Recent content by Geoffrey4283

http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/16/zero-latency-virtual-reality-gaming-center/ - They're rocking Alienware Alphas in their backpacks; no mention of what kind of battery setup they're using though. Definitely some smashed together stuff, given the playstation move balls and playstation eyes...

Not that maximizing your hardware isn't a worthy pursuit, but last I checked, single-card setups don't really suffer from being run on x8 PCIe 3.0 (lose, what, ~1% performance, at least for a GTX980 and below; perhaps the 390X will prove otherwise). X99 seems worth it if you actually have use...

Felt silly asking the question, not having tried to o/c the 920, so I went back and gave it a shot. I've gotten it up to 3.8GHz, and stable through 15 runs of IBT and a couple hours of Saints Row IV (we'll see how the next month goes stability wise...). I will be waiting on the next round of...

I've been on a stock i7-920 since April '09. Been contemplating a new build from scratch, but then I ran across this thread, and have been tempted to stretch my 1366 a bit further. So, questions (I've been in and out of this thread a few times, so I have a general inkling as to the answers...

Really, guys? I go away for... *checks watch* 4 measly little months, and people start manually adding data to the statistics tab rather than updating the formula to pull in V3 data? You should all be ashamed of yourselves! I mean, what's so hard about taking...

There is also however you want to categorize the Tactical LP; categorized by Crucial as "Low Profile", even though it has the same height PCB as the VLP RAM. Since it uses a heatsink similar to what Phuncz lists as "Normal height heatsink RAM", it ends up being about the same height as the Low...

You might also want to look a little deeper into this. The discussion of the supply in the dedicated thread are mostly people trying very hard to describe what are essentially some odd noises (like the clicking of the fan when it is around it's starting voltage), but almost across the board...

It was nice seeing that they did encounter sounds and behaviors that others on here have described (like the clicking of the fan); makes it less likely that the supply sent was cherry-picked/unrepresentative of the retail units people are receiving. Also, that they heard the same thing, and...

You were misled. The recent surge in popularity of PBR is largely a backlash against the last few years of craft beer being on the upswing in the US (and potentially a reaction against a certain type of beer snob that has come along with it). As Bobalias_LeShay points out, overpaying for PBR...

Another vote for version 3 being the most aesthetically pleasing option that also allows for ODDs. Then you'll be right back in the position of the look/layout of publicly-released-version-1.0, which had the power and USB offset, and which looked great before ODD considerations prompted a...

No accounting for taste, I know, I know...

I actually think it looks kind of awesome. Nonetheless, the power button has to be off-set from the ODD, because the ODD is already taking up the whole width of the upper section. I don't think it can be moved that far down/right to leave room for the power button internals. And backfeed...

Wanted to second this. When buying my M1, the biggest decision for me was whether or not to opt for the additional no-ODD top panel, when I wasn't sure whether or not I would need it. Decided against it, because worse case, I end up with a non-functional slot, and best case, I have exactly...

I wouldn't say the Bitspower is "bigger": the Bitspower block looks lower/wider to me, while the EK is kind of narrow and tall; I doubt the Bitspower conflicts with the front-panel audio connector on the VI the way the EK did (thankfully ASUS reoriented the connectors on the VII, meaning no...

I've yet to see a review at one of the bigs, but: http://www.xtremerigs.net/2014/03/03/ek-maximus-vi-impact-full-cover-block-review/3/ They found a 1deg improvement on the CPU (which seems questionable to me; what drives this improvement?), and 15+deg improvement on the VRM and Southbridge...