Recent content by Kumakichi

Looking back I dont think you can guarantee anything to be future-proof. Quads are the short term future but something to think about. Current Q6600's aren't OC'ing as well. If you can get an older g0 then your in good shape. If not the E8400's are OC'ing like champs especially on certain...

The 850w OCZ fit in there with room to spare. The 850 is the same size as there 700 and 600w psu's. You could probably pull up the dimenions on this psu somewhere on the internet. I have read some people who have larger psu's had to take out the top usb/fan assembly to fit there psu in the...

I've never owned a Stacker so I can't say either way. How good is the armor? When I shopped for cases I didn't like anything that was out there. When I orderd the Armor I felt like I was settling. When I finally got it out of the box I was really impressed. Pictures just didn't do the case...

3.6ghz is very realistic and its my goal to hit that but not just for bench purposes. Some people manage to hit higher than that (even to 4ghz which is a bit rare). 65-70 is anything but safe UNLESS you aren't bothered by cooking your $300 processor and having to go out to buy another one...

3.2ghz on air (40c loaded). Haven't tried pushing it further and if I did I think I'd like to have WC for 24/7.

Its pretty snug. I can close the door but it pushes against the fan a little bit. It doesn't seem to interfere with it at all. Right now I just have the bottom latch engaged and the top one isn't on my door. It looks to me that if you bought an Armor with just the regular door this would fit...

Its way to heavy to mount without a backplate. Its also very tall. It just barely fits inside my case but I also have a 25cm fan in my side panel.

The fan is inside and removable/replaceable.

30c Idle 40c Load @ 3.2ghz/1.35v - 1.295v actual

The armor comes with 2 x 120 blue LED fans and 2 x 80 regular fans. The 2 80's aren't anything special but the 120's are pretty nice. My case has the 25cm side fan. Its actually pretty sweet. Its a lower rpm fan that makes very little noise at all. There are a couple fan type ram coolers...

Looks pretty standard to me.

For what its worth my vote is to pick up a 1950xt for $210 or whatever they are going for now. Once DX10 is released and games are hitting the shelves neither of these cards are going to be able to truly take advantage of DX10. The GTS will fair better than the XT no doubt. I chose to spend...

Tforce board is another option. Its less expensive if thats important and some people have posted some very nice results with it.

Your not alone. It took me about 3 months figuring out what hardware I wanted to order. Mobo was a tough decision. I read people posting lots of good things about the BX2. I ended up going with the mobo in my sig for a couple reasons. It was a mature mobo with lots of info available to help...

I'd start in the basement and work your way up on voltages. I was able to set nearly every single one of my voltages to its lowest setting (with the exception of ram and cpu) and reached 3.2ghz easily. And I wouldn't leave any of those other settings to Auto. Set them to there minimums then...