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I don't even care if there is a givaway. I'm buying one of those babies as soon as we get em out here in the wild east.

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Hey guys! I was wondering if I can fit the afformentioned gpu with this cooler: http://www.overclock.net/products/arctic-cooling-accel-tt-ii-fluid-dynamic-accelero-twin-turbo-ii-vga-cooler-for-nvidia-and-amd-radeon/reviews/6309#comments-title And how smart that would actually be. That tilt/slack/bending really looks scary but I'm kind of tired of my GPU giving me temperatures above 75 even reaching 80 degrees under very heavy load and I wish to clock it from time to time. Is this cooler compatible? Is the shown amount of bending going to shorten my mobo lifespan? Is there any way to avoid this slack? I was thinking of employing some zip ties somehow and trying to keep the card up somehow. It is a heavy card even as it is. Any tips and helpful advice welcome. Thanks and sorry if this isn't the proper section for this thread. EDIT: Just mounted it. It looks great and it really didn't bend the mobo at all (not sure how it bent that guy's motherboard so much) The trickiest parts were: Getting the stock fan disconnected from the chip - I just had to use a bit of force but I was scared to since the fan controller looks like it can come off the PCB(? is that what it's called) And not messing up the thermal paste application (Since the MX-4 it came with was TOO much and obviously a bit ruined from shipping). Got stock temps down from 71 (furmark) to 58 max and at clocks 1200core/1500 memory - from 81 degrees with stock cooler to 63 degrees with the new one againw ith furmark.

Ooh I see. I didn't know that. Thanks for the reply. Anyway what I've got together in the end (the AMD APUs just seemed too expensive): Haswell Celeron G1820 ASROCK H81M-DGS (the guys at the shop said that they haven't had any RMAs and the mobo is okay. Not to mention the price was great I was thinking of getting the H81 Asus equivalent but he said there is no point in it and little difference and it does have a 3 year warranty) R7 260x 1gb GDDR5 OC - from what I gather this is a 7790 which is factory clocked and seems fine? Hopefully the CPU won't bottleneck it CoolerMaster b500 500 watt 85% eff. - it isn't the best around but a seasonic costs like 40-50% more here and I don't expect to use above 300 watts anyway WD 500GB 7200 rpm typical blue HDD CM Elite 431 box that was lying around 2x4gb 1600mhz Kingston FURY ram (that new entry-level ram, looks pretty nice, they even had a choice in color of the heatsink - 4 of them actually) I was initially going for that (6600k or 6800k) + a FM2+ board and 2x4 gigs of ram at 1866mhz but it actually got more expensive than the current items I've got and that seemed kind of strange. I honestly wanted to do an APU build but it seems more expensive and less cost efficient all things considered. If the RAM was at previous prices or the mobo wasn't so expensive - sure. But it seems that I would get less performance to the buck compared to what I got with the parts I listed above. Of course I might be wrong Going to be building it on Friday, hope I can handle it (the last time I did a build was for my own PC like 2 years ago and the only thing I've changed was a GPU and added ram and changed some thermal paste so not much, but from what I see not much has changed ) Thanks to all who replied and have a nice rest of the week.

Well I'm looking at two options around my budget: INTEL CELERON DUAL CORE G1820, 2.70GHz, 2MB, BOX, LGA1150 ASUS 1024M R7 250X R7250X-1GD5 PCI-E 3.0 ASUS H81M-K, H81, DDR III 1600/1333/1066, VGA, DVI, LGA1150 ADATA 2 x 4GB DDR III 1333 Total 423,17 лв. or around 300 USD Or this one (it's a bit cheaper I suppose and I'll need to get a GPU later) and I have put 8 gigs instead of 4 since the APU would be using the RAM KINGSTON 4GB DDR III 1866 HyperX FURY AMD A8-6600K X4 Quad Core, HD 8570D, 3.90GHz, FM2 ASUS A55BM-E, AMD A55, DDR III 2400(O.C.)/2133/1866/1600/1333, VGA, DVI, FM2+ Total: 390,22 лв. or 277 USD Or the second hand Z77M Arock board, i3 3220 and 4gb Kingston low profile ram - 1600/LC11/1.5V/2x2G which will be around 177 usd but I suppose I'll need to add a GPU to it and it won't have that new circuit board smell So those are the things I'm gravitating around (I have a 500gb HDD, Cooler Master Elite 431 and CM B500 500 watt PSU lying around so at least I don't have to buy those) What do you guys think?

The issue is that I have to buy the Mobo + CPU (some dude is selling them cheap and they've still got ~16 months of warranty) otherwise those parts new would cost me about 250 usd out here or 265 with the GB mobo that I would buy if they were new and that's without the RAM. (Which is DIMM btw) So I'm kind of on the fence. Maybe I should just build a new AMD AMD 6600k and a Gigabyte F2A55M-S1 for 180 usd? But that seems kindda cheap and and not sure if the Mobo supports APU/GPU x-fire MSI isn't an option but I might upgrade to an Asus MOBO for a few bucks more (since we don't really have anyone importing MSI)

Hey guys! Due to some failure my GF is laptopless and computerless as of today (or is it yesterday in the US? ) Anyway I'm doing a budget build. What I've got lying around - a CM Elite 431 box and a 500 watt Cooler Master B500 Actice PFC and an old 1280x1024 monitor. Basically my ploy is to get League of Legends, movies and internet running on that monitor until next month when I get my salary and can get a better monitor + a GPU. Wondering what I should get. I can grab a Z77M Arock board, i3 3220 and 4gb Kingston low profile ram - 1600/LC11/1.5V/2x2GB all of that for about the equivalent of 190 usd (or 270 of my local currency). Would that be a good choice if I'm going to be buying a GPU and a new monitor next month or should I go for some AMD APU? If I go for either I'm thinking of adding a 7770 (or those r7 250x equivalents) for some light MMO gaming on HD Sorry If I haven't structured my questions properly. Any tips are appreciated and any questions for information I have forgotten are welcome.

Great guide! Thank you! I'll be getting some Thermal Paste and rubbing alcochol tomorow (probablly MX-2 or MX-4 whichever they have in stock) and changing the paste on my 7870 for the first time ever (I have applied CPU thermal paste a loong time ago but never had to toy with GPU paste). The guide is very nice and it is using the same model of card (though my card is from Powercolor - the 7870 MYST edition and from what I gather powercolor don't mess around by applying normal quantities of thermal paste). I'm actually getting 81 degrees max temperature under heavy load (unclocked) which seems absurd (around 78 when using a custom fan speed configuration with MSI afterburner which still seems pretty high for a loud fan at 70%) and hoping to get at least 10 degrees lower so your guide is coming in as something very useful. I'll make sure to post the results tomorow :D Best Regards and again thank you for the gread guide,