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Great review. I've had this motherboard for a couple months now and everything seems pretty rock solid.

I have a MSI 290X Lightning and that thing is cool and quiet. Expensive but you were asking about the best one. There was a rumor going around that the side fans weren't spinning because the MSI utility showed them at 0% but that of course was not true. I got the UEFI bios from MSI that fixed...

If the shipping box isn't crushed then I wouldn't worry at all about anything inside. The retail boxes inside look fine from what little I can see. I wouldn't worry one bit. Having said that, I just received a hard drive from Newegg that was mishandled or dropped before it was packaged in...

I pre ordered one from Newegg before they raised their price from $339. I am building a new gaming rig and coming from a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, this should be a nice speed bump. :)

Already decided to buy this. Wish the price were a bit lower.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/10/us-bitcoin-mtgox-bankruptcy-idUSBREA290WU20140310

He filed for bankruptcy protection in the US. That is a fact. I don't know what chapter it was filed under but he did file for it The judge won't grant it unless he appears in person according to the judge at least. These are FACTS.

Yes he did. In Texas.

This ^^^^

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Just keep it. They all look similar.

+1 I have a feeling even if he did read the article, he would pick and choose sentences out of it to support his claim without taking the whole thing in context. It not worth anyone's time to try to convince him otherwise. I find this kind of attitude and fanaticism humorous and kinda sad in...

It's not called "restricted boot". If you're able to cite any reputable sources to backup your claims, please do so. This explains what Secure Boot does. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the-pre-os-environment-with-uefi.aspx As far as gaming goes on Linux...

+1 I'm already using Windows 7 on my laptop and Vista on my other computer. Both aren't really too bad. Vista is really pretty solid even though it got so much bad press. Windows 8 will take getting used to but in the end, it probably won't be that bad either. Some people love to hate on...

Proof reader for Yahoo news maybe but who really cares. Seriously, we all have these moments sometimes. Not everybody has the time to become a computer expert or track down some obscure setting that's messing with their build. It's most likely something that scheduled itself to run with...

If a program has told Window's task scheduler to do something, it will wake up your computer out of sleep, do the task and then go to sleep again. Windows update can do it I think. My TV tuner can do it when I have a show set to record, virus scanner.... It could be any program...

I think we are on the same page for the most part but my lack of sleep is derailing my train of thought. I wouldn't mind having "Kepler 2.0" if they make a consumer version of it. I'm not going to wait for it though. I'm just looking for more mature drivers, SLI scaling and custom cooling...

Artificial how? It was designed that way for a reason, not just to screw with us. It's more streamlined for gaming on the hardware level. Nothing wrong with that unless compute, CUDA are important to you. By using less power and having unnecessary transistors, it will make less heat and it's...

Geforce 680 GTX Whitepaper https://www.google.com/search?q=GeForce-GTX-680-Whitepaper-FINAL.pdf Fermi Whitepapers http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/fermi_white_papers/NVIDIA_Fermi_Compute_Architecture_Whitepaper.pdf http://www.siliconmechanics.com/files/C2050Benchmarks.pdf

Google "GTX 680 double precision" if you want to see some thread and articles about this. https://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+gtx+680+double+precision Kepler 2 for servers... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/nvidia_kepler_gpu_preview/ It's not an artificial cap either. It's the...

Nvidia has a high end GPGPU market to protect... AMD doesn't... I think that pretty much explains why they did what they did with the 680 as far as compute.

Considering that most monitors sold on Newegg and other sites are 1080p I think that resolution is very relevant. If higher resolution monitors were more mainstream, then they would be cheaper. I'm interested in the higher resolution reviews but they won't be relevant to me.

I think the only reason NVIDIA went with the smaller die size is that TSMC couldn't meet their demand for their larger die GK110. The GK104 may very well have been their midrange chip initially. After seeing what AMD had to offer, they decide to reevaluate their strategy. Nothing wrong with...

Don't know if this has been posted yet... just more info / rumor? http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2162193/nvidias-gtx680-thrashed-amds-mid-range-radeon-hd-7870-gpu-compute

Makes sense to me. People are so quick to blame the VRMs for crashing their card when the temperatures appear to be high. I wonder why they don't release an updated BIOS that has a look up table to adjust for these non-linear readings.

The reason the PS2 port is on the enthusiast motherboards is USB keyboards are polled differently then PS2 keyboards so there is extra latency added and only so many keys can be pressed down at once and be registered. So there IS a reason for the legacy port on some of these motherboards. It...

Adaptive VSync looks pretty neat. Turns VSync off if below 60 fps so your fps isn't cut to 30 and turns it on if FPS goes above 60. Best of both worlds. Gets rid of stuttering and tearing. And the GPU boost which will overclock the GPU up to an adjustable TDP. So if you have better cooling...

Back in stock @ Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121499

In one of the Asus z77 mb articles that just came out this week an Asus rep was quoted as saying that an extreme version was not planned unless there was a demand for one. However, and this is my opinion, with the new Socket 2011 and the X79 chipset for the 'extreme ' crowd, the next Formula on...

They don't know or won't say what sound codec / chip they are going with yet and I heard June sometime for availability of the Formula with the Gene being released first. They said they weren't planning on releasing an Extreme version unless there was a demand for it but with the X79 and the...

I don't know how much I trust the whole ASIC thing for overclocking. It just seems to me that for all the posts I've read about it, it appears the lower ASIC ones overclock better on average. It doesn't mean the higher ones won't overclock well though. I don't have any direct experience with...

From a lot of the posts I've seen online, the lower ASIC ones overclock better. The GPUs with a lower stock voltage are leaky compared to the higher voltage ones which are less leaky. Here is a quote from an AMD engineer. http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1344008&postcount=29 It seems...

From what I have seen online for the most part, the lower ASIC percentage overclock better the then higher ones.

The barbs only attach to a tube that runs through the heat sink so switching to larger barbs won't allow more flow but for compatibility without the adapters that can make things look cluttered... I can see your point.

At least they left the anti-static bag on the card this time so cameras wouldn't be able to snap pictures of the wood screws. I would like to believe they will have something soon but I really doubt it.

I'm still getting one too if I can ever find one in stock.

This was posted about 200 posts before. Not the same card though and seems like a different issue. http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1038423437&postcount=309

If it was me, I would keep it. Refusing shipment without any shipping damage may just result in a restocking fee. If there is anything wrong with it, return it then. Depending on where you got it from, they probably will waive return shipping if it is faulty. I wouldn't get to worried just...

Well at least I know auto-notify works separate of the actual website. Probably went out of stock before it showed on the website too.

Just got my auto-notify from Newegg that this was in stock but when I went to their website, it was out of stock again. I'm guessing the auto-notifies must go out at certain times during the day, not right when they come back into stock.