Heatsink/Mem recomendation

[Neuromancer]

Getting an MSI X58 Platinum board (uber cheap) (friday)

Getting a 920 D0 from microcenter (also uber cheap) (soon)

Not going to give up my tuniq on my AMD setup for this, so need a heatsink that performs very well for i7.

Nothing too crazy priced. Thing is getting built piecemeal as it is and I still need to come up with DDR3 for it as well (will take recommendations on that as well :) )


Thinking about finally getting a TRUE, I would only be running one 85CFM ish Panaflo on it until I can upgrade that. Xigmatek has some real cheap heatsinks, so those are a definite possibility as long as they can handle extreme i7 cooling :)



Thanks

EDIT: Cheap is more important than top performing...although nice balance would be great...

[punx223]

alot of people love the cooler master V8, but for heavy clock may not be the best.

[Neuromancer]

Well Kal is letting me borrow his Thor's for a little bit, so still looking at RAM. Found a kit of 6GB reapers for $130, but worried I might not get them for 1-3 months :p (damn Amazon). They are not great OC'ers but 1800 MHz 6 GB kits are not that cheap anymore.

Thinking of actually being a little nutty and grabbing some of those 60 dollar setups at newegg, just to see what I can do with them lol

[Neuromancer]

Amazon has some super cheap 3GB kits.

$50 3x1GB 1600 MHz Patriot viper extreme ELKs (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JQLHOM/ref=ox_ya_oh_product)

I should be able to edit SPD tables to generate my own XMP profiles yes?

Anywho they will be here by Friday hopefully. Will not get much a chance to play with them to the next Monday though :(


EDIT: WOW it might be here tomorrow or Wednesday instead. Just checked they have a DC number posted already. It is coming first class mail, I picked the closest shop to me (neighboring state) so 1-2 day delivery time is expected :) (Not Amazon's prediction, but mine :) )

[Neuromancer]

Well well, what is this we have here? A rather weighty box from Hawaii, looks like I have some work to try and get done today, in a few short hours :( Must protect Asgard!!!

Still looking for recommendations on a heatsink to buy so I am not borrowing this beasty for too long :) Near to the top for i7 performance as possible, but price must be a consideration.

thanks

[Buckeye]

The V8 is ok but for the money invested I would get a True.

[Kal-EL]

You're not borrowing knucklehead, you're keeping it, courteousy of your friendly neighborhood team captain. ;)

Its a good heatsink brudder, just a bitch to constantly switch out for ln2/dice pots. Be sure to visit that thread on proper tim placement and you'll be pleasantly surprised by air performance.

[Neuromancer]

Thanks again Kal :)

WEll spent hours getting this thing put together perfectly. Pulled the little rubber fan clips off my Xigmatek Battle Axe cooler to mount the panaflo to the Hammer. Read the thread on tim application, wire managed the bench station, everything looks great.

Used DVI cable (which may or may not be bad) power up... nothing.

Pull it and pop on an adapter and VGA cable. Still no video. ARGH

Left system running, after 15-20 seconds or so it shuts off, and then powers back up and repeats.

Can't test individual components, but my guess would be motherboard :( Going to see if there is anything unusual on this boar that I am missing, but I doubt it.

[Neuromancer]

nm, I am a tard. Hooked up a speaker, got a 3 beep code, started looking at it, and thought about PCIE slot... manual says first black slot. (mine are blue) So looked at DIMM slot population


It goes CPU Dimm 2, dimm1, dimm 4, dimm 3, dimm6, dimm 5 and you have to populate ODD slots duh

so had to pull the fan off the hammer and move the sticks

Got to post screen and turned it back off. :)

[Kal-EL]

Hehe, Noob4Life :)

[Neuromancer]

Well I do not have a temp probe, but MSI is reporting the CPU at 30C under idle and IOH at 81C in the BIOS

I immediately finger tested, and the chipset is very warm (common on these boards I understand) so I propped a 80MM on the 4890 and stuck it into the hammer blowing straight down on the chipset cooler, and temps dropped ~7C immediately.

WinFLP installed in about 28 minutes (full install), Installing v64 now, and W732 RTM after that. Not going anywhere tonight till drivers and tweaks are loaded. Then I will take another peak at the bios. Lots of new cuss words in there I am sure :)

Oh yah, I also picked up a toaster real cheap so I can swap my 1TB software/drivers hdd back and forth between my main rig and my new play rig :)

[Kal-EL]

30c sounds good

[Neuromancer]

LOL WOW This ram is going to work out very well :)

Something I saw in the BIOS made me think this board had a memory limit on it. So I set all things to stock levels. upped fsb to 166 and multi to 21, restarted.

tooling around in windows installing some more stuff. Decide to run prime95 to see how she is doing temp wise.

instant crash, get into bios and my mem is running at 1997MHz :o 9-9-9-27 1T at 1.65v booted windows and ran (till stressed obviously)

I think I need to buy the other two kits on thursday :)

Dropping it back to 1660 though, was only trying to find some stock volt cpu limits. Man this is goign to be fun :) Even with a bottom of the barrel x58 board :)

(oh.. AMD fanboy speak following.... snappiness is definitely not there compared to my AMD setup. Although must say at almost 3.5GHz, and DDR3 1997 cas 9 it was definitly a much better desktop experience then stock :) yeah!)

[Neuromancer]

Okay. running some blend. mid 60s at 3.5 GHz 1.225 vcore w/ HT

Definitely going to need to get some advanced cooling soon. AC season is over unfortunately. But only a couple months until "AAC" season begins (arctic air cooling). (well 30-40F air cooling :p)