Recent content by Xg32

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    Trouble getting a stable gaming PC

    i'd stick with corsair hx series or the antec truepower. personally perfer the corsair hx cause one of the antec psu's died on me after a year. OP still needs to calculate the total power usage on his rig to know whether he needs the 1000W or the 1200W though.
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    Trouble getting a stable gaming PC

    keeping this short, my bet is on your power supply if everything else is stable without the second vid card, fermi cards can draw up to 250W each at full load, assuming your psu has 80% efficiency the cards are already a good chunk of your max power draw. google psu calculator to make sure.
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    q9550 Overclocking..

    any1 tried to hit 3.6. 3.7 with a 920? what were the temps like?
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    Recommend a 'value' cpu/mobo upgrade from an E8400 c2d

    both of the cpus kinda ocs to the same speed unless he's gonna leave it at stock.
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    Anyone feel that they DONT need to upgrade?

    lol it's funny cause i work full time on my comp and it becomes an efficiency issue to upgrade, exact opposite here, went from a 3700+ and immediately had to upgrade when i saw a opty 165.these two were hella fun to oc anyway. then when the c2d conroes came out i had no choice either, went...
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    Anyone feel that they DONT need to upgrade?

    I work a job with my comp, there's really no excuse for why it doesn't already have 2 SSDs in there other than being cheap lol, the 5600 isn't bad i think the 8800gt will still run everything for awhile if you turn shadows off, depends on what you use the comp for i guess. i just went to...
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    Recommend a 'value' cpu/mobo upgrade from an E8400 c2d

    gotta remember to match the clock-speed too if you are using the link, id use the e8600 @ 3.33 to compare to the 965 since they both oc to around the same range anyway, haven't read too much on the 965 so i could be wrong.
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    Recommend a 'value' cpu/mobo upgrade from an E8400 c2d

    thanks for the input Axon. Noob here still wondering about i5 vs e8400, it helps my decision to not upgrade yet. any ideas on the next rig? :)
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    Anyone feel that they DONT need to upgrade?

    currently using a e8400 @ 4.0 with a regular seagate 1tb harddrive, 1gb hd4870 with 8gb ddr2 1066 ram on vista 64/xp 32. my next rig will be completely built from scratch, no old parts used with win7 and xp32 few things im considering before the upgrade: the difference between the e8400...