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  1. Hello Guys, I'm planning a new Desktop PC-Build inside the Corsair 900D. But I'm not sure which Coolant I should use for it. I've read through so many forums about premixed Coolants and Pastel/UV and how bad they are and you should only use distilled water etc. But there are also some guys who are running pastel coolant inside their loop without any problems. I'm planning to go full EKWB Cooling with acrylic tubing. These are my thoughts: Either the EKWB HD Acrylic Tube with 5L AquaComputer Double Protect Ultra (what are your thoughts on that?) -OR- EKWB HD Acrylic Tubing with their pastel red coolant mixed with distilled water (which I find the most appealing for me) -OR- take PrimoChill Red Acrylic Tubing and add normal distilled water which is the safest solution. What do you think about that? Looking forward to good answers.
  2. Hi guys, I've heard a lot of micro-stuttering with SLI/Crossfire systems and that it's very annoying. So I asked myself if this only occurs in SLI and Crossfire PCs with bridges or generally with 2 GPUs even on a single PCB Tank you holofox
  3. Hey Guys, first of all I wanna let you know that I'm a 16 year old guy from Germany/Bavaria, so please be aware that I'm making mistakes My PC-Building History started April 2011 when I recognized that my old Dell PC was far to weak for the games I wanted to play. So me and my dad (more me) decided to build a new PC. We were picking components I liked, which means there's an Intel CPU and AMD GPU in my system. I'll give you a short overview whats in my rig: - Case: Coolermaster HAF X - CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3,6GHz - RAM: Corsair CMX8GX3M4A1600C9 (4x2GB @1333MHz <- which is one of my questions) - GPU: ASUS AMD Radeon EAH6970 DCUII - MoBo: Asus Maximus IV Extreme - Cooler: Coolermaster V8 Series (the old model) - PSU: well it's a 700 or 750W Corsair PSU with a 3-colored LED Fan (non-modular) - HDD: SAMSUNG HD204UI 2TB - SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB - Sound: Soundblaster Z So this is what I'm trying to play Battlefield, Crysis, GRID and League of Legends on Since simple Gaming on that stuff and some cable mangement are getting boring now and I now know how to configure a system right (I mean picking the right components) I wanted to do some overclocking because RoG comes up with a ton of features for OC But the main Problem is, that I don't have any idea how to do this and all these overclocking guides (even those from Linus) don't help me much, I decided to throw all my questions directly to you. I started to do some OC with the ASUS AI Suite automatic CPU overclocking feature and yeah pushed it until it got unstable, which means I think 4.2GHz of CPU frequency. Then I got to GPU and Memory overclocking and heard of these Intel XMP Profiles which are as far as I understood it a preset overclock over the stock frequency? Am I right with that? But that's where my first RAm question comes up. I have 1600Mhz Memory, which the BIOS detects as 1333Mhz?! So do I have to enable XMP to get the full 1600Mhz? Why and when do I have to turn the voltage higher and how does that effect the timings? Same with the GPU when and why do I have to turn Voltage higher, is there a maximum and why do you overclock your Memory frequency? I went to my BIOS and turned the XMP on which made my system shut down when I saved the settings, and then it said "Reboot and select proper boot device..." When I got back into the BIOS again, my HDD and SSD weren't detected, but my external Storage and my optical drive, which are all plugged in to the SATA 6GB/s ports of my motherboard, and thats why I don't understand that my internal drives weren't detected. Does that go hand-in-hand whith errors caused by the XMP profile? I'm asking all this stuff because I first of all want to get better in this section (means bulding and tweaking PCs) and because I'm about to get a new Rig because my GPU isn't sufficient for today's games any more Since I'm so damn fascinated of good looking whatercooled machines and stock cooling solutions are boring for me now, I decided to do a fully watercooled machine as my next build. I'll give you a short overview about what I'm imagining: - Case: CoolerMaster HAF 935 Stacker - CPU: Intel Core i7 4970K which I plan to OC - I'm not sure about it yet but it'll definitely be Corsair 16GB (questions about that below) - GPU: RoG Poseidon Platinum GTX 780 - MoBo: ASUS Maximus VII Formula Watch_Dogs Edition - Cooler: I'm going with a fully EK Water Blocks equipped system which means I'm using an EK Supremacy CPU block - PSU: Corsair RM650W modular - HDD: WD Black 2TB - SSD: taking the actual one into my new build (or are there any better performing SSDs? mybe samsung?) - Sound: same as now Now I'd like to ask you what kind of memory makes most sense in this build... I often heard that you should always go with Dual-Kits to make sure you have upgradability options free. But I think that 16 Gigs are more than enough for a Gamer because even 8 Gigs are more than sufficient for modern gaming. But since I want to build a "future-proof" system I thought 16 Gigs would be the best because I'm also very interested in 3D Rendering and stuff that need much RAM. So my question is should I take 2x8GB Sticks to keep the upradability aspect open or the way I prefer by picking 4x4GB Sticks because of the much cleaner and more "Badass" Look when all RAM-Bays are filled What are your thoughts about that? What do you think of the System? Is it worth the price? I know that there might be better solutions with AMD Cards but I definitely want a NVidia Card because of ShadowPlay and all that stuff And since Nvidia is going to Release their 900 Series I hope prices on lower series cards will drop a bit, like maybe the 4th Gen Core Processors are being replaced by the Haswell-Es now. By watercooling my system it'll run at very low temps am I right? So I want to overclock it a little... especially the CPU and GPU (I read the Poseidon can go up to 1,3GHz)... RAM isn't that important to me but would be nice to know how overclocking this component works too. Thank you very much for reading all this If you need any information just comment below and I'll post it as fast as possible Thankful greetings holofox
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