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    Finally looking to upgrade my 2500K..

    If I decide to throw a GTX 1080 on top of this, which one would you recommend? I might pass on my current PC to a family member as a complete build.
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    Finally looking to upgrade my 2500K..

    This is perfect man, exactly what I need thanks so much. I've always been a fan of Corsair for different things including cases (have a 300 right now) so i'll probably go that direction again. Thanks
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    Finally looking to upgrade my 2500K..

    Well I didn't have a whole lot of time to test but the time I did have MSI Afterburner showed my CPU and GPU both about neck and neck with each other during a PoE session, staying at 50-60% at the same time, and spiking to to 77% or so at the same time across all cores but that was all never...
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    Finally looking to upgrade my 2500K..

    Yes, the launch reqs are going to be mostly irrelevant. I will look at the usage stats tonight and see where the problem lies.
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    Finally looking to upgrade my 2500K..

    At this particular moment i'm playing Path of Exile, which runs great normally but there are a lot of points in the game where massive amounts of units are on spawning and attacking on screen (Breach, Beyond, etc) and the FPS drops down to intolerable (to me) levels. The same things occur in a...
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    Finally looking to upgrade my 2500K..

    8gb DDR 1600, Samsung Evo 1TB SSD, Win 10 64, Asus VG248QE 24" 144hz @ 1080p, Dell U2412M 60hz @ 1200p I have a 500GB mechanical that is used only storage, music etc. It's smaller than even my SSD because it's very old and the SSD is new. It needs to be replaced but nothing runs off it...
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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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    Most PC gamers waste their money on video cards

    I bought a 7850, probably right around the time he bought his 7970. It's quite nicely OCed and still going strong. I'll probably be looking to replace it end of this year or beginning of next but it definitely won't be with a 270x.
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    The Radeon 7850 is an overclocking beast

    Did two runs of Heaven tonight just to see if that would phase it, nothing there either. No temps above 55c either so it's a solid :D in my book considering the ASIC. I could mess inching towards 1200 and running benches and comparing frames to see if it's worth it yes.. but I was just...
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    The Radeon 7850 is an overclocking beast

    Bumped my stock Asus up to 1100/1375 @ 1.138v with TriXX and ran 3dMark11 twice without no crashes or errors. Temp never went above 55c with custom fan setting. Stock ASIC was 75%~ so I didn't expect it to one-shot work but.. no problems. Correct me if i'm wrong but running at 1680x1050...
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    AMD vs. Nvidia - Prefs & Why

    I buy whatever is the best bang/buck at the time I happen to be upgrading. Over the years i've owned both and i've been happy/disappointed with both at times.. My last two cards were AMD (currently 7850) but that doesn't mean next time around I won't be considering Nvidia same as I always do...
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    Build review, need mobo - 2500k, 7850, SSD

    I was in same situation as you last week.. almost identical build actually. I went with a z77 in the end, this one to be precise. So far so happy.
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    I am doing this right?

    Ok.. higher power limits and more voltage then. I was going off this for thinking how much i'd need.
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    I am doing this right?

    I wouldn't even know where to begin with that haha.. nothing I know anything about.
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    I am doing this right?

    Just checked bios, Loadline is enabled by default yes. Screens: http://i.imgur.com/uf2r0.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OR2hY.jpg Everything but the 42 multi and 1.26 CV is default.
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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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    The Radeon 7850 is an overclocking beast

    So using the Asus GPU Tweak program I should be setting it to 5500 then?
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    The Radeon 7850 is an overclocking beast

    The stock mem clock on mine is 4840, i'm supposed to downclock it to 1375? I've never OCed a gpu before so maybe i'm looking at the wrong thing or just confused.. pardon my newbness.
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    The Radeon 7850 is an overclocking beast

    How decent of an OC is possible on this card (asus) before having to mess with voltage? Just got mine put in yesterday and I want to bump it up a bit but i'd rather not have to bump voltage as well, as much as I can get out of stock would be good.
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    Upgrading advice

    Haha, now I feel quite dumb.. I didn't know you could do that. Any insight on the memory timings?
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    Upgrading advice

    Well build is finished, and I am not for a second regretting the choice of going with a SSD.. I counted 6 seconds from BIOS flash screen to Windows login screen.. absurd. :o A couple things though.. the ram I got is timed as 9/9/9/24/2N, BIOS auto-detected as 11/11/11/28/1T. I changed the...
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    HD Disappeared?

    Edit: I'm dumb and still not used to Win7... it was there under Disk Management after all I just missed it the first time because it didn't show up under assigned discs.. because I hadn't assigned it yet and didn't format it before installing Windows. It was in the bottom area and a couple...
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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

    Unfortunately there isn't a MC anywhere close to me, it's something I checked beforehand. :\
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    Upgrading advice

    Really? I didn't even know that.. I just know i've had EVGA cards before, but then i've never really had any loyalty to either ATI or NV, i've always just gone with what was the best buy at the time. :\ Has it always been that way or was that one of the side-effects of ATI -> AMD?
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    Upgrading advice

    I actually dropped the HD in favor of the Crucial M4 you linked. Going to just keep using my current HD until prices drop a bit. With OS + some games running off the SDD i'll have plenty of room for awhile. Also the 7850 I ordered is this one, it was $249, not sure why that price still says...
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    Is a Sound Card REALLY helpful?

    I don't regret for one second buying my Xonar DX. That said, as others said before me, you won't really notice any difference unless you have a way to take advantage of the card. My Xonar + Audio Technica AD700's = audio bliss.
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    Upgrading advice

    Current 'thinking of' build - i5 2500k $219.99 - Asus 7850 $254.99 - Biostar TZ77XE3 $119.99 - Samsung Spinpoint 500GB $79.99 - G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB 1600 $46.99 - CM 212 EVO $34.99 Total: $756 Option to throw in a SSD and be right around budget, or drop the 7850 for a 7950? After doing some...
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    Upgrading advice

    I never said it wasn't good.. I said it wasn't great. Maybe if I had a 720 BE it'd be a diff story, but then if I had picked one of those I would have OCed it a long time ago and might not even be here. Also, all those games I listed above are notably more heavy on the CPU than GPU. Especially...
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    Upgrading advice

    My Phenom and an OCed i5 aren't even in the same zip code let alone ballpark, so i'm not sure how you say that? I can't even run 1 year old games at high settings (not ultra.. high) how is a new video card and a mild overclock on what was never a great processor to begin with going to let me...
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    Upgrading advice

    Forgot to mention I will need a cooler (and one that will fit in my case if I keep it) as I plan to OC the i5. edited OP.
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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

    Touche, I suppose you have a point here. I haven't messed around with overclocking since I had like a XP 2600.. is there a good guide you could direct me too? Googling turns up a lot of results but the majority of it is discussion of small things between people who already know what they're...
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    X3 710 -> x4 965

    Not until the last patch (two weeks ago), now it does but I saw zero performance increase. 30% increase looks pretty worth it. I appreciate the advice on overclocking but I don't really like to mess with that past bumping up a multiplier. When it comes to adjusting voltages and memory...
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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

    Well I got my AT headphones in today and low and behold.. no static at all on anything. So it's gotta be either my speakers or the speaker cables going into the sound card, cause I use front-panel for the headphones. Who knows but at least it's not the card. :)
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    Xonar DX Sample rate static

    Well that's not really an option as I do a lot of things at once and can't keep switching the rate constantly. Especially since I don't really know what the rates are on anything.. IE if i'm playing a game i'm streaming music as well, and might alt-tab out to watch a youtube video for a minute...
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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...