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I'm planning on buying a new motherboard + CPU soonish. Most likely Skylake unless I see a good reason to get Haswell instead. One thing I noticed is that Z170 motherboards can come in DDR3L versions or DDR4 versions. Is there any reason to get DDR3 instead of DDR4? In the reviews I read they...

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Thank you! As someone who has a CM 690 II and a H100, I'm really glad you posted this! The top look much easier to work with now!

Well I did that and no proxy was being used. In the end I tried changing my DNS settings in the router to see what happened and the problems have gone away. I was on OpenDNS before, using ISP DNS now.

Hi, I've got this weird connection issue and I have no idea what's causing it so I was hoping I could post the symptoms here and maybe someone else could point me in the right direction. This started this morning after 9ish. Had no problems early when I woke up. www.facebook.com won't load...

Ah! Thanks!

I'm using: i5-3570K using stock (auto) values on Maximus V gene, 2x4GB G.Skill F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 9-9-9-24 set manually in the bios. I wanted to test for stability before I overclock and was reading the sticky which says to: I'm not quite sure I'm doing it properly since the fourth window of...

I have the same problem, although not quite to the same extent. Local prices are usually about 30% more expensive than newegg type prices for me (not India) when I can find the parts. Some parts are not available at all. I usually watch out for friends and/or family coming to my country from...

Maybe it's a bit off topic, but if EVGA are having problems with their PCBs, which brand GTX 670 would you recommend? I'm think about getting a 2GB one, stock or overclocked doesn't matter.

Wow thanks for the benchmarks cmdrdredd! It's true that recently I've only been playing online MMO's and that it's hard to tell what future games will be dependent on. I wanted to wait because really I have low expectations for AAA single player games, and I don't expect my system to have...

Thanks for the all the responses guys! I can see it's a close call since people seem to be divided. And I'd love to see those benchmark cmrdredd. I don't play BF3 (only TERA & WoW atm), but I do play Batman and I'm hoping to pickup Tomb Raider and Max Payne 3 later when they come out.

So long story short, I was planning on only upgrading next year from my Q9550 to Haswell but a recent month-long holiday trip I had been planning fell through and I find myself with some "free" money. My current specs are: Intel Q9550 2.83 Ghz @ 3.53Ghz Coolermaster V6 CPU cooler Coolermaster...