Ive been reading that vrm cooling is the key to a high clock stable system. I bought the 2nd highest delidded/binned cpu from silicon lottery binned for 4.7ghz, so Im trying to pick the best board to pair it with. The silicon lottery qvl list only list asus apex/extreme, and asrock tachie xe/oc...
I have a 7900x from silicon lottery, ive been waiting on the evga x299 dark because its supposed to be the best overclocking board out there. Gamer nexus gave it good reviews as far as vrm cooling.
Should I keep waiting? Or is there a dark horse im missing that is actually better then the x299...
So at idle it will lose some efficiency but otherwise it would cause no harm? I went with an evga 1000w titanium. I was going to go with the 850w but it was out of stock at the time. I can still return the 1000w and wait on an 850w, I just liked the idea of having headroom in case i wanted to...
So I used the calculator over at outervision.
OuterVision PSU Calculator part list
Motherboard: Desktop
CPU: 1 x Intel Core i7-7700K
CPU Speed: 4750MHz
CPU Vcore: 1.2V
CPU Utilization: 90%
Memory: 4 x 8GB DDR4 Module
Video Card Set 1: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Core Clock: 2022MHz
Memory...
Cooler is only copper plated. Kingpin also said he went with mini dp's so if you put a waterblock on it, it can be a true 1 slot card (also included a single slot pci bracket). Making it a one slot card you could run 4 of them if you were insane enough. Also the card comes with mini dp to dp and...