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I took off the sink and gave everything a good clean with some ArctiClean 1+2 solutions. Then I decided to give this thermal pad a try. And the verdict is..... basically no change. Lol. I'm trying to decide after staring at the temps for a while whether it's maybe between 1-2 degrees cooler...

Not sure... it looks like cleaning is a good option, so I'll see what it looks like when I remove the heat block.

Haha, I'm setup in a finished basement room of the house where it stays a bit cooler. In fact there is no AC in the basement and no need. That said, yes, it's slightly warmer in the summer than in the winter. Notably, the H115i liquid temp really never changes and hovers a few degrees above...

I haven't cleaned the H115i recently... in fact, really haven't touched it since it was first installed. I'm a bit anal about dust buildup so I routinely clean out the radiator (and the entire case) of dust, but I've left the heat block and tubing alone. Sounds like it would be worth a try to...

Hey all, over the past couple months I've been playing closer attention to the core temps on my i7 7700K (see signature). When I first built this system they would typically fall around 30-32C at idle, but now they've crept up to a consistent 40-42C. At full load they skyrocket to around 77-83C...

Nice little piece of Apple history there, thanks for sharing the link. I never owned any of the PowerPC models, in fact until I got an iMac in 2012 the last Mac I owned was my trusty Mac SE which had a 20 mb hdd;). But I used to go into computer stores back in the day and drool over them...

I've heard some mixed opinions on the Corsair fans, however after running them for several weeks I'm pretty satisfied. They are loud at higher rpm, but now that I'm controlling the speed based on water (pump) temp they hardly ever go above 30-35%, which is very quiet. I think at this point I...

Yes, currently I have it set to -4.

This is only partly true, if the mobo manufacturer elected to use a pcb board having at least a certain minimum thickness. However it is a known issue with the Corsair backplates and incompatibility with certain mobo pcb boards, if the board is slightly too thin. In that case you will turn the...

Okay, understood - this actually makes much more sense. Believe it or not, 15 years of building PCs and this is my first water cooled rig, so still getting it all figured out. I reconfigured the fan control back to water temp and it's definitely a quieter system now. My cpu temps are about...

Well I mostly use Prime95 for stress testing. Where I’m just trying to establish temps, I will run it for about 10 minutes and then look at the temp. For a true test of system stabilty you’d want to run longer than that. I also do a fair amount of h264 encoding in handbrake, and sometimes I’ll...

Yup good question... info is in my sig. Currently running 4.8 ghz at 1.3v. Seems to be pretty stable.

Oh man, just noticed you're running a 6700k.... that chip should be running much cooler actually by a good 10C. The 7700k doesn't offer much performance over 6700k but it does run quite a bit hotter. Intel claims this is normal for the chip and not a problem, yada yada, but it was one of the...

I also installed it properly. Except in my case, proper installation required the use of appropriate size washers to ensure the backplate has a snug fit. Had I not used the washers, I would have installed it improperly and cooling performance would have suffered. There are plenty reports of...

For my new build I chose the Corsair H115i as my cooler of choice. I've been happy with it, despite some trouble with a loose backplate during installation on my MSI gaming pro carbon. This is a known problem with some people saying to use washers for the backplate and others saying to just...

Sounds like this is at least a somewhat common problem across multiple windows versions. I checked and confirmed my mobo has the most recent bios from MSI (v. 7A63v15). The simple solution is always to disconnect any/all drives except the one needed to install - should have done that the...

Looks like the coffee lake cpus are starting to trickle in again. My local microcenter seems to have the 8700k in stock (in-store only, and still for $500 if you're a sucker), and newegg is showing the 8700 available. I'm still betting they won't be widely available until after the New Year...

Actually, no, that's what I found strange. It was a brand new drive that I unsealed from the box the same day. Not only did the Win 10 installer create boot files on it, but before that it created a small 500 MB partition which I could later see in the disk management utility. Because it was...

The first time around, I set the boot order to 1. USB Key, 2. NVMe, 3. SATA hdd. Basically I just made sure USB key was first because I was booting off the Win 10 USB stick. I'm guessing what happened is that Windows tried to be cute and put files on both the NVMe and hdd, thereby allowing...

I installed Win 10 on my new build this week, with the intention of having the OS on my Samsung 960 NVMe. However, I also had an empty Seagate SATA 4TB hdd connected to the mobo. I selected the NVMe as the destination to install Windows, and all appeared to proceed normally. I then tried to...

Not much for me to consider at this point... the 7700k is bought and paid for along with everything else and I'm building the rig tonight with no regrets:D I'm still waiting for my g.skill 3200 cl15 ram though... I think that may hold me up till Friday. In terms of cores and threads, the 7700k...

The jury's still out on the 8700k, given all the reports of Intel cherry picking the units for reviews, etc. Things will start to get interesting once it's been released to the masses. Personally I'm not holding out for it though. I just pulled the trigger today on parts for a new 7700k build...

Cool to watch for sure! But in terms of consolidating the manufacturing costs... maybe more dependent on where that roof is located, than just being under one roof? A lot of costs go into the design stages too, which come a couple years before. Manufacturing may actually be the cheaper part...

I believe the pin layout for coffee lake matches Kaby, but you're right they did tweak the power delivery to accommodate +2 cores. You can physically drop a new CL cpu into a z170/270 but from what I hear it won't even post. I imagine by the time we get to the icelake release it will require...

For sure, the 1080 offers more hands down. But it also depends on what you consider acceptable. I'm looking to hit a reliable 60-65 fps in 1440p on max (or near max) settings. The 1070 should deliver that or better in most games and the price point is good. Budget for this system is right about...

Yeah, to be honest if I didn't need a whole new build I'd probably just slap a 1080 and some new RAM into my current rig and call it good. But it's gotten to the point where I need two desktops at home. I guess there's something to be said for my 2500k system still being good enough for most...

Well I hear what you're saying. But 8600k/8700/8700k isn't actually an option now since they're unavailable pretty much everywhere. If a few do pop up the prices will be inflated beyond what anyone should pay. I am predicting it will be this way through the holidays but could wrong. Still...

I need a new build for gaming, video editing (1080p) and web/productivity stuff - and it needs to be done now b/c I've already relinquished my old 2500k system to wife and kids. Due to the CL shortages I was considering the 7700k. But the 8350k is available and I'm definitely leaning that way...

Thank you, this set me along the right track! I did some digging as well and was able to achieve a 90 degree rotation in HandBrake by entering the command below into "Extra Options" under the Video tab: , --rotate=4 I could also flip along the XY axes (equivalent to 180 degree rotation)...

I record a lot of videos on my iPhone 4S, and sometimes I forget about proper orientation and end up recording "upside down" or vertically. I am looking for a utility that can covert the .mov files to .mp4 with the ability to rotate the orientation during the conversion process. I frequently...

...just like the new 5C phone! You can't make 30 color combos out of metal parts, you know... :p

I decided to give it a try, but the most recent version of RST (I think it's 11.7.X) would not download from the Intel site - it gives an error and says the file has been moved or no longer exists. Go Intel:rolleyes: The previous version was available (11.2.X) so I went with that one, and so...

I got my SSD and decided to do a clean install after all. It's a pain but I just felt better about it in the end. Quick question: I'm now running my Intel SATA controller in AHCI mode, everything seems to be working fine. Should I install the Intel RST drivers or is this not necessary? I...

This is exactly the point. The OS will be done in minutes but it could take days/weeks to get everything else back in order. I'm on the fence right now but all the suggestions here are great. I think I'll wait till I have all the new hardware in hand and then make a final call. In the...

I'm not sure either:o When I was having problems with AHCI after building my current machine I came here first but it never came up as a solution. I should have thought of that myself. I'll see if I can get back to AHCI first before doing the SSD upgrade. One other tidbit. When I...

Hoping to get some advice on a little upgrade project here. I'd like to replace my old WD 250 GB HDD that I use as a boot drive with an SSD, most likely this Samsung 256 GB SATA III drive. Normally I'd do a clean install of Win7 but I'm crunched for time and looking for shortcuts. Here are my...

It's a known issue on the Apple support forums for some people. In my case, I can actually leave the ATV connected to the 5 ghz signal but the source device (iMac, iPad, etc.) needs to be on 2.4 ghz. This is fine since switching back and forth is extremely quick on the iMac and not too bad on...

Yup, I think you could run into some problems with that dsl line. My current cable service is rated at 25/4 and in practice I usually get around 22-23 down and 2-3 up over WiFi. That's been more than sufficient for nice HD streaming so you should have no problems with 30/5. Today was...

Just ditching the TV part but keeping broadband internet. Broadband is required for streaming netflix, hulu, etc. plus whatever else you like to do online:) But the TV part was by far the most expensive part of my package. Due to another price hike that was scheduled to go into effect for my...

The Mohu Leaf antenna arrived and after playing around with the position a little, I was able to lock in 31 channels all in HD. A few are in spanish so will not be as useful for me, but it still leaves me with around 22-25 free channels. Not too shabby! Between this and the...