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HIS probably due to the heatpipes (yes, heatpipes work, they aren't just for looks) but if you want a card that will cool fairly well get the MSI Twin Frozr. 2 fans with 2 heat sinks. Nice amount of heatpipes.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127562
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:40 am Post subject: |
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looks good and pretty quiet too but how cool could it get in a raven 2 evolution which i'm thinking of getting(the 90 degree mobo turn bought me)
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| Hero wrote: | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127562&cm_re=msi_6950-_-14-127-562-_-Product
the most god like heatsink for stock ever. 2gb ram, and it works with after burner out of box.
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i guess i might go for 2 of these sometime when i get the money(soon hopefully) i've got a geforce gt 7300 not sure if it has 256 or 512 mb ram every program says different
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The cards won't stay ice cold, but it should be fine. You'll find that a crossfire setup is significantly hotter than a single card. As long as you can get a nice supply of fresh air to the cards, you should be fine.
In regards to your previous statement, I don't think that case would be good for crossfire. It works by getting rid of the heat through the top, but doesn't really allow for a good amount of air to flow into the case. From what I can see you can mount fans on the bottom of the case to pull air up from the bottom. You could mod the side panel to add in an additional fan or two, but I'd suggest a case with better airflow.
Edit: Disregard that, the more I look if you fill the bottom with some high CFM fans you should be fine. A few Scythe Slipstreams or Ultra Kaze should do fine. Though if you were planning for a silent system, those wouldn't help the cause.
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| Apotheoun wrote: | The cards won't stay ice cold, but it should be fine. You'll find that a crossfire setup is significantly hotter than a single card. As long as you can get a nice supply of fresh air to the cards, you should be fine.
In regards to your previous statement, I don't think that case would be good for crossfire. It works by getting rid of the heat through the top, but doesn't really allow for a good amount of air to flow into the case. From what I can see you can mount fans on the bottom of the case to pull air up from the bottom. You could mod the side panel to add in an additional fan or two, but I'd suggest a case with better airflow. |
do you have anything particular in mind?i was thinking of haf x earlier
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| The HAF X is a nice case. You could do that or the HAF 932. Both have a good supply of airflow directly to the graphics card location.
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You're getting a P67-UD7 with a 2500k? Pump that up to a 2600k and enjoy the 4.5GHz+ overclocks. Dump the power supply and get a Corsair one. Never skimp on a power supply and Corsair makes some of the best.
What's your budget? With that I can suggest some better alternatives to what you have.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| Apotheoun wrote: | You're getting a P67-UD7 with a 2500k? Pump that up to a 2600k and enjoy the 4.5GHz+ overclocks. Dump the power supply and get a Corsair one. Never skimp on a power supply and Corsair makes some of the best.
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i don't want a 2600k(anymore) i don't need 4 more threads at all and if i hype up the price over 1900 dollars i'll give my dad a heart attack i'm mostly a gamer but i'm going to learn to program on it as well since i only know how to write calculators for now lol and i think the psu is good enough i'm not gonna overclock anything
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| Dark Avatar wrote: | | Apotheoun wrote: | You're getting a P67-UD7 with a 2500k? Pump that up to a 2600k and enjoy the 4.5GHz+ overclocks. Dump the power supply and get a Corsair one. Never skimp on a power supply and Corsair makes some of the best.
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i don't want a 2600k(anymore) i don't need 4 more threads at all and if i hype up the price over 1900 dollars i'll give my dad a heart attack i'm mostly a gamer but i'm going to learn to program on it as well since i only know how to write calculators for now lol and i think the psu is good enough i'm not gonna overclock anything |
Just because you dont need it doesn't mean you shouldn't get it. With twin 6950's the last thing you would want is to be held back by anything less. Its all or nothing. Though if this is just a gaming rig, you don't really need to go intel. AMD works just as well for gaming.
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| Hero wrote: | | Dark Avatar wrote: | | Apotheoun wrote: | You're getting a P67-UD7 with a 2500k? Pump that up to a 2600k and enjoy the 4.5GHz+ overclocks. Dump the power supply and get a Corsair one. Never skimp on a power supply and Corsair makes some of the best.
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i don't want a 2600k(anymore) i don't need 4 more threads at all and if i hype up the price over 1900 dollars i'll give my dad a heart attack i'm mostly a gamer but i'm going to learn to program on it as well since i only know how to write calculators for now lol and i think the psu is good enough i'm not gonna overclock anything |
Just because you dont need it doesn't mean you shouldn't get it. With twin 6950's the last thing you would want is to be held back by anything less. Its all or nothing. Though if this is just a gaming rig, you don't really need to go intel. AMD works just as well for gaming. |
45nm cpu's are gonna become way obsolete when amd releases their fusion cpu's actually i only need an i3 at around 3Ghz something of the sort of gtx 560 ti 4 gigs of ram and 1Tb hdd so i'm already getting waaaaaaaay more than i need i've got a 500 gig 7200rpm seagate hdd(my first one was 160gb hitachi which failed and took along with it 4 years of pics and i hate it for that anyway the seagate was cheap) a p4 at 3Ghz 1 core 2 threads a geforce gt 7300 and 1 gig of 333Mhz pqi ram and it runs c++ fine it's also god for browsing but in starcraft 2 at the lowest setting i never get more than 25 fps at the first 5 minutes then the fps go down way down
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As Hero said, the big issue you are going to be hitting with this is the bottleneck from the graphics cards. You need a CPU that can eliminate some of that. I said to get rid of that power supply not because it wasn't powerful enough, but because the manufacturer isn't that reputable. Corsair pretty much dominates the power supply market. They make some of the most reliable ones out there.
Things might change, but you simply cannot put a dual-core on a 6950 crossfire set up. You will bottleneck the dog shit out of those cards. Even if you had that CPU clocked up to 5GHz the cards will still be bottlenecked.
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| Apotheoun wrote: | | As Hero said, the big issue you are going to be hitting with this is the bottleneck from the graphics cards. You need a CPU that can eliminate some of that. I said to get rid of that power supply not because it wasn't powerful enough, but because the manufacturer isn't that reputable. Corsair pretty much dominates the power supply market. They make some of the most reliable ones out there. |
i researched thortech carefully before i chose it it's actually a little better than the silent pro i was thinking of i'm thinking of something a bit more silent anyhow by the time we save up the money thortech psu's are gonna have a lot more reviews
EDIT: the cpu i'm thinking of is a quad core i said i NEED only a dual core but i'm getting a quad core
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