are my specs well matched??

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ad356

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is my video card and process well matched or should i buy a new CPU?
i have a phenon II X4 965 black edition, nvidia geforce gtx 760 2 gb, 8 gb of Gskill ram DDR 1866, 600 WATT OCZ power supply. are these specs well matched or should i upgrade my CPU?? the board is a ASUS AM3+ board so the board has room to grow and could easily take a better CPU.
 
Yeah it's pretty good. I mean, a very small bottleneck there may be, but not much. I would go ahead and OC the CPU however.
 
Yeah I think you'll be fine too. Whilst the Phenom is not the most powerful of CPUs nowadays, it's still decent enough and you shouldn't see any major bottlenecks. Not really worth upgrading it for the sake of upgrading it.
 
oh, yeah and im playing games on my 55" TV. super awesome. consoles dont have shit on PC's. $600 for an xbox one??? i dont think so
 
i also wonder about water cooling? does it net any real benefit if you dont overclock? when i play a game and start running the computer harder, the fans get quite a bit louder and spin up in RPM. is this the cooling fans on the GPU that spin up or the CPU's cooling fan. can water cooling make a powerful computer run almost silently?
 
ad356 said:
i also wonder about water cooling? does it net any real benefit if you dont overclock? when i play a game and start running the computer harder, the fans get quite a bit louder and spin up in RPM. is this the cooling fans on the GPU that spin up or the CPU's cooling fan. can water cooling make a powerful computer run almost silently?
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I've had your CPU before, and used stock cooler without overclocking. Temperatures were low enough, low 30s. No need for water cooling.
 
You could buy a cheap heatsink, if you're worried about noise.
Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo: $30 CAD
If you don't overclock, you can set your BIOS settings to low fan speed, and it'll be dead quiet. If you decide to overclock, if you leave the fan on auto, it will be good enough.
 
when im not playing a game, my computer is super quiet, when i run a game it gets loud to almost the point of being annoying. is it the CPU fan that generates all of the noise or is it the GPU fans?

i will say i am fairly happy with this setup. i have been playing allot of bioshock infinite and it runs 55-60 frames on FRAPS. i would say that's pretty darn good considering im playing it on ultra settings. silky smooth
 
It depends on your GPU cooler.
The stock AMD CPU fan can be loud in some instances, but you haven't specified which cooler your GPU has. The stock one for that can be loud as well. But if it's an aftermarket cooler, like a Gigabyte or Asus edition, it's most likely you CPU fan.
 
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