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Installed, and now my second monitor doesn't work. Single 290x. Everything was working fine on 14.3.

So for the fun of it, I decided to delid. Put CLU between die and IHS, and MX-4 between IHS and water block (originally I had used Arctic Silver 5, and probably not enough of it). This time my i5-3570k was at 4.4 Ghz @ 1.280V. Ran IBT with default settings. After 10 runs: Pre-delid: Tmax 78C...

Just today I realized I was suffering from the "black screen" issue with my 290x. I've played BF4 for a couple hours with this update and no crashes so far. Wouldn't say I'm out of the clear yet though.

Just installed the EK acetal+nickel water block for my 290x. Decided to not mess with the CPU block. Ran Furmark (stock GPU clocks, radiator+case fans on lowest setting) and GPU core Tmax was 45C!! On air, my 290x was constantly at 95C. That's a 50C drop! Crazy. VRM1 Tmax was 58C. Decided to...

I'm hitting 83C on my i5-3570k @ 4.5 GHz and 1.264V. Raystorm EX360 with nothing else on the loop. I'm beginning to think watercooling doesn't guarantee amazing temps, particularly with ivy bridge and haswell. Don't know about amd.

For what it's worth, it only hit about 72C with Prime95. Do people usually use Prime95 or Intel Burn Test these days? Anyways, next weekend I'm going to install the GPU block, so I will reinvestigate the CPU block at that time. It will be interesting to see GPU+CPU temps on the 360mm rad. I had...

Just got a RayStorm 750 EX360 WaterCooling Kit. Installation went smoothly, but I've noticed temps are much higher than I would have expected. Right now my i5-3570k is the only component on the loop (adding my AMD 290x soon but the block is taking forever to get here). It's overclocked to 4.5...

What's odd is I noticed BF3 use to do this, even though no BF3 files were on the secondary drive. Never found out the reason. Fortunately for me it didn't really impact loading times.

Awesome! I was waiting for a detailed review of this. My 290x is arriving soon and have been thinking of water cooling. This review seems to alleviate the concerns people had with VRAM cooling. You could always had heatsinks if you were worried, but it probably isn't necessary. Interesting the...

Finally did a more thorough evaluation of the 240 hz turbo mode. I put all the settings in Battlefield 4 at low and went to the test range. FPS was 100-120. The differences were most obvious when spinning around in the helicopter and watching the trees. Obviously the following is rather...

Excellent compared to other monitors mostly because of superior black level performance.

Just figured this out! Now I don't even have to press any buttons to enable turbo mode for games! Very convenient.

I have fantastic news. It's actually completely trivial to removed the stand and VESA mount the monitor. The limitation is that only two of the four VESA screw holes are available. It's very easy to do, and doesn't require you to dismantle the case. There's a piece of plastic on the back part...

Weird. The contrast enhancer did nothing for me initially. Just tried it again now and it's clearly working! I'm not sure if I changed some other setting or if it just randomly started working. Also can't see cross-hatching on mine. I could have sworn I saw it once, but can't seem to find it...

Just got one of these. My old monitor is a 120 Hz Acer HN274H. Motion is obviously amazing in games, especially at high fps. Honestly the thing I like more than anything are the great black levels compared to TN and IPS displays. Color is better than my calibrated Acer, but not dramatically so...