Recent content by reaper7534

I currently have a 840 Pro as my boot drive and would like to take advantage of the msata slot on my z77z up4. I can get a new Sandisk 128gb msata for 60 bucks from a friend. The speed is slower than my ssd. Is there any advantage to add the msata and will my ssd only be as fast as the weakest...

I imagine I can return it. I also knew about Haswell. Long story short.... My computer I have now has been overtaken by other members of the household and I have to fight for time to use my own computer. I didn't feel like waiting another month or two for Haswell to come out.

Went ahead and ordered the 3570k. I'll probably upgrade again in 2 years so this should be a nice hold over. Here are my current specs and upgrade specs, I think I'll see a nice increase. Gigabyte X58a-UDR3 i7 920 2.66ghz OC'ed to 3.3 Hyper 212+ cooler OCZ 1333 6gb cas 9 1 TB 7200...

Noctua fans or water block for 7950. Thanks guys

Already bought the motherboard so kind of locked.

This is the last thing to buy to complete my build. Right now I am running a i7 920 2.66 on a gigabyte x58 board. I am going to overclock, have a h220 on the way along with a giga z77x-up4, Here is what I do Start paying games again, Eyefinity 5760x1200 Photo editing 18mp files, no...

I'm sorry...it was 12.18v

I'm hoping I found the problem and the fix was really this easy. One of the two pci-e power connectors was only plugged halfway into the card. Could that have been the problem, if not I'm sure it wasn't helping.

Ok, got the multimeter out and I'm reading 12.8v .... should have been 12.18 and 5.05v on the PSU. This is the reading from a molex connector. I used Prime95 ( still have it ) and it showed no problems, but honestly don't know if I'm using it correctly. I used Furmark also and it returned no...

First, here are the specs. i7 920 2.66 Gigabyte X58a UDR-3 OCZ PC1600 6 GB Triple Channel XMP Sapphire Radeon 5850 Corsair 850HX Modular PSU Logitech G9 Cooler Master Storm Scout LiteOn Blu-Ray/ DVD Burner LiteOn DVD Burner Cooler Master Hyper 212+ Samsung F3 1TB SATA HD 3 120mm and 1 140mm...

that would have been nice, but I'm in NC and the closest to me is 5 hours

For some reason I thought the CPU was going to be released early February

Waiting on the CPU and graphics in hopes the price will drop in a couple weeks. They will be a i7 920 2.66 and Radeon 5850 Here is what I ordered GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail CORSAIR CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91...

The difference is not that drastic. i7 vs 955 288 / 165 120 dollar difference MSI mb vs ASRock both around 165 4gb dual channel vs 6gb triple channel 50 dollar difference looking at around 170 difference. I waffled over this decision for quite sometime and decided I...

I don't plan on changing the motherboard unless someone can give me a really good reason why I should spend money on the big names. I'm not close minded, so I'll take good advice if it's warranted.