Recent content by LtGoonRush

This is not true actually true, they are both made by Seasonic and may be of very similar design, but at the very least their fan profiles are entirely different. The Seasonic Platinum is much less aggressive about ramping the fan speed up under load. There are reviews that do fan speed/noise...

While the poster above is correct, I don't think there's a compelling reason to replace the power supply if it's working for you and you aren't planning to overclock or install a higher-draw videocard. Your new CPU actually has lower power usage than your current one, down to 84W from 95W. I'd...

Please check your sources, the measured conductivity difference should be about 5%. I think you might be looking at conductivity measurements performed at different temperatures or perhaps on different purities of metal, which would not be comparable. No disrespect intended as measuring and...

While not truly "buttery soft" like metallic sodium, silver is still a very soft metal (on par with gold) and is typically alloyed with copper to produce a metal that is strong enough to be functional. My concern would be the base of the heat plate denting around the CPU/IHS, though that would...

Keep in mind that the Seasonic G-series are some of the loudest power supplies available, so while you may not want to spend for the Platinum series you probably want to avoid the G-series. It's also important that you get a power supply adequately sized for your system, most power supplies ramp...

Interesting, usually the scaler on the videocard gives better quality images, though perhaps your monitor has an exceptionally good scaler. I'm using the nVidia scaler on my GTX 670 to downsample from 1600p to 1200p for better antialiasing and it's not blurrier than I would expect. It could also...

Once a drive has experienced even one error such as a bad sector, the drive has failed and will need to be replaced. It used to be thought that normally functioning harddrives could experience errors at some low rate over their lives and still work, today we know that this is not true and that...

The thermal conductivity of silver is actually only about 5% better than copper, so there isn't likely to be a measurable performance difference and certainly not enough to justify the costs. The thermal conductivity of metal actually isn't super important to the performance of modern heatsinks...

It's a little bit ridiculous to consider buying 1.65v memory when you can buy 1.50v you KNOW will work long-term for about the same price or even cheaper. Just pick up some decent G.Skill.

Note that Comodo Firewall will cause severe system problems and slowdowns, much like any non-Microsoft antivirus/firewall/Internet security suite software. While it may not be causing this problem, uninstalling it will make your system run much better. The Windows firewall (along with your...

You wouldn't want to use Catalyst 12.8 due to known stability bugs, it's blocklisted (won't provide hardware acceleration) in GPU-accelerated applications like Firefox for this reason. Your best bet would be Catalyst 12.9 Beta.

I have noticed that RMAd videocards often come back with poorly-attached heatsinks. I would try carefully removing the heatsink, cleaning the GPU and heatsink base of any thermal paste remnants with rubbing alcohol or lighter fluid, then applying a paper-thin, even layer of thermal paste to the...

A Radeon HD 7950 3GB Boost would be your best option, nVidia doesn't really have anything competitive right now. The Geforce GTX 670 2GB was their competing card, but since AMD's price cuts the 7950B is almost $100 cheaper AND comes with the game Sleeping Dogs. Here's a Radeon HD 7950 Boost 3GB...

If it had launched with 8-core CPUs as planned with the prices of the current 6-cores, and 6-cores in between that and the LGA-1155 Core i7s, the value proposition would be a lot better. Calling it now, Ivy Bridge-E will be groundbreaking, especially when we overclock it to 5Ghz on an 8-core chip.

AMD already offers unified drivers for their hotfixes and betas, they separate out the release drivers so people don't need to download an extra 100MB they don't need.