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I will be running Windows 10 on this system so would you go for the cheaper board (£60 difference) if you didn't need the intel NIC for anything special such as the things you mentioned? I'd rather get the cheaper and better looking board to save that much money if the NIC quality isn't an...

Looks like this is the board for me since there is no Z270 Designare, I don't like the look of it though. The Gigabyte Z270 K5 looks so much nicer with its black heatsinks but I don't want a a board with only Killer LAN on it, as it seems to be not thought too fondly of by many people.

No Z270 version :( Also as far as I can see so far there is no mention of 100W USB C on any of these new Aorus boards. I'm guessing some of them have it but it's not mentioned in the feature list like it was for the Designare.

Can anybody else please tell me if they hear this type of sound coming from their PSU? I really don't want to send this back as well and have to get something different, I'd really like to know if this sound is a normal and common thing for PSUs, thanks.

Yeah just make sure you don't spray any moisture into it, hold the can upright and don't hold the trigger for more than a few seconds at a time, short bursts, standard use of compressed air.

You should be able to see if it's dusty inside by looking into the grill at the back. If it is I'd say remove it, hold the fan in place and use compressed air with a tube attached to spray air inside it through the gaps between the fan blades to loosen and blow out the dust, then also while...

Yeah, I'm thinking it's probably nothing to worry about but Corsair Tech Support are doing a good job of making me worry about it by telling me it needs to be replaced. I don't care about it making that noise if it isn't a symptom of something being wrong with it. As said I can only hear it when...

Thanks Betaboy, it would be good to get input from a few/a lot of people on this as I know there are so many threads about PSU noise and people worrying about sounds coming from them, and it would be good to find out for certain if this kind of noise is just a normal noise that PSUs make and not...

I got a Corsair RM850i, after installing it I was listening close for any sign of coil whine and I heard a very quiet sort of sizzling electrical sound. I informed Corsair and they said it should not make any sound at all so I got a replacement from amazon which emits the exact same sound. I am...

Ok thanks, well let's say one of them was drawing a fair amount more than the other and it was over 10%, which one would be better in that case? The one drawing less?

Corsair link and it is showing the power in and power out. PC is in idle state, not doing anything. One PSU has a minimum power in of 124W and the other one is 130W. I have swapped them other numerous times and one of them shows a consistently higher Power In value.

I have 2 identical PSUs here, yet one of them shows slightly more power coming in than the other and shows 8A on the 12V at minimum load rather than 7A on the other one. Is this normal and just down to minor differences in the components? Also which one is the better one in this case, or does it...

Did you guys update to that BIOS just for the fun of it or did you actually have issues you were trying to resolve? I think all motherboard manufacturers recommend only flashing BIOS if you need to do it and not just for the sake of having the latest version. I do agree though they obviously...

I picked the Corsair in the end too, the RM850i. Very happy with how quiet it is with the fan on. The capacitor sleeve on the ATX 24 pin is a bit of a bitch but it's the same thing with the EVGA afaik. Also I'm not a fan of the sata ribbon cables; they made cable management harder for me rather...

I'm really hoping they do a Z270 version of this, I'm sure they will and I don't see why they wouldn't. If I decide to go for skylake though this is definitely the board I'll get.

Is it the MPower or the XPower version? It's listed as compatible with the XPower but not the MPower.

Yeah, I think by the time the 7700K is available to buy I would probably have to be able to save a lot on the 6700K to pick that instead, like £100 or something which won't happen. Providing there is a motherboard I want available to go with it anyway. Hopefully Gigabyte have a Z270 designare...

Yeah that's something else to consider, although I thought it was the same pricing as Skylake.

So as somebody wanting to upgrade their system from a 2500K and GTX 770 to a new i7 and GTX 1080, and the only 2 options are 6700K or 7700K (i.e. "don't bother upgrading the CPU" is not an option), which would you go for? Also bearing in mind I'd rather not buy a newly released motherboard that...

I have to ask then, if you consider their QC so bad then why the hell would you buy an AIO water cooler from them that could potentially ruin everything in your system if it develops a leak?

And the cores hit 91C. I don't think that really counts, I could probably clock my 2500K to 5GHz on air too if I didn't care about running it at ~90C.

I guess I might as welll just go ahead with a 6700K build then. I'm just waiting for the [H] review next week now really and any others that come in between now and then to see if it's worth waiting for.

The RMx/i is on par with the G2 from what I've read as I'm also picking between them. The only thing that makes me lean towards the Corsair is it seems quieter and that's the only difference I can see in their operation that matters to me. And also it's hardly just an improved RM as is suggested...

Just put that on the 6700K then, it will fit the 1151 socket.

I don't think you can get any Z170 boards that are both DDR3 and DDR4 compatible, you can however get some that support only DDR3/L, but personally I wouldn't advise doing that. What's the point in making the jump to that processor if you aren't going to at least take advantage of that chipsets...

Depends how much you want to upgrade too I guess. I also have a 2500K and am using a GTX 770 but I'm going to get a whole new PC and get a 6700K/7700K and a GTX 1080. But it's more out of a want rather than a need to upgrade, I already know that it's not worth me spending what is going to come...

I've looked at a few boards and decided this is the one I'm getting if I get a 6700K, it has great reviews everywhere. The only thing currently putting me off getting a 7700K and a Z270 board instead is being afraid to buy such a new motherboard that could end up having issues, then again this...

Yeah Asus have the worst reputation by far for RMAs and "customer service" from what I've read over the years, so I've always avoided them when buying hardware due to that. You can have good and bad experiences with almost any manufacturer and retailer though. Look at any reviews for example of...

Should we read anything into the voltage shown on that, at idle as well? My 2500k shows that voltage when it's overclocked to 4.5GHz.

If this is true, why did AMD send an overheating (you can say faulty - because it had to be fixed by a bios update) MSI card to techpowerup? http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming/31.html And there must be more examples than this.

Yeah, still doesn't mean Nvidia are going to match their price which it would be if it put the 770 to $299 and the 780 to $399. They will have sales through the roof at the moment due to the price drops that already happened so I doubt they will feel the need to try to price match AMD. I agree...

What makes you think Nvidia are going to price match AMD? It won't happen.

Because generally higher levels of heat decrease the lifespan of components probably.

No I am a genuine new user, and what is wrong with what I said? I just personally don't think I'd want a graphics card that was that power hungry and hot, I'm sure it won't matter at all for a lot of people. I'm not into the idea of water cooling so that's not an option for me. If the...

And what exactly does a 3/4 year old card have to do with this? I don't think anybody is going to be making the choice between an R9 290 and a GTX 480 are they. :rolleyes: and yeah we get it, Geforce 400 series ran hot and were power hungry, that doesn't mean it's ok that AMD's current cards do.

440W load! 41C/95C temps! Wow. If anything is getting smoked it's that 290 after you've been playing games for a few hours. I was interested in this card but 440W is ridiculous and that's not even an overclocked version and on a system with not much connected, so you're looking at about 500W...

There's no bottlenecking going on, it's not using 3GB VRAM, it's just allocating it for use (i.e. it's there if needed and the more you have the more it makes available up to a point). How much is it actually showing as being used? I'm guessing it is below 3000MB.

Thanks for the info, but I have a 680W PSU with 4 12v Rails (18A on each one) and I use one cable that has 2x6pin (one of them is a 6+2) to connect to the two 6 pin sockets on my GTX 570 and it is fine. I am however looking at getting a graphics card that will require either a 6 and an 8 pin...

Raghu, sorry but I have to ask this. Are AMD paying you to push their products to people on forums (here, OCN etc.)? Because if not they should be.

Yeah that's what I was thinking but also my CPU isn't overclocked, one review said OC on intel CPU's doesn't make much difference in the game though. I just tried that map with the big satellite dish on it before and I was getting more like 60 on that one using perfOverlay.drawfps 1