Nice and neat Shows that you don't need a CM690 for good cable management. Proud user of Elite series

the pic from cooler master site, izzit?
i also copied my cable management from that pic.
also wanna try TitaniumZ's setup.

btw,
@TS, how is ur rig temp?
any improvement??

yup, it's from CM official site

the basic guideline for cable management is tying & routing cables properly

careful when plugging in high powered fans into fan controllers...u need to check and make sure that the fan's amperage doesnt exceed total amperage supported by the controller otherwise u can say bye bye to ur controller.

take the Delta FFBs for example... to date, if im not mistaken, there is only 1 fan controller that officially supports it. and of course its not available in this country.

also do not run high powered fans right off the mobo....anything above 0.8A is recommended to run directly from molex. otherwise, say bye bye to ur mobo.



imho, only get the high powered deltas or any other high powered fans if u know wat ur doing....

wow so many things to worry about... haha.. i just got the CM CFM90 LED fan for like 30 bucks... not showing satisfactory results, plus i tidied up a little on the cables and I only got like around 5 C's difference.

5C is a big diff with just adding fan and little cable management. maybe is time 4 u to re-apply thermal paste to ur hsf

but it hasn't even been a year since i last changed the TIM

maybe it's a time for you to change for a better cpu air cooler

hmm.... i'd think about it lets say i have a budget of 120 what should i get hmm?

hmm.. if i were you, i will save more money to grab the prolimatech megashadow or Thermalright 120 extreme one...

For the RM120 budget you can get only the descent CPU cooler... mostly from CoolerMaster.

This post has been edited by kInOzAwA: Oct 26 2009, 04:09 AM

ooo... are you implying that coolermaster's heatsinks aren't good enough? i thought they specialize in that field as their name suggests

The best high end air cooler is actually dominated by Prolimatech and Thermalright. If you googling somewhere you'll see many PC users around the world mostly using both the air cooler like i mentioned. There's no offence to claim that CM is a best air cooler. But it's just based on the user preference. By reading a reviews and making a comparison around you'll know why i stated that both the brand is the best of the best after all~

CoolerMaster also great in making a good quality air cooling heatsinks but just they're not to be true as the true of Thermalright and Prolimatech.

This post has been edited by kInOzAwA: Oct 24 2009, 03:06 AM

Well said, kInOzAwA, well said.

How much exactly is the "normal" average system, gpu, and cores temp?
I would like to know idle and load state.

If u want to buy a new hsf, make sure it fit ur elite 335

The temperature varies. i cannot call exactly how should the normal average system temperature because it's depends on the ambient temperature too. firstly, what you should know is the idle and maximum load should not exceeding the dangerous zone of temperature that has been set by either proc, mobo company etc.. let say if the maximum temperature has been set in 80 degrees, the normal should be in range of 50 - 70 degrees. if you got a good air cooling heatsink then, usually it will be better, somewhere in the range of 30 - 40 degrees in idle and 50 - 60 degrees in high load temperature....

yeah, this one should be consider too..

This post has been edited by kInOzAwA: Oct 24 2009, 02:07 PM

i suggest CM Hyper 212 plus, or TX3
good budget cooler ^^

hmm how about the Xigmatek Dark Knight?? if ur lucky u can get it around 120 or so in garage sale D:

TS, here some comparison of the air cooling heatsink solution..



for original reviews you can take a look over here:
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?opti...=1&limitstart=7

u nid to do some cable management bro....

and i think there is some problem with ur hsf...
IntelC2D E8400 idle wont got tat high tempreture....
it is juz 33~35c in room tempreture....
btw i think u should apply new thermal paste or re-install the fan propley....
coz installing intel hsf sometimes might got problem....

i can very sure abt it becaz 1 of my fren oso using exactly the same core and casing wif u...
but only he is using XFX 9800gtx..


im using elite335 oso

my e7400 idle tempreture is 31~33c oso...
but sometimes even can when down to 30c ...
same in room tempreture oso....

and my gc idle is around 34~36c

cool huh?!

here is my casing ....juz take a look....
hehes...on budget....using 1x2gb ram only

This post has been edited by bowerchung: Oct 30 2009, 12:08 AM

where can get the thermalright n prolimatech product ? lowyat ada ? ow much ?? should be exp bah