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Unless the rear of your tower has access to cooler air (for example, rear is facing a window) there's not much of a difference compared to having your intake at the front. It's best to have the rear and top as exhaust if you're using a larger air cooler as most HSF fans blow towards the rear.
If you have a video card (or two) heating up the inside of the case, and a pair of mechanical drives in front of the front intake, the CPU is being cooled by all that hot air. It's not ALWAYS the case, but sometimes it works better to reverse things. It's definitely worth trying both ways before settling down on something.
that's a nice gain for a refresh but at the end of the day...it's still $650
I do have to say the real-world gains from the overclocking seems really great
I spilt literally half a cup of coffee onto my black widow last night.. I unplugged/turned it over and let it air-dry over night, and it works fine this morning. However, whenever I press my "b" key it types "bt" instead. Is there a way to fix this?
Disassemble the keyboard, use q-tip and rubbing alcohol to clean off the contacts where you can see coffee. Something is shorting out the contacts for those two keys.
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Damn, not only is yours veiny AF, yours is thick AF too. Yours is twice as thick as mine.. That looks like a 2" or maybe even 3"?
Any recommendation on a mid-end gaming system with Haswell? like CPU + MB recommendation. Would prefer MATX or even ITX.
I'm Looking for something that can play FF14 ARR smoothly, so it will probably will be pared with a 780GTX.
What I have in mind so far for this setup
MATX or ITX case + 500-600w PSU
All in One water cooler setup to fit such setup
Z87 board?
Haswell i5 or i7
16GB ram 8GBx2 (please recommend brand and speed)
780GTX
250GB SSD
I think thats it for what I need, since I won't need a optical drive or additional storage as I have everything on NAS and cloud already.