Recent content by GroktheCube

Yup, max is 12GB IIRC (it might actually be 14). I do just about 108gflop at 4.4 on the 1GB setting. Honestly, these chips are pretty fast at any speed, definitely more than fast enough for anything I'm doing.

TIM= Thermal Interface Material, like what goes between your heat sink and the processor. IHS = Internal Heat Spreader. This is in charge of getting heat from the CPU cores to your heat sink.

This doesn't really surprise me based on the behavior I've seen, but I'm not willing to do anything too ballsy personally. I'm running an XSPC Raystorm block and an XSPC 240EX radiator on my new 3570k. In my IBT stress testing, temperatures rises quickly to a certain level depending on...

A grand? Jeeez. I was hoping for a GTX 670 announcement. I'm not really in the market to drop a grand on a video card. It's certainly sexy looking for those that are, but I imagine that's a pretty small market.

I'm debating between the Sapphire 7950 OC and 7970 OC at the moment. I'm kinda leaning towards the 7950, because the performance looks to be similar OC vs OC when all is said and done. I'm going to wait on the nVidia announcement though. I don't expect anyone to have stock for a month or two...

Hopefully nVidia can actually get some of these to market. I'm shopping for a new card, and at the moment I'm leaning towards an OC edition 7950. Seems the performance of that card is within spitting distance of both the GTX680 and 7970 OC vs OC, and it costs a good hundred bucks less than the...

Heh, AMD has definitely gone the way of the dinosaur :-/. I put my machine together for an absolute bargain, I felt like my Deneb offered pretty good performance for the dollar. It's pretty clear at this point that the 2500k 3570k are the new performance per dollar kings, and they blow away...

This is why I'm debating even upgrading my CPU. I have 16GB of 1800 DDR3, an SSD, and my processor doesn't seem to really be holding me back. I'll see how I feel after the GPU upgrade, but my OC'ed 5870 is running at 100% in games, and my ancient Deneb at under 50%. I'm not sure what people...

I for one am pretty happy about IVB. My old Deneb (Phenom II x4 965BE) is starting to look a little long in the tooth, and it's starting to wear down a little bit. I can't keep it stable over 3.9Ghz for long periods of time anymore, it even gets picky at 3.8 if the load is too high for too long...