Recent content by C'DaleRider

Why not a Seasonic Plat? Have had two in almost 24/7 service for over a year now and never an issue with either. Cool and very quiet. One's an 860 and one's a 660. Got burned on an Enermax Liberty with the non-conductive adhesive that became conductive....and as someone mentioned, once...

Yep. Seasonic built and continues to build excellent power supplies.....maybe not quite to Delta standards, but darned close.

Don't know what size they are, but one oddball type is a countersunk flat head phillips screw of a smallish diameter and fine thread. Not used everywhere, but enough that it'd be a drag to try to re-tap all those holes, but that's always an option. (Use a few screws as sacrificial "taps" to...

I've got a TJ07 and Silverstone used a variety of screw sizes throughout the case; they're not all one size, unfortunately.

I'd first look at what resolution you'd be playing. A lower res. like 1680 x 1080 would be served well by a 7750--$85-$100 current price range on Newegg, AR. Playing at a higher res. would be more comfortable with a 7770---$100-$120 current price range on Newegg, AR.

Excellent performance and the best value gpu, bar none.

My first was an Epson with an 8088 processor, 640K memory....forget the model. I do remember the speed/turbo button that would take it from 4.77MHz to 8MHz. Think it originally had DOS 3.something on it and I also remember upgrading that thing's OS...DOS 6 to DOS 6.2 to 6.22. Those were the days.

My observations about this drive.....I've deployed four so far over the last year and have yet to have any issues from any of them. 2 are installed in laptops, 2 are installed in desktops...one of which is a point-of-sale system and gets 12 hrs. use 7 days a week. That one has been in service...

Completely depends on your local MicroCenter. The one I shop, Cambridge/Boston, has a pair of AsRock socket 1155 ITX boards in stock, the H77M and the Z77E. I've shopped a few other MC's, such as the two in Atlanta, the one in Fairfax, VA, and the one in Rockville, MD, and the product...

His power supply, while an OCZ, is probably one of OCZ's better units and definitely not crap or low quality.

My H100 is chugging along perfectly. My gpu fan is the loudest thing in my case, the crappy Corsair 200mm front case fan in my 650D case is second. Cannot hear the pump on the H100 at all....and it's been in use for two months.

Interesting read. Could have major implications if fully developed....or if it can be developed to functional chips.

Not surprising at all given its core count and anticipated performance. Haswell can't arrive soon enough.

No, not a useless question. How well a particular video card works depends, in part, on what detail settings you choose and a lot on what resolution you're using. While a 7770 does indeed work quite well at 12x10 resolutions, you wouldn't expect the same frame rates from a resolution like...

Are your power supplies the Liberties with the brown fixing caulk inside vs. the usual white stuff? If so, that may be your problem. Enermax used a caulk to fix the various pieces internally that ended up turning conductive over time, essentially shorting out parts of the ps's...