Personal computing discussed
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JustAnEngineer wrote:Those are all excellent components.
I'll second Airmantharp's suggestion to consider a water cooler for your CPU. Be certain that any new cooling fans that you buy are as large as will fit in your mounting location and have PWM speed control.
Yes, was just purchasing 1 x additional Silent Series 2 140mm fan for the front panel. It fits.
The SeaSonic Platinum Series 2 power supply that I recently purchased is better than that Corsair unit and it was on sale for less.
Can't find anyone that sells Seasonic in Australia.
Would you consider a Blu-ray reader / DVD writer for $15-$25 more than the cost of the drive that only handles DVDs?
Yes I would actually.
Do you need a sound card, card reader, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, headphones, microphone, etc.?
Nope. Already have keyboard, mouse, monitors, speakers, headphones & webcam with mic. Could probably sell me on a new chair before any of those as my chair is showing its age. Also my IKEA desk that everything sits on is pretty crappy...
yogibbear wrote:Okay wait. There are 2 types of eVGA 780 cards... one with the stock cooler, one with the SC ACX cooler...
Custom cooler:
http://www.ple.com.au/ViewItem.aspx?Inv ... goryID=467
Stock cooler:
http://www.ple.com.au/ViewItem.aspx?Inv ... goryID=467
$10 difference... can the ACX cooler be any better? Or is the price premium just for the mild OC?
yogibbear wrote:Okay wait. There are 2 types of eVGA 780 cards... one with the stock cooler, one with the SC ACX cooler...
Custom cooler:
http://www.ple.com.au/ViewItem.aspx?Inv ... goryID=467
Stock cooler:
http://www.ple.com.au/ViewItem.aspx?Inv ... goryID=467
$10 difference... can the ACX cooler be any better? Or is the price premium just for the mild OC?
Airmantharp wrote:
If you seriously only ever plan on using a single card and not SLI (since you're set up for it outside of the second physical card), the 'open air' style coolers can perform brilliantly. Just know that they need 'turbulent' airflow to work best, so you'll probably want to add say a bottom fan as an additional intake since it bypasses the drives and points straight at the GPUs
cynan wrote:Minor nitpick, but I don't quite agree with this. Any heat sink fan set up works best when the air passing over the heat sink is both turbulent and of high velocity (and to a certain extent, the more air, the better of course).
JustAnEngineer wrote:Assuming that the air flow rate is the same, a huge case isn't really going to help a cooler like the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo, unless you're only interested in achieving a short-term overclock for e-peen bragging. In the short term dynamic situation, a large case takes longer to warm up to equilibrium temperature than a smaller case would. Of course, a large case has more room for fans and openings, so it may very well be able to achieve more air flow at a given noise level.
Even if you're careful to duct your heat out of the case, it's possible to suck the hot air right back into it through another opening. This used to happen when I had my case under my desk. It would heat up the whole space so that it was pulling in hot air.
yogibbear wrote:OMG...
The pain won't end. Swapping to the front panel results in what seems to be working sound for ~5 mins only for it to then start going from Max to 0 volume all the time.
I hate this stupid Asus HD Audio Manager software. It is bloaty as all hell and won't keep anything constant. Argggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Why doth the recommended sound cards have to be Asus as well!
Head smashing against wall!!!!! Within HD Audio manager I can get it to play the test music... but watching say a youtube video results in volume of equivalent to 1 at max settings. Running both at the same time, the audio manager BLASTS out the noises, while youtube continues to be a quiet whisper.
Trying a driver update as the one that came on the disk was from May 2013...
But the one linked to on the Asus website is a badlink... http://www.asus.com/ca-en/support/Downl ... 7-PLUS/35/
yogibbear wrote:Uninstalling the drivers for the onbouard Asus has fixed it partially... still annoyed. At least my old setup running through the centre rear can now drive both my speakers + headphones again, but separately. Without constantly losing sound.
yogibbear wrote:I think it's a Windows 8 problem.
I seem to have audio fine if I'm running it via Metro apps. My webcam also works in the "camera" metro app. But if I run things via the desktop e.g. watching a game trailer within Steam, or straight up using VLC player I get issues..... My webcam also isn't picked up by the desktop version of Skype, but runs fine in the Metro skype app. I am assuming both issues are related t Windows 8 hardware restrictions / application control which I cannot seem to find any settings for. Am trying my best Google-FU skills to find various fixes... which are slowly unravelling things, but so far no magical fixes, just small slight improvements towards normalcy. E.g. my sound has stabilised in VLC, but not in Steam.