Recent content by sdougal

IMHO you're never going 'feel' any difference in 3D gaming by using a 4770k/3770k vs a 4670K/3670K... in fact I really wouldn't bother with a 'K' SKU unless you're going to overclock your rig. In gaming the bottleneck is without doubt the GPU. Save the CPU cash and invest it in a better GPU.

Also... AMD crossfire does not require any license. So basically with AMD Radeon cards, you're free to do any multiple GPU config as long as you have the slots for it.

Some thoughts. a) the 880GM-UD2H mother board only has one PCIe slot which means only one GPU. i.e. no SLI support. b) as well as two slots, to do SLI the motherboard must carry a license from nVidia. For GIGABYTE boards this is usually indicated by an X after the chipset nomenclature, e.g...

F13j will be one of several 'beta' releases which will have culminated F13 as the final release. Give it a wizz... might just do the trick mate.

I had an issue with a system a year or so back, where it wold take about 7-8 mins to boot up. The problem started when I upgraded my VGA card. Turns out that the VGA BIOS and motherboard BIOS were having issues. Upgraded to the new motherboard BIOS and it would then boot to Windows much, much...

Not sure if this was already mentioned... Intel is not supporting anything older than Win7 on the new 8 series chipsets. So driver-wise you're thoroughly screwed if you wanna keep Win XP going on Haswell... But hey why would you anyway. IMHO Win 7, or even better Win 8 are what you want. Even...

Could be one of a few things, but in if my experience is anything to go by, I'd be putting my money on your PSU being the problem matey... Also, make sure both the power connectors are connected (easy to forget the 4 pin 12v rail for the CPU - done it myself haha...)

If your BIOS also reports really temps inc. CPU temps, check that the CPU cooler is seated properly.

Pretty sure those temps are wrong. Way to high... Have you looked in the BIOS to see what temps are being registered there? I'd guess the BIOS readings would be much more accurate and trust worthy...

Sometime the drives go unnoticed by the oS, i.e. like notheiong is happening...just dead... but in Device manager, you can go into the USB tree and spot a wee yellow question mark... that's your drive waiting to initialized... does happen.

IMHO, I know it might seem extreme, but in my experience the only true solution is to a) back up all files on the HDD b) clean install OS, drivers and apps. Yeah, sure.. It could well be RAM or some other software related issue but you're gonna end up chasing your tail trying to repair the...

Not that Chrome is perfect either... as an English speaker living away from home, trying to explain that to Chrome is wasting your breath... Google does not understand the concept 'expat'...

Had multiple issues issues with FF in recent 6-9 months... e.g. slow and erratic loads in youtube, unable to resume after pause on Comedy Central, unable to resume after resizing etc... Switched to Chrome, non of the above issues... Mozilla has taken their eye off the ball man...

BTW you can pick up a PSU tester for a few bucks... http://www.ebay.com/itm/LCD-PC-Power-Supply-Tester-20-24-pin-4-SATA-HDD-Testers-/200719848154?pt=US_Computer_Power_Supply_Testers&hash=item2ebbd5d2da Best investment I ever made...

...fairly rare situation, sure, but people are (quite correctly) assuming a PSU when in fact it's a flaky 'on' button.