I sent a price match request to NCIX for the MC $149.99 weekend deal on the 2500K CPU and within a 1/2 hr it was approved! I just received my invoice via email. The nearest MC for me is 350 miles away and I would have to pay sales tax. With NCIX I got FS and no tax!
I was able to buy an open box MSI HD 6970 Lightning on Newegg for $225 shipped. I plan on buying a second for crossfire. I game at 1080p on a 46" monitor. How much of a performance increase can I expect over my GTX 460 SLI setup? Thanks.
I have video card envy right now. I found this little hot number on Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo
I currently have the SLI setup in my sig. I game occasionally at 1080p. I could sell my video cards and probably "upgrade" for $140. Eventually I could add a second...
What current single card solution would the Cyclones in my sig compare to? This is a curiosity question more than an upgrade question. I game at 1080p.
Fellow Anandtechers,
Let me know what you think of the following SSD. $175 seems to be a great price. Currently, my boot drive has 36Gb on it. This one should give me sufficient head room. Thanks.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo
Wow! What ever happened to the "higher capacity for the same price as current drives" idea. OCZ Vertex 2 here I come.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ance+3&x=0&y=0
$114.99 - $15 rebate card with free shipping. I am so close to pulling the trigger. Someone please talk me out of it!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-550-_-Product
I know it sounds like madness. I have been waiting to upgrade to an SSD for months now. I know the next generation SSDs are going to be better in performance and stability. I also know they will be SATA III which my current MB does not support. My MB also does not have USB 3.0 and I see more and...
Greetings,
We currently have our cable modem in the study. I will be building an HTPC this month which we will use in the TV room. We will be streaming all of our TV content from the internet. I want the fastest possible connection in the TV room... faster than wireless. I would like to leave...
I can't seem to find a retail outlet that sells them. There are some Chinese companies on Ebay that sell "genuine" models but I don't trust them. I need a 90mm one specifically. Thanks.
Ok so here is the Readers Digest version. I installed the second MSI GTX 460 1GB card in my computer last night. I have 2 - x16 slots on my mb. Being dual slot designs, the cards are almost on top of each other. The temps on the upper card, because the fan is boxed in, are much higher than the...
I did a mini-upgrade to my computer last night. I switched the parts out of my HAF 932 case into my new HAF X. I upgraded my psu from the wired Corsair 850W to the modular 850W model. I also swapped out my 2 GTX 260s for my new GTX 460. I have the second one coming from Ewiz this Friday.
I...
$229.99 - $30 MIR + $7.49 shipping = $207.48.
In-store pickup not available. Thanks.
http://www.frys.com/product/6340791?...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG
Good news for those wishing to SLI. From the rebate form Term And Conditions: "Rebate check will only be paid to the order of an individual. Limit to...
Consider the 2 video cards below. Is the only difference the factory overclock? The pcb design looks to be identical. If so, I can overclock the non-Platinum card myself, right? Please advise. I am replacing my GTX 260 sli with a GTX 460 sli set-up. Thanks.
Palit GTX 460 Sonic edition...
The coupon is listed right on the product page. The final price is listed as $57.99 but I verified it to be $62 - $5 = $57. I added it to my shopping cart and then logged in. I wish I had this one over my Noctua. Enjoy.
http://www.chiefvalue.com/product-_-...00157725010060
http://www.google.com/products?q=RC-942-KKN1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=G4h&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf
This is my next case. I want to wait until prices come in a little or until someone offers free shipping. It is selling for MSRP for now. Thanks.
I was going to wait to see some reviews and pricing on the 850AX, but at this price I can't resist. $159.99 - $20 rebate card = $139.99 with free shipping. Enjoy!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9011&Tpk=850hx
The price is now $10 higher at $149.99. :(
I have decided to purchase an Enermax Revolution85+ 950w or 1050w psu after 1 month of research. The performance is impressive, comes with a 5 year warranaty, and I really like how it looks. I plan on upgrading to GTX470 sli and have always wanted a modular psu. I haven't been able to find...
I am looking at the Seasonic X750 psu. It has 62A on the 12v rail.
List of hardware:
Gigabyte X58 mb
i7 920 oc'd to 3.7GHz
Noctua cpu cooler
GTX470 sli oc'd (very near future upgrade)
6 gigs ddr3 ram
2 internal 640gb WD hard drives
1 external dual hard drive
2 optical drives
1...
The only real exciting upgrade I can see right now is an SSD maybe. Outside of that, things look pretty stagnant. I have been itching to ugrade something, but have come up uninspired every time. I, by no means, have a cutting-edge system, but can find no way to significantly improve it. I was...
I currently own the power supply in my sig. It is in excellent condition. Corsair is very generous with the number of cables and connectors they provide on their power supplies... maybe too generous. I have an HAF 932 case which is very large, with good cable management capabilities. I have so...
I have a Startech dual hard drive enclosure with 2 - 1gb Hitachi drives in it. The drives are in a raid 1 array. I started getting the "Windows detected a hard disk problem" error. I tested the drives, while inside the enclosure, with Seagate's SeaTools and it reported an error almost...
I purchased 2 retail Hitachi 1tb hdds from TD in January. Last week I started getting the dreaded "Windows detected a hard disk problem" message. I have these drives in an external enclosure in raid 1. I haven't pulled them to see which drive is the dud yet. Fortunately, all of my files are...
I have been reading this consistently across the forums and personal reviews. I believe in my case, the hard drive is the biggest bottleneck. With the Intel 80gb drive now selling for ~ $200, this becomes an attractive upgrade for me. 80gb is the perfect size boot drive. Right now I have 35gb...
Hello,
I am looking for the best program to overclock my GTX260 sli setup. I ran across a thread on another forum where someone was raving about the EVGA Precision program. Does anyone have any experience with it? I know the popular ones are Rivatuner and nTune. I am inspired to do some...
It has been oos for weeks now. Does anyone have any info on this? Did they just simply run out or is there a defect that caused them to be pulled from vendor shelves? It practically happened overnight.
I am in the process of reducing the clock speed of my cpu. I had it running for months at 4.1Ghz, but it ran rather toasty at that speed. I am thinking of running it between 3.6-3.8Ghz. Please see the image for oc details. I am testing with Prime95 for stability right now but the PC keeps going...
I read the Nvidia installation guide and it just mentions un-installing ntune before installing the new drivers. You are then to re-install ntune after the new drivers are installed. I know in the past the protocol was to un-install the old drivers first. Any ideas on this? Thanks.
I have a 46" lcd tv as my computer monitor. I have it mounted on the wall in front of my desk. Will the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 mount to the tv? Can I tilt it down toward me since the tv is tall?
Hello fellow Anandtechers. I will be upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate from Windows Vista Ultimate. I have all of our games on their own hard drive. Do I need to re-install the games after the upgrade or can we still play them under the new os? I originally put the games on a separate hard drive...
I have this http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...u2er&x=10&y=18 external enclosure with 2X1TB HDD in raid 1, connected to my pc through the esata port.
I also have this http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DIR-655...5202946&sr=8-1 router with a USB shareport. The shareport allows me to...
I am putting together the following system this weekend.
1. i7 920 D0 stepping cpu.
2. Motherboard
3. 2 X GPU
4. Case
5. RamRam
6. Retention bracketso I can re-use my cpu cooler.
7. Hard drive
I already asked this question in General Harware with no luck. Should I initially...
1. i7 920 D0 stepping cpu.
2. Motherboard
3. 2 X GPU
4. Case
5. Ram
6. Retention bracket so I can re-use my cpu cooler.
7. Hard drive
I am just waiting on the case. This system will replace the one in my sig. I have never done SLI. Should I initially do the build with one card then add...
I am upgrading to a core i7 920 from a Q9650. Can I keep my current Windows Vista installation? I am not nuts. The upgrade will actually be a minimal cost to me. These are the parts: Ram, Motherboard, and the cpu is a D0 stepping i7 920. I also purchased this kit so I can reuse my OCZ Vendetta...
Using Rivatuner v2.24, these are the results for my vanilla XFX GTX 285 gpu so far:
Core clock: 700 default 648
Shader Clock: 1584 default 1476
Memory clock: 2600 default 2484
Temps: 40c idle, 65c load 3DMark Vantage
I have the fan speed at default Auto Control (40%). I tried manual at...
I can purchase a Q9650 at Chiefvalue.com right now for $315.00 ater a $10.00 coupon code. I will sell my e7200 on eBay for $80.00, so my net cost will be $235.00. I am going to skip over the initial launch of i7 as it is not cost effective enough for the amount of performance increase...
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