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http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/16/zero-latency-virtual-reality-gaming-center/ - They're rocking Alienware Alphas in their backpacks; no mention of what kind of battery setup they're using though. Definitely some smashed together stuff, given the playstation move balls and playstation eyes...

Not that maximizing your hardware isn't a worthy pursuit, but last I checked, single-card setups don't really suffer from being run on x8 PCIe 3.0 (lose, what, ~1% performance, at least for a GTX980 and below; perhaps the 390X will prove otherwise). X99 seems worth it if you actually have use...

Felt silly asking the question, not having tried to o/c the 920, so I went back and gave it a shot. I've gotten it up to 3.8GHz, and stable through 15 runs of IBT and a couple hours of Saints Row IV (we'll see how the next month goes stability wise...). I will be waiting on the next round of...

I've been on a stock i7-920 since April '09. Been contemplating a new build from scratch, but then I ran across this thread, and have been tempted to stretch my 1366 a bit further. So, questions (I've been in and out of this thread a few times, so I have a general inkling as to the answers...

Really, guys? I go away for... *checks watch* 4 measly little months, and people start manually adding data to the statistics tab rather than updating the formula to pull in V3 data? You should all be ashamed of yourselves! I mean, what's so hard about taking...

There is also however you want to categorize the Tactical LP; categorized by Crucial as "Low Profile", even though it has the same height PCB as the VLP RAM. Since it uses a heatsink similar to what Phuncz lists as "Normal height heatsink RAM", it ends up being about the same height as the Low...

You might also want to look a little deeper into this. The discussion of the supply in the dedicated thread are mostly people trying very hard to describe what are essentially some odd noises (like the clicking of the fan when it is around it's starting voltage), but almost across the board...

It was nice seeing that they did encounter sounds and behaviors that others on here have described (like the clicking of the fan); makes it less likely that the supply sent was cherry-picked/unrepresentative of the retail units people are receiving. Also, that they heard the same thing, and...

You were misled. The recent surge in popularity of PBR is largely a backlash against the last few years of craft beer being on the upswing in the US (and potentially a reaction against a certain type of beer snob that has come along with it). As Bobalias_LeShay points out, overpaying for PBR...

Another vote for version 3 being the most aesthetically pleasing option that also allows for ODDs. Then you'll be right back in the position of the look/layout of publicly-released-version-1.0, which had the power and USB offset, and which looked great before ODD considerations prompted a...

No accounting for taste, I know, I know...

I actually think it looks kind of awesome. Nonetheless, the power button has to be off-set from the ODD, because the ODD is already taking up the whole width of the upper section. I don't think it can be moved that far down/right to leave room for the power button internals. And backfeed...

Wanted to second this. When buying my M1, the biggest decision for me was whether or not to opt for the additional no-ODD top panel, when I wasn't sure whether or not I would need it. Decided against it, because worse case, I end up with a non-functional slot, and best case, I have exactly...

I wouldn't say the Bitspower is "bigger": the Bitspower block looks lower/wider to me, while the EK is kind of narrow and tall; I doubt the Bitspower conflicts with the front-panel audio connector on the VI the way the EK did (thankfully ASUS reoriented the connectors on the VII, meaning no...

I've yet to see a review at one of the bigs, but: http://www.xtremerigs.net/2014/03/03/ek-maximus-vi-impact-full-cover-block-review/3/ They found a 1deg improvement on the CPU (which seems questionable to me; what drives this improvement?), and 15+deg improvement on the VRM and Southbridge...

If that is your hope, you had better start preparing to be disappointed.

HA! I'm so glad that that isn't just me. I find plotting the W/C loop, out-to-in, out-to-in, out-to-in, particularly soothing.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/plextor-m6e-pci-express-ssd,3763.html I think M.2 PCIe SSDs are going to be pretty niche for the next couple of months, with limited selection and limited supply. But I think within the next year you're going to start seeing a little more variety and...

After seeing what Phuncz linked (the official release of the VII), I went to check the EKWB cooling configurator, and they list the M6I as compatible with the VII. Oh, happy day!

Some of the pictures I've seen make it look like the board layout is identical (all the big pieces at least; a few minor components have been moved), but some of them also make it look like the audio daughtercard might be ever so slightly closer to the bottom. Without having one on hand...

Since the picture on the back seems to indicate that they're both coming off of the same connection/wire, how could they not be?

I see nothing in dPunish3r's build logs that refers to an EVGA Classy. His original build (that you linked) had a 780Ti, and the update used a Titan Black, both running reference coolers and PCBs. The only reference to a Classy that I see in the whole of that sheet is user 'dev's intent to...

In terms of compatibility, I had missed when Vittra mentioned that; I probably wouldn't have looked so hard if I had! But, not all is lost... on the compatibility spreadsheet, it does appear to be hit-or-miss, and heavily dependent on the mobo. There's at least one saying that it works...

I question your paraphrasing: "...it is not suitable for overclocking and should be used with care on CPUs with more than 95W TDP (Thermal Design Power)." [source] They go on to give it a big, fat, green checkmark for use on Intel processors even up to 130W TDP, so long as the case is...

Given that the C12P has 100g/25% more bare weight than the L12, I'd be inclined to agree, but 4 years is a lot of time to improve on a HSF design. That 4 year gap causes a problem though: it is relatively difficult to find comparable data. SPCR reviewed both, and provides their data as deltaT...

H220X is not such a hot idea.

Didn't intend to single you out, either. I'd heard that from multiple people back when they were first coming out; you were just conveniently nearby! Potentially useful: according to JacobF (Product Manager on the EVGA forums) - "The blower fan EVGA 770's actually have all the TITAN cooler...

If you look at the pics on their website, particularly at the exhaust grille, it looks like the majority of that added length has been dedicated to allowing the inlet/line filter/pcb to get mounted transverse, up against the grille: Rather than straight out from the inlet along the...

Again, the Titan cooler is the reference cooler for the GTX770. See pretty much any launch review of the card (using the samples shipped directly by Nvidia), as it will have the "Titan" cooler on it. Most manufacturers didn't think anyone would be willing to pay the premium required for the...

I'll bet a dollar that it is a 92mmX15mm. If you look at the pics, it looks like they used most of the additional length to accommodate moving the power plug out of the way of the larger fan. I'm not sure how they're going to squeeze 50W more power than the Silverstone, while also reducing the...

I saw this over in the M1 thread first, and after looking at the pictures, thought to myself... that looks an awful lot like the same manufacturer as the ST45SF-G! Same folds, same grille perforations, same screws. Makes me feel less conspiratorial to have Tony confirm it! It's a shame that...

This. It's dependent on the dimensions/mounting of the specific radiator. If you look at Necere's 3rd build test (linked in the OP), you can see the SSD mounted in the location you're referring to in the second picture. If the radiator were shorter, a second one would've fit, but with the...

The TechPowerUp/press release linked previously indicated a single 50A 12V rail. Given the plugloadsolutions, I'm guessing that means they were shooting for 50A, and could only keep it happy at 42.5A?

Looking at it, the shroud extends the full "height" of 113mm all the way to the end. Since it is over 11", it is going to need to go into the cut-out in the front panel, right? At 113mm, it is just over the 4.4" max height for cards of that length (depending on the precision of the 4.4"...

Buyers has been renamed "V1 Buyers", and a "V2 Buyers" tab has been created (made separate, as many columns applicable to V1 [serial, priority list] won't make sense for V2, and vice versa). "V2 Buyers" is up front, so people coming to it for the first time should be directed to the appropriate...

I was going to go check the revision history, but I was staring at it for a bit, and realized that someone had just filtered for things that had been identified as assembled. You're still in there! Damnable thing about GDocs is that when one person filters, it applies to everyone (which is...

I've been wondering myself what the best way to do it would be. The charts and statistics and whatnot won't be very meaningful if they just have everything commingled, while the "what works" and "what doesn't work" tabs are more useful if they keep everything in one place (with an indication of...

It looks like someone had frozen the Name column, and then someone dragged the Qty column all the way to the left; GDocs seems to get really angry about altering/inserting/shifting columns when they're frozen, so it overwrote instead of just moving the column. Moving the Qty column all over the...

I'd worry a little bit about compatibility with the audio daughter-board; they've moved it down almost an entire SATA port, and the EK block has a channel cut in it just for that.

Not really what's being looked for here, but potentially a little informative. Toms took a nVidia reference 750ti, and put a FirePro V3900 single-slot blower on it: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/single-slot-geforce-gtx-750-ti,3761.html Hopefully, that Gainward variation will be better...