Recent content by mobbmann

Ive bought mainly asus motherboards since 2000. I went with xfx and evga mother boards and the rma process for both companies is ridiculously easy and user friendly. Now fast forward to 2014... I had my first asus video card with directcu cooler on it and one of the fans went out. I rma'd the...

Evga, XFX, and corsair have amazing customer support and very easy RMA process... ASUS, I can tell you first hand, has horrible customer support and RMA support. For your own best interest, don't buy asus, if anything goes wrong and you need customer support (especially RMA) you will regret...

So, i had success on the driver front figuring out exactly which drivers were needed without having to install the asus ai bloatware... that being said I'm just working on figureing out which is better the windows sata 3 controler or the intel one. once that is done ill post what i found and...

I have an asus maximus v gene mobo and a samsung 840 pro 256gb ssd. I was wondering if there is any difference between using the intel ahci driver which comes bundled with the rapid storage technology or use the windows ahci driver is the default. any idea which I should use and why?

update: im trying to confirm the drivers needed from asus phone support.... first and last time I call them, worse than dell phone support or on par... trying the online help now...fingers crossed.

this kind of crap isnt helpful... thank u so much for the driver explanation...so your saying the intel chipset driver covers the chip, sata3, usb3 but I still need to install the asmedia sata3 and usb3 looking like this: 1. chipset driver 2. lan 3. Asmedia sata3 and usb3 4. audio 5...

thank u dan. yes the rog series uefi is not as obvious or user freindly to everyone, hence the help requested...I managed to find a few youtube videos walking through it and getting more info on each individual setting. Hopefully when I'm done I'll post a 4 dummies version of setting up this...

can u tell me what drivers u installed and in what order?

bump... can I get at least a recommendation for drivers or common bios/uefi mistakes?

thank u for the response skripka, and yes the psu is overkill, its fully intended to be that way for multiple reasons one of which is it was its very quiet and small and two, the same price, on special for 249$ no tax/free shipping, as the ENERMAX Platimax EPM850EWT 850W. if youve ever had a...

This is my first micro atx build< Which i intend to run at stock speeds, and I need help with two things. #1. what drivers should be installed for this mobo and in what order... btw pls explain it like I'm 5 years old :) #2. this is the first mobo that I cant find an idiotproof bios...

Ive seen the prodigy case and to be honest I wasnt too impressed with the size and features of the case. Here is a micro atx case from lian li that is roughly the same size but much better imho. and a second link to an even smaller itx case. Pc-354 (microatx)...

I would highly recommend enermax for a few important reasons: 1. The fans tend to go out before the actual psu do on most psu's, that being said Enermax uses a quiet long lasting fan to cool that uses magnets instead of traditional bearings. I used them in my last build and they are running...

BF3 reminds me of when Halo came out. Everyone who had a pc was like "what the hell is so special about another average FPS?" while on consoles people were losing their minds like it was ground breaking. The expectations are different for a pc vs. a console. and you hit the nail on the...

Ok... what I'm about to say will not be popular but I feel it's an honest eval of BF3. It is a dumbed down version of BF2 with a graphics facelift. The eye candy in this game is simply breath taking. However, the game itself is a console game ported to pc regardless what EA has told us that...