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The Reality of Haswell Overclocking - Results Poll

4770K @ 4.5 on 1.320V on a Corsair H90. Should I bother optimizing? It works and I'm too lazy to care.
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- Post #123
- Feb 12, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Power Supply Chatter

Got some 550W Antec does the same thing now. Before on a Q9550/HD6850 it was quiet. Now on a 4770K and a GTX780 it makes this sound. Funny thing is that it's louder on 2D GPU accelerated game menus (higher unlimited framerates) and even more so when monitor is overclocked to 120hz. $100 for...
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- Post #4
- Jan 7, 2014
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Microcenter after Christmas-i5 3570k-$149.99 (again!), AMD FX-4130-$69.99 w/mb bundle

Watch out, last time OC didn't honor other MC prices, call first. Never going there again.
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- Post #5
- Dec 25, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Dell 24" 4K Ultrasharp

I was a 4K hater until I got my 1440P 27" screen. With it close enough I can still sorta see the pixels and the dot pitch is pretty normal. That means I'm ready for more.
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- Post #30
- Dec 18, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Crucial DDR4 in December!

No one besides mouthbreathing manbeard basement goblins know what the hell micron d9s are. Crucial is a gigantic company that sells a product for the masses, the masses know two things: 1) Computer needs ram 2) ram needs to work Also can you tell me what voltage and settings I'm supposed to...
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- Post #29
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Crucial DDR4 in December!

Hahaha I'm in exactly your situation with the C2Q not being worth it and also bought the 4770K deal. With the disappointing prices in Ram I had to choose between G Skill, which look like a transformer happy meal toy, and Ballistix. Well, I went way over budget on this system already so that's...
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- Post #20
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Crucial DDR4 in December!

I'd rather have slower ram and secure data than faster ram and corrupt data. Would have been different if Crucial actually advertised Ballistix as OVERCLOCK YOUR MOMS PHOTOS AND SLAM DUNK THEM INTO THE TOILET TO THE EXTREME, ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE FOR ADEQUATE COOLING?
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- Post #15
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Crucial DDR4 in December!

Yup, their RMA experience was great but what would really be great is not having to use it. Ballistix were such garbage, after 5 or 6 RMAs I just had them give me regular sticks without the heatspreaders. Those regular old green PCB sticks have worked fine for 4 years now. If a company...
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- Post #8
- Nov 19, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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[DEAD for now]: i7-4770K $199.99 at MicroCenter 11/18-11/21

The "business sense" is that when my inlaws went to Microcenter to pick up the CPU for me they were also calling me about motherboard combo and antivirus offers that they were bombarded with in the store.
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- Post #53
- Nov 19, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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[DEAD for now]: i7-4770K $199.99 at MicroCenter 11/18-11/21

Got my inlaws across the country to pick one up, I don't even know how I'll end up getting it from them, don't care. This deal is just stupid. A year from now this deal will still be an ok deal.
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- Post #24
- Nov 18, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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[DEAD for now]: i7-4770K $199.99 at MicroCenter 11/18-11/21

I was just there yesterday expecting 280, found out it was 320, and swore I'd never return to a brick and mortar again. So are they really really for real this time?
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- Post #11
- Nov 18, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Free "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" Trilogy on Amazon (Kindle version)

ahahahahahaha
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- Post #9
- Oct 29, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Intel Haswell 2014 "Refresh" 1150 Socket

He's just talking about "this generation iGPU is a stepping stone, but that NEXT one will finally be the one" which happens over and over and over again. They're as irrelevant now as they were before, they're "adequate" for people who don't use them.
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- Post #19
- Oct 27, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Haswell 2014 "Refresh" 1150 Socket

Yeah I remember starting to follow that BS hype so many years ago, "oh this iGPU is ok, but that NEXT one, oh that one is really going to be great" I'm done, don't care, was going to build family non-enthusiast systems with these things but Intel GPUs are such garbage that I wouldn't wish one...
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- Post #11
- Oct 26, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Q9650

Also I'm now using automotive permatex copper brake grease as thermal paste for the northbridge cause im bad-ass.
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- Post #12
- Oct 20, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Q9650

I'm on a Q9550 and your same exact motherboard. Tips: Add a redacted little fan to the Northbridge Heatsink, don't skip over this step, do it. I found one from a Pentium 2 that fit. Or just ziptie something blowing in it's general area, makes a huge difference, just try touching it with your...
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- Post #11
- Oct 20, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Are you buying Haswell?

even magazine ads back in the day confirm this, people used to think that having some powerhouse workstation would be cool because they could create anything, be their own pixar, be their own orchestra, design their next house of course your average 90s suburban dad never did anything creative...
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- Post #280
- Jun 12, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Are you buying Haswell?

no im in my 20s having a crisis that i wasted too many years consuming stupid products and playing games i want computers that do stuff, not computers that let me watch stuff being done mobile tech is frightening once you realize that mobile apps are all garbage and the division between...
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- Post #278
- Jun 12, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD unleashes first ever commercial 5GHz CPU, the FX-9590

dude you better get cinema 4d out and start rendering bowling balls being dropped into paint filled bathtubs otherwise you'll never make sense of that purchase
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- Post #119
- Jun 12, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Are you buying Haswell?

videogames are for babies, i'd rather create than consume if you want a flashback to turbo button era computing, try running a few linear phase equalizers at a high sampling rate it's not that computers have gotten fast but it's the things that we use them for have gotten slow, it's...
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- Post #275
- Jun 12, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Are you buying Haswell?

im trying to figure out their site because i wouldnt mind an alternative to thinkpads but wx8974 jh32075 hjk324823 n,mcxn9943850395843 djhdk0-9534859043853 mnc,mb348609438609438690865 kdnfvmnmnx,mnb438609538609587093870986437908098908 oh sweet, that one sounds like a good one, ill...
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- Post #73
- Jun 2, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Are you buying Haswell?

usb issues, knowing all that space is wasted on a gpu, the overclocking, nah I'm on an undervolted Q9550 and I'm still going to pass, although it's getting hard to keep the northbridge heatsink cool, ziptied a fan to it but there's noise issues. It's crazy to think that right now I'm the...
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- Post #58
- Jun 2, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The King of Queens: The Complete Series: 27 DVD's: $34.99

why would you do this to your life
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- Post #10
- Apr 28, 2012
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Old motherboards still doing you proud :)

This 965P DS3 just won't quit. 6 years, taking an E4300 from 1.8 to 3.0 and a Q9550 from 2.83 to 3.4. It was never even meant for 1600 FSB. Finally had some hiccups these past few weeks, I figured the MCH is probably cooked at this point, RAM coming up a fraction of its speed, running in weird...
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- Post #138
- Apr 26, 2012
- Forum: Motherboards
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VNC over LAN as a hardcore "docking station" for Netbooks?

Thanks, that doesn't sound too bad at all, I'll do some tests once I get a laptop. I don't care if theres some hiccups on the netbook side, that's just for controlling the PC. The actual audio and video will be coming straight from the PC to a loudspeaker system and projector. So far this...
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- Post #8
- Apr 23, 2012
- Forum: Laptops
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VNC over LAN as a hardcore "docking station" for Netbooks?

Win 7 on both ends. Cool, so lets say I'm on site somewhere. I boot up the rackmount PC blindly, and if all goes well it will get to Windows and I'll be able to get remote access, right? So in theory I just wont have control over the BIOS and that's it?
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- Post #5
- Apr 21, 2012
- Forum: Laptops
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VNC over LAN as a hardcore "docking station" for Netbooks?

Got a netbook. Got a huge rackmount PC. Any experiences with controlling something like that, without having an LCD/keyboard/mouse attached to the primary PC? What is the latency like? Too slow for games but maybe fast enough for some multimedia tasks, triggering video clips for...
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- Apr 20, 2012
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Laptops
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C2D overclocking, origional E6600 2.4GHz 4MB L2

4 RMAs later I had them finally just send me back some regular old green sticks, no heatsinks. Been fine ever since. Besides that my p965 ds3 motherboard has been running this Q9550 and a previous C2D at 3.4 for what, 5 years now? It's fine but that NB heatsink is painfully hot so I zip tied...
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- Post #10
- Mar 2, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Anything new in light, compact, cases without wasted optical drive space?

I'm still deciding and waiting on Ivy Bridge, both the SG08 and Q25 are definitely the best I've seen so far so I really appreciate the suggestions. Both also look way better than I expected so if not for portable use, they'd be great at home. I sort of ran into a problem when I found out...
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- Post #18
- Feb 29, 2012
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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C'mon XFX

I disagree, I think the service is excellent. I just happened to get two duds out of three. In my experience their premium dual fan cards seem to be better. But that's anecdotal. These threads remind me of the WD vs Seagate vs Maxtor ones from 10 years back, before everyone figured out...
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- Post #28
- Feb 28, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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C'mon XFX

Just got a replacement XFX 6850 for my XFX 4890 with a grinding fan. This replacement has blocky video corruption even in the BIOS, amazing. So I guess I'm looking at another week without a PC?
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- Post #10
- Feb 27, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Anything new in light, compact, cases without wasted optical drive space?

Best I found so far, surprisingly, is a tower case. I was searching for cubes initially but this is more in the right direction. Stuff a pair of HDDs and SSDs into the bays, throw out the vertical HDD bracket, and you got a decent $40 minimal case...
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- Post #4
- Feb 19, 2012
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Anything new in light, compact, cases without wasted optical drive space?

I can't seem to find a case that's right for me. I need it portable and minimal. I only want the powerful bits in this PC, and none of the storage or useless accessories. Are my only options building my own? I need it to be: -acrylic? aluminum? -full size CPU cooler -full size PSU -full...
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- Feb 16, 2012
- Replies: 17
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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[DEAD] LG Optimus V Android Phone for Virgin Mobile: $99.99 @bestbuy

Awesome thread, I just bought 2 of these. To hell with that T-Mobile plan I've been scheming on. Anyone know if it's normal for the new battery to have something like 20% charge on it? It was either 20% or 50% when I put it in, I forgot. I'm assuming these batteries aren't like the dark...
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- Post #31
- Sep 29, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways

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