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sidrenwada said:
It's all in the signature :)

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If this is for gaming, which I'm assuming it is, I don't understand why you got a x6 AMD 1100T. No game needs more than 4 cores. You would be better changing that motherboard and getting an i5-2500k.

I don't understand why you got that motherboard. Unless you want to run a GPU with one on a x16 slot and one on a x4 (which I definitely don't recommend) then there's no room for upgrades.

The PSU is 1250w, which you don't need.

Not such a big deal, but why did you get ram dimms at 1333Mhz, you should have got them at 1600MHz.


You're lying about the whole system or just the CPU. There's no way that you can overclock an AMD Phenom II 1100T to 4.8GHz with a stock cooler, it would need to be liquid cooled. Also, even if it was liquid cooled, it would still not be able to overclock that much unless you had a certain chip.

To be honest, the only thing that's good in that system is the GPU.
 
- I don't see a problem with an 1100T. Sure, a 2500K may be better for gaming (whether you'd notice is another matter), but the 1100T is just fine for gaming. Maybe he likes to multitask. Maybe he likes to encode videos. Maybe he wants to support AMD. Or maybe he simply wants a hexacore for giggles, and didn't want to go Intel.

-I agree about the memory. It would be different if there was a considerable price differential between 1333 and 1600, but there's not. It would have been better if you went 1600, but that 1333 memory will do just fine. Again, a case where you won't notice unless you benchmark.

-The doozy here is the PSU. Unsure why you got a 1250W unit, but I guess it's possible that you got it from a friend, real cheap, or some other legitimate reason. If you bought it though, you basically just threw away $140 that you could have used elsewhere, and I'm basing that off a $100 unit. On the bright side, that psu HAS to be the most absurd thing I've seen in a build relative to the other parts in a long time. Lol, at least when silly enthusiasts decide go with a 1000W+ unit because they think their badass system demands it, usually they need something that's at least 700W. The overkill in this case is most impressive.
 
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iEvo said:
The PSU is 1250w, which you don't need.
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And you do? A 750-850w silverstone could power your setup easily, even with 2 7970s.

And he said the cooling is his own creation, whatever that means...

And OP, looks like a great build. I would've gone a different route with the CPU, but you still should get excellent graphics.

Question, though. Is that 51c at idle or load? And have you stress tested the CPU for hours with prime95 to make sure its stable?
 
sidrenwada said:
GPU: Sapphire HD 7970 1400MHz
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This seems extremely unlikely. I'll need a screenshot of GPU-Z immediately after a benchmarking run before I believe it.

It would also be nice if you could elaborate a little bit more on your custom CPU cooler (with pics), seeing as only 18 days ago you posted this.......

sidrenwada said:
ok cool and installing a cpu cooler is easy ish right?
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Spesh said:
This seems extremely unlikely. I'll need a screenshot of GPU-Z immediately after a benchmarking run before I believe it.
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I think that would be his memory clock, not his core clock. For that high of mhz you'll definitely need liquid nitro.
 
claptonman said:
I think that would be his memory clock, not his core clock. For that high of mhz you'll definitely need liquid nitro.
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Very true, but it would seem odd that he would post the memory clock rather than the core clock.

His cpu overclcock and temps/cooling solution also strike me as being a little bit fishy.
 
Spesh said:
Very true, but it would seem odd that he would post the memory clock rather than the core clock.

His cpu overclcock and temps/cooling solution also strike me as being a little bit fishy.
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I agree too. When he says it keeps it at 51c, it sounds like that is at idle, which is temps I wouldn't be happy with.
 
claptonman said:
And you do? A 750-850w silverstone could power your setup easily, even with 2 7970s.

And he said the cooling is his own creation, whatever that means...

And OP, looks like a great build. I would've gone a different route with the CPU, but you still should get excellent graphics.

Question, though. Is that 51c at idle or load? And have you stress tested the CPU for hours with prime95 to make sure its stable?
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Dude, he's obviously lying. You can't have an 1100T overclocked to 4.8GHz with a stock cooler, it would definitely need to be liquid cooled.

He can hardly pick good parts for a computer, but you think he's created his own stock cooler. Give me a break...
 
Mishkin said:
- I don't see a problem with an 1100T. Sure, a 2500K may be better for gaming (whether you'd notice is another matter), but the 1100T is just fine for gaming. Maybe he likes to multitask. Maybe he likes to encode videos. Maybe he wants to support AMD. Or maybe he simply wants a hexacore for giggles, and didn't want to go Intel.

-I agree about the memory. It would be different if there was a considerable price differential between 1333 and 1600, but there's not. It would have been better if you went 1600, but that 1333 memory will do just fine. Again, a case where you won't notice unless you benchmark.

-The doozy here is the PSU. Unsure why you got a 1250W unit, but I guess it's possible that you got it from a friend, real cheap, or some other legitimate reason. If you bought it though, you basically just threw away $140 that you could have used elsewhere, and I'm basing that off a $100 unit. On the bright side, that psu HAS to be the most absurd thing I've seen in a build relative to the other parts in a long time. Lol, at least when silly enthusiasts decide go with a 1000W+ unit because they think their badass system demands it, usually they need something that's at least 700W. The overkill in this case is most impressive.
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An i5-2500k is much better than the AMD Phenom II 1100T for gaming. He would definitely notice a difference.

Also, as I said. It wasn't a big deal that he got the 1333Mhz, I just wanted to know why he didn't get 1600Mhz.
 
this did make me lol a bit,
1250W psu is nice but a 700W will do the trick too.
the x6 1100T is good, have to hand it to ya so i dont see the problem in that, just the little issue on 4.8GHz... i know its all nice and all, but just not believe-able sorry...
 
sorry guys just back now i got the 1250w free and the 1100T at 180$ the liquid cooling im using is connected through my fridge :) sorry for the time delay :)
 
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