heya all - I just received a gaming PC from a company online that lets you pick parts and they assemble them for you and ship the completed PC (does that count as a "prebuild" - if not, sorry for post in wrong section)- here are the specs: - (Its the best I felt I could get for under $900 budget- total was $888)
1 x Case (NZXT Guardian 921 RB Gaming Case - Blue))
1 x Processor (AMD FX-8320 CPU (8x 3.50GHz/8MB L2 Cache) - original 7/9/2013))
1 x Motherboard (MSI 970A-G43 -- AMD 970 w/ 2x PCI-E 2.0 x16, 2x USB 3.0))
1 x Memory (8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - G.Skill Ripjaws X))
1 x Video Card (AMD Radeon HD 7770 - 1GB - Single Card))
1 x Power Supply (650 Watt -- NZXT HALE82N-SI / 80+ Bronze))
1 x Processor Cooling (Corsair Hydro Series H60 Liquid CPU Cooling System - Standard 120mm Fan))
1 x Primary Hard Drive (1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive))
1 x Optical Drive (24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive
(installed win 7 myself)
I already found one problem - The memory frequency was running at 1333 instead of 1600 and I read somewhere that turning on something called XMP in the bios fixes that problem and it did.
So I am wondering - what else did they not do correctly when they assembled this thing?
note: I live in an apt with no central air, and we are not allowed to install an A/C into the wall so fans and portable swamp cooler have to do in bedroom where PC is so it can get HOT in here in the summer, around 90 degrees on hot days so I would like to make sure the GPU fan is set reasonably high - is this something I should worry about? I assume its set to auto and will increase fan speed as it needs to but I am not sure.
Played GTA4 on high resolution today for 4 hours and there was no problem and I know it was around 85 degrees in here.
Due to the heat in here - I think overclocking is a bad idea.
I would appreciate any advice on things I should check on- thanks for your help.
1 x Case (NZXT Guardian 921 RB Gaming Case - Blue))
1 x Processor (AMD FX-8320 CPU (8x 3.50GHz/8MB L2 Cache) - original 7/9/2013))
1 x Motherboard (MSI 970A-G43 -- AMD 970 w/ 2x PCI-E 2.0 x16, 2x USB 3.0))
1 x Memory (8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - G.Skill Ripjaws X))
1 x Video Card (AMD Radeon HD 7770 - 1GB - Single Card))
1 x Power Supply (650 Watt -- NZXT HALE82N-SI / 80+ Bronze))
1 x Processor Cooling (Corsair Hydro Series H60 Liquid CPU Cooling System - Standard 120mm Fan))
1 x Primary Hard Drive (1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive))
1 x Optical Drive (24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive
(installed win 7 myself)
I already found one problem - The memory frequency was running at 1333 instead of 1600 and I read somewhere that turning on something called XMP in the bios fixes that problem and it did.
So I am wondering - what else did they not do correctly when they assembled this thing?
note: I live in an apt with no central air, and we are not allowed to install an A/C into the wall so fans and portable swamp cooler have to do in bedroom where PC is so it can get HOT in here in the summer, around 90 degrees on hot days so I would like to make sure the GPU fan is set reasonably high - is this something I should worry about? I assume its set to auto and will increase fan speed as it needs to but I am not sure.
Played GTA4 on high resolution today for 4 hours and there was no problem and I know it was around 85 degrees in here.
Due to the heat in here - I think overclocking is a bad idea.
I would appreciate any advice on things I should check on- thanks for your help.
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