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Hi people, in my new gaming desktop, I will make a home made watercooling with copper tubing. Which fitting is compatible? Does somebody could help me?
I will use 10/13mm tubing, the Koolance 380i for the CPU, the EK coolstream 360 for the rad, and XSPC photon 170 with lang d5 pump.
Thanks.
If you're using tubes made out of copper, you will need to use fittings, which are compatible with acrylic or messing tubes. I found this one from Alphacool on Aquatuning, this should be compatible with your 10/13mm copper tubing.
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I dont use that pc so i want to use for gaming
okay...as mentioned above, can you give some more information about the other components of your rig? powersupply,...? If you're PC is working, can you please provide a HWinfo Summary screenshot
Regardless of what games you'll play, I would recommend again to go with an AMD Radeon R7 260X, an AMD Radeon R9 270 or an AMD Radeon R9 270X or maybe the all new AMD Radeon R9 285, which will be released on September 2nd
;)Nvidia has some good solutions too, but AMD is far superior when it comes to price/performance ratio.
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Transformers: Age of Extinction:
fighting Transformers
needs no story 
Looper:
Action packed movie with a good story
Broken Flowers:
Stored for a long time on my Movie HDD. Recommendable.
47 Ronin:
wasted 2h of my life
Expendables 3 - Enjoyable provided you switch your brain off first!Haha
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I have a rather old pc has an intel core 2 quad processor and I want to revive buying him a video card, but not like that type of video card you remain good to that processor. previously had a MSI NVIDIA gt8500
hmm...What do you mean with "but not like that type of video card you remain good to that processor"?
What about an AMD Radeon R7 260X, an AMD Radeon R9 270 or an AMD Radeon R9 270X?
This system is for office work? Gaming?
Can you provide some more information about your rig? 
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The Zotac comes without any storage drives and RAM. There's a "plus"-version including a 64GB SSD and 4 GBs of RAM. But it's cheaper to buy them seperately.
64Gb SSD and 4gigs of DDR3, lol
a real "plus" for plus 100€ 
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Has anyone ever tried using Eyefinity 3.0, which was introduced with 14.6 driver version, with mixed resolution displays?
Wonder how this is looking in action...
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I actually never seen a 4K screen in action, but I think it's really cool to have one, whether for office work or gaming.
The ones using a TN-panel are available for about 600$, those with an IGZO-panel are still costing 2000$+, but deliver a much better viewing angle, black level and colors.
Currently the big problem is to reach 60Hz on those screens, that's why (almost) all models using tiled display mode via DisplayPort MST to achieve 60Hz at this resolution.
I currently lost track, whether new display controllers are now available, which can handle to output 4K@60Hz.
HDMI 1.4 is only capable of delivering 4K@30Hz, the newer 2.0 version is finalized for some time now, but there's no monitor available with this version, maybe we will see some first monitors with HDMI 2.0 at IFA in Berlin next month.
I think, I won't buy a 4K monitor until fall 2015...
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@icke_dd: Never read about these Nano-ITX builds before, but it seems to be a pretty decent option for office work and media playback.
How much storage do you get with that price tag of around 320Euros?
Passive cooling at 40°C
, that's cool. I think, once Broadwell is released, we will see a lot more product lines based on this Nano-ITX form factor. 
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At the time Crytek revealed Ryse: Son of Rome as an exclusive title for Xbox One at E3 2013, I thought: It looks so great, why it must be an exclusive title?!?
However recently Ryse: Son of Rome was announced to be released on PC later this year
With improved textures and environmental objects it looks even more stunning. Definitely a must have title for me in 2014. The developers even think of rerendering the ingame-cutscenes in 4K and deliver it as an additional download for people, who own a 4K screen and have 120-150Gb free space on their harddrive. 
4K Offscreen gameplay:
:p
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The case is just a generic case, I don't want to spend too much more than 470$, I just want to play FFXIV at constant 60fps, I'm not planing to overclock the CPU or the GPU either.
It's a hard decicion because seems that I have to buy a new motherboard compatible with the latest socket, so I can upgrade it later.
About the power supply, I'm not sure if you mean that I can't use it with GTX 760 SLI if I don't choose the correct motherboard?, because as you say I can use 8+6pin for one and Molex to PCIe connector for the other, I've never used a motherboard that uses any extra connectors for power.
Which motherboard should I choose if I want to keep my current power supply and use GTX 760 SLI? (the cheapest one).
It's possible to have SLI with your current powersupply, but you will have to use one of these MolexTo8pin or MolexTo6pin adapters, these are usually contained with the graphicscard.
470$ overall...hmmm...
I would buy an Intel i5-4590K instead of an i7-4790K, further I would choose the Asus Maximus VII Hero and GPU-wise I would take the EVGA GTX760 Superclocked, which you have listed.
This calculates to a total of about 665$, including a cooler like the Noctua NH-D15 or the Corsair H80i, we have an overall total of ~760$
It's your money, your decision...
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Maybe I can be a bit more specific which cooler you could buy, that's why I asked you for the case model. ;D Can you be a bit more specific or maybe you can attach a picture of your current setup?
The powersupply should be sufficient.
But...it has only one 8pin EPS connector (CPU power) and two 6+2pin PCIe connectors...depending on which motherboard you choose it may be required to have two EPS connectors (Asus Maximus VII Formula for example 8+4pin EPS)...the EVGA GTX760 Superclocked needs 8+6pin PCIe connection, this means that if you're going to add a second GPU you will need another powersupply or you use your Molex to PCIe connectors (which are usually in the GPU box)...keep that in mind -
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Nice, don’t forget to give us an update once you upgraded your rig.
Don’t forget to buy an appropriate CPU cooling solution for the i7-4790K
I would recommend a closed waterloop cooler like Corsair H-series, CoolerMaster Nepton-series or a good air cooler like the Noctua NH-D15,...
Which case and powersupply do you have?
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Hey guys
Some time ago or better to say, before I handed my two GTX Titans to @svl7 for some further TriSLI benches (which are still pending
), I ran some benchmarks on my watercooled rig comparing two GTX Titans in SLI with my Asus MarsII (GTX580s in SLI). :glee:
Here are the results, enjoy
:Setup 1:
Asus GTX Titan@876/1502 core/memory (stock)
Asus MarsII@782/1002 core/memory (stock)
Asus MarsII@876/1002 core/memory
Setup 2:
Asus GTX Titan@1156/1502 core/memory
Asus MarsII@950/1002 core/memory
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Awwwww, any suggestion for the motherboard? any cheap mobo it's OK for me, I mean, I don't see too much difference in a 30$ motherboard and another one for 200$.
Of course
I don't know how much money you want to spend overall for your CPU, GPU and motherboard upgrade, so I'll list some options below:
Top class:
Generously equipped motherboards with special features like SataExpress (Asus Maximus VII Formula), AC Wifi (both MSI boards and Asus Maximus VII Formula), Dual Ethernet (EVGA Z97 Classified). Ready for Quad-SLI/Crossfire setups. Possibly delivering the best CPU overclocking capabilities. They're the flagships so they're quite expensive.
Good Price/Performance class:
I think one can say these are motherboards optimized for gaming oriented people. These motherboards still offer a lot of features, like mSata, SLI/Crossfire (2GPUs), nice onboard audio,...
other options:
These are some options that I can recommend, especially if you buy an i7-4790K processor.
Every motherboard has its advantages and disadvantages compared to another motherboard. In the end the decision is yours. Hope I helped you a bit and feel free to ask further questions. -
I didn't do preset overclocking, my motherboard allowed custom voltage settings and memory clocks. So I manually cranked up the GHz in increments of .1 - .2 GHz through the BIOS settings. Then I checked how hot the CPUs ran under load with the specific overclock settings.
Sorry, I have expressed myself wrong, I meant this method, modify the settings in the bios.
Your i7-3930K has a TDP of 130W and your current cooling solution, the Noctua NH-D14, is designed to cool processors with 130W TDP. As mentioned before, overclocking on a cooling solution like this/on air with moderate temperatures is hard to achieve. You exceed the 130TDP rating easily, when you increase voltage and clockspeed on your 6core CPU, the Noctua NH-D14 reaches its limit.
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Oh I paste the same link twice, these two are the correct ones:
I've never used AMD CPU's or GPU's, also I want to use the Shadow Play feature from NVIDIA.
o.O
Okay... :confused: In this case you'll have to buy a new motherboard anyway, because neither the i7-4770K nor the i7-4790K will work on a SandyBridge motherboard.Take the i7-4790K, it has better thermal compound and (possibly) better overclocking results.
ShadowPlay...
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For the CPU I'm between these two:
But the i7-4790K needs a new motherboard and I'm not sure if it's worth 27$ more and a new motherboard for that extra performance, I don't want to spend that much on the CPU.
Did you mean an i7-2600K instead of an i7-4790K?GPU choice
:If you go for one of the two options that you have listed above, then definitely take the GTX760, because it's much more powerful than a GTX750Ti and has as mentioned SLI support.
On the other maybe you have the time to wait a little bit longer, it's rumored that AMD is unleashing the "new" Tonga-based R9 285 by the end of August, this may lead to price adjustments for both manufacturers, Nvidia and AMD.
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From where did you get that? Quadro driver? Alpha driver?
Any changelog details available?
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Noctua NH-D14 air cooling with Arctic Silver 5 Polysynthetic Silver. I last repasted the CPU before attaching the Noctua heatsink (I don't remove the heatsink at all).
There's a noticeable difference in temperature, if one uses air cooling or a closed waterloop cooling solution. Especially if you want to run your 6core CPU with a preset overclocking.
I would recommend you to change your cooling solution to a Corsair H100i or a Corsair H110.
I'm using AS5 as well and the following two pictues will show, how the thermal compound eroded/burned off over time.
This was after almost a year in use, after some time you'll have to do a repaste, it is virtually unevitable
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So I guess I need a new bios chip. Where is it located???...a little bit more information would be useful...maybe some pictures...
What components are built-in? CPU-Model (i7-980X, i7-3930K,...) or generation (Westmere, SandyBridge-E,...) would already help a lot to determine what motherboard is installed.
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So i upgraded my cpu with a 920xm but want to upgrade my 5870m. what are my options here? which ones are the most compatible. Thanks for your help in advance.
Your Asus G73JH should be upgradable with an AMD 6970m, AMD 6990m or an AMD 7970m. I've never seen a thread or benchmark result with a working AMD 8970m or a R9 290X.
Probably you may need to (blind) flash the vBios of the card or you have to flash a modified G73JH bios to get everything working. I don't know exactly what steps are necessary in order to succeed:confused:...
Some time back I read at NBR forums that someone managed to get an GTX770m working on his G73JH system, but as far as I remember he had to flash a custom zombie bios made from a G73JH and G73JW bios before the system worked.
@svl7 and me tried several cards in my G73JW (dead) and had only success with an GTX660m.
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Finally after more than two months since the last WHQL.
Let's see how this one performs since I had to revert from the 340.43 BETA to the 337.88 WHQL driver, because the beta never worked correctly with Nvidia Surround enabled on my Asus MarsII (GTX 580 SLI)..."Best gaming experience for Metro: Redux" Lol, when I look at the release notes, Nvidia should still fix some issues on Metro2033 and MetroLL
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The CPU is paired up with a Gigabyte X79-UP4 motherboard. I'm using Kingston HyperX 1600MHz RAM sticks, checked for ram errors with memtest86+ (no errors found). Fortunately, the system almost never freezes (I would be more worried if it were more frequent).
Okay, then it's not to serious
UPDATE (5/21/2014): I ran my i7-3930k @ 4.2GHz with 1.224 core voltage. I found the max temperature to be 78 C, which is significantly higher than stock clocks (62 C) and Tcase (66.8 C) as noted by Intel. I suppose I'll stay away from overclocking this chip for now.hmm ok...I had higher temperatures as well, back when I used the Corsair H100 cooler and applied an overclock of 4.2 to 4.5Ghz on all 6 cores...I think it's normal...
What's your cooling solution + thermal compound? When was the last time you repasted your CPU?
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Current Desktop Specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EP45T-USB3P (back in the day this was the shit, came with all the bells and whistles, a lga775 with ddr3 and usb3?1?1? unheard of)
CPU: Q6600 ocd to 3.6ghz stable for years now
RAM: Mushkin Blackline DDR3 1600mhz 2x4gb sticks oced to 1800mhz
GPU: HD5770
Case: Cooler Master HAF-X (before usb3 ports came on cases)
Cooler: Corsair A70
Power Supply: Corsair TX750W
Drives: 1 55Gb OCZ Vertex2 ssdas boot, 2X 1tb Seagate baracuda drives in raid 0 for program installs, 1 3tb harddrive for files and an external 3tb for backups
Proposed Desktop Specs:
Mobo: Z97 mobo, this is where you guys come in
CPU: Intel G3258 (until Broadwell can strut its stuff)
RAM: 4x8gb (32gb in total) of 1600mhz or 1866mhz or even higher if the price is right
GPU: Nvidia GTX 770
Case: Same
Cooler: Custom water cooling solution or all in one like H110? (maybe something cheaper with similar specs?)
Power Supply: Same
Drives: I want to build a NAS but seems like a waste of money, maybe I'll just buy a couple 3/4tb drives on boxing day and stick them in raid 5 (storage needed for all the video files)
The mobo should be around the $160-180 mark and offer Sata express through either M.2 or onboard expand-ability (like the Asus Z87 deluxe sata express). I also need to get a cooler as I know I'll be overclocking the new broadwell chips.
I want to be able to push the max out of my cpu but I dont want to be spending so much on a cooling solution that it would just make more sense to just go with a higher end cpu. For example the i7 4770k is about $100 more than the i5 4670k.
Thanks in advance for the help guys or girls if they exist on this forum
Cheers from me
What's the key point to wait for Broadwell?
As far as I know there won't be any huge differences compared to Haswell and Broadwell is expected to be quickly followed by Skylake... One more question:
Why Nvidia? Do you use a lot of programs, where CUDA is recommended?
AMD cards crush Nvidia cards at the moment, when it comes to compute power.
Here's the compatibility list for AE.
I think you'll get more benefits and a better price/performance value, if you're going to take an AMD card.
motherboard request:
hmmm:confused:...compatibility list for G3258
hopefully it's correct 
...I think with one of these you would be well served. They have Sata Express and M.2 interfaces directly on the motherboard and a lot of additional Sata connectors
But there are certainly other good motherboards, that meet your needs and which are in your price range.
PlayStation AIO Box
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PlayStation AIO Box
Hey all
Some weeks ago I ordered a CronusMAX USB-stick to be able to play my console games with keyboard and mouse, the stick has far more capabilities. Some days ago it arrived and I did some initial testing, I'll write a review in the next weeks, while testing I got pretty annoyed by all the cable chaos the setup come with. The main reason is because you need to run the software on a Windows or MacOSX OS respectively you need a PC running at the same time to be able to play with keyboard and mouse.
So I came up with the idea to build a box with all needed components packed into it. The goal would be to that one has to connect the power (maybe internet connection too) and will be immediately ready to game. I started to design some first basic models of a box. I found some cool PlayStation CAD models on GrabCAD, this saved a lot of time and helps to get a better idea on how it will finally look.
Meanwhile the version number has reached the 5th level and it looks like this:
Box materials:
Acrylicglass or wood
Components:
PlayStation 4 and accessoires
PlayStation 3 and accessoires
Zotac ZBOX/Intel Nuc/other nano PC
AOC i2269VWM monitor
1x120mm + 2x60mm fan
1xRJ45 Splitter (1 Female to 3 Female)
2xHDMI Splitter (Male to 2xFemale)
2xHDMI (Male to Female)
2xHDMI Cable
1xDP Cable
1xUSB2.0 Y-Cable
The project is still in development and for now it's just a study. But I'm pretty determined to build this PlayStation AIO Box.
Tell me what you think about this project and feel free to give any advice on doing something differently.