Need advice/help building a computer

[AwesomeMcCoolName]

Idle is 31-33, gaming is mid 40s-60s (depending how light the game is)

 

Is that bad?

Run Prime95 and HW monitor and see what your temps are. 

 

I'd also suggest running through the bios and playing around with an overclock. Since you will more than likely be able to turn down the voltage even at stock speeds....I'm currently running my 4670k at 1.2v (stock is 1.15 and 1.25 w/ turbo), so my oc is actually running at a lower voltage than stock. 

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I think that I either installed the drivers wrong or that the video card may have a defect--I keep getting random screen tears and the GPU had momentary fit of loud fan noise while playing a light game two days ago. I also periodically get these weird glitches where the cursor gets glitchy and my computer has crashed twice.

 

http://i.imgur.com/5zVN87E.png Idle yesterday

 

http://i.imgur.com/PLYM5iZ.png Right after playing NS2 and then restarting today

 

Run Prime95 and HW monitor and see what your temps are. 

 

I'd also suggest running through the bios and playing around with an overclock. Since you will more than likely be able to turn down the voltage even at stock speeds....I'm currently running my 4670k at 1.2v (stock is 1.15 and 1.25 w/ turbo), so my oc is actually running at a lower voltage than stock. 

 

I'd rather fix the current problems before worrying about OCing P:

[AwesomeMcCoolName]

I think that I either installed the drivers wrong or that the video card may have a defect--I keep getting random screen tears and the GPU had momentary fit of loud fan noise while playing a light game two days ago. I also periodically get these weird glitches where the cursor gets glitchy and my computer has crashed twice.

http://i.imgur.com/5zVN87E.png Idle yesterday

 

http://i.imgur.com/PLYM5iZ.png Right after playing NS2 and then restarting today

 

 

I'd rather fix the current problems before worrying about OCing P:

Well, even without oc'g you could potentially lower your voltage

 

/oc'g isn't hard. You just raise the multiplier and voltage, and then stress test. Then lower the voltage by a little bit until it crashes. Then go to the lowest voltage you could maintain during a stress test without crashing. Done.

 

On topic: What are the ambient temps in your room? Run Prime95 (Small FFT) and monitor your temps then. I'd also suggest running the same test with the panel off.