Recent content by winsantz

Sounds like a great excuse to overhaul my i7-920 box for bigadv WUs. Count me in. I've also got my PS3 and possibly an older dual-core Opteron.

Hey all, just thought I should stop by and introduce myself. These forums were a big help to me when I was putting my Core i7 box together, so I thought it was only proper that I contribute my folding to the TeAm. Right now I've only got the SMP client and the GPU client running on this PC, but...

Installing Windows 7 Ultimate x64 build 7000 left me with under 1 GB free on a 30 GB SSD, so space is definitely an issue. The x86 version will eat about 15 GB IIRC.

On the one hand, the X58 Pro in my i7 box has given me nothing to complain about in the ~2 weeks that I've owned it, and I get the impression that a lot of the unfavorable early reviews were due to flaws corrected in BIOS revisions. On the other hand, reading the Newegg reviews in reverse...

Okay, after reading some reviews and forum posts, I think I'll move to an MSI X58 Pro for the motherboard. Since the memory spec for that board is only listed as DDR3 1333, would the DDR3 1600 memory I had selected in my original post be pointless? I also decided to go with a passively cooled...

Despite its name the EVGA board supports Crossfire X in addition to SLI, at least according to this article. That's kind of beside the point as I have next to zero interest in a multi-GPU setup; if I could spend less and still get a good overclocking board without SLI/Crossfire I'd definitely go...

My current primary machine will be three years old next month, so between that anniversary, some annoying motherboard issues, and Windows 7 coming out soon I figured it was time for a new build. Thought I'd try overclocking to get the best possible performance for my money as well. I didn't keep...