Recent content by steeb0z

You're probably right, but as I said before the noise and the heat alone is something I don't want to put up with and a shorter card is more suitable for my small case. I'm pretty happy with Nv anyway. Newegg is offering me a full refund so that's nice.

i5 2500k @ 4.3 ghz 8gb ddr3 256gb samsung ssd Sleeping Dogs would give me driver crashes after about 30 minutes of play too. Between the instability, heat and sound (god was it loud) I'm completely fed up. Nothing else in the background. Trixx and MSI were reporting different voltages from...

Just got a 7950 Vapor X w/ boost and I can't seem to get anything to run at all with the boost bios enabled (950mhz clock). Everything crashes either immediately or within 10 minutes of play. I tried lightly OCing (1050 core) right out the box with some benchmarks but I could only get Just Cause...

Where are you finding that price for the 7970?

Yes, I'll probably wait for beta. Did the alpha really use over 1gb vram? Can anyone else weigh in on this ? :/

My current PC Phenom II X4 955 @ stock 4gb DDR2 800 ASUS M4A77D GTX 260 896mb I'm planning on upgrading for BF3 and I have a few questions. I know alpha isn't a great indicator of performance so I'm hoping to play the beta before I make a decision. Should I be able to get my with just a GPU...

Ok, fixed my old problem. The PSU side of the pci cable was knocked out. :|. Anyway, my new hd is detected in both the bios and my device manager, but I can't see it in my computer. Also, when I boot after it shows what drives/cpu/ram I have, my SATA controller says "no drives found", it never...

Ha, I hear so many different replies and opinions and benchmarks all the time on that. The HardOCP TF2 analysis led me to feel differently but I don't know. I'll probably get a video card next month or by Nov anyway.

Welp, I bought it already. If I can get more than 3.2 out of it I will keep it, especially if the performance is better. I'll sell the lesser of the two. Funny thing is I almost dropped for an 8400 but said screw it save money if I might be making a wrong decision. Oh well

I know what it sounds like, but that's the way it is. My fps is worse off with lower settings. I can turn things up but it only gets better to a point which I feel is still slow. I ordered a new CPU and ram already, and will order a new video card in a few weeks. I'll see how it turns out.

So you're recommending that I get the e7200 then? :) Assuming I can yank my AC 7 Pro off this, would that be sufficient for it? If not hows the stock HSF?

I currently have e2160@3ghz 8800gts 320mb abit ip35-e corsair 520w 2gb ddr2 6400 I cant help but feel this is a stupid question but maybe my performance expectations are unrealistic... My performance in some games is not what I'd like, mostly TF2. I game in 1440x900 and I guess...

The supplied standoffs dont fit into the mounts on the motherboard. Haha, yeah I feel stupid if that is the problem and this is the only time I have not used standoffs. I cant use the onboard lan because my ISP/cable modem has problems with the marvell chipset. I no longer have the case manual...

Hi, sorry I couldnt get to this earlier. Hopefully I can still get some additional help. The thing is this doesnt happen all the time. It seems random. Hokie- This also happened with my previous FSP PSU. Except I (think) it died, and shutdown/restart on me, instead of me shutting it down then...

I recently built a new computer around the IP35-E. I remember reading some about the booting then shut off then reboot associated with the chipset(?), but about a week ago I went out and came back home to turn on my computer but nothing happened. I plugged everything in and out, reset the...