Recent content by poetic332

Upgrading to an x99 based system. Will I be able to reuse my water cooler? upgrading from a 2500K to a 5820 or a 5930k. Anyone? Thanks.

I was just in the same situation deciding between those 2 cards. I ultimately went with the 970... My reasoning? You can get them for about $60 cheaper used from someone here on hardforum. So that's what I did. So in a couple years when i want to upgrade again, I will just buy another 970 which...

Makes good sense. Overall, I'm just going to wait. Also I figure when nvidia's new cards come out, other card prices will drop a little. Really don't want to spend more than $200. Thanks a lot for your angle on this.

Hey. I currently have a PNY GTX 550 ti 1GB video card. It runs BF3 at High without issue and doesn't really overheat or anything. What are you guys' thoughts... Would buying another 550 ti and going SLI be a good option for performance increase/price for the upcoming BF4 release? I can get...

Yea. I live in Arizona. I accidentally torment my cat every time I try to pet her. Maybe that's why she's so chill. Electro-shock therapy administered in small doses. lol.

The rest of the system is.... i5 - 2500K Asus P8Z77-V LK Corsair H60 water cooler Corsair XMS3 8GB (4x2) 120GB X25M-G2 SSD OCZ ModXtreme 600 Watt power supply Antec VSK-4000 Case w/ 2 120mm fans in front to back push/pull My old GPU was an HD4850 512MB Will be playing BF3 and all...

Haven't built a PC in a while (say 10+ years) but my parts are all ordered and on their way. I remember always being told by my geek uncle to use an electro-static discharge band attached between my wrist and the metal on the case... I never used one but I never had a problem either. What...

I read back through the rules governing the site as well as the FS/FT forums and didn't see where it said we couldn't PM someone if we saw something we needed. I am generally a rule-follower and would've heeded the rule had I seen it. I have PMd a couple people because I wasn't aware...

Okay, So I bought a GTX550ti for $69 a few weeks ago because I thought it would improve my gaming performance. Not a bad deal. And it did improve my gaming a bit. Unfortunately I found that my CPU and memory then became the bottlenck. So I'm building a whole new PC. QUESTION? Would it...