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SKOONJar · ‎04-21-2013

So I recently completed my new PC and there's a few thing I want to change that I have little or no experience with. I was wandering if you could give me advice or point me in a good direction. So here is my specs and what I'm looking to upgrade to:

CPU: i7 3770k( staying the same)
CPU Cooler: Stock intel( looking to upgrade to the best solution water or air under 150$)
MOBO: MSI GD65-Z77A( staying the same)
GPU: MSI GTX 680 Lightning( staying the same)
RAM: 8GIG Corsair Vengance( Want to upgrade to 16GIG kit at the best speed possible at 160ish$)
Case fans: stock( looking for 2 good rad fans( assuming I go water cooling) 1 good 120mm exhaust fan and 1 good 200mm intake fan with blue led)
Case: 600t( staying the same)
PSU: Thermaltake SMART 750w( staying the same )

I would like to see 4.5ghz out of my cpu to give you an idea for the cooling I need. And I would like the ram to be as high a speed as the system can handle without it being a pain in the butt with having to mess with the bios to get it stable.

Also completely off topic from my system... My uncle has a beast of a computer and he has this ram kit : http://www.gskill.com/products.php?index=460 He is building his son a pc and was wandering if he could take 16gigs of that and put it in a system more or less identical to mine.

fbm211 · ‎04-21-2013

Why not go with the Gskill trident X 2400 ram.
Is it on that mobos QVL.? If it is it should be no problem setting it up under XMP

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SKOONJar · ‎04-21-2013

fbm211 wrote:
Why not go with the Gskill trident X 2400 ram.
Is it on that mobos QVL.? If it is it should be no problem setting it up under XMP

Tridents arent blue :P... Guess I should have mentioned I want ram that will match the color scheme blue black or sliver would be great!

kkn · ‎04-21-2013

look on specs of your mobo, get the highest it can support.
look at the ram calc the ram makers have on their site.

SKOONJar · ‎04-21-2013

MSI is saying it can handle any speed

Myk_SilentShado · ‎04-21-2013

To answer your question about your uncle, yes, he can split a pair of RAM sticks from the kit to use in the 2nd rig...but his main will drop from Quad Channel to Triple

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SKOONJar · ‎04-21-2013

It would have to be 2 from the same channel right?

Chino · ‎04-21-2013

SKOONJar wrote:

CPU Cooler: Stock intel( looking to upgrade to the best solution water or air under 150$)
RAM: 8GIG Corsair Vengance( Want to upgrade to 16GIG kit at the best speed possible at 160ish$)
Case fans: stock( looking for 2 good rad fans( assuming I go water cooling) 1 good 120mm exhaust fan and 1 good 200mm intake fan with blue led)

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i
RAM: G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) F3-2133C9Q-16GAB
Radiator Fans: Gentle Typhoon AP-15, Cougar CF-V12HP or Noctua NF-F12
Exhaust Fan: COOLER MASTER R4-L2S-122B-GP 120mm 4 Blue LED Case Fan 2 in 1 pack
Intake Fan: BitFenix Spectre PRO 200mm Blue LED

SKOONJar · ‎04-22-2013

Is the h100i better than the swift tech h220? I would mind spending the extra cash.

SKOONJar · ‎04-22-2013

Its looking like 70$ just for fans.... 2 Gentle Typhoons AP-15's, A blue Bitfenix Spectre in 200mm and 120mm for intake and exhaust. For ram I cant decide between: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104371 and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231571 .... As for the water cooling unit I cant decide between the h100i the water 2.0 extreme and the h220

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