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Also looking for an invite if anyone has an extra.

Ha thanks. It's incredibly hard to run, slide and pull out the camera all in the same motion.

This is my experience playing so far. http://youtu.be/unpJxuIBWqo

Newegg just dropped their price to 89.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148442

Will going from stock clocks to the overclocked version clocks give me that much gain in FPS?

Hmm I'm going to leave it at core/shader 800/1600 for now. It's now the same as the overclocked version. I pushed it further but it started artifacting in BC2. Domingo: It's pretty easy to oc with afterburner. Just bump up the core/shader clock to what you want and hit apply at the bottom. You...

I have a stock GTX 570 and have just started fooling around with it in MSI afterburner. How much of an FPS increase can I expect if I overclock it to the specs of the overclocked edition card? How far can I safely push it and not drastically reduce the lifetime of my card? I don't plan on...

Keep an eye out on your temps with these drivers. My card got dangerously hot today after playing BF3. Had to install msi afterburner so i could turn up the fan speed to compensate.

Be sure the mounting screws in your case set up correctly with your motherboard screw holes. You can fry your board otherwise.

I bought him counter strike source and set up steam for him 6 years ago and I think he played it once. Worst best friend ever.

I like it. That sure is a no frills mobo.

I'd rather he build but he kind of sucks when it comes to computers. Vostro looks good. There's a Studio XPS 7100 which has a pretty good option with a Phenom II X4 945 + HD 6670 1GB with 6GB of DDR3 1333mhz, and a 1TB HD for $600.

Thanks I must be blind. Looks like they all have Intel integrated graphics :(

How does this look? It's the same price of an XPS 7100 with a 22" monitor and it has better components. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1fZj

The only vostros I see are Labtops. Maybe they got rid of the desktop line?

Is there a big difference in quality between Inspiron and XPS machines? Their graphics cards and PSUs look like crap to me. Oh yeah he wants to be able to hook up two monitors. Not sure if Intel integrated graphics can do that.

My friend wants to buy a pre-built computer or maybe possibly build for the first time. He mainly want's to use this rig for playing online poker. I also want it to be someone decent so it will last him awhile. He is coming from a 7 year old dell. Mainly playing a lot of online poker, web...

Hmm everything is in the blue except for my caviar blue lol.

Ok it was working for about half a day and now it's not working anymore. So I guess the cable had nothing to do with it. I give up.

So there was probably a fault in the cable?

Some benchmarks.

I used the 1 pass with 50mb because it was the quickest benchmark. It's probably not the most accurate way to compare the drives. I'll do some proper benchmarks in a bit... Also, is it common knowledge not to put 3 Hard Drives onto one SATA power cable? How can I make sure that having 2 Hard...

My black is pretty slow right now since it's my OS drive that's partitioned 3 times. Here is my WD Blue 7200rpm 1tb:

PROBLEM SOLVED Thank you bigddybn for that advice. I updated my chipset drivers via intel's website and things are working perfectly. In fact I've been getting awesome increases in speed across the board. UPDATE: Actually the problem was power related. I had my WD black, WD blue, and Samsung...

I'm getting a new sata III black drive on Wednesday. I'm hoping it doesn't let me down.

Yeah it's been a months or so. Thanks for the link I'll definitely try this. I didn't know how to find drivers on intel's website. Would this screw up my system if I tried installing the chipset drivers now instead of doing a fresh install? Hmmm the only thing running in the background is my...

I have 1.4tb of files on it at the moment. Not sure if that would matter.

Your Samsung drive is faster than your 7200rpm caviar black? That's crazy.

First bored I bought in January. It also didn't work with the Samsung. Then the recall happened and I got a the Rev. 3.0 mobo a couple of months later. Samsung drive didn't work with that newer one either.

Yes and yes. There is only one chipset driver on my Mobo's driver page and it's almost a year old and I'm using that one. Intel Chipset Inf Update Program V9.2.0.1015 for Windows

-Asus P8P67 Pro Rev. 3.0 -i2500k -Corsair vengeance 8gb ram -GTX 570 -SeaSonic 650w PSU -Win 7 Ultimate -Bios version 1704 -Caviar black 500gb, Caviar blue 1tb -Samsung F4 HD204UI

Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb on my old P5N system: Samsung F4 HD204UI 2tb on my new P8P67 Pro system: What the heck is going on here? It works fine in my old system but as soon as I put it in my new system it's unusable. I installed the firmware update. I have tried different Sata...

Sustained Sequential Read Speeds 320 - Up to 270 MB/s 510 - Up to 450 MB/s (SATA 6Gb/s); 265 MB/s (SATA 3Gb/s) Sustained Sequential Write Speeds 320 - Up to 130 MB/s 510 - Up to 210 MB/s (SATA 6Gb/s); 200 MB/s (SATA 3Gb/s) So if you only have a sata 2 connection get the 320. If you have a...

I'm having trouble deciding which SSD to get. So far I'm looking at these two: Intel 510 Series (Elm Crest) SSD 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Intel 320 Series SSD 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC I've heard that the Intel 320 series has a firmware bug right now. Should I knock that out as a...

I called today to see what was taking so long and the girl made it sound like it was just one guy handling the recall. She said he had already left for today and that I should just wait for him to contact me... yeah right... it's been more than two weeks already. She didn't sound like she had...

I take that back, things are not going well on the marvel ports. One of my drives has just been disconnected while transferring files to it. Great.

I've moved my two storage drives from the 3gb/s ports to the 6gb/s Marvel ports things work better now. No more 6 hour completion times for small sized files. Guess I'll have to wait for the new boards to come out to add more storage drives. Will the z68 boards be out by then?

I thought something was wrong with my system. My perfectly fine hard drives were not doing so well. I will try putting my hard drives into the 6gb/s ports for now but I plan on having more hard drives in the future... Here is a link to my previous thread in Data Storage Systems from days ago...

I just saw that today. Sucks so bad :(

Just built a new Sandybridge computer with an Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard and something seems to be wrong with writing/reading to/from my secondary storage drives. I went to copy a 6gb MKV file from my primary Caviar Black 500GB drive to my secondary Samsung F4 HD204UI 2TB drive and the write...