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Assuming that HDD is a black edition it will be horribly loud in what is shaping up to be an otherwise quiet build.
Consider: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article951-page1.html
or the 1TB version.
Also why spend the extra on a i3-540 when the 520 will easily overclock way past 3GHZ on stock volts.
This is in essence why, imho, they are losing market share. Some fantastic products and then they manage to mess many of them up by doing something ridiculous to it. That said i have a number of sony products that are all aging but have always worked and worked very well. (Super slim camera, 32...
Man, so many innacurate and just plain wrong posts in this thread that have to be systematically corrected by other users. Its not like any of the details about either the Hx620 or Hx650 arent freely and unambiguosly detailed all over the webz. Why do people just pull product specs out of their...
Possibly the second backup bios is being loaded at power on for some reason and overwriting the flash....Experts on these boards are here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=205132&highlight=ep45+ud3
60c seems high. im running the same board and get idle temps of 35C and max of ~44C after gaming. These are everest temps in an antec 300. My ambient is 23C