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I use an H105 and MX-4 with my 5820K at 4.5GhZ. I play MWO, which is particularly abusive toward the CPU, and I don't see temps above 54c. It's in a Coolar Master HAF 932 mounted at the top with a 140mm fan at the rear and 4x 120mm fans on the side (nothing special, just red LED Cooler Master...

I played FF14 for a bit, and a GTX 660Ti was more than enough for that game. As far as MWO goes, a 970 is definitely enough, and unless you're going to crazy resolutions, the extra VRAM won't help there. BF4... dunno. I don't play it. The last BF I played was BC2. Star Citizen... you'll probably...

Firestrike: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4808264 Firestrike extreme: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4808320

I'm pretty sure they -did- officially pull out of the US market space for awhile. [H] had an article on it going back to February. You couldn't get their cards unless you purchased them online somewhere shortly after the article was published. I was unable to find (except on ebay) anywhere to...

That's essentially what I was seeing even with running triple-channel after taking out the bad RAM stick from my new system. No meaningful performance difference based on the new RAM, even when it defaulted to 2133. VMs may be slightly more sensitive to RAM performance, and a ramdisk...

No problem. Once my new RAM kit arrives (probably still have a week or so, Newegg does not have an advance replacement policy and unfortunately they were the only ones with this particular kit in stock with a discount on them) I will do an actual full review. I don't expect gaming performance to...

I moved on up from my 2600k to a 5820k. Needed the extra virtualization power. Gaming on it is pretty nice, too, but it wasn't my primary factor for the upgrade.

That appears to be a limitation of the BIOS from what I can see. The stock one on my motherboard does force a bclk overclock when using the XMP profiles, but it appears most motherboards are starting to get BIOS revisions that don't require it.

Here's the quick and dirty results of my testing. Quick notes: One of my sticks is defective and had to be removed for the system to even boot, so these results are with only triple-channel. Also, despite the RAM being sold as DDR4-2666, it defaulted to DDR4-2133 when installed and only had...

As promised, I will be building and testing my X99 machine tomorrow night. I did the benchmarking on my P67 tonight with my 2600K at 4.4GhZ (44x100) and Samsung RAM set to DDR3-1866 w/ 9-9-9-24 (this is the Samsung super awesome RAM that was built as DDR3-1600 but most people were putting up to...

I didn't realize people actually used that. Huh.

Playing it on Xbox One. It's essentially Bungie's version of Borderlands. No real amazing new concepts. Plays like Halo Reach but with different weapons for the most part. This is the most use my Xbox One has gotten from an actual game, though, and the first time I've turned it on since hockey...

I think the guys at Hexus and TweakTown did glancing reviews of Corsair DDR4 RAM that can give you a bit more perspective. It seems to me the sweet spot is 2800 with CAS 15 with a slight voltage bump. I personally elected for 2666 and plan on attempting to get 2800 at CAS 15 out of it with 1.3v...

The wait stems mainly from the fact that there are certain regulations in place for auditing such things. Since the regulations don't have something like a weekly timeline, it's entirely "okay" for businesses to hold off anywhere between 1 and 6 months. There really should be some revisions made...

What you mean to say it the price sucks for the consumer segment. DDR4 does not suck to the enthusiast because the enthusiast has a hobby and an upgrade itch to scratch when something new and shiny comes out. The extra bandwidth will be nice. I'm not sure what I'll use it for, I was more...

Essentially, this. Get a lesser amount of faster stuff now, upgrade if/when it becomes necessary.

Pulled the trigger on a 5820K, Gigabyte Gaming G1 WIFI, 16GB of Corsair Vengeance 2666, and a Corsair H105 to cool it off with.

The first question that comes to mind is 'what exactly do you plan on using it for?' If you're going to raise a bunch of VMs for something, for instance, you'd probably be better off with trading speed for overall amount. I personally plan on raising 1 or 2 VMs at a time, no other real...

I will likely be building a 5820K system myself assuming the X99 motherboards and CPU support virtualization extensions. Don't get me wrong, it'll primarily be my gaming PC, but I do want to popup a couple VMs in the near future for some extended DB and programming learning. Also, working with...

I'm itching for a CPU upgrade, and definitely going Haswell-E, so I'm kind of excited I guess. Crucial was reported to either be showing off DDR4-3000 or at least will be offering it in August/September (I can't remember, but I think it was on WCCFTech). 32GB of quad-channel DDR4-3000 sounds...

Things I noticed: In synthetic benchmarks, AMD seems to have a nice, even footing with Intel. In actual games, AMD's top chips are either between the i3 and i5, or between the i5 and i7 (game-dependent). AMD's 4.7GhZ CPU is not much faster than its 4GhZ CPU in most benchmarks. So we can...

I really like the X. Haven't had a single problem with it. Performance is decent, I don't need much more in that department. The active display, touchless controls, and relatively stock Android experience are a lot better than whatever Samsung was trying to shove down my throat with my Galaxy...

Rage 128 Pro Geforce 2 GTS Geforce FX 5600 Radeon 9600 XT Radeon 3870 X2 Geforce 9800 GTX+ Geforce GTX 275 Radeon HD 5770 crossfire Radeon HD 6870 crossfire Geforce GTX 660 Ti I was going to SLI the 660 TI, but it looks like it would barely be useful (Crysis 3 is the only game I have...

wccftech published an article on this about a week ago, too, so probably no need for wonky translations. http://wccftech.com/nvidia-maxwell-gm204-gpu-spotted-wild-kepler-gk210-works/

wccftech (always questionable) says May 11th we'll start to see things and by June we'll see the rest (except Broadwell). http://wccftech.com/haswell-refresh-updated-roadmap-leaked-official-launch-11th-may/

OP, it could also be 'dirty' power. I've seen a bad PSU cause several issues similar to those you mentioned. I've also heard of a shoddy power infrastructure in some countries causing similar issues. If you are electrically-inclined, I might recommend attempting to test the PSU similar to the...

AMD debuts Mantle, world gives zero fucks. Nvidia has own proprietary libraries, prepare yourselves for the great shitstorm of our time.

The free sticker is still the best new feature (and most news-worthy) so far.

It says right in the screenshot that with the Xbox One if any one person has a gold account that everybody will be able to enjoy gold features. Looks like the only way you're gonna be paying for each account to have gold is if you stick with the X360 and I'm sure enough bitching will be done to...

This isn't biased at all :rolleyes:

Right on - I rather liked my Phenom II X3 720BE. I saw this from RWLabs in my FB feed this morning, nearly shot my Arizona RX Energy out of my nose with the amount of people falling for it

I still run 2 AMD machines in my house, and I never went anywhere near implying that not buying Intel products means you're in denial. You're in denial that this product isn't the worst release you've seen in several years. Compared to the price on this new AMD chip, the $1000 tag on the Sandy...

Intel considers the 2500K-4670K mid-range. In almost every game made to date and most consumer software, these chips continue to put AMD's top-end offerings to shame. To be technical, Intel even considers the chips with hyperthreading (2600K-4770K) midrange, which makes AMD's best performer look...

This pretty much covers it. I feel like anything over $500 is pushing it for this chip, though. AMD needs a pretty large overclock to keep up with any of the stock SB/IB/Haswell CPUs as it is, even for a 'top-end premium' product there is a certain obligation to justify the price if you want...

Seems legit.

Everybody shut up and let them take my money. In for 2.

At the risk of somebody starting off on some ridiculous rant saying I'm just an Intel fanboy (I'm not, I still rock an AMd Phenom II X3 720 BE, too)... Your ideal combination is probably a Core i5 Ivy Bridge system with an entry-level or mid-range Nvidia card. This comes simply from the fact...

. <- topic - - - - - - - - we are here -> . lol, all it takes is one hurt butt The backward compatibility is pretty nice to see for people that want to upgrade, for me unfortunately it doesn't go the other way (AM3 taking Piledriver CPUs). I've demoted my X3 720 machine to ESXi test lab...

Right now the speculation is either the 'extreme' haswell or broadwell release will see DDR4 support, so you're looking at 2014 or 2015.

OP,can I get $10 worth of whatever it is you're on? AMD has graphics cores in the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, and IBM provides PPC-based CPUs in both of those consoles as well. There is no Intel to be found, and only the PS3 uses anything by Nvidia. The 360 and Wii both greatly overshadow the...