My Gaming Rig: Ice Flame

[dizmo]

1 minute ago, Daniel Z. said:

Theres a Strix 390 with broken fans for 200

Yeah I saw that one. Not a great deal. You can find 390s on Reddit often for $190 USD, or $250 CDN if you keep an eye out.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 hour ago, Daniel Z. said:

Theres a Strix 390 with broken fans for 200

390 is much worse than the 980 from what I recall, even the 970 was better

[Daniel Z.]

37 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

390 is much worse than the 980 from what I recall, even the 970 was better

It's between the 970 and 980 but has more VRAM than either

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Daniel Z. said:

It's between the 970 and 980 but has more VRAM than either

Interesting, I thought the 970 was better at pretty much everything.

[Daniel Z.]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Interesting, I thought the 970 was better at pretty much everything.

The 970 is slightly better in 1080p but higher resolutions are much better on the 390

[Crunchy Dragon]

UPDATE: PSU HAS ARRIVED.

 

Hooked all my old hardware up(including my 780) for driver uninstall and reinstall, Windows updates, various software downloads, etc. Once everything is finished I'll run Unigine Valley for fun and see just how much of a bottleneck my A6 is for my 780.

[Crunchy Dragon]

UPDATE TWO: Did some overclocking on my 780 and ran some benchmarks(the CPU bottleneck is very obvious).

 

CPU is stable at 4.4Ghz

GPU is stable at +220 core, +115 memory. Set up a custom fan curve in Afterburner as well.

[Imbellis]

On 1/7/2018 at 2:40 PM, Crunchy Dragon said:

Sadly I'm not in uni and I have no access to such tools.

 

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I may be able to hook you up (at least for the side panel Aperture logo).

Depends on size (full window replacement or part) and material (plexiglass or wood)

Here's something I threw together on wood in ~5 minutes. Pencil for scale.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Imbellis said:

I may be able to hook you up (at least for the side panel Aperture logo).

Depends on size (full window replacement or part) and material (plexiglass or wood)

Here's something I threw together on wood in ~5 minutes. Pencil for scale.

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That does seem pretty cool and similar to something I'd want, but I'm not willing to give my address to people online(security, etc).

 

I might look into frosting a big blue Aperture logo on the window at some point. I'm also planning on some blue LED intake fans and orange(Or red if I can't find orange) LED fans for exhaust.