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- Mar 5, 2007
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System Name | Dark Matter / Mørk Materie (In Norwegian) |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7700 (CPU Core Ratio: 'AI Enhanced' & OC: 'Curve Optimizer' @ -40 & 'PBO2' @ +200 MHz) |
Motherboard | ASUS ROG Strix B650E-I Gaming WiFi (AMD Socket AM5) (Mini-ITX) |
Cooling | CPU: EK Waterblocks EK-Nucleus AIO CR240 Lux (D-RGB) & Thermal Grizzly AM5 Contact & Sealing Frame |
Memory | Corsair Vengeance RGB Black DDR5 6000 MHz (PC5-48000) 2x16GB (AMD EXPO) (CL36 tuned to CL30 @ 1.4v) |
Video Card(s) | ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB V2 OC Edition (Overclocked +175 MHz Core @ +940 Mhz Memory) |
Storage | 1x Samsung 990 Pro 2TB & 1x Samsung 990 Pro 4TB (Both M.2 SSD) |
Display(s) | Dell S3220DGF (1800R Curved, VA Panel & 165 Hz Refresh Rate) |
Case | Phanteks Evolv Shift XT D-RGB (Black) (Modular) |
Audio Device(s) | ASUS ROG SupremeFX (Realtek ALC4080 Codec & Savitech SV3H712 Amplifier) (On Motherboard) |
Power Supply | Corsair SF600 Platinum (600w) (Modular) (SFX) |
Mouse | Logitech MX Anywhere 3S (Graphite) |
Keyboard | Logitech MX Keys Mini (Nordic) (Grey) |
Software | Microsoft Windows 11 Home (64-bit) (Norwegian) |
Benchmark Scores | Cinebench R23: 20.130 (Multi Core) (Single Cycle Run). |
Mini-ITX cases (like I have) aren't the cases that are known for super good or optimal cooling solutions. Then I have to select components that wont cook other components to death and choose there after. Yup, i'm a user that doesn't need more than what a Mini-ITX computer gives me.If your case recirculates heat to other parts from your CPU heatsink, it's either a pretty bad case or you have a pretty bad airflow.
Thankfully, fans are cheap, and YouTube tutorials are free!
If i put in a 14900K into my computer with the CPU cooler and fans I have on top of the GPU I have, that CPU will either throttle extremely bad or cook the rest of my computer to a point that it would be a complete waste of money, because I have to buy new components way more often as they gets killed by heat.
So it would be a million times better for me to buy another 'not so power hungry and heat delivering' CPU's to have a computer that is very reliable for many many years to come (because I can control the heat more effectively) that are also much cheaper and performs as good as the 14900K under normal / casual use as well without having a CPU throttle like no tomorrow or have to downclock the CPU in both power and MHz a lot.
I use my computer for 65% normal / casual use, 30% for gaming and 5% for editing and encoding videos. So for me, a 14700K and a 14900K would be a complete waste of money for me.
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