Plastic brake covers are for women or morons.
- They collect dust
- They cause extra heat
- They can cause brake fade (get you killed)
- waste of money
- Anyone that knows anything about cars will think you are a phony and moron
- etc etc
yes go buy them.
I thought I explained the drives are indeed different. I swapped mounting areas and also ran tests outside the case. The drives are in raid 1 and nothing running. One drive runs hotter and its from the way it was manufactured. It has more vibration than the other drive.
Its expected to...
Its not too hot as its within the spec. But I looked up drive failure rates and temps. Right around 35c and above the percentage of drive failures starts a steep increase. Maybe a drive at 25c lasts 8 years and the same drive at 45c lasts 5 years.
TOSHIBA MD04ACA500
I have two of these 5 platter drives. I put them in a Dell workstation with ECC ram for a NAS. They do run a bit hot and one of mine is hotter than the other by around 7c.
One runs at 33c other at 40c.
I swapped drives to make sure it was not the case location causing...
Unless he has SLI or Crossfire there is not gaming reason to get a IVY E over a I7 950.
Just admit you are addicted to hardware and have to have the latest needed or not needed.
In most cases its NOT worth it money wise. But if you want it for some sick reason due to addiction then fine...
Well thats a 6 core and a very nice 600.00 chip. If I had no cpu and were to get a new system that would be nice. Still not worth upgrade to me yet. Extra 2 cores would go to waste.
But would I want it? Sure why not!
You just had upgraditis. I have a I7-920@ 3.4 with a 770GTX and a I73770k with GTX 580. The 920 holds it own just fine in everything gaming. Better in most games than the faster 3770k I have due to its better gpu.
In SC2 (cpu limited) the 3770k will pull 5-10 more fps, not huge. I...
You ask very good questions, without the answers you seek. I think people just guess or spew off something they read but never verified.
I have over 12 cpus in my house from 16 core rack servers to old p3s. I pulled out a A64 3200+ single core with 2 gig onboard ram to see. I put a 8.00...
I have a 920 OC to 3.4 and just got a 3770K for son. I like the ivy for its power savings but it does not give me the WOW when I use his then go to mine. They feel same, both very fast.
In games not much different, as its mostly video card.
encoding, the intel hd4000 is faster than...
Juju has some sense. Its the OCD in people that makes them
agonize over ram timings overclocking etc.
You will feel zero difference if you do its just delusional thoughts.
Nice job! Glad to be of service.
Is this the card you ended up buying?
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100352VXSR Radeon HD 7950 3GB for 330.00 (sold out)
Looks like a nice one.
Yes I have to agree, this reminds me of a women shopping for a dress.
Man up and buy the card already.
If you want quality I would stick with AMD. I liked the 570/580 nvidias but not the 670/680
they look good on paper but are junk in terms of quality. Something bad with the silicon...
I'm running CAT 12.3 but drivers before were fine too.
I have dual LCDs one is
Alienware 120hz 1920x1080
and
Viewsonic 1680x1050
They both run at native resolutions and also at different frequencies.
So my Viewsonic is running at 60hz at its lower rez and the Alienware is running at 120Hz...
Yes the video card drivers seem to have fixed it. This is not good for Nvidia gtx 670/680 owners. I have read many threads of people returning the card or reinstalling entire OS to fix.
Alt Tabbling in a game or even a pop up ad while in game (ie. steam, avast etc) seems to start the...
It could be the new nvidia drivers. That system has a new win 7 install and I did upgrade to newer nvidia drivers. I see a ton of post on people complaining over alt tab slow downs. I go back to old and let ya know how it goes.
Bios temps, cpu temps, etc.
Plus its in a new corsair case with great air flow and huge corsair A70 HS and its running stock, not over clocked at all.
Video card runs super cool.
Unplugging does have a positive effect. Rebooting does not seem to have same effect as a physical...
My sons windows 7 64 PC has some strange behavior.
Q9450 2.66 stock
6 gigs ram
win 7 pro 64
Xonar DX sound
Nvidia 560 Ti 449 core (stock)
Large corsair heatsink A70
New Corsair 650 watt PS
1. USB ports would enable disable at times making the windows...
Many people don't know what you are talking about because they don't alt tab out of games. I know what you are talking about and that would be very annoying.
Also you did say that you just upgraded the video card and not the entire computer right? Makes no sense for people to be asking you...
Glad you like your new Xonar sound card. Here let me help you spend money :)
I think I'm getting these or maybe some 2.0 swans.
http://www.theaudioinsider.com/product_info.php?products_id=167
For games SB E is probably a waste but if he is doing things that take 1 hour to render then getting a 6 core E will take time off the clock for sure.
The X79 platform crush the Z68 one in certain areas.
That makes no sense, a LOWER not HIGHER resolution would improve gaming performance.
Depending on the game and the settings you run, once you hit the wall for your graphics card a faster cpu often will not do much.
SLI or a new graphics card would play faster.
I have a I7920@3.5...
Yes you are correct. My cpu lan room was a sauna. Each cpu and vpu get very hot and no matter if you use liquid, fans etc that heat is put into the room. I ended up venting out a window to keep the room temps down. Now its fine.
Yes I agree with the people that said to get a new video card and power supply. That is a good start and maybe good enough for what you need. Later if you upgrade the motherboard the video card can be transferred.
I have a buddy that has a Q6600 overclocked to 3.2 and he decided just to...
lol, yea they could have done better on the D3 test. but I own 3 copies of D3 and it plays smooth on the old Q9450 as it does on the i7s on my lan. It does not seem to need much to play, no slow downs.
Fun game too.
Na Diablo 3 plays well on old and new cpus. Toms did a bench on it.
CPU scales
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/diablo-iii-performance-benchmark,3195-6.html
GPU Scales
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/diablo-iii-performance-benchmark,3195-5.html
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-690-review/12
In our recent GeForce GTX 680 SLI article we already mentioned that as long as you have a modern age processor, preferably Intel Core i7 based, then it really doesn't matter that much what kind of processor you have and how high it's...
The original poster was wondering if his cpu was holding him back
"I find that in massive battles my computer bogs down into the 50s frame rate wise. I'm running my 2500k at 4.5ghz but it will do 5ghz with more voltage.
I'm wondering if pumping up my overclock a bit will help me out."
To take...
I never called you a jerk, or said a game/mod that you played does not freaking matter. I never assumed other people that i dont know would not care either. I never assumed what hardware you may or may not own as you did me.
What you do not get is you can't play DS at 200 fps like that...
Hehe, well certain maps of sc2 are more demanding than crysis.
That other guy would like people playing sc2 on low and only maps that have like 8 units so he can say its cpu bound.
I see where you got your name. Maybe hothead would be a good alternative :)
You missed the link I gave you
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review/14
GPU holding sc2 back even at 1680 and thats with a easy benchmark not DS.
And sorry if you dont play or...
They did not test with Desert Strike. Sure running standard sc2 will be more cpu limited but when you get that many units in sd it will become gpu limited. DS needs both cpu and gpu.
And yes tons and tons of people are playing sc2 on 9800gts and laptops. They all think because they can...
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