My new gaming rig
0
hello and greetings to fakku
sadly i had to retire my old phenom 965 and my 790x mobo as well as my 9800gtx 512mb. including ram lol
I changed out mostly everything applied the thermal and here she goes.
my new system specs
Os-windows windows 8 pro
mobo-gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
cpu-AMD FX-8350 vishera default clock is 4.0GHZ curently OC to 4.8GHZ on a 1.46 Vcore on air not to bad.
cpu cooler- XIGMATEK LOKI SD963
ram- running 2 sticks of 8gigs G.Skill ares 1866 ram which equals out 16gb
video- GIGABYTE Geforce GTX 660 windforce
case- thermaltake element V1 mid tower
pc game im currently playing is crysis 3.
I put everything on max quality in the gpu settings and i even put all the antialiasing on max also. I also put the in game settings on max quality.
I get max framerates and everything is pretty much eyecandy. I ran into a brick wall when i tried to up the in game antialiasing settings the furthest i could go is FXAA. sadly if i wanted to further i would have to go for a sli build.
so what do think everybody
sadly i had to retire my old phenom 965 and my 790x mobo as well as my 9800gtx 512mb. including ram lol
I changed out mostly everything applied the thermal and here she goes.
my new system specs
Os-windows windows 8 pro
mobo-gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
cpu-AMD FX-8350 vishera default clock is 4.0GHZ curently OC to 4.8GHZ on a 1.46 Vcore on air not to bad.
cpu cooler- XIGMATEK LOKI SD963
ram- running 2 sticks of 8gigs G.Skill ares 1866 ram which equals out 16gb
video- GIGABYTE Geforce GTX 660 windforce
case- thermaltake element V1 mid tower
pc game im currently playing is crysis 3.
I put everything on max quality in the gpu settings and i even put all the antialiasing on max also. I also put the in game settings on max quality.
I get max framerates and everything is pretty much eyecandy. I ran into a brick wall when i tried to up the in game antialiasing settings the furthest i could go is FXAA. sadly if i wanted to further i would have to go for a sli build.
so what do think everybody
0
im currently using magnetic drives. solid state drives are the way to go because of a big performance increase
0
Congratz! How's gaming on Win 8? Few of my friends said they have some drops in their fps after switching from win 7 to 8. *nothing major, but like 4-8 fps drop*
0
The Great Hokage wrote...
im currently using magnetic drives. solid state drives are the way to go because of a big performance increaseWhere Did you get that? The only noticeable performance benefits boost by upgrading from hd to ssd are the boot and load time of the game not much of anything else as far as I can tell.
From my experience with computer, all I can see that will be beneficial performance boost to gaming are the following pasts:
-ram (up to 8g, gamer get no benefits from getting more then that)
-cpu (between 1~4 cores depends on the game)
-gpu
overall nice build, only thing stick out to me was the 660 that could have been a 760
0
kinsake wrote...
The Great Hokage wrote...
im currently using magnetic drives. solid state drives are the way to go because of a big performance increaseWhere Did you get that? The only noticeable performance benefits boost by upgrading from hd to ssd are the boot and load time of the game not much of anything else as far as I can tell.
From my experience with computer, all I can see that will be beneficial performance boost to gaming are the following pasts:
-ram (up to 8g, gamer get no benefits from getting more then that)
-cpu (between 1~4 cores depends on the game)
-gpu
overall nice build, only thing stick out to me was the 660 that could have been a 760
During the initial loading period environments are no longer pushed in their entirety into memory. Textures loaded on demand and fluctuating levels of detail mean that there is a need for the application to constantly access files stored on the disk and load them into memory while players traverse through environments. Right now there isn't much of a performance boost when you use solid state drives, but as technology evolves and texture sizes get larger and larger there will eventually be a noticeable benefit.
0
Kadushy
Douchebag
Medzy wrote...
>Gaming>Windows 8
I see no problems with gaming on windows 8.
And I prefer using windows 8 over windows 7... 7 feels weird to me now. And dat start-up time.. =D
0
Nice build Hokage! It seems pretty well rounded out, no bottlenecks as far as I can tell. Other than the SSD vs HDD preference (which is a whole discussion in itself, so lets not go there), I noticed that you're cooling an AMD FX-8350 (which is OC'ed quite a bit) with a weeny little (92mm if I'm not mistaken) air cooler. I'll admit, it's better than the stock fans that come with AMD processors, but not by that much. Seeing your build, I assume you're going to use your computer mainly for gaming, which is very CPU intensive.
My only suggestion for you is to maybe get a better CPU cooler. The TT Element V's have decent airflow, so you should be fine for the most part. If I were you though, I would probably look into higher airflow CPU coolers (the Noctua NH-D14 comes to mind, if you can fit it in your case), or even closed loop liquid coolers like the Corsair Hydro series. I would even recommend building a custom water loop for your processor, graphics card and ram, but since you don't have a reference GTX 660, that's out of the question.
The reason I say all of this is because I tried OC'ing my i7-3960x with its stock fan (before the parts for my water cooling loop came in). Long story short, I didn't even try; the idle temps were 50C+ from startup :\ Yes I know, AMD processors don't usually run as hot as Intel, but still, a cool cpu is a happy cpu :P (In case you're wondering, yes I did OC it after my parts came in. It's currently running @ 5.4 Ghz w/ a 100% load Delta T of ~15C) Of course, in the end its your decision; take my advice with a grain of salt, or don't take it at all, its up to you.
TL;DR Get a bettah CPU coolah!
My only suggestion for you is to maybe get a better CPU cooler. The TT Element V's have decent airflow, so you should be fine for the most part. If I were you though, I would probably look into higher airflow CPU coolers (the Noctua NH-D14 comes to mind, if you can fit it in your case), or even closed loop liquid coolers like the Corsair Hydro series. I would even recommend building a custom water loop for your processor, graphics card and ram, but since you don't have a reference GTX 660, that's out of the question.
The reason I say all of this is because I tried OC'ing my i7-3960x with its stock fan (before the parts for my water cooling loop came in). Long story short, I didn't even try; the idle temps were 50C+ from startup :\ Yes I know, AMD processors don't usually run as hot as Intel, but still, a cool cpu is a happy cpu :P (In case you're wondering, yes I did OC it after my parts came in. It's currently running @ 5.4 Ghz w/ a 100% load Delta T of ~15C) Of course, in the end its your decision; take my advice with a grain of salt, or don't take it at all, its up to you.
TL;DR Get a bettah CPU coolah!
