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Hi Everybody, I’m in the market for a new laptop for my wife. I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading reviews and checking out forums, but I’m becoming frustrated with the process. I’m particularly interested in build quality, and that seems to be hit or miss with all but the most expensive...

I'm enabling it through the control panel. I've tried ENB, but my performance has typically been worse using it. Do you find performance with ENB AO better than the control panel method (I would imagine it looks better). I haven't tried it recently because my results were always pretty...

In some games I really like the look of ambient occlusion, but it definitely chews up performance. It sounds like unless the game developer includes it as an in-game option, it's not worth bothering with. I didn't realize there was a difference between the control panel option and an in-game...

Hi, My obsession has become running Skyrim with all the eye-candy maxed at 60fps with vsync at 1080p. Right now I'm on an i5-750 (OC 4.0GHz) and a GTX 670 4GB. I moved from GTX460s in SLI and noticed certain improvements (particularly around VRAM usage on high res textures), but I still can't...

Hi. I recently installed an SSD as my boot/programs drive. I have two 250GB drives in a Windows software RAID 0 as my data drive, and a 1TB drive as my backup. I decided to set up the software RAID rather than hardware because I'd read it was the essentially the same speed as hardware but...

Great suggestions. Thanks very much, all.

That's a good link. It looks like I need to be searching for cases with 8 expansion slots. Thank you.

Hi Everyone, I've tried a few searches but had no luck finding this specific information. I recently ended up with an MSI P55-GD80 mobo. There is a third PCI-E slot at the bottom of the board. I'm running SLI 8x/8x on the top two slots and was hoping to use my old 8800 GTS in the 4x slot as a...

Well, now I'm really confused. I decided I would go back to trying a few "unlinked" combos to see if it made any difference in overall performance. When I moved up to 1600 (400 FSB), the machine wouldn't boot at all and I finally had to clear CMOS. When it booted back up, I was expecting the...

I sort of doubt to get any responses considering this thread has died out, but I've been fiddling with my board a little lately and had some rather confusing results. I recently installed an ATI 4870 and noticed that I was getting beat out pretty badly in 3dmark06 by people with similar builds...

Thanks Tuvoc; I may play around with my speeds a little to see what happens. As far as the heatsink not fitting in my case, the problem is that the sides of my case rotate out. It makes accessing the mobo a snap, but when you try to rotate it back into the case: suprise! There's no way to get...

The 120 fit just fine without any modding. I originally had a small cpu fan mounted on the NB which I had to move a bit, but the heatsink seats fine without changing anything. Now, as far as fitting in that RAIDMAX case, that's a whole other story. Speaking of the heatsink reminds me of...

Hey guys. It's been a long time since I've posted, but I've run into a few issues and I'm hoping someone may have had similar experiences. I've been able to run my 6600 at 3.0 (1333FSB with memory at 800), but I recently acquired 2GB more of the same corsair xms 6400. I upgraded to Vista x64 and...

Thank you for the welcome. After Orthos ran for over an hour last night I decided to step to 1500/800. It booted and loaded Windows fine, but Orthos stopped almost immediately. The cpu didn't even get up past 43 C, so it doesn't seem like it is heat, but I don't really have enough experience to...

Hi. I've been browsing this thread for a while trying to get an idea of what I can do with this board. My original had the random lock up problems and I RMA'd it the day before I saw the black slot suggestion. Anyway, I've had Orthos up for nearly an hour at 1400/800. I seem to be sitting at...