which is .6GHz faster and overclockable while the other one is locked. So two completely different versions of the same cpu with a single letter of difference between them. Hell they even have the same price! (give or take $20) so now I'm trying to exchange it and hopefully they will take it back or I'm going to be heated.

26-Dec-2015 16:53:51

Jakir

Jakir

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Jakir said :
boatium said :
Jakir said :

Week 3:
Cpu - Intel i7 6700K

Christmas:
Cooling - Corsair H100i liquid cooling

Be especially careful not to overtighten at all the block onto the CPU. Skylakes are the bendy straws of CPUs.

Thanks for the heads up. Also I found out that I ordered the i7 6700 and not the i7 6700k which is .6GHz faster and overclockable while the other one is locked. So two completely different versions of the same cpu with a single letter of difference between them. Hell they even have the same price! (give or take $20) so now I'm trying to exchange it and hopefully they will take it back or I'm going to be heated.

The company was very nice and agreed to take it back and I ordered the correct one!
http://s23.postimg.org/ffwljhkkb/Custom_Build_Third_Order.png

Still need to return it and deal with the wait and inspection before I get my refund back so that is going to suck.

27-Dec-2015 19:17:35

Lykios
Dec Member 2016

Lykios

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Jakir said :
Jakir said :
boatium said :
Jakir said :

Week 3:
Cpu - Intel i7 6700K

Christmas:
Cooling - Corsair H100i liquid cooling

Be especially careful not to overtighten at all the block onto the CPU. Skylakes are the bendy straws of CPUs.

Thanks for the heads up. Also I found out that I ordered the i7 6700 and not the i7 6700k which is .6GHz faster and overclockable while the other one is locked. So two completely different versions of the same cpu with a single letter of difference between them. Hell they even have the same price! (give or take $20) so now I'm trying to exchange it and hopefully they will take it back or I'm going to be heated.

The company was very nice and agreed to take it back and I ordered the correct one!
http://s23.postimg.org/ffwljhkkb/Custom_Build_Third_Order.png

Still need to return it and deal with the wait and inspection before I get my refund back so that is going to suck.

I assume you know that more Ghz does not mean better cpu? The gigahertz war was already over in 2005.

28-Dec-2015 12:25:00

Klyntar

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Jakir said :
boatium said :
Jakir said :

Week 3:
Cpu - Intel i7 6700K

Christmas:
Cooling - Corsair H100i liquid cooling

Be especially careful not to overtighten at all the block onto the CPU. Skylakes are the bendy straws of CPUs.

Thanks for the heads up. Also I found out that I ordered the i7 6700 and not the i7 6700k which is .6GHz faster and overclockable while the other one is locked. So two completely different versions of the same cpu with a single letter of difference between them. Hell they even have the same price! (give or take $20) so now I'm trying to exchange it and hopefully they will take it back or I'm going to be heated.
Actually all cpu's in the Skylake series are overclockable as long as the motherboard will support it. K's are still simpler to do as they are unlocked, but they kinda went back to how they use to be on old cpu's.

30-Dec-2015 09:06:19 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2015 09:12:44 by Klyntar

Jakir

Jakir

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Lykios said :
I assume you know that more Ghz does not mean better cpu? The gigahertz war was already over in 2005.

Ghz is a very important factor afaik although it is not the only important factor, like for example the number of cores and hyperthreading stuff is also important but ghz is still important.

Klyntar said :
Actually all cpu's in the Skylake series are overclockable as long as the motherboard will support it. K's are still simpler to do as they are unlocked, but they kinda went back to how they use to be on old cpu's.

The article about non-k chipsets being cracked was literally released the day I sent mine back lol.

31-Dec-2015 02:25:10 - Last edited on 31-Dec-2015 02:25:42 by Jakir

Klyntar

Klyntar

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Jakir said :
The article about non-k chipsets being cracked was literally released the day I sent mine back lol.
I'm not sure what article you're referring to, but the overclocking thing with skylake has been official for over 2 weeks now and it was floating around before that unofficially.

31-Dec-2015 02:43:53 - Last edited on 31-Dec-2015 03:48:15 by Klyntar

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