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What's the best way to do this: Say you have your old, trust worthy home built system with all your files pics music bookmarks passwords games etc running Win 11 Pro. Youre tired of building PCs at this point and you buy a fancy, new OEM PC with Win 11, and all the associated bloatware...

Helo fellow water-cooling frens. I have a 2080 Ti Founders Edition that I bought right around release and slapped an EK WB on it (just to give you an idea of how old it is). So I have it swapped out now for a 3090 with a block and was considering selling the 2080 Ti on eBay (Dont care what I...

Its great to have a friend in Hong Kong!! Bud dropped off a Gigabite 3090 w/ water block at my hotel today. About 2100 USD. Not a huge fan of Gigabite but I wanted a card with a factory block and we cant get anything like this in the US yet so pretty happy!!

Anyone seen these yet? https://www.asus.com/us/News/bcpwjfnhly5y2ysx Theyre on the ASUS tech support page but I cant find anyone selling them and ASUS tech support is ignoring me https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Graphics-Cards/ASUS/RTX3090-24G-EK/ Anyone seen them?

I'd been running 2 x Titan Xp's (the april 2017 cards) in SLI (see sig) under custom water. Recently the system auto shutdown, and then next time I booted it up, white smoke came off the right side of the PCB of the bottom card, an area which I think houses those big capacitors. I pulled the...

So I just got a 32 TB WD PR4100 (4 x 8TB drives in Raid0).... I'm trying to copy over my giant media library of 20TB from a USB 3.0 24 TB (2 x 12TB drives in Raid0) box to it. It's averaging 4-20 MB/s Is this normal? I'm spitballing the limiting factors here.... 1. USB 3.0 box to my PC 2...

Ok, I'm not google impaired but I'm getting no love with this... I run a WD 16TB My Book Duo (2 x 8TB drives in raid 0) USB 3.0 for my external storage setup. Was about 500 bucks when I bought it, and still is the same price on amazon which was my first clue I was going to be frustrated...

Ok so I decided to waste a chunk of money and a few hours and put 2 x Titan X (Pascals) under EK waterblocks. What I learned in no particular order 13598 Fire Strike Ultra Score: I scored 13 598 in Fire Strike Ultra The Nvidia HB SLI bridge will not fit EK waterblocks. The plastic shroud of...

Ok, somewhat paranoid post coming up. On opening day (Aug 2nd I think), I ordered what I thought were 2 x Titan X (Pascals) to replace my current 2 x Titan X (original/maxwell) set up. I've been sitting on them, still in the boxes, since they arrived as I was waiting for my EK water blocks to...

So I just got a 1 TB SM 961 today (previously running an SM 951 512 GB). Dropped it in, used Marcum Reflect to restore a backup so I didn't have to reinstall anything. Took quite a few hung boots to get into Windows but seems reliable now. I ran some non scientific benches (ie CPU speed step...

1: I know it doesn't officially support E-ATX boards according to the specs, but has anyone fit one? Im running an Rampage 5 Extreme which is officially an E-ATX board. I think its about one inch "wider" (i.e. left to right when you are looking at it) over the normal ATX size. This would...

HI all. Today I took the plunge and ditched my Corsair H110i GT and air coolers on my Titan X.s I went all EK for the water blocks and Black Ice Nemesis Stealth (thin versions) for the 3 x radiators. Yesterday: Today: Edit (better pic taken with my real camera): What I learned...

Ok, Im about to build my 1st custom loop ever (dumping my AIO). Have a question about SLI (2 x Titan Xs w/ required 3 slot spacing for x99) plumbing. Here is my system now: Why does this guy use 2 x little tubes connecting his cards: My question is, how does that actually work?? Plumbing...

Hello water cooling nerds! I'm about to build my first custom loop loosely based on this sample pic from Thermaltake: The above pic is my exact case model (Thermaltake V51) and i plan on using that exact same pump/res combo and also the same mounting position (vertical, bolted to case...

Im guessing this has been covered somewhere but I thought since this forum likely isn't as busy as the others, a new thread might not hurt.... I run a high end mobo (Rampage V Extreme) + high end ?? speakers (to me they are high end, hell they costed nearly 500 USD)...

Asus just announced a curved 34" @ 3440 x 1440 (IPS, w/ g-sync) The ROG 3800R (edit: updated info from Asus: ASUS ROG ROG 34-inch Curved G-SYNC Monitor This 34-inch 3800R curved display features wide-viewing angles, a 3440 x 1440 native resolution, and 21:9 aspect ratio. It features NVIDIA®...

I was recently running an XP 941 (512 GB) in my system (see sig). Before I replaced it, I ran a quick HD Tune Read bench on it and then ran a drive image backup I then pulled it, dropped in a SM 951 (512 GB) and did a full drive image restore. PC booted into Win 8.1 without any issues, which...

Hi all I don't think I "get" DSR yet. So I have 2 x Titan X's in SLI and a 5960x so I figured I had the headroom to mess around with DSR. (I'm playing at 21:9, 3440 x 1440 now) So I go in and change DSR to 2.0x and leave the DSR Smoothness at 33% As soon as I do this, I get options in games...

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Open this in Chrome so it auto translates to English (unless you happen to be able to read German....) http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Geforce-GTX-Titan-X-Grafikkarte-260203/News/Arctic-Xtreme-IV-Mod-BIOS-1154063/ Now if only my credit card wasn't declined TWICE after attempting to order 2 x...

For aesthetic reasons.... Can you get anything other than a: http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=100-BP-2984-B9 for an EVGA 980? I would love something like that, but anodized in red or gold. I see lots of colored backplates for water-cooled 980s, but only this evga one for...

Anyone ever try one of these: http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Cooler/Case_Fan_/Luna/C_00002333/Luna_14_LED_Red/Design.htm Until recently, I never was an LED guy. But now my case has a window, and I want to spiff it up a little bit while still keeping it low noise: I was thinking of...

Man, who would have thought these would become collectors items?!?! http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/sli/bridges I want this for my rig. But 250 dollars...

Hey guys: Im running a high end system with a Corsair h100i: Despite the number of fans, its damn near silent. I use Asus Fan Xpert 3 to keep them all at low RPM, approx 300-400. The loudest thing in the system at idle are the 4 x mechanical HDDs. Under heavy gaming, the CPU fans spool to...

Hi all. Sometimes I like to see what an average joe builder can do with a case/build rather than a staff of dedicated reviewers / builders. Gives a more realistic idea of what 'your' build might look like. I took my high end system (2 x mismatched GTX 980s, 4 x normal HDDs, 1 SSD, 1 M2 for...

2014 = Year of the Video Card (Titan, 970, 980) 2015 = Year of the Monitor 144hz IPS at 2560 x 1440 AND 3440 x 1440 2560 model: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/news_archive/32.htm#acer_xb270hu_ips 3440 model: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/news_archive/32.htm#acer_xr341ck Started a new...

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Hey guys. I have been looking around but decided to start a more recent thread in case anyone can help. I just build a new system yesterday based on a 5960x + Rampage V Extreme and DDR4@3000 Memory. I cant get a decent OC and Im pretty sure its because Im doing it wrong. The Rampage V...

Hi guys. Just thought I'd share some personal experience with both cards at a "high" but not 4K resolution (3440 x1440) Cards are: EVGA Signature Superclocked Model (factory clock speeds are 876 and 928 boost) GTX 980 (Standard EVGA model, factory clock speeds are 1127 and 1216 boost)...

Hey guys. I have more money than common sense, so I actually have both of these monitors right now (using the system in my Sig): The LG 34" (34UM95-P) and The Asus PG278Q 27" What happened was.... I had been using a Dell Ultrasharp 27" (u2711) and wanted to try something different...

Hello [h] Im a bit confused as to this whole M2 thing. I'm going to drop a bunch of $ and build a 5960X / Rampage V Extreme to replace my system in my Sig. For a boot drive, I was planning on going with a SanDisk Extreme Pro 960GB. But then I thought about this whole M2 drive thing. I...

Hey dudes. I'm a gamer and a part time video encoding/rendering guy. As a result of that, plus my giant porn / movie / video collection I have conflicting needs: I'm building a mostly new high priced rig when the extreme intel 8-core CPUs / X99 hit soon primarily for gaming, but how do I...

Im doing a complete system build (when the 8 core Haswell-Es hit this September) to replace my gaming system in sig. I was going to go AMD R295X2 and a 31.5" 4K, like ASUS PQ321Q or so, but reading about this 34" 21:9 stuff really has me interested. Any advice as the time gets a bit closer...

I see newegg has 2 models of the 6TB drives: The enterprise version is clearly labelled 7200 on newegg and other sites: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178522 But the cheaper version's RPM is not listed in the specs...

Ok, this may be a stupid/very small niche question... But see sig: Are there any new mechanical/hybrid HDs that are LARGER + faster than the 1.0TB WD Velociraptors? I know any SSD clobbers them. But curious if fast 2 or 3 TB mechanical drives are a dead concept. I would like to swap out my...

I just felt like complaining. Bought the Titan (Signature over clocked edition, see sig) as soon as they hit the Newegg shelves. 1200 bucks or so. Now it works fine at my res of 2560 x 1440 at anything I throw at it (though some games not 100% maxed, i have an older CPU setup. And I don't...

Current build (see sig) is feeling a bit long in the tooth in some games (ARMA 3 / Crysis 3 for example) and I've got the build itch again (man the 1366 has last me a long long long time!) Rig is solely for gaming. The ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Black Edition is actually what's prompted me to...

Ok, so I had Corsair HX1000 powering system in sig. Actually, I had it for several years (guessing I bought it in 2010) and it powered a couple of variations of my system. Anyway, I got to witness it first hand... So im sitting there playing GW2 once day, and I hear "POP"!! And...

To begin, this is NOT for me. My rig is in my sig! This is for a friend of mine living in the UK. He's currently on a: intel core i3 2120 Sandy Bridge, Intel HD 2000 integrated graphics a 300 watt PSU. Obviously, he's not a [h]eavy gamer :) However, he'd like to up his frame rate and...

Ok, I had too much money in my pocket and felt like screwing with my build. Swapped out a Lian Li PC8F for a PC-V750. For those that don't know, the PC-V750 is a strange bird. Bottom forward mounted PSU. " "Short" full tower layout (can handle E-ATX and larger boards!) Comes with 5...