mini small budget upgrade

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by PowerSlide, Apr 24, 2014.

  1. PowerSlide

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    if lich already buy more expensive motherboard :cry:

    not much photo, i dont seem to remember taking photos everytime :mrgreen:

    the cooler works!!! fits nicely BUT temp soar over the roof..it goes over 80C stress testing running 1.2V 4.5ghz :|
     
  2. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Dark knight is a pretty high end cooler right? Time to change to water cooling!

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  3. PowerSlide

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    mine is Balder, even when its launched years ago its not very good :haha:

    water cooling? no money :|
     
  4. PowerSlide

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    slap another fan on it see how it gonna be

    later tonight gonna do some stress testing while watching world cup :haha:

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    zip ties is fantastic than the crap rubber thing to mount the fan :thumb:
     
  5. PowerSlide

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    running 1.180V 4.5ghz now

    now doing excel and watch youtube is faster!!! :haha:
     
  6. Trinity

    Trinity Little Kiki Staff Member

    What do you get a super pi one meg run at that speed?:think:
     
  7. PowerSlide

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    result below..fast? slow? i dont know..i dont do much benchmark :mrgreen:

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  8. Trinity

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    Nice!:thumb:

    My i3 4340 3.6GHZ scores 10.3 seconds.:) My old e6600 took 21 seconds and my really old amd thunderbird 1.2 GHZ took 1 minute 45 seconds.:faint:
     
  9. PowerSlide

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    i7 costing more but only 3 sec faster than i3, thats not worth it :mrgreen:

    remount cooler putting the right amount of thermal paste and the result....

    .......still the same :haha:
     
  10. Trinity

    Trinity Little Kiki Staff Member

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  11. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    I believe SuperPi is a single core application, and without huge CPU speed jump, it's quite impossible to get faster results.
     
  12. Trinity

    Trinity Little Kiki Staff Member

    Yeah it is. But I've always liked it just for that reason.:)

    Compare, My ol' e6600 @ 3.6ghz took ~14 seconds. Now at the same speed my 4340 takes just ten seconds.:)

    What has changed to make that difference?:think:
     
  13. Trinity

    Trinity Little Kiki Staff Member

    I wonder really...:think:
     
  14. PowerSlide

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    delidding is way to extreme for me haha

    now looking at coolers, noctua D15 is huge, expensive but taking the fight to those dual rad AIO or smaller U14S which is cheaper plus adding a 2nd fan give it huge performance gain BUT noctua fan is not cheap..add up it's getting close to D15 in price :think:
     
  15. Trinity

    Trinity Little Kiki Staff Member

    trin method... aircon the room down to 68F.All stays cool then...:lol:
     
  16. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    What about Thermalright? I think they still make one of the best coolers.
     
  17. PowerSlide

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    aircon will kill my wallet :haha:

    chai,

    thermalright from my search have this model

    Ultimate CPU Cooling Solutions! Thermalright

    but i didnt ask stock availability

    thermalright vs noctua, very hard to decide
     
  18. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Do you want high performance or low noise? 1 or 2 fan setup?

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  19. PowerSlide

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    high performance, low noise is good but louder wont annoy me but not vacuum cleaner loud lol

    now im leaning more on U14S with 2 fans, from review it beat or match the older D14 without the bulk and weight
     
  20. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    I think Thermalright that you posted is better than the Noctua. Their products are a bit over rated for the price.
     

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