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To add onto this, if you haven't already decided, I have the VIII Hero and the VRMs are basically cold no matter the load. Even without a fan directly over them, they struggle to hit 45c while pushing 200w through the CPU.

Well that's the thing, it seems to just be glass dust mixed with pmp and one of those dodgy silver coatings you find on all those cheap plastic mirrors. All easily mass producible. When you normally go to make a lab sample of something, you produce a tiny piece, enough to show off the effect of...

Update to the fan testing. Looks like i was overestimating quite a bit on the minimum fan duty. It seems to be set at 40% for PWM. When testing the PWM noctua fan with a 3 pin adapter, it wouldnt start spinning until i hit 40%. Testing the generic corsair 3 pin again, it works at 25%. Either...

I think I've discovered that the Chassis fan (CHA_FAN 1) has a PWM minimum duty of something like 70%. I recently bought a lovely 3000RPM noctua industrial to complement my final build, and plugging it into the chassis fan header has it on about 2150rpm minimum. No amount of fiddling with speed...

So a quick update to my findings. So far i've tried Liquesce, Drive Bender, StableBit's DrivePool, FlexRaid. I'm testing all this with 3 drives, 2 for the pool, on windows 8.1 with intel's standard AHCI setup. Drive Bender - Lovely interface, quick with no need to reboot. Not a lot of options...

Man that's harsh, and really wrong too. JBOD and Windows Storage Spaces and a shitload of other hardware and software solutions do just this, and there are benefits. I wanted a drive span so I didn't have to micro-manage my storage constantly. I could just manually fill one drive then move...

Ok sorry, I have no interest in redundancy. I just want JBOD or spanning or whatever its called. Several physical drives appearing as a single logical disk with 100% of available capacity. I'm building a super efficient HTPC/storage solution that'll be on 24/7. Whole system with OS SSD draws...

I've been raking my mind for days trying to find something like this, or at least a confirmed instance where one of the commercially available RAID and JBOD software's do something like this. Basically I want a software JBOD solution with MAID style power management, or... I want to fake the...

Just managed to scrounge up what I paid for my original beast. Australian pricing is brutal, paying on average 40% more for IT hardware. Overall my system has held up pretty well. The Raptors were a good choice and are still amazing drives. The GPU's were a horrible choice. Paying $1500 for...

Not sure why people keep quoting 16gb as the max size per slot on DDR4, samsung have already announced 32gb modules. So there's 128gb of ram to satisfy you at least in the interim. Also the way i've understood it, for terms of bandwidth compared to single/dual/tri/quad channel ram, is that...

More and more games are coming out with more threads than just 4, and will continue to do so in the next generation. Both the new consoles run on 8 core, low frequency cpus. Almost all of the development in the future will run on the basis of 4 minimum, 8 recommended. The 6 core 980x has a...

I'd like to think they'll put a bit more effort in the $1000+ enthusiast cpus compared to the consumer ones. I know we haven't seen Ivy Bridge-E yet, but if it gets soldered IHS' we can expect Haswell-E to get the same. That or we're back using a block of wood.

Having issues with these as well. My 480 was rock solid playing through Metro with these, but I couldn't play Planetside 2 without crashing a few seconds into combat. Rolling back fixes this. The opposite is true for my partner's 460, she's stable with a ~30% overclock.

Using this for about 4 months now and it works great. Checking my watt meter, it shaved off ~40-60 watts while watching movies, idling with a paused movie, multi monitor idle desktop, etc. However upgrading the latest 320 drivers has caused a lot of instability issues, mostly involved with...

Just saw this posted at VR-Zone: http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-core-i7-ivy-bridge-e-core-i3-haswell-lineup-detailed/37832.html Looks pretty good. Finally getting an enthusiast 8 core system. DDR4 as well.

I posted this in the other thread. Just about every leak for Haswell is showing it clocking like a beast.

So this was apparently on youtube a few hours ago, then the user got banned.

Sorry, i didn't explain myself very well. The DT880's are great for gaming, both in reviews and in personal experience. Upon looking at reviews, if you were purely looking for great gaming headphones, there are better options on the market at slightly better price points. I wasn't specifically...

I've previously owned a pair of Sennheiser HD595's and i found that they weren't the best for gaming (by far). While in most reviews I see little and less to recommend the DT880's for gaming (comfort was a huge factor), they wipe the floor with the HD595's. That said, i previously tried dolby...

G'day [H]'ers, I've had a revision 1 Auzentech X-Fi Forte for the last 2 years, and about 6 months ago it started to kick the bucket. Lots of investigation, swapping opamps, searching, the card's just dead thanks to a revision 1 fault. Anyway, I'm looking for a replacement, hopefully a...

Come on decent nVidia video card. Come on decent nVidia video card.

While it doesn't specifically say it, the GTX480 benefits from the huge boost in performance for DA2 as well. Single GTX480 with DA2 @ 1920x1200, 4xaa, 16x af, HIGH settings with SSAO enabled was 39-42 average fps in kirkwall, higher in the surrounding low detail areas. New drive has upped...

Got a Fusion Remote Black myself, and they're not a bad case at all. Enough room for a full atx i believe, only enough official space for 2 hard drives and 1 full optical, although if you were to mod it slightly im sure you could squeeze at least 4 drives in there (or more if you dont use the...

The nvidia control panel is completely fucked. Has been since the 160's forceware i believe. Thats why everyone loves to use the program Nhancer, however there hasnt been an update yet for the 250 series of drivers. If you keep playing with the settings in there, it'll eventually break and...

$225 usd per game? Unfortunately the best we can do is download a pirated game. And since we tend to pay about $50 for 50gig of bandwidth per month online (that being the overall best price available, most isp's are double that), and games are getting to be 15+gig nowadays, well fuck.

Well thats fantastic. A recent steam update can somehow detects if you're using a proxy and still reverts to australian pricing.

Yeah, I was trying to make a point about greedy developers. Bioware have specifically made available US prices to australian's for their games. They still get the same money, but we're FAR more inclined to buy it due to the fact its half cost. The day borderlands came out the prices hadn't...

Americans complaining about the cost of their games is a joke. We pay exactly double for games over here in Australia. $99 for any standard game and $120 for any AAA game. This used to be fine when our dollar was half that compared to america, but we're now 93c vs the american dollar and growing...

Just ordered my monitor from HP Direct Australia. $610 AUD. Pretty piss poor considering that our dollar is 0.93c usd :/ Free shipping at the very least. I was considering buying from america, but after speaking to 3 different HP reps, they assured me if i have an issue with my monitor, I...

Wow... you're basically me. Even down to having your rig in a corner of the living room. While im in your situation, i have no water cooling experience what so ever, however from the research i've been doing, I do have two bits of information i can share with you. Firstly, from what i've...

I've considered importing it several times but it seems to be a bad idea. HP's warrenty seems to cover any little spot or problem with the monitor, such as single bright pixels or even backlight bleeding. If you get a broken or wonky monitor and have to replace it, it'll end up costing you...

Just noting for any Australians trolling this thread (like myself). I called up HP customer support today, and the ZR24W will be available to ship on the 23rd of April within Australia. Now just waiting for tftcentral and flatpanelshd to get some comparitive ghosting tests going on and its all ago!

I like how hard it was to find any sort've purple tubing after you flooded the internet with posts on multiple forums. Like it says over at overclock.net, Feser seem to be the only company that does purple tubing. And its 3/8" at that. http://www.feser-one.com/site/images/FT-0081-1.gif