Cooling the i7 3820

[PowerHungry]

One question; is the Corsair H80 good enough to cool the i7 3820 ??

[bootmeup]

Yes,
but about $15.00 more and you can get the H100 if you have the room for it, which runs under load about 6C cooler on low, 3C on high.

[Steamer]

Yes,
but about $15.00 more and you can get the H100 if you have the room for it, which runs under load about 6C cooler on low, 3C on high.

I noticed you're located in Havelock, N.C.
I was born at the Marine Corp base at Cherry Point. My dad was stationed there again from 1954 to 1958. I went to grade school there in Havelock.
That was a pretty small town back then. I'll bet it has grown quite a bit since then. I probably wouldn't recognize it.

[bootmeup]

PowerHungry, nice system, you was computing POWER hungry.

I noticed you're located in Havelock, N.C.
I was born at the Marine Corp base at Cherry Point. My dad was stationed there again from 1954 to 1958. I went to grade school there in Havelock.
That was a pretty small town back then. I'll bet it has grown quite a bit since then. I probably wouldn't recognize it.

Steamer:
Havelock is still a very small town and has not change much, the drive in movie theaters closed about 2002. I was born up the road a little (about 50 miles) at Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine Corps Base on the East Coast, approximately 40000 Marines and 156,000 acres.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the largest Marine Corps Air station in the world, about 13,164 acres and approximately 7,486 Marines and sailors.

Lots of bases near:
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base about 75miles.
Fort Bragg Army about 140 miles.
Fort Macon Coast Guard 20 miles, next to Fort Macon Civil War fort, surrounded on three sides by water—the Atlantic Ocean, Beaufort Inlet and Bogue Sound (erosion control was initially engineered by Robert E. Lee) that's a State Park now.
Pope AFB Air Force 142 miles.
MCAS New River Marine Corps 50 miles.

[Steamer]

One question; is the Corsair H80 good enough to cool the i7 3820 ??

Did you go for the i7 3820 and a new motherboard? I see in your system specs you got the H100. Great CPU cooler.

[PowerHungry]

I haven't had time to change my specs, I did get the i7 3820 and I went with the ASRock X79 Extreme 6 with 32GBytes of GSkill memory a Galaxy GForce 580 and 2 Samsung 830's 256GBytes each in Raid0.

[Steamer]

That's a he11 of a system. Careful you don't create a black hole or something with it.

[PowerHungry]

haHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. I JUST MIGHT

[kbohip]

You've built a system so fast that it even brought Steamer back to the forum to comment about it PH!

[Steamer]

You've built a system so fast that it even brought Steamer back to the forum to comment about it PH!

There aren't many old geezers like PH who have a system that fast.

[PowerHungry]

The problem was that, I had to get this old to afford a system like the one I just built I updated my specs, finally!!