Upgrade time.

[PLODDITHANLEY]

All here so onto assembly.

That asus GTX970 strix is huge I had to get out the dremel to chop up my old Antec Sonata case and even after that it's tight.
i had a hardware fault and would not post, as the 212 evos fan speed was below the 600rpm dead fan alert in BIOS once I had changed this limit down to 200 it was fine.
I was unimpressed by the hyper 212 evo's way it can rotate a little once fixed i removed to double check and after googling its normal....
I had to disable the graphic driver for the GPU on CPU die (2500k) in order to get the basic graphics through the 970 to let me install the driver and set it up.

Impressed by my first Asus mobo, the bios interface, the LED check system the nice looking realtek customized UI. I would get another. I wouldn't get another 212 evo though.

Not as amazed by the SSD as i expected to be ... yet. Enjoying USB 3 though!

So far I have only played a few PR rounds but on all high at 100fps ish. Doesn't look much nicer than before really. This system is really for squad anyway.

heres my user benchmark with an external HD connected, and a high CPU load?

UserBenchmarks: Desktop 70%, Gaming 76%, Workstation 43%
CPU: 71.4% Intel Core i5-2500K
GPU: 80.5% Nvidia GTX 970
SSD: 83.4% Samsung 850 Evo 250GB
HDD: 99.7% Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB
USB: 37.6% ST1000LM 024 HN-M101M 1TB

[Steeps]

Interesting that you had a problem with the Hyper 212. I'm running a 2500k with a Hyper 212+ and have my overclock at 4.5GHz getting temperatures below 70 C.

The "rotating" that you are talking about it used for spreading the thermal paste in a semi-circular motion after application.

[PLODDITHANLEY]

It's only a slight rotation, I am quite mechanically experienced and I can see where this play comes from. It's a fairly frequent occurance and once installed you don't go twisting it anyway.
I'm not even sure its a problem.

It won't affect cooling, once I have sorted out a version of W10 other than the tech preview I'll go OC it.

[PLODDITHANLEY]

What I am impressed with is the sound quality improvement with the same headphones (cheapo sennheiser HD201) very noticeable. I have also plugged my decent sound bar (old yamaha YSP500) via SPdif, that is a clearly audible improvement from 3.5mm to RCA I used before.


The quality and appearance of all video is some how clearer and sharper on the same screen with the same resolution which I wasn't expecting.