Power supply for 25.00. Sketchy, much?

[Coris]

Honestly its hard to say, The 3770k on stock cooler runs at high 30s and low 40s which is what your getting now on your cooler. What you have to keep in mind is that the 3770k naturally runs cooler and uses less power then the 860 so there is a chance that the 3770k cooler might be worse then what you have now. BUT numbers change depending on setup so you'll have to try it out to know for sure.

LS mate got the 3770 with the standard cooler and he has temperatures around 70° celsius while gaming. He's going to get another cooler soon :x

(He said the standard cpu cooler is smaller than the ones attached to his case xD")

[Solace]

Ultra PSU's are cheap and have good performance.
I believe the company was taken over, by a bigger brand name, like corsair or something..

[JillyBean]

1156/1155 use the same heatsink I believe, had to varify by checking myself in the boxes, yes they are the exact same heatsink besides the sticker.


Just remember with the push pin ones to go in a X pattern and make sure the pins are fully seated down.

Honestly its hard to say, The 3770k on stock cooler runs at high 30s and low 40s which is what your getting now on your cooler. What you have to keep in mind is that the 3770k naturally runs cooler and uses less power then the 860 so there is a chance that the 3770k cooler might be worse then what you have now. BUT numbers change depending on setup so you'll have to try it out to know for sure.

LS mate got the 3770 with the standard cooler and he has temperatures around 70° celsius while gaming. He's going to get another cooler soon :x

(He said the standard cpu cooler is smaller than the ones attached to his case xD")

Interesting, you'd think they'd either be exactly the same, or the newer one would be better.

My temps aren't running at 70 but they have spiked there. Going to see what cleaning and reapply thermal paste will do, then if no improvement, see about one of the coolers that Shura pointed me to.

Coris: This is the cooler my son uses with that CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103099 I believe he's OC'd it and his temps don't go over 50

Unfortunately it is likely too big for my case.

Once again, thank you all for your input! I wonder if you'll ever get rid of me lol

[Shura]

LS mate got the 3770 with the standard cooler and he has temperatures around 70° celsius while gaming. He's going to get another cooler soon :x

(He said the standard cpu cooler is smaller than the ones attached to his case xD")

Most likely a defective cooler, but from what I'm reading they average around 37-43C on idle, and high 50s and mid 60s for load. honestly I can't even remember the last time i tried stock cooler but I get the feeling intel does not really care about the stock cooler quality, majority of the people who buy these high end CPU will not use stock cooler. Even companies like HP and Dell tend to use their own cheap aftermarket cooler.

[Coris]

Coris: This is the cooler my son uses with that CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103099 I believe he's OC'd it and his temps don't go over 50

Unfortunately it is likely too big for my case.

Once again, thank you all for your input! I wonder if you'll ever get rid of me lol

Today he ordered this one: http://www.bequiet.com/en/cpucooler/287
He chose it because even the stock cooler collides a bit with the RAM modules and it needed to fit in his case.
by the way, i've never heard of those TopFlow coolers before :0 I hope it will fit and will fix his heat problem

Most likely a defective cooler, but from what I'm reading they average around 37-43C on idle, and high 50s and mid 60s for load. honestly I can't even remember the last time i tried stock cooler but I get the feeling intel does not really care about the stock cooler quality, majority of the people who buy these high end CPU will not use stock cooler. Even companies like HP and Dell tend to use their own cheap aftermarket cooler.

It's not just Intel. AMD's stock coolers are cheap too. So many people directly buy another cooler while ordering a CPU. That's what I did too. Those standard coolers are tiny and pretty noisy.



woot, 400 postings for me xD

[JillyBean]

I installed EVGA's Precision X application in order to better manage my GPU fan. Once I set it up, it auto-set my base fan to run at 40% (which before my base was 30%). Obviously there is no need for it to run at 40% without the game running (I assume?) Is there any problem just allowing my fan to run at 40% whenever I have my computer on?

Before the fan never bumped up past 40% and the GPU got up to 63-66c while running benchmark/beta. Running the benchmark today with this application, both the the fan and temps both stay in the low 50's. This is a much better situation for my GPU, right?

As for my CPU, I'll be doing that "oil change" (as I call it, just cleaning and re-thermal pasting the stock fan) to see if that will reduce my temps before going further.

I'm a bit terrified of watercooling if I get that far, you guys think that is perfectly safe? Seems crazy to put water anywhere in there

And one more comment/question... is it possible that increasing my GPU fan which thereby lowers the temp that the GPU stays at, can reduce the CPU temp? It almost seemed like that was happening.....


EDIT! Just noticed, when I turn off the EVGA app, the fan goes back down to it's other default speed (30%). Hmm, just have to remember to run it while I have the game on. Best of both worlds maybe?

[Zenaku]

I installed EVGA's Precision X application in order to better manage my GPU fan. Once I set it up, it auto-set my base fan to run at 40% (which before my base was 30%). Obviously there is no need for it to run at 40% without the game running (I assume?) Is there any problem just allowing my fan to run at 40% whenever I have my computer on?

Before the fan never bumped up past 40% and the GPU got up to 63-66c while running benchmark/beta. Running the benchmark today with this application, both the the fan and temps both stay in the low 50's. This is a much better situation for my GPU, right?

As for my CPU, I'll be doing that "oil change" (as I call it, just cleaning and re-thermal pasting the stock fan) to see if that will reduce my temps before going further.

I'm a bit terrified of watercooling if I get that far, you guys think that is perfectly safe? Seems crazy to put water anywhere in there



And one more comment/question... is it possible that increasing my GPU fan which thereby lowers the temp that the GPU stays at, can reduce the CPU temp? It almost seemed like that was happening.....


EDIT! Just noticed, when I turn off the EVGA app, the fan goes back down to it's other default speed (30%). Hmm, just have to remember to run it while I have the game on. Best of both worlds maybe?

could always get something like this just have to find one that would fit in your socket and put it on and your good to go.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835181031

where you don't have to do much vs other watercooling where you have to change the water and also make sure there leaks or anything lol. But really you could just get other type of air cooling that would do the job too.

I always look at watercooling as a way to do better overclocking without worrying about temps.

[Dhalmel]

could always get something like this just have to find one that would fit in your socket and put it on and your good to go.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835181031

where you don't have to do much vs other watercooling where you have to change the water and also make sure there leaks or anything lol. But really you could just get other type of air cooling that would do the job too.

I always look at watercooling as a way to do better overclocking without worrying about temps.

Those sealed all in one water cooling products from CoolIT and Asetek suck compared to the real things, almost always better to get a HQ air cooler. Only the H220 and X20 from Swiftech has recently got the "set it and forget it" WC ones right.


Go for the H220, it is literally the closest thing to real water cooling till you're going to a full custom loop.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/18...ng_System.html

[Soukyuu]

Water cooling is overkill unless you want to do extreme overclocking IMHO. A scythe mugen will keep anything on sane temps, at least it has so far for me.

[Dhalmel]

The mugen is also xbox huge and kinda tricky to install too