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I have never heard one with a Carbon fiber sound board, it seems reasonable that it could be made better than nature, but who really knows. Charlie Kaman sure tried with the Ovation to make something better. Hard to beat a good spruce top though. Sound is a fickle and personal thing. I have...

I think I'll buy the Arctic Cooling Acellero Extreme III VGA cooler. I'll do the Stock Sapphire 290X cooler first and see how it sounds, performs, then make the switch and see If I can see or hear a difference.

It seems like you can't take "yes" for an answer

I paid more for mine, not that it makes me happy, but it will definitely outperform my current 7970, which will migrate to another computer in X-Fire and I'll have enhanced performance on two computers. eases the pain of paying too much..

I decided not to wait and got a Sapphire 290X, I'll run it in quiet mode and I'm sure it will do more than I am capable of handling. .....wait I thinkI hear Rudolf now! Merry Christmas

I just stepped up to the plate and got a Sapphire 290X, I'll try to manage the noise. the 7970 it replaces will go in another machine with a 7970, it will be my first crossfire in many years.

Yes it was/is. I have to get it to where I can work on it. I am a little disabled and times like these it seems like a little more! Oh well you deal with the cards you have, and I can do all this I just have to get it positioned better. I should have tried it out in the open in the first...

Yes a CH5-Z, I did have fast boot on and my fan connections might not have indicated a Cooler, I will look some more later

Well I got mine together, but no post, no power button. I'll have to recheck all my connections. I do have LEDs indicating the board is getting power.

They definitely do through Corsair Link, which I installed (Software with the Cooler) It was my fist liquid cooler. I have since installed a Antec Khuler 920 in another computer and after getting installation sorted, it seems much cooler quieter to me, so much so I looked for another 920 or 950...

You might want to try different fans for the H100i, as the stock ones ramp up the noise rather quickly to me, but it could be my 7990 card too. I think it is the stock H100i fans though and I have two quiter Corsar fans to put in there, I'm just too lazy to get it done.

There was a brief battle after the top-of-the-line Matrox Millennium (I had it in PCI with a Daughter card that boosted the onboard memory) for AGP winners and Matrox dropped by the wayside. I had a couple of other oddballs too. Makes me really appreciate the new cards like the 290X.

I don't like having to "Work Around" something, but it is more practicable at times. It does say good things about MSI's software, and I have used several UEFI bios lately that I must not be very good at using.

I doubt that it (290X) is louder than my Gigabyte 7990, but I will wait for the custom cooling then the 7970 in my target machine will go with another 7970 in a different machine. It just doesn't seem to me the straight 290 is a good enough value. You get a lot more for just a little more with...

I do have several different 990FX chip set boards including the ASUS Sabertooth R 2.0 and a ASRock Fatal1ty Professional along with an Extreme 9. I also have two MSI G80 V2 boards and a Gigabyte UD7. I will put a ASUS Crosshair V-Z in service this weekend I hope. So I have a lot of recent...

Rock and guitar goes together, but I prefer Western as in Cowboy not country. but you need to learn one to play the other.

All I need is one of the $89 specials at guitar center to showcase my skill... ooh that's right I don't have any skill.. Well we all need something else besides computing. I have the rock guitar software coming and it will be on my 9590 machine. I have tried for many moths to play acoustics...

But you would have to pay more the 2600 is $340 and I paid $280 for my 9590

They could not get the Khuler 950 either so I now have a Zalman LQ 320 coming and it will be good I'm sure. I can't use a Kraken k-60 or any of the dual length radiators. So thicker is better for me.

I never heard of that fix, I did search the forum, but did not see anything mentioned.

Hopefully my CPU will be here Monday. I had ordered a better Antec Khuler locally, a 950, as I like the double thick radiator (48mm) and push pull fan setup over the 650 which has one fan and a thinner (27mm) radiator. I do have a 650 coming with the CPU. I can use it elsewhere. I will wait...

Well just a few days left and I will retire the K9A2 Platinum. I have a new ASUS Crosshair V-Z going into that spot with a 9590 CPU in it. Kind of sad as this K9A2 has been a great board.for me

I was wrong, it is a Antec 850 but a Quad rail with 25 Amps per rail. My new Antec 850 is a two rail 40 Amp each so I might swap it out now too, and it is modular too.

I have a 4 year old Antec 850 that seems fine I have a new Antec 850 in reserve, if need be. Both are Dual Rail PSUs. I prefer single rail myself, but a sale is cheaper and I buy spares on sale.. The Egg says my Parts will be here tomorrow (Friday the 6th) so all will be well.

Well I ordered a 9590 for $279 from the Egg on 12/1/13 and as of this post they are still "Packaging" it and the Antec 650 Khuler. Oh well it's coming as is Christmas. I went to Fry's and bought a ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z, I already have 16 Gig of Corsair 2133 Ram and it will have a 7970...

I am late to the Party, but I do own a Gigabyte 990FX UD7 (Early Ver 1.0) , ASRock 990FX "Fatal1ty" or Professional (also a early 990FX board), ASRock 990FX Extreme 9, ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R 2.0, and two MSI 990FX G-80 V2 boards. I thought my Gigabyte had died on me so I replaced it with the...

I have two of the G-80's, both V2.0, one with a 4350 and the other a 8350 (4350 is cheaper and faster) I have more or less quit OC'ing so I can not say for certain, but my prior experience tells me "Auto" will only go so far. I did not see any BIOS Updates for V2 that say they addressed a...

I still have both boards though the CF with a 1090 is in "Reserve" right now. The Platinum which has a X2 6400 is now my HTPC with Win 8.1 seems to be working great, though to be honest I just got it going in that capacity this week. The Platinum has been in steady service since new. I had...

I bought one for the Warden a few weeks before the release, it arrived the day of the release. She wanted me to put it in Korean which I did, but after that she was on her own as I don't read or speak Korean. I did get the 64 Gig model and added a 32 gig micro SD card to it. She loves it...

I started with AMD Athlon and I made my own first build.It all seems so distant now. But I have stayed with AMD and though I stopped overclocking and some of the crazy things we did then, I am still interested in performance I guess I slowed down after the smoke and significant flames in a MSI...

I bought one for the Warden upon release. I got the 64 Gig version. It is Windows RT 8.1 and I converted it to Korean for the Warden and she loves it. It was a easy transition for her as she had a Win Phone with a similar OS and that expertise easily transferred. She does complain about the...

My current laptop is a MSI GX70 and I really like it, but my old 2008 HP is still no slouch with a 2.2 Turion, it is nearly as good as my MSI. (The MSI has a regular hard drive and the HP a SSD, both Win 8.1) I think HP is as good as any out there.

I do not have the big Kahuna, but I do have a FX 9370, Corsair H100i, Gigabyte 7990 with a ASRock 990FX Extreme 9 Motherboard. It seems load, but I love it. I have 3 8350's, a 4170 and a 4350 also. The 4350 is the performance bargain and the 4170 is not a slouch either.

Three times for me, but one was a XFX and they wanted me to talk to a tech first the tech talked me through a cleaning procedure and that 'ol Nvidia 6800 is still kicking. Makes me partial to XFX thats for sure. RMAing with anyone is not my favorite deal.

I haven't had that problem and I am using BIOS revision 1.2. It could be because I only have one hard drive, Or maybe that I am using Vista 64.

I have had a 790X board for a year and the Platinum since New Year's (Dec 29) and it is my top machine at the moment. [H]ard to believe I have left it alone for eleven months, I would like to upgrade to a 9950, but I would not have a place for my 6400 to go.... I will likely wait for a Phenom...

I think Mega666 is right.... I forgot I had four 16X slots. So Bungholio what kind of 1X device are you going to use and why in a 16X slot? just curious in case I get some bright idea later. Right now my 1X slot is unused and unblocked, all I have noticed that might use it are PCI Express...

Well I have had two Gigabytes and was happy enough with both (My first was a 7 DXR which had a half AMD half Via chip-set and I was all Noob.... lots of troubles setting up as I was learning. I got Gigabyte help and Forum help and then used it for several years till I shorted it out) I still...

Hear! Hear! I second that post! I have two MSI boards as Abit couldn't even get the AX78 to market for nearly five months after the announcement.... It should be a rule .... no Announcements till they are in the distributor hot little hands !!!!

I have never owned a Biostar, but they have a very good reputation. I love abit's CMOS Interface (BIOS) and I don't know how the Biostar would compare there. Where you are the Biostar is a better bargain. I'd give it a whirl.