Vanquish 7 Level 4

Hello all! I purchased the Vanquish 7 Level 4 set up and it should arrive soon! Can't wait. I had some questions though.

1) Would it be wise to use MSI Afterburner, or is there already an OC program that is meant just for this build? I like MSI because I can see the fan temps while in game, and I use fraps to check the FPS while in game as well.

2) What upgrades would you suggest, can you name them all in order for me, being from least costly to most? Not just upgrades I mean, I think everything in there looks great, maybe what I mean is more additions to what is currently in there.

3) I am excited to get this PC, I have been waiting so long. I'm probably never going to use SLI any time soon, but on one page I noticed that it says it supports it on all of the specifications, but on the top of the page it claims it doesn't, kind've contradicting there.

4) I noticed it says "AIR: Stage 1: High-Performance Copper Heat Pipe Cooler", what would be Stage 2/Stage 3 and would it be recommended to upgrade to reach maximum OC performance from this computer to keep temps low, or is maximum OC potential already prebuilt and ready for selection once I receive the computer?

Afterburner is an excellent program but I wouldn’t bother using it to overclock the video card.   Overclocking the card just doesn’t give much return for the added stress on the card.   You can, but I wouldn’t. It’s good for setting up a fan curve on the cards fan to keep it cooler, etc, if you wanted.

Same for the cpu.....the 8700k already Turbos to 4.7 MHz on single core and unless you just want to oc for fun or benchmarking I’d save your money and trouble.   If you do oc then you would want a better cooler.

The motherboard in Vanquish doesn’t allow sli.



Edited by bprat22 - 18 Feb 2018 at 2:14am

Congratulations and welcome to DS. You will enjoy it.