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Inefficient PSUs waste power so try to get an 80+ Silver or Gold rated unit. If you have to make a choice its better to cheap out on something else and get a good PSU.

There are rumors of first shipments of fixed boards to MC in mid march, April as Intel said for real stock.

Heatsinks are just getting weirder. This new one from Prolimatech, looks like they had a factory accident on the Megahalems line. Or if you stepped on the side of a D14.

I'd consider it only for the gun sink... Too funny ;)

I think they mostly all unlock if they are on reference boards. TPU did a count of cards that unlock successfully and it was rare find one that wouldn't unlock. I personally lean towards Nvidia when the performance is close between two competing cards, I like Nvidia's features and their driver...

If you don't have any other available slots to space the cards out then there isn't much you can do. If your case has front intake fans try to position hard drives out of the way so the most of the airflow goes straight to the GPU. A bottom fan mount blowing up would also help cycle the ambient...

I'd say value-wise either a 560 OC or a 6950 2GB 'unlocked' to 6970. Should hold until Kepler comes out.

Love it! 648/1458/1188 stock to 741/1584/1269 Furmark stable. Quality merchandise bump!

Killer pacmen from outer space!

Virtualdub and its variants also have an audio skew function. Could check out Avidemux. If you're not particular to VLC, I'd go with Media Player Classic as an alternative player.

I've seen some people use a 120mm fan with Megahalems fan clips and place it higher up on the heatsink to clear tall RAM. Even with only one fan mounted the Silver Arrow/NH-D14 are still huge heatsinks, should cool well enough. Good case airflow will always help.

Yeah, anything that uses Linpack will stress your OC the most and show if its stable pretty fast. It will also give you hotter temps than Prime. If you're using the IBT Linpack frontend, and it isn't pegging all your cores in Windows Taskmanager, make sure Threads are set to 8 if HT on or 4 if...

Good stuff!

For now I'd definitely back up any important files at least to a thumbdrive or DVD/CD, could also rar them into passworded 50MB multipart files and upload to Skydrive. If you call WD and explain the noise problem they'll probably issue the RMA, though I've had them ask for the error code from...

Wasn't there some recent drama about OpenBSD and backdoors.

Crysis 1 and Metro 2033 are killers

124 can also mean VCore, but usually its VTT. Try to bump a notch on each voltage and test, do them individually so you know which one needs it. Use the Linpack test in OCCT or in LinX/IBT with max memory, it will find if you're stable faster than Prime will. Always watch temps when stresstesting.

Well Evga had a special driver release for GTX590 on their FTP site before they noticed people were downloading it and took it down. The card seems to be very near release, end of February or early March is about the same anyway.

Sometimes they wont RMA without an error code from the diagnostic. DBAN is good to wipe your personal files or use the drive's internal secure erase function.

There's that meme about SICP, but if you want theory its got lots of it.

And when they take turns giving the GPS to friends in class and cutting out anyway?

The Xai is nice, or Deathadder 3G. There is a lot of talk about what sensors they use but any of the top level gaming mouse are all pretty good.

You shouldn't. On your first boot with a different type of CPU Windows 7 detects it, makes changes, and asks you to reboot.

Crysis, Killzone, Bulletstorm... must be leak week. I think devs need to work on their security, must be handing out copies to everyone. Unless its all on purpose to get free advertising for the title. More news coverage for an omg pirate hack leak vs a regular game release. "If people seem to...

120Hz monitors are probably the best for competitive gaming. They are sold mostly for 3D but you can just use them in 2D and they become the fastest gaming LCDs around. BenQ just released a 1080p 24" 120Hz which is a lot of people are liking, the XL2410T. These are all TN panels so IPS fans may...

Usually nothing beats Steam sales and its convenient to have all your games in one place. Hard copies would be good for collectors editions that come with extra physical stuff that can't be downloaded.

AKG 701s are also nice in that general price range. HD650s are excellent.

lol... How to get people to flood their kitchen: the video

He'll be bottlenecked either way as you say, but since most games are GPU limited its preferable to take the CPU bottleneck and upgrade the GPU for the biggest performance improvement. 8GB RAM over 4GB RAM for gaming is probably the last thing I'd upgrade, if at all. PAE is what lets 32bit...

OP, was it dangerous? :p

Higher rated RAM can never hurt. If you don't end up running it at its rated speed you can always tighten timings. If its worth the price is up to your budget and what you're doing with it.

Higher rated RAM gives you more flexibility with the RAM multipliers before having to drop to a lower one. Also you can run it slower than its rating and usually tighten timings for lower latency. Intel's spec for Bloomfield is 1066MHz RAM, anything above that is technically overclocked...

8GB RAM has very little benefit for gaming. Its good for working with big files like raw audio/video editing and large photoshop images. GPU is the #1 thing to upgrade for gaming. At some point your CPU will bottleneck your new GPU so you should overclock the CPU to minimize the bottleneck...

21x200 x8 RAM multi is a round number 1600MHz RAM OC with 4.2GHz CPU 21x160 x10 RAM multi is a lower CPU clocked round number 1600MHz RAM OC with 3.3GHz CPU You cant POST above 900MHz RAM? I'd suspect the OCZ RAM is misconfigured or defective. Have you tried removing and reseating the RAM...

Why not both? I personally love tactile feedback hardware keyboards for thumb typing. Also there are some strange rumors about iPhone 5 having a slide out keyboard, which seems completely against Apple's whole design... but who knows.

LGA2011 is expected for Q4 and there are reports of boards being spotted already, but we won't know for sure until Intel releases them officially, there is no reason to think LGA1356 has been dropped just because we haven't heard anything about it in a while. Both platforms will have the X68...

Steam's crazy sales let them move huge volume and overhead cost is practically nothing but bandwidth. Its a good business model and they were in early so they are now a household name to gamers, they will probably remain dominant.

The best Galaxy S1 variant had a nice hardware keyboard and was released on Sprint as the Epic 4G. If it was rooted and the filesystem changed it was pretty good. Hopefully the S2 fixes some of the S1's issues. A keyboard version S2 would be something to really look at.

I'd say not worth it, put faster rpm and higher static pressure fans on the H50 rad if you don't mind the added noise. Low 90s is not a temp I'd want to see, is this under LinX load? As you get close to 100 it triggers thermal protection and will throttle or shut down.

3M has those washable microfiber cloths, cheap, reusable and perfect for screens, LCDs in particular. I also have an FW900 but its glass so I worry about it less than my laptop screen. I do a light pass to get the dust off so you're not grinding it into the screen, then use some water...