Official "I want to build a New PC!" Thread

[RNunez187]

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So today I upgraded my pc graphics card to a Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X, and all went very well. Until my pc shut down about an hour in and I noticed it was super hot at the back of it. Besides the main fan, I have 2 additional fans installed, both Cooler Master SickleFlow 120s(1 blowing out, 1 sucking in), but I'm wondering if adding 1 to 2 more fans would help solve my problem. Any ideas? Not looking to spend more than $30 bucks if possible.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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I would replace those coolermaster fans with some Noctua fans. But either way, more fans will help.

[RNunez187]

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Not sure I could convince the wife to let me buy 4 fans at that price. Looking at either of these to add to what I already have:

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Series...=operasport-20

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846

[Burns11]

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Look at Cougar fans for something cheap, quiet, and good quality. Not as good as a Noctua or something like a Gentle Typhoon, but they are also half or less the price of those fans. I've been more than pleased with them.

[RNunez187]

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Thanks for the suggestions. Would it be better to have these next 2 intake, exhaust, or 1 of each?

[SuperBowlNachos]

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Not sure of the science behind it all, but I've always put more sucking the hot air out of the machine. Unless you know you have a good flow of air. Not just air randomly being blown in and sucked out.

[Burns11]

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My personal system has no exhaust whatsoever. I opened the back of the case up, removing as much metal as possible (fan grills, PCI slot covers and PCI pillars). CPU cooler is positioned so it's airflow goes out the back, have two fans in the front pulling in air, as well as a fan on the top and bottom so I could slow the other two down. Front runs at about 3/4 speed, top and bottom run 1/4 speed. It solves a lot of problems with air pressure in the case (negative you suck dust in through cracks, positive you muddle up air flow and get stagnant areas). I completely control the air moving into the system, so I can filter all the air going in. No redundancies in fan flow means fewer fans and less noise.

[thegut]

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Hey guys I just got a new monitor to go with my new PC. I have a really really noob question

The monitor supports 120 and 144 refresh rates, is there any reason not to put it in 144? Like, any drawback at all? I am sure image quality and whatnot is the same, right?

It won't make a difference. Think of the HZ as a FPS limit the monitor is capable of refreshing fast enough to support. You can technically get more FPS then the HZ but you will usually get screen tearing so you would probably turn on v sync in that case (which limits FPS to whatever HZ you set the refresh at). So realistically you will usually not be at those FPS at high resolutions (barring having a beast of a PC) . So long story short the difference between 120 HZ and 144 HZ would be negligible so go for 144.

[The JareBear]

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It won't make a difference. Think of the HZ as a FPS limit the monitor is capable of refreshing fast enough to support. You can technically get more FPS then the HZ but you will usually get screen tearing so you would probably turn on v sync in that case (which limits FPS to whatever HZ you set the refresh at). So realistically you will usually not be at those FPS at high resolutions (barring having a beast of a PC) . So long story short the difference between 120 HZ and 144 HZ would be negligible so go for 144.

Thank you, appeciate the input

[Zer0xray]

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Just wondering if anyone uses their bluray burner? I got one last year but couldn't play any movies on any of my software and just fave up. I got a oem drive so it didn't come with anything

sent from galaxy note 3

[ubernoob]

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I use mine to rip the movies to my hard drive and stuff, just to put on my HTPC.

Like you, I got an OEM drive and can't play any of them because of the licensing. Ripping is no problem, though.

[Cyros]

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Question: What is the point/advantage of running games in borderless windowed vs full sreen?

[ubernoob]

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Question: What is the point/advantage of running games in borderless windowed vs full sreen?

Well the disadvantage is taking a slight FPS hit.

The advantage is not having a real "delay" if alt-tabbing out.

If you're like me and use multiple monitors, borderless windowed is the only way to play, if not spanning all of them ( I have 3 monitors, 95% of the games I only use one for so I'll have the browser up on my left and whatever other programs I'm using on the right. If I were to use full-screen, left and right would be black. Windowed-full screen gives me the option to have the game full screen on the middle and the other two still active. Plus [depending on the game] my mouse isn't trapped to the game.)

[Cyros]

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Well the disadvantage is taking a slight FPS hit.

The advantage is not having a real "delay" if alt-tabbing out.

If you're like me and use multiple monitors, borderless windowed is the only way to play, if not spanning all of them ( I have 3 monitors, 95% of the games I only use one for so I'll have the browser up on my left and whatever other programs I'm using on the right. If I were to use full-screen, left and right would be black. Windowed-full screen gives me the option to have the game full screen on the middle and the other two still active. Plus [depending on the game] my mouse isn't trapped to the game.)

Hmmm, I've never noticed my second screen going black when I play full screen, but my second screen is my TV and it's a bit out of my natural viewing angle.

[ubernoob]

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Hmmm, I've never noticed my second screen going black when I play full screen, but my second screen is my TV and it's a bit out of my natural viewing angle.

It may depend on the game, as well. Also, not sure how it works with 2 monitors.

I know when I freshly install a game, I have to switch it. Sometimes they'll just go black, sometimes they'll flicker black then go back to the screen, but they are "inactive" (if I alt-tab to something on the screen, the game minimizes.)

If a game doesn't have Borderless Windowed (depending on the game), there's a 90% chance I will uninstall it and write it off.