Recent content by Knytestorme

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    RAM causing crashes, want to confirm my theory

    Before I start I should say I think I have solved the issue but wanted to get some confirmation that my thinking is correct. I recently built a new 2011-3 PC using an MSI Gaming 9 motherboard with 64Gb of RAM. One of the sets of RAM were faulty and had to be warrantied and while I had 32Gb in...
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    Decision time, 4790k vs 5930

    Well for a lot of games like WoW, D3, FPS's etc I'll likely only run a single screen with nvSurround being used for iRacing, X-Plane, Elite etc. Currently recording locally at 60Mb/s on a single 1080p display it seems to have little impact but I don't stream due to only 0.8Mb/s upload....will be...
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    Decision time, 4790k vs 5930

    Main problem with hardware is purchasing options. ATM I'm looking at http://www.pccasegear.com.au as one of the few places to buy from for heavy purchases and they don't have the Xeons listed any more. I'll be in the US in two weeks and would love to take advantage of things there, like buying...
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    Decision time, 4790k vs 5930

    VM's will be Linux LAMP stack, Windows 2012 R2 with SQL2014, OS-X and Windows 8/10 with VS2015. Again, if I go with X99 it will be with 64Gb (hopefully being able to use a lot of it for RAMDisk to keep whatever I'm playing on tap) but yeah, can see the point to turning off most of the VM's...
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    Decision time, 4790k vs 5930

    Nope, not opposed to overclocking, hell one of my first AMD64 boards was an ASUS specifically for overclockability ;) Corsair H110 is in build to make things a little easier, along with MSI board if I go X99 for the ease of OCing it.
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    Decision time, 4790k vs 5930

    SLI Titan-X is already budgeted along with 3 x 4K AOC monitors. Question though isn't really regarding the choice for gaming as I know there isn't much of a difference between them, more about the ability to do so while streaming/recording and productivity tools when not gaming.
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    Decision time, 4790k vs 5930

    I live in Australia, currently to go for 5930 (and want that for the extra lanes in case I decide to go tri or 4-way in future ) + Gaming 9 ACK + 32Gb G.Skill = $1987 Cost isn't really the issue, more getting value and benefit for the cost...for example, if I stay with my haswell setup and...
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    Decision time, 4790k vs 5930

    So tax time is coming and it's time to upgrade but I'm not sure which direction to take or even if I need to upgrade CPU at this stage. I'm currently running a 3770k and trying to decide between upgrading to 4790k, 5930k or staying where I am for now for the following use-cases; 1. Gaming...
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    Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 Owners Thread

    Made the shift from X58 to this and a 3770k last night to see if it fixed the 7970 hardlock problems I was having. So far it seems good, though I didn't realise it wasn't ATX size until I went to put it in the HAF-X and found the 3rd row of stands to be useless lol....also, has anyone else had...
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    Best path right now (1155 vs 2011)

    Looking to upgrade myself at the moment from a 1366 930 and not sure which path to take. 1. 1155 2. 2011 3. Wait for Haswell. Mainly using the comp for coding, music, wow, d3 and random AAA/Steam games as I get round to them. I'm thinking that there might actually be no point to upgrading...
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    NAS advice please

    Thanks for the replies people, makes things a little more complicated. I'm trying to reduce my power usage and those two NAS's seemed to fit the bill or running a bt client as well as streaming mp4, avi, divx. Thinking more about it it occurs to me that both my tv and blu-ray player are dnla...
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    NAS advice please

    I'm looking to get a 4-bay NAS to setup as a media server to pretty much sit and stream content to my 360's and PS3 around the house as an energy saving measure so my main comp can be off most of the time rather than on 24/7. Essentially I want to stay under $400AU and am looking at the...
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    7970 vs 680 for WoW multiboxing.

    @Timorous yeah, I'm running 5 on IS with a 6950 and it's fine but it's feeling the strain under a few other games such as BF3 or even running good settings on all clients (eg I have particles, liquid, sunshafts and view distance all on high on all clients so I can quickly look for sparklies...
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    7970 vs 680 for WoW multiboxing.

    I have already linked OP to the community. Given I am actually the OP I'd say I can ignore your opinion on the entire matter as you obviously have not paid any attention to the thread and will just wait for railven's results, hopefully in the next day or two.
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    7970 vs 680 for WoW multiboxing.

    Actually I'd believe you're wrong on this one. I am a member of the biggest multiboxing community already and we have had this discussion in regards to boxing specifically but then it came to thinking about it in a different way and the knowledge base here is more than appropriate to find an...