My black NZXT H2 Classic

Xavi C

Xavi C

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Hi peeps!

I thought I'd share a few details and shots of my current machine.

Specs:
i7 2600K@4.5GHz
Noctua NH-D14
Asus Maximus V Gene
Chieftec BPS-850C
Sapphire HD7950@1150/1500
8GB Kingston Genesis Grey XMP-1600
60GB SSD OCZ Agility 3 (Win8 Pro)
60GB SSD Corsair Force 3 (games and virtual machines)
1TB Seagate (everything else)
Corsair M60 Mouse
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
Dell 3007WFP

Pics:





Cheers! :)
 
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welcome to OC3D forums and the Rig Gallery.
thank you for posting.

appreciate the photos of your build specs, but would also type them out. this would be
incase your photo host went down or something accidentally got deleted. so viewers
would have a better chance to view your build specs.
 
Xavi C said:
It's rated 9-9-9-27, but no, no real perceivable performance difference.
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meant 27 ^_^ my bad, only asking as i have same timing and wondered if it worth a play.


that D-14 looks like its gonna be very close to the side panel, what are temps like?
 
vorticalbox said:
meant 27 ^_^ my bad, only asking as i have same timing and wondered if it worth a play.


that D-14 looks like its gonna be very close to the side panel, what are temps like?
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Yeah, it does look tight... It closes perfectly though, doesn't touch it.

The hottest core reaches 72 degress with the case closed when under OCCT (linpack AVX), while in prime 27.7 custom blends it reaches 67 degrees. That's with a room temperature of around 22 degrees.

All this is with fans RPMs in the 700's, I'm quite anal in regards to silence...
 
Now that I've been around OC3D for a while, I'm surprised nobody said anything about the OCZ SSD, specially when it's so clearly visible in two of the shots :P
 
I've been looking to upgrade the CPU on the HTPC/homeserver to something more beefy. It has been running for a few weeks with a Celeron G540, which for the money it costs (specially second hand...) it's an awesome processor: sandy architecture, runs stable at 1V and stock speeds, can decode h264 via hw and bitstream HD audio, etc. The only caveat was the video transcoding power, I have a couple of services running on the machine to stream video to the web and to mobile devices. So I started looking for something more powerful with the idea of running it at stock speeds undervolted.

This weekend I found a guy in my area selling a 2600k for an OK price (NOK1300=£140), so I ended up buying that one for my main rig and transplanting the 2500k to the HTPC/homeserver (I know the i7 would fit better for transcoding purposes, but I really feel like messing around with the i7 in my main rig first). Seems the 2500k is stable at stock speeds at 1.1V, I have only run 1h30m OCCT so far, still need to prime it longer.



Two facts from the 2600k surprised me, one positive and one negative. The positive is that it runs really cool compared to the 2500k, the 2600k reaches the same temps under OCCT at 1.38V than my 2500k at 1.31V, 70-75 degrees (that's with a NH-D14 with fans at 800rpms). The negative thing is that it requires like 0.100V more than the 2500k for the same speeds, so at the moment it's running at 4500 and it needs 1.38V to be stable, while the 2500k could do 4600 at 1.312V (then again, same temps).

Since I only do gaming and programming in my main rig, I see myself switching again to the 2500k in the near future, letting the 2600k play its HT magic for transcoding.
 
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