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Is your drive the boot drive? Mine BSODed every time i ran the firmware upgrade. I ended up pulling it out of my laptop and using my desktop to update the firmware on it. Only when i did that the process completed without a BSOD. I don't think the firmware works fine if the ssd is the actual...

Hey folks quick question... i updated the firmware on this drive ( i have the adata s599 64 gb) but when I check my temp reading software ( i'm using Speccy) it says 66C. I know its wrong because it used to be at 30 ish C before the firmware update so is that normal?...I guess the firmware...

Your quad will bottleneck anything above a gtx 260 sli. So you're good with any single card I wouldn't go any further than a 4870 x2 or a gtx 295 in terms of gpu power , regardless of your overclock. You can read more here: http://www.guru3d.com/article/...e-performance-review/1

Oblivion was overall great - stroyline, graphics, etc, the only thing Oblivion lacked was a great combat. I mean it was average, but not as good as i should have been. From what I've seen Fallout 3 has awesome combat - VAT system, etc, so it should be a kickass game. Personally I dont care if...

Hey guys i just finished playing stalker CS and i can tell you that 4870 x2 scales very well at 1920 x 1200 I was gettin an average of 45 fps with maximum fps in the high 70s and minimum in the low 30s. I had everything maxed out with dx 10 lightning, maximum AF and AA. I actually set the...

lol, I totally agree with you BigMoosey74. Most games nowadays are optimized for duals, whereas only a selected few are optimized for quads - aka flight simulator and Supreme Commander. Crysis, the best looking game of the year 07 yields better results on an overclocked dual core platform, than...

Hi Mr Beagle and everybody @Beagle thanks for the quick reply and for welcoming me aboard. I trust your knowledge and i also would like to thank you for all the info that you've shared with all of us. The truth is that I've been reading this thread since the day it started. I purchased...

For those of you who are interested in getting the x48-dq6, you might wanna read this review: http://www.custompc.co.uk/revi...gabyte-ga-x48-dq6.html "An X48 motherboard is all about speed and extreme overclocking, and these are precisely the two qualities that the GA-X48-DQ6 fails to...

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