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Questions after new build

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Wingnut225

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As a first time PC builder, I am pleased to say that everything went well. All hardware went together nicely and software loaded with no problems. I do have a few questions and could use some help.

1) Should the power supply Corsair 650TX) be mounted in such a way that the fan points toward the bottom (it's bottom mounted) or should it pointed upward toward the inside of the case?

2) When I checked the bios of the ASUS P8Z68 V-Pro motherboard, it shows that the front fan is only spinning at around 430 RPM's and it shows this in red. All other fans are spinning around 550 RPM's and are shown in blue. The case is a Coolmaster HAF 922 and the front fan is plugged into the CHA_FAN2 on the motherboard.

3) How do I find out more about how to overclock the i5-2500k?

Here is the system that I built. All parts were purchased on the Black Friday sales so that did weigh in on my decision for certain parts over others:

Coolmaster HAF 922
Asus P8Z68 V-Pro
i5-2500k
Corsair Vengeance 8g (2x4g)
Corsair 650TX power supply
Hyper 212 plus cooler
Crucial M4 128gb SSD
Hitachi 750GB HDD
other HDD's for photo storage
Win 7 Home 64
 
1) Yes, the fan side should be facing the bottom of the case unless the case is resting fully on carpet or something. Then again I wouldn't recommend putting the PC entirely on the carpet in the first place.

2) Probably not an issue

3) Google or search through the Overclocking & Cooling subforum or the Intel subforum.
 
For basic overclocking, you can use Asus AI Suite II to automatically OC your CPU. It'll start tweaking multipliers and voltages, going through crash-reboot cycles until it finds a stable one. I used it on my i7-2600k, within a few minutes AI Suite II was running it at 4.5GHz with 44x multipliers and a slight voltage bump.

If you want to push it further, you'll have to go into the BIOS yourself and adjust multipliers and voltages, and tweak performance/power ratios. Shouldn't be too hard, since Asus has the new mouse enabled BIOS
 
hmm. your PSU looks like the fan is top mounted, no?

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If anything you can mount your PSU upside down. That's what I'm currently doing with my Seasonic X750 and Antec P183 bottom mounted.
 
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