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Pauleh

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Virginia, USA
  • Interests
    PC gaming, memes, and furry stuff.
  • Occupation
    Part time mechanic, part time student

System

  • CPU
    i7 6700k
  • Motherboard
    Asus Z170s
  • RAM
    Crucial Ballistix (white)
  • GPU
    Asus 1070 Strix OC
  • Case
    Phanteks P400
  • Storage
    Samsung 850 pro, Seagate barracuda 1tb
  • PSU
    Evga G1 650W
  • Display(s)
    Samsung S22D300 21.5" 1920x1080 60hz 5ms & ASUS PB277Q 27" 2560x1440 75Hz 1ms
  • Cooling
    Deepcool Captain 240EX white
  • Keyboard
    Logitech G810
  • Mouse
    Logitech G502
  • Sound
    Sony MDR V6 (DT 250 pads), restored 1987 AKG K240M 600ohm (Cosmos pads with dt250 filters), AKG K7XX, Beyerdynamic dt990 pro 250 ohm, Bose Ae2 & Sony MDR v150. All off of a Bravo V2 shuguang tube, a little Dot mkII with GE JAN 5654 tubes, a CEntrance Dacport slim and a UCA222.
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 (switching to linux soon)

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  1. I'd argue that a hard drive and and a PSU have about equal needs for being cool. Seagate says that their normal max hard drive operating temp is 50-60°C and on the website for the EVGA G1 power supply (representing about what the average person has) it says 50°C. IN BOTH CASES extra heat can cause premature failure, and it's best to avoid heat with these as much as possible. Having a PSU fail COULD cause more parts to fail, even the hard drives. Also OP is implying that he probably has bad airflow, so it doesn't matter if you do and only get marginally higher temps than ambient. I would assume that he MAY have temps upwards of 40°C in the case. As an aside, what do you mean about the VX550? It's only from '07 and got great reviews with no mention of temps being an issue.
  2. The 980ti's aren't worth your power. Sell them. 9xx cards are HORRIBLE at mining.
  3. I would sure as hell take that risk. I normally keep computers for 12+ years before I get a new one. I was looking at these cheap ghetto SSD's for my laptop that has the worlds worst hard drive, and considering its 8 years old now, I wouldn't want to spend more then $35-40 on it.
  4. I still wouldn't want to risk doing that. While most if not all parts are rated to or above 40°C (104°F), It's still a very sensitive part of your computer and you can shorten the life of you capacitors with prolonged unnecessary heat. I wouldn't want to be sending air that is probably 40°C itself through it.
  5. The main appeal is that it's cheap as hell for an SSD
  6. Huh, learnn something new everyday, pre built with support for watercooling. Funny. If you aren't willing to spend over 120 bucks on watercooling, it isn't worth your time. And even at that price, I don't think it's worth. Get a nice air cooler. The nicest air cooler out there performs as good or better (over time) and costs about 40 bucks less than a low-mid range watercooler. My water cooler is a DEEPCOOL Captain 240EX which is a well reviewed one going for about a 120 bucks, and I like it less than my 30 dollar air cooler. At load, a good watercooler will outperform a air cooler, yes. But at idle, after a while, a air cooler kicks any water coolers ass. Water retains the heat. My recommendation is that you go for a Phanteks PH-TC14PE or a noctua NH D-14. and some nicer system fans. Also locate the source of the noise. Take off the side and listen to each part, is it the PSU fan? The CPU fan? Case fan? Adjust accordingly.
  7. Could be artifacting from a bad GPU. Reseat it and if it happens again, return it.
  8. As long as you log on to the same Microsoft account then you should be fine.
  9. Is it a top down fan PSU? If not then you can reverse the fan and have it as an intake, I don't see any problems with that.
  10. Just buy some nicer fans or an air cooler. Watercooling is probably not supported in that case.
  11. The PSU is probably the most sensitive part of your computer temperature wise, keep that safe and DON'T use it as an exhaust.
  12. If they didn't, I would already have the oneplus 5 in my cart.
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