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just bought an 850 as I prefer a full modular this 750 is semi modular. I like para cord wires over the flat ribbon style.

 

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Side note:

My CPU runs at about 55C playing cities with my AIO pump spinning about 1200 RPM, which the minimum spin for the AIO pump is 850, so it's barely spinning up (my curve).

I mean my CPU runs hotter than my GPU playing video games....lol. I want more FPS. My CPU isn't close to being maxed out. It runs Cities off 4 cores mainly, it seems, and each core isn't even maxed out. Three will run 4+GHz, one will run 3+ GHz, the other 4 run around 1-1.5 GHz. Idk, I'm not gonna buy a 5000 Ryzen CPU until I actually need it. My GPU is by far my weakest link. Everything is great, great MB, fastest level SSD's (pcie 4.0), 3800xt, etc. My GPU is good, maybe it's not my style of GPU? Idk, I could just have no idea what I'm doing, that's always a possibility....

What kind of add on's you running in Cities?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

What kind of add on's you running in Cities?

None. I'm playing it as factory, because I want to get my Eiffel tower. I really enjoy the game as it is. I'm more focused on overclocking my GPU for Cities. I've solidly increased my minimum FPS in that game to at 10 FPS higher than not overclocked, so far, 15 in some circumstances. My memory doesn't like to be clocked high, it's at factory clock right now. My GPU only does 5% overclock on the processor, but you can minimum "overclock". So, I'm forcing the GPU to run higher FPS at "idle" speeds.

With overclocking: my minimum clock level is 800 MHz @ 750 mv. I have the min overclocked right now to 1040 MHz at 765 mv. That's good for at least 10 FPS almost across the board, 15 in some cases. It's super easy to overclock my Radeon 5700 xt. I suggest you try overclocking, nothing beats stupid high frame rates.

In Fallout 4, I actually play the game through a specialized loader that overwrites the FPS in Fallout 4. I had to manually install it in the game files in a few places, but I run 300+ FPS on the loading screens, which are limited FPS like the game itself is, so if you don't do that, it takes forever to load. At 300+ FPS at the loading screen, it's like .5-2 second load screens almost always.

 

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Kraken X63 wouldn't power up so did a return and charge back. Barely fit in my case with the tubes down orientation. Bought a X53 instead

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Kraken X63 wouldn't power up so did a return and charge back. Barely fit in my case with the tubes down orientation. Bought a X53 instead

Pics?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Here's where I've wound up with my daily fan setup. It's so much quieter than I initially had it:

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

This is for my fan setup for my Cities game:

I'm experimenting with both MHz and voltages with my GPU, so I run my fans a bit harder while gaming. All I have to do is create two profiles and switch between them. This program loads in over the bios, so about 10-30 seconds after logging into windows, I have this program auto start so it takes control of the fans. BIOS is setup to game, aka emergency setup, so if this program fails at any point, the BIOS is set to keep everything cool.

 

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Pics?

Don't have one of the X63 but here is the X53

 

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The vertical white cable is my iphone usb cable the other line crossing the radiator is a refection. I have Corsair RGB Ram it's four 8GB for 32GB total. I still need to do some cable management.

 

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Kinda hard to see with the lights on

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

The vertical white cable is my iphone usb cable the other line crossing the radiator is a refection. I have Corsair RGB Ram it's four 8GB for 32GB total. I still need to do some cable management.

That's funny, I was messing with some stuff with my PC from OC'ing and took some pics. Replaced a CD/DVD signal wire with a longer one so I could run it behind the motherboard panel. Also did some air mods. Channeling air stuff, just experimenting. If you see duct tape, that's why. I'm seeing if actually controlling the flow of all air helps cool specifically the GPU. I don't need it, just seeing if my theory is right.

Full inside pic:

Check out the bottom of my GPU brace lol:

These Nocturna fans are screamers dude. I honestly wouldn't recommend them for a computer that's close to you. They have significant electrical motor noise, although I'm not sure if they're designed to be right in front of the radiator like that. They are .55 amp fans a piece and are 140 mm that will do 3000 RPM, so they're beefcakes:

It's so tempting to throw a 420 mm GPU rad on the top. It would totally fit haha

 

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Cool.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I've just been getting my GPU a little hotter, so I thought I'd go ahead and see how cool I could make it. I'm at 870mv @ 1125 GPU Mhz minimum for the processor, and it's a few degrees below 50C. I'm averaging about 8 FPS higher overall, from the last week I've been playing. That's 52 fps to 60 fps. Cities artificially limits FPS really low seemingly, so I'm forcing FPS by slowly upping the processing rate and voltage. I have no idea what I'm doing, I've never done this before.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I keep pushing it up. My GPU runs at least 5 degrees C hotter than it does with the factory setting (not fan setting).

 

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I read that there is a greater chance of getting air bubbles to the pump if the radiator is installed tubes up or if the pump is higher than the tubes at the radiator so i installed my tubes in the down orientation so any air in the radiator would be at the top away from the tubes.