On the CPU cooler? I mounted them backwards so they both pull and blow towards the 200mm fans in the top of the case.

It runs great! Boot up time is around 8-10 seconds (if I turn down the POST delay) and the best part is that it's nearly silent. I'm using Asus' AI Suite III to control fan speed on the fly, and on "silent" mode after a few hours of gaming I'm seeing CPU temperatures at 40-45 degrees. The GPU hangs around in the 60-65 degree range.

It certainly runs cooler, quieter, and better than some poop AMD machine.

I haven't benchmarked it yet. Which ones would you like to see? I would imagine any benchmark scores I get would be pretty unimpressive because I'm still running stock clocks and only 1 GPU, but I'll turn things up for benchmarking.

 

I was going to say, those are nice temps, but I see you are on stock clocks. I am hovering at 30*C for both GPU and CPU on idle, and 50*C for CPU and 60*C for GPU when I load up BF4, flight sim, etc.

Gotta love SSD! I can't go back to the boot times of HDD anymore. Its so nice.

 

Yea, to get 4.6, I had to run it at 1.35v. 4.5 was a bit more reasonable at 1.27xxx. These were both quick and dirty overclocks. I didn't test for stability, I just played BF4 online for a couple hours. But after that, the CPU was right around 53C.

Honestly, I'm just paranoid about frying the CPU someday, which is why I'll just augment performance with another video card as opposed to running my existing components harder and hotter for a few extra FPS.

IIRC, you're using an H100i? How is it? Do you prefer it over the giant air coolers?

 

That was a joke right ? Oh yea, you laughed... Whew!

 

He's serious - suggesting you use a TV for a monitor.

 

Oh, now that's funny

 

Why not? It's big and it's HD resolution. Almost all TV's these days have PC inputs. Saves you from having to buy both a monitor and a TV.

 

All tho you need them, it's not about inputs. Okay then, I'll trade yuh straight up, 1 new Apply 30" Cinema or even a smaller Thunderbolt Display for three new 200-$300 32" TV's. Deal?

BTW- What would consider BIG in resolution, as far as a 27" display or TV, 1,920x1,080 I expect. Show me a 27" TV (2-$30O) w/2560 1440 pixels with over 16 million colors for the computer end of things. Once you use one (mind blowing), you'll never go back.

 

I can't imagine what it would look like if I hooked up my PC (or any gaming PC) to a 720p set... 200 FPS all day long!

And when I run SLI 780's in January on 720p... The rig would probably turn into a time machine.

 

You aren't gonna get a 2560x1440 monitor for under 200 bucks.......

 

Exactly my point. Well part of it.

Why dump all that cash on a computer build only to cheap-out on the monitor(or Telev) in the end ?

 

Yes I'm using the H100i. The Haswell loves it and it keeps things nice and cool. I broke one of the fans so I bought a pair of Corsair SP120s to replace them and they move twice the air. Quiet as a button on idle, but if you set them to max RPM, they sound like a 737 on takeoff. My only gripe is that the blue LED in the water block quit working so I can't change the color that much anymore. A lot of people say that the margin of performance from a large air cooler to water isn't that much, but I think the space savings is worth it alone. It looks so clean:



SP120s (advertised 60CFM each versus 30 of the stock fans):



Come with blue, red, or white trim rings:

 

Wouldn't you get better performance with the red trim rings?

- Jack

 

That looks sweet!

I can make that 737 (747) sound with Garage Band. - Cranks it up really loud, lots base, crap vibrating off the shelves, neighbors looking out their windows, then fetching the mail w/my scuba gear on.

 

You're joking, but I swear my new red sleeved cables netted me 5 extra computer horsepowers.