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    Made a fairly big goof in my build - looking for advice

    Yep. Am going to replace them with the corsair LL120 fans (which are semi-diectional, but not as much so). /sigh. Feeling dumb.
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    Made a fairly big goof in my build - looking for advice

    Yeah, that airflow was my original intent. Bottom and side intake, top exhaust, but I goofed with believing the fans blew/pulled in the opposite direction than they do. It seems like I'm gonna have to either just reverse these fans and lose the LEDs, or buy new fans. Which is a bummer.
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    Made a fairly big goof in my build - looking for advice

    So I recently completed my build (thread here: https://hardforum.com/threads/out-of-the-pc-building-game-for-a-while-looking-for-advice.1971038/ and pic here: https://hardforum.com/data/attachment-files/2018/12/177093_IMG_20181201_194552.jpg ). My initial plan was to have the radiator...
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    Weird motherboard XMP issue

    Thanks, both! It hasn't happened since I made this post, but I'll make the change for stability sake. I will say, memtest86 went off without a hitch.
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    Weird motherboard XMP issue

    So, I just built a new machine using the z390 aorus master. So far, everything is excellent. I haven't gotten into testing overclocking yet, but I plan to soon. I've now noticed a quirk x2 though, which makes me think it might not go away, so I wanted to check in with you all who know more...
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    Out of the PC building game for a while, looking for advice

    Build is complete! Still working some things out, but it's running stably at stock settings (Ram at 3200) Still have some work to do, but pretty thrilled so far! This was the build that I ultimately ended up going with: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel - Core...
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    Out of the PC building game for a while, looking for advice

    Just wanted to say that I'm going to be building this machine this weekend (assuming my last package arrives tomorrow, like it's scheduled to!) Will post pics moving forward!
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    ASrock Z390 Extreme4 reasonable for overclocking 9700k?

    Hi All, I'm finishing up my first build in a long time, and I'm going for a 9700k processor on a z390 motherboard. I picked up the ASRock Z390 extreme4 because it was on a great sale (129.99) but I've started to read that the VRM on it is not as good as the VRM on the Z370. Would this board be...
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    ASRock Z390 Extreme4 Motherboard - $129.99 ($10 mir)

    https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157848&Description=extreme4&cm_re=extreme4-_-13-157-848-_-Product Bought this at Micro Center last week (paired with a processor, was 139.99). Haven't started my build yet, but the general consensus for the Extreme4 boards has been it's...
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    Out of the PC building game for a while, looking for advice

    That's a pretty system!
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    Out of the PC building game for a while, looking for advice

    That's the stuff I bought! I'm leaning toward having the radiator at the top as an outlet and having the side and bottom as inlets. We'll see.
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    Out of the PC building game for a while, looking for advice

    Thanks for all your help with this. I ultimately am gonna go with the slower ram for cheaper. All I read seems to suggest that, while it makes a difference, the difference is probably the smallest out of all components I'm using. I have a new question for you all, though. With the Lian Li...
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    Out of the PC building game for a while, looking for advice

    Is there a primer on ram overclocking you might point me toward? Some of the things you are saying are just going over my head. For example, "b-die". I'd like to get myself more familiar with the details.
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    Out of the PC building game for a while, looking for advice

    A seasonic Focus 850w supply looks like it'll be on sale on Black Friday at Newegg for 69.99, so I think I might go that route. With regard to ram and overclocking ram, can you help me understand the difference between the ram you posted, hittinquitit, and this...
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    Out of the PC building game for a while, looking for advice

    This will also require a different motherboard chipset, no? If so, any recs on motherboards? In practice, how big of a difference are those 2ms in cas latency (that was the only difference I could find)? Are we talking one stick of ram is overclockable and the other is not at all, or are we...
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