Recent content by DerF

does ram rated at ddr500 have any problem starting up with a mobo for the first time? Do you have to do any tweaking or its ratings or bring it down to ddr400 before you start using it? Or is it just plug and play? Thanks

Is anyone having any compatibility issues with RAM or anything? I heard it was a good overclocker and I wanted to use G.SKILL Extreme Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) and was wondering if anyone was having problems with this ram at DDR500.

I was looking at newegg and people have told me that timings the X-X-X-X numbers were important but now im looking at pc 4000 instead of pc 3200 but they have higher timings, what does this mean? will the pc4000 be faster than the pc3200 even though its timings are greater?? thanks

Is that Fortron 450W good for overclocking in a mid-high end system?

:( I like the case... anyways whoa lotsa posts thanks guys I'm really trying to find a budget PSU and keep my processor at a resonable price. Whats all this talk about a processor bottleneck 4 the 7800 GTX :( that scares me. what if I overclock it will it still bottleneck? any new suggestions on...

Do you guys think that it would be more effective to put 2 drives in a RAID instead of having just one drive? Thanks for all that feedback :)

I'm new to building computers and would like to build a good gaming computer that I will also be able to use for other stuff too. I'm also looking into overclocking and was wondering if this setup would perform well. Please look over the following hardware, all help and suggestions would be...