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The last motherboard bought had issues with two mvme drives. I put an old sata ssd in it and then it was working fine. I replaced the motherboard and than the second drive I bought is working fine. Widows would not reactive and I did associate it with my account. I had to call them. I bought a...

I have all the parts for my youngest son's new gaming computer. I was in about the same boat choosing between the 2600 vs. the 3600. I got him the 3600 because it's the one I wanted. He might not really notice the difference.

They have the 7600k at $215 too.

With the kind of VRM and cooling that is needed for 4.1 I doubt many Ryzen 7 ITX systems will be clocking that high, maybe not even with a Ryzen 5. A 600 watt PSU is probably going to be enough anyway.

An overclocked Ryzen can consume near 300w. http://www.techspot.com/review/1345-amd-ryzen-7-1800x-1700x/page6.html Well that is total system with the GPU at idle. Total system at idle is under 70w so the CPU is probably using around 250 watts.

350d is nice, but it is big for a matx.

For 1080p a RX 480 is the best price new now, but if size maters a GTX 1060 will fit in tighter spaces.

My Tforce6100 939 was really good back in the day. My oldest son has had a Biostar Z87 and 4670k overclocked since the Christmas after Haswell came out, still solid. Their higher end stuff is not bad. Their low end stuff is a step up from ECS.

The only problem I had with my Skylake build was sometimes it would freeze playing Netflix or Amazon Prime videos. Every thing stock. It did it with Intel video and GTX 970. I kept hoping driver updates would fix it. But no. It was the third or fourth BIOS update that fixed it. It was an Asrock...

Asus say 80% 5.0 stable with AVX offset at 4.8. http://edgeup.asus.com/2017/01/31/kaby-lake-overclocking-guide/

I edited. And no I don't. I don't have the monitor or the GPU for a 5 ghz 7700k, yet. But I can get into BIOS and change things pretty quick to get it to do what I want to it do. My Noctua is near silent, always, even as old as it is. I wish it was not so ugly. But I still love it.

I'm using a 10 year old Noctua and my 7700K works well at 5ghz, even a little over. It is not delided. Handbreak will push temps into the high 80's. [email protected] is solid. I've been able to bench at 5050mhz with a tick on the BCLK. It does 4.8ghz with 1.25v. With a better cooler I bet 5.1 could be...

It doesn't even have tabs on that side, it hooks in and tabs on the top. Design fail by Asus. I'm not going to return it. I haven't done the rebate yet but I'd still get charged the $60 for Doom. I'm thinking of getting another similar card with out the back plate for crossfire, trading it or...

Damn back plate hits my memory slots. I had use the other slot. I guess 8x is not that big of deal anyway?

EFI list the BPX at M1 and I have a spinner that is listed as P1. Looking forward to some review tomorrow!