Finally building my own rig

BloodBath

I have the white H440. No problems with the paint job.

There is a 10 port fan controller at the back but no variable speed on it so any fans connected to it will be stuck at full speed without modding it or connecting it to a fan controller.

Airflow isn't great but can be improved with additional fans up top.

A Xeon and 970 shouldn't need great cooling anyway. Neither will produce much heat or noise.

You should be able to get it virtually silent if you mod that fan port to keep the fans at 7V instead of 12V.

DarkDusk

Thanks for info guys.

Donne

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Donne

Sorry about this question, but I'm a bit of a dummy as regards cpus!

Why should you go for a Xeon as opposed to an i7 4790K or even an i7 5820K?

I thought they were usually used for CAD apps etc.

Digital Solitude

Donne wrote: »

Sorry about this question, but I'm a bit of a dummy as regards cpus!

Why should you go for a Xeon as opposed to an i7 4790K or even an i7 5820K?

I thought they were usually used for CAD apps etc.

Price/Performace.
Xeon can run at 3.8ghz you need a well watercooled i7 to hit the likes of 4.8ghz, so air cooled, you're looking at about 4.4-4.5ghz, which isnt worth an extra €150 for the performance gained.

The 5820k is will priced, but sucks up over €300 more of your budget as you need an X99 board and DDR4, so on budgeted builds, its OP

DarkDusk

Does anyone know anything about this promotion from HVS? http://www.hardwareversand.de/pc-zusammenbau-rabatt

Digital Solitude

From my understanding, if you get them to build the machine, yoiu get €10 back with a 970, €20 with a 980 and €50 with a Titan

You get the games with the cards anyways.

They charge €30 for building, so its a small discount on that

DarkDusk

Digital Solitude wrote: »

From my understanding, if you get them to build the machine, yoiu get €10 back with a 970, €20 with a 980 and €50 with a Titan

You get the games with the cards anyways.

They charge €30 for building, so its a small discount on that

Do codes for the games come inside the boxes for the cards?

Digital Solitude

No, you've to contact HWVS after you buy with a proof or purchase

DarkDusk

Just made the order! I went with the Asus Z97-Pro Gamer motherboard as it turned out to be a little cheaper than the AsusRock with the discount, happy days!

MagTuired

DarkDusk wrote: »

Just made the order! I went with the Asus Z97-Pro Gamer motherboard as it turned out to be a little cheaper than the AsusRock with the discount, happy days!

Brilliant, should be making my order on Friday. First comes the wait. Then assembly. I've the fear of god in me.

DarkDusk

Here is a 20 euro voucher for HWVS you can use also, just create a new account and use it when making the order!!! https://www.gutscheinpony.de/gutscheine/hardwareversand#

MagTuired

DarkDusk wrote: »

Here is a 20 euro voucher for HWVS you can use also, just create a new account and use it when making the order!!! https://www.gutscheinpony.de/gutscheine/hardwareversand#

Not ordering through them, but sound :cool:. Have a lad who gets a wholesalers discount who's buying things in for me. I can always use a discount on something else though!

DarkDusk

Just to let you all know that my parts arrived today and my PC is built and ready! Currently downloading Far Cry 4 (32GB :O) and moving stuff onto my huge 2TB HDD. The SSD is zippy fast I booted earlier in less than 10 seconds!!! I can't wait to fully unleash the power of my rig!

BloodBath

Congrats. Yeah SSD's are great. Enable Fast Boot in the Bios to make it even faster or ultra fast boot if using windows 8.