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Aaron Chavez

Aaron Chavez

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Perhaps someone could help me with this build i'm almost done with, and would like some advice on what forum post I could use, or maybe some personal advice from a reader. Thank you!

CPU: i7 4790K (water cooled with H100i)
GPU: EVGA GTX980 (with acx 2.0)
RAM: corsair veng. 1600 1.5v
MB: Asus Maximus VI Formula
 
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geofelt
I have my doubts about any such heat issues.
Maxwell runs particularly cool with lower power than anything else out there..
If anything, I would expect the stronger card to run hotter.
If you have a well ventilated case, buy a card with a ACX2 fan cooler.
If your case is not so well ventilated, I would opt for the stock blower cooler that gets heat out directly.
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I have become a bit jaded on the subject of haswell cooling for overclocking.
How high you can OC is firstly determined by your luck in the bin lottery.
I had high expectations from the Devil's canyon parts and their better thermals.
I found out that the thermals really do not matter unless, perhaps, you are a competitive overclocker.
Haswell runs quite cool, that is, until you raise the voltage past 1.25v or so.
Once you go past 1.3v, then you really do need very good cooling to keep stress loads under say 85c.
But, voltages higher than 1.30 are not a good thing for 24/7 usage.
Even if you can handle the heat, how much do you really need that extra multiplier from say 4.4 to 4.6?
My thought is that it is better to use the exotic cooling funds for a quieter and less expensive air cooler.
Anything extra can go to a stronger graphics card for the gamer or a SSD.
 
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GTX980 is hard to come by today.
On a 1080P resolution, I think a GTX970 would be perfectly fine.

I would use a $60 cooler with a 140mm fan from noctua or Phanteks.

I will never again build without a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do much quicker.
120gb is minimum, it will hold the os and a handful of games. If you can go 240gb, you may never need a hard drive.
I don't.
I would defer on the hard drive unless you need to store large files such as video's.
It is easy to add a hard drive later.
Samsung EVO is a good choice.
Intel is OK too.
 
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geofelt

geofelt

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I have my doubts about any such heat issues.
Maxwell runs particularly cool with lower power than anything else out there..
If anything, I would expect the stronger card to run hotter.
If you have a well ventilated case, buy a card with a ACX2 fan cooler.
If your case is not so well ventilated, I would opt for the stock blower cooler that gets heat out directly.
 
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