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    Finally looking to upgrade my 2500K..

    Six years later.. i'm finally going to put my baby down and rebuild, it's been rock solid at 4.5ghz on a basic $30 cooler since the day I got it. Not having built a PC for myself in six years i'm just a BIT out of the loop on things, if I could get some advice on which way to go with the below...
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    Will this PSU be sufficient?

    I'm building a new box for my friend, and he want to use this psu he already has in it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371016 This is what i've got picked out for him: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RVp4vK I know it shows 452w on this and technically that's within...
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    I am doing this right?

    Recently built 2500k system, attempting my first OC in years, the last one was on a Athlon XP 2200+.. yeah that's a decade ago. D: I'm not OCing for bragging rights, and I don't want to stress my system too hard I just want to get as much punch out of the chip as possible at a level where I can...
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    HD Disappeared?

    Brand newish build finished tonight. First SSD i've ever had, installed Win7, found out right after I installed that I should have enabled AHCI mode first.. so I did that in bios, got a BSOD upon restart. Googled found the Windows workaround.. did that. Now I can boot fine off the SSD, but my...
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    Upgrading advice

    Budget: I'd like to keep it under $850 but will go to $1000 if the performance jump is worth it. Use: Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2, Battlefield 3, anything that comes out in the next 3 years or so that I don't even know abut yet. Resolution: 1680x1050 for now, 1920x1080 at some point in the near...
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    X3 710 -> x4 965

    How much of a performance increase would I see upgrading from a Phenom II X3 710 (3 cores @ 2.6) to a X3 965 BE (4 cores @ 3.4)? This would be on a M3A78-EM and I would be keeping my 4870 1gb and DDR2 1066. I ask from a gaming point of view because I get the feeling my CPU is holding me back a...
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    Xonar DX Sample rate static

    Just picked up a DX and it's great, except for i'm getting frequent static from anything other than gaming when the sample rate is set to 192 KHz. Setting it to 96 KHz fixes this.. So is there any big difference between 96 and 192? What could be causing the static? It doesn't happen it games...
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    Sound cards with M3A78-EM

    Micro board, my video card covers up both PCI slots on this thing.. so i'm left with a 1x PCI-e slot to put a sound card in. This is the card I was hoping to get: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829132006 but I don't think it will fit, there's a huge brass piece to the right of the...
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    Newbie problem (speed/timings)

    So I swore I checked the memory speed when I built this machine, but I installed another 4gb today and checked it to be sure it was recognized right.. low and behold it wasn't, and neither was the original 4gb. The ram is G.Skill DDR2 PC8500, 1066, 5/5/5/15, 4 sticks of 2gb each. So I changed...