You could save some by going for a 10850K instead of a 10900K. Which is a 10900K with 100Mhz lower clocks out of the box, but in practice that's the same performance especially if you OC it.
This is my case, except it doesn't have the air holes on the side. I loaded The Medium and the GPU stabilized at 84°C. At idle it's around 45°C.
80C+ is normal for a blower style card like 10 series FE. I suspect that the 1080ti FE is the one mainly heating the room since it dumps all the hot air directly out the back (the positive to that being that avoids affecting your CPU cooling), but even if you get a big 3080 with 3 fans that air is better to have it out of your case than in.
One in the back, one at the top, and another one in the front. There's another one at the top that isn't working because there's no port to connect it.
I'm moving soon to a place where there will be more space (and more room for overall airflow), but what would be the best solutions to look for? I know I'll also have to change my case because it's not compatible with newer motherboards.
If you want to leave the option open to overkill it, I would say get a case that has room for two exhaust radiators, one on top and one on the side (for example the Lian Li 011 cases, various Thermaltake cases , Corsair 5000D) That way you have intake from the front of the case or and/or the bottom and the possibility to have AIOs on both your CPU and GPU without obstructing airflow on the front of the case with a radiator.
How did you achieve it? Lowered the Vcore? Interested in the settings you used.
Thanks! I'll check again when it's time. But I can get an idea already.
Assuming you are not upgrading in another 5-6 years, I say go for something with 8 cores or more. Ryzen 7 5800X is the new hotness, but that can take a while to find on stock, so if you want an upgrade without having to wait go for a Core i9 10850K.
I'll probably stick with the intel CPU, getting the 3070 was hard enough as it was lol. I'll probably need to add a new CPU cooler, or at least get more thermal paste, on top of that I'm assuming?
Yeah, I recommend you get a new cooler at least a beefy one on the weight class of the NH-D15 and Dark Rock Pro 4 for the i9, or a AIO of at least 240mm. Since top of the line Air coolers are $90 they aren't actually cheaper than AIO coolers that don't have RGB like the "Basic" line from EKWB or the Artic liquid freezer.
If you are a college student or work for a big enough company (especially one that is computer based or works in MS Office), Microsoft offers ways to get a key for free.
Yes. They are mostly fully filled. As to how much, unless you dissemble, drain and measure, it's unknown. No, they are not prone to leaking otherwise nobody would be using them.
I had the same psu and bought a 6800xt nitro last month. The psu had some coil whine when I was playing a game. I upgraded to a seasonic 1000+ platinum psu, the coil whine was gone. But if coil whine doesn't bother you, it should be more than enough.
What motherboard do you have? If it's an older 300 series boards it might have issue as Zen 2 support on 300 series chipset isn't even official.
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I'll do that, thanks.
Fairly experienced--used to build all my own systems but got a Black Friday deal on this Cyberpower machine maybe 2 years ago. Currently has a Ryzen 2700.
