KealGSeo

So I am messing with my fan speeds for the first time ever. They all seemed to be too high on temp and low on speed. But am wondering what I should set my water pump to. I have an MSI board with a 4 step smart fans (adjusts with temp). Like, what should I set the minimum fan speed to on a temp that will run all the time and at what point should it crank up to 100%? Or should the pump be at 100% all the time? If it helps I have the cooler that comes with the Genome case, basically a Deepcool Captain 360.

So I took your advice...and grew some balls while I was at it. I figured if I was going to change some stuff around manually I aught to do it right. It did scare me once and I had to jump the Clear CMOS switch but all was good. So this is my first ever OC results. I started with an i5-6600k @ 3.5 Ghz / boost to 3.85 Ghz scoring 532 on Cinebench. I upped the voltage to 1.350 and got to 4.4 Ghz stable out of it and scored 728 on Cinebench! Almost 100 cb score higher and almost a 15% gain. I am also staying under the 60 degree mark. Really proud of myself...sorry I know you guys go way crazier but this is my first time. Maybe when it is time to upgrade I'll try to squeeze everything I can out of this one. Thanks for the little push.

Yeah I have water cooling. I got the Genome case with the Captain 360 built in.

I'm just going by what the bios says at the top right after the reset. Yes I could but I'm trying to avoid that if possible. Since I am new I am kind of timid about manually changing the settings.

And I do have all the latest drivers.

So I just built my first computer about 2 weeks ago. I am starting to play around with it and realized that I can't run the XMP profile at the same time as the CPU OC profile. I have the MSI M5, Trident Z 3200mhz RAM and the i5-6600k. If I run no profile it runs the RAM really low, like 1800 ish I think. When I run just the XMP it will change it to the full 3200 mhz and runs fine. When I use the OC profile (they won't activate at the same time) it boosts the CPU to like 4.1 but the RAM to only about 2600. Not sure if I am giving the right numbers but about that. Is there a way to force it to OC the RAM to it's full speed and do the light OC on the CPU without just straight up doing it manually?

Yeah, I'm not advanced. I don't know what that means lol I wasn't even sure transistors was correct. I just knew it got 2 updates at the same time when it usually only gets one or the other.

Well it got hammered because this series got both a size reduction (I think they are called transistors?) and a new architecture. It is usually just one or the other. It might have Linus that I saw explain this one but I'm not positive.

" twice the horizontal and vertical " That means twice as wide, and twice as high. Get 2 pieces of paper and try to make them twice as high and twice as wide at the same time. You can't, you need 4 pieces of paper.

I know no one can predict the future, but I figured someone could give an educated guess as if that expectation was realistic.

No, 2 1080s side by side would be 3840x1080. One number is how wide, one number is how high.

It is but think about it. If it is twice as wide that is like 2x 1080 screens side by side. And it is twice as high that means 4x 1080 screens side by side and one over the other.

That is 2x the height and 2x the width but that is 4x the pixels.

Well that is what I am trying to figure out. If I am willing to cut down the settings later, how long will it keep playing new titles.

At first I'll be getting, and using, 1080p at 120hz. But my question is for down the road when it can't run new titles at that anymore. Will it still be able to run new games in 10 years if I am willing to cut it down to 720 and settle for 30fps? Like is that a realistic expectation?