Recent content by adycopilu

It can only be a 3-pin fan. 4-pin fans have PWM control (the 4th pin) which your Arctic Cooling fan doesn't have. It will work just fine on your 4-pin mobo connector, or as mouse24 suggested, on the MOLEX connector (by using an adapter).

Of course lower latency would mean better performance, but the difference is so small, it's not worth it. You would never notice it, even in benchmarks. So my advice: instead of lower latency, or higher frequency, better get larger capacity RAM, or even better, get a decent SSD. As for the...

Hello, You should take into consideration the space available in your case. For example, some large (tall) tower heatsinks don't fit inside a given case. that's the first thing you should check. Also, memory sticks can stay in your way, so that's another point to be checked (especially if you...

most likely, yes. it is also possible that your motherboard can control via both voltage and pwn on the same fan header (but that's a rare case and it happens mostly for CPU fan headers). for such headers, motherboard will detect whether you connected a 3-pin or 4-pin fan and will try to control...

nice rig :) Your PSU should not sweat in such a configuration. But I would seriously look more into GPU choice, there are much better alternatives out there for ~$140, like amd 7790 or nvidia 650Ti. slightly over budget, but it's worth it (considering the large discount)...

it depends on the other components of your system as well. However, the 7770 has very low power consumption and it should be ok. But again, post the rest of your components and whether you OC or not, then we can make proper assumptions. but on GPU, it's quite expensive for what you get. for the...

^+1 thumbs up for the PSU model&manufacturer as well

I think CPU fan header is a standard 4-pin header (PWM enabled), and the CPU-out header has just a PWM-pin and maybe a speed sensor pin (if there are any other pins on this header, maybe they are just dummy pins).

You have one CPU fan header on the mobo, but in reality you have 2 CPU fans. So you could connect one of the fans to the mobo, and the other one to the PSU. This way, you would command the rpm of only one fan (the one connected to the mobo, by PWM), the other one would be at full speed all the...

I'm not a hard-core gaming, I don't have much time for that. But when I do, I want my gaming experience to be good and the 660 doesn't let me down. What can I say, maybe 7870 renders some games better, but for other games 660 beats it. Anyway, I don't think the difference between them in terms...

I would definitely change the PSU for the XFX, expecially if you plan to OC. That XFX is very, very good and at that price is really a bargain (it's Seasonic on the inside, that means top quality). Although 450-500W would be enough for your build (including the OC), I couldn't find a better deal...

wow... just wow... lucky you, that was an expensive build :pt1cable: