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I was always partial to the 8800 Ultra, was the best card you could buy for eons

Thanks :) Much appreciated.

I have the Maximus Impact and I'm seeing some peculiar behavior that maybe you guys could shed some light on. It seems that my voltages stick to some particular values like so: My vcore does not get set to whatever I set it to in the Bios, depending on how low or high I go, it jumps from 1.248...

Same here, only reason I stopped using the platform was because my A7N8X deluxe died :(

Make sure you want to get the High Performance Edition and not the Quiet Edition. RPM is doubled with the HP ones, and thus noise.

Accidentally a word there ;)

It's probably hard to do. I remember running Crysis 1 on a slow core 2 duo and while the FPS was okay, I thought that the physics animations were happening in slow motion. Once I got a quad core, the fps was higher, sure, but the trees I was chopping down were literally falling faster. So I...

I have a 140mm cougar fan that has significan bearing noise when undervolted but when running closer to max rpm it just turns into whooshing air noise. I have the quiet edition of the corsairs undervolted to 7V and they're silent enough that I only have pump noise (and that's very quiet too) on...

Peltier or Thermoelectric cooling. CoolIT systems used to make some.

Fixed that for you!

Now what's your sprint speed on those bikes? ;) Pretty insane rig. What games are you playing on it?

I had a Z87X-UD5H from Gigabyte, and it was great. Loved the BIOS, very sensible (and runs in 1080p) layout, features were great too. No complaints. Then I switched to a mini itx setup so I got a Z87N-Wifi again from Gigabyte, but it was a bit disastrous, it wouldn't sleep, and some features...

I just measured the boot time from button press to the Win 8 logon screen: 14 seconds. edit: I also have, I think, enabled a 1 second delay at post so that I can hit Del to enter the bios, not that it's necessary because there's utility called DirectBios or something that you can click in...

I bought one a couple of weeks ago. Stock cooling for the processor for now, I needed to get up and running quick. 1. It's alright, I haven't installed the Asus drivers (just Windows 8.1 built in drivers) and I get a 216 to 300 megabit connection from my old WNDR 3700 netgear router on 5GHz...

I have the Z87N-Wifi from Gigabyte. It's decent, but they don't seem to have their drivers all done up correctly. It works fine, overclocks etc., but there are niggling issues like powered off USB charging for iPhones that's not currently working and I had to manually set up Intel Rapid...

If your current motherboard supports ddr3 it most certainly supports AHCI. I had a P35 chipset motherboard that only did DDR2 and it had AHCI. Anyway if I'm wrong, something like the Asus P5Q3 would do what you want.

Honestly, this is why: http://www.made4nonsense.com/why-facebook-bought-oculus-for-2-billion/

I'm happy about this actually. This should speed up development and allow for a higher quality experience than what a company can do just by itself. Plus with Facebook's expertise in big data / storage / bandwidth management I can totally see this going next level and being in the mainstream for...

Asrock 775Dual VSTA. This beast had DDR1 and DDR2!! It also had AGP 8x and PCIe x4 slot lol.

Didn't know my graphics card could double as a car hahahhahahahahah. Anyway, people have been whining about VRM temps ever since they've included sensors that read it. Guess what, the drivers are reading the temps too, and they'll shut down / crash if it reaches the critical temp..

Yes.

If you want facts instead of the broscience in this thread: http://www.techbuyersguru.com/Ramgaming2.php TL;DR: Some latest games use more than 8GB of RAM.

I have a patriot rage xt, 16GB drive that works flawlessly as an installer for Windows. Using the same tools and process for making the patriot bootable results no functionality for two Sony sticks that I have. I've done low level formats, used a Lexar tool for bit flipping (supposed to make the...

I'm on Windows 8, the address bar in Chrome nor IE exhibits the behavior I'm describing.

Yeah click and drag works, but not exactly the same since you have to drag all the way (1st world problem I know) to the end of the sentence / text. On the mac, I pick where I want to start selecting, then drag the mouse below the text to highlight everything to the end of the text or drag above...

On a mac, you can quickly select text in the following way: Click somewhere in the middle of a sentence to place the cursor, and then drag the mouse up or down to select all text before or after where you initially placed the cursor. I know this is somewhat replicated in windows by placing...

I put a Twin Turbo 2 on my 680 this past week. It's about as loud as the stock fan at 40% and it stays cooler, like 65 degrees in BF3, 55 to 60 in Deus Ex. I wouldn't waste $600 on a 780 coming from a 680.

Everyone's correct: here's a snippet from hardwarecanucks:

UD4H is listed as having 16 and so does the UD5H. The UD3H has less but I don't know how many.

I initially delidded my 4770K and removed the stock thermal paste and I removed the black glue that cements the IHS to the package. I spread MX4 on the cpu die and then put on the IHS, mounted on mobo, and then my Seidon 240m closed loop water cooler. This netted me maybe a 2 degree reduction in...

Correct, aluminum will corrode into a mushy mess if even a little bit gets on there. Re: the price, it's actually really good value if you have a proper contact or two flat surfaces because this stuff spreads extremely thin. I used a literal 1/3 grain of rice amount to spread it. Not a fat...

Just wanted to give everyone my experience in case someone wants to try. On the one hand, load temps did not drop, I reached 79 degrees as before which was disappointing. However, I realized that my fan was quieter than before. Sure enough, the fan was going to around 55% as opposed to 70%...

That's completely fine. On a table my i5 3317 idles at around 40 and goes up to 60 in non gaming tasks in my Zenbook Prime UX31A.

On-topic: As far as I can tell, at least for sure on Gigabyte boards, you cannot adjust the adaptive voltage setting that is engaged when AVX or AVX2 loads are put on the CPU. Re: Microcenter: they'll just do whatever it takes to make more profit in the long run. If that means gaining...

Then Microcenter should change their policy.

buy a hardcover book that your laptop will fit on. problem solved.

Facts lol http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/ http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/palit_geforce_gtx_680_4gb_jetstream_review,26.html Check the 2nd paragraph. Edit: If you don't plan on upgrading within the next three years, get 4gb...

Just an update on this. At the time of writing that post I was using the release F5 bios and the latest available EasyTune software, the combination of which was resulting in Easytune not being able to launch. Updating the the beta bios, F6j fixed the easytune launch issue. Anyway, I was...

I would like to set up remote surveillance for an overseas location but I'm having trouble identifying what kind of equipment I'll need, reason being that the area will be bandwidth starved / expensive so I need something that consumes little bandwidth. Is it the software that will determine...

Did you guys or anyone else that may have this board have any issues launching Easy Tune 6? I get a 'Loading, please wait...' translucent prompt that never goes away when attempting to launch it from both App Center or by itself from Program Files.