Voice of Reason
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So changing it to a 7970 and a cheaper mouse knocks it down to 1.3k
Now where do I get Windows 7 for cheap?
Now where do I get Windows 7 for cheap?
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very true i was just trying to save some money of other things like SDD or Steam Sales lol
but im at 579 and i have some leeway to go cheaper on HDD
mastershake
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You can get it on newegg right now for $80 + free shipping. Promo code expires at midnight.
Get a proper mouse and keyboard from the OP.
The only ways you could make it cheaper would be to:
1) Pick up a used 670/680/7970 from GAF (going to be lots in the coming weeks thanks to Titan) or Overclock.net.
2) Drop the DVD drive altogether, which you should anyway unless you need it for a specific reason.
3) Cheaper SSD. Crucial M4, 64GB even. Or, stick with the 128GB and drop the hard drive if you don't need one for media storage.
4) Wait and watch this thread for sales on items.
You're also missing a case. Fractal R4 White w/ free shipping @ NCIX for $80 - http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=75047&vpn=FD-CA-DEF-R4-WH-W&manufacture=Fractal Design&promoid=1302
Powerline Ethernet is great. Was able to stream gameplay via xsplit, have the channel open on one monitor to watch performance, and play online at the same time with no lag. It's great can't believe I haven't used it earlier.
EDIT: Oh shit it just hit me out of no where that Z68 boards have PCI-E 3.0. Has anybody dropped an Ivy into one of these? For some reason I feel like it could be wonky versus out right buying a Z77 board and an Ivy chip
EDIT: Oh shit it just hit me out of no where that Z68 boards have PCI-E 3.0. Has anybody dropped an Ivy into one of these? For some reason I feel like it could be wonky versus out right buying a Z77 board and an Ivy chip
Unless you are multi-boxing yeah.
Voice of Reason
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Forgot to show it in the image, I have the HAF912 in my cart.
electricpirate
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LTTP: how did I use a PC before I had an SSD?
How do I go back to my spinning platter work laptop now that i've experienced that sweet 7 second boot time?
How do I go back to my spinning platter work laptop now that i've experienced that sweet 7 second boot time?
Take a nap while it boots. Helps pass the time very quickly.
civilstrife
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Canadians, I jumped on this deal yesterday. It seems to have been extended another week.
Gigabyte 7970 with 5 free games. on sale for $379
Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs.
All games I was planning on buying anyway. Effectively made it a ~$100 high end video card barring Steam sales
Gigabyte 7970 with 5 free games. on sale for $379
Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs.
All games I was planning on buying anyway. Effectively made it a ~$100 high end video card barring Steam sales
CrashPrime
Member
Well, the problem of the rapidly shrinking free space on my SSD is solved. Went for a couple of 7200rpm 3tb spinners in raid0. Game load times aren't awful, and I have 6tb at my disposal. I can finally just install everything on steam and not worry about it. Thank god HDD prices are back down to pre-flood pricing.
Feels good.
Feels good.
Dreams-Visions
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Dreams-Visions
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Yea I'm jelly as hell. I would have sold those games for $40/pop and walked away with with a high-end card for < $200.
mad.
Swear to the flying spaghetti monster if you keep changing your avatar I'm gonna mid or feed with KoTL in all of your future Dota 2 games.
Also, Steam is a great backup tool. Lots of online storage type places for general important documents/media. Plus I know we all have our 'external HDD of shame' *wink*
Dreams-Visions
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they're all from the same vidyagame! pls don't feed :-D
True. I just...when I think of 6TB of space, I'm thinking he's storing a lot of stuff. Don't know if cloud storage is the best solution. Then again, I have a NAS for this specific reason, which I guess is what prompted my question.
CrashPrime
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Everything's in the cloud. Who needs backup? Also, I will never fill that space. It was overkill, but I just got fed up with being short on space.
Dreams-Visions
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You have several terabytes of cloud backup space? If so, tell me how I can get on that train.
Dreams-Visions
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ty. definitely gonna check this out!
alexandros
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Good. Worst case scenario I spend $50 and add 8GB more. Holy shit it's excited to know that in about a week I'll be able to run some PC games.
I'm still rocking an 8800GTS.
RumblingRosco
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Yesterday, I got a blue screen of death with the error "Memory Management"... never seen that one before. Had another bsod today but it was not the memory management error. Ran Windows Memory Diagnostic tool and it is telling me the following:
That seems pretty vague. I'm running 2x4GB 1.25V G.Skill Sniper 1600Mhz DDR3; had them in since I built my system in June 2011. Haven't done anything to my setup besides clean the filters in the past year; haven't even moved it. Any suggestion for a more thorough diagnosis? I'm assuming this'll just be a case of having to replace the RAM, but thankfully 2x4GB of RAM is dirt cheap these days.
Any advice would be appreciated, especially if there is a way to "repair" the RAM or something.
Oh, and I'm on a P67 with a 2500k. If I remember correctly, 1.35V RAM is preferred in this scenario? Or was it 1.5V?
Hm. Looks like this RAM has a lifetime warranty... but I'm going to guess I need the original packaging or some shit to claim it? Anyway, getting ahead of myself. Any advice, PC-GAF?
EDIT: Running Memtest now. It has found over 100,000 errors and isn't even done. Gonna contact G.skill to get my warranty put into use.
That seems pretty vague. I'm running 2x4GB 1.25V G.Skill Sniper 1600Mhz DDR3; had them in since I built my system in June 2011. Haven't done anything to my setup besides clean the filters in the past year; haven't even moved it. Any suggestion for a more thorough diagnosis? I'm assuming this'll just be a case of having to replace the RAM, but thankfully 2x4GB of RAM is dirt cheap these days.
Any advice would be appreciated, especially if there is a way to "repair" the RAM or something.
Oh, and I'm on a P67 with a 2500k. If I remember correctly, 1.35V RAM is preferred in this scenario? Or was it 1.5V?
Hm. Looks like this RAM has a lifetime warranty... but I'm going to guess I need the original packaging or some shit to claim it? Anyway, getting ahead of myself. Any advice, PC-GAF?
EDIT: Running Memtest now. It has found over 100,000 errors and isn't even done. Gonna contact G.skill to get my warranty put into use.
ss_lemonade
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Wow, now that's a sweet deal! Too bad it isn't available in the US store (though it looks like they haven't updated the description when viewing the item in the search results page)Canadians, I jumped on this deal yesterday. It seems to have been extended another week.
Gigabyte 7970 with 5 free games. on sale for $379
Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs.
All games I was planning on buying anyway. Effectively made it a ~$100 high end video card barring Steam sales
Its 1.5
Mr. Wonderful
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Two unrelated questions GAF:
1. Does the 680 have a big enough bus in order to actually use 4GB of VRAM compared to the 660Ti?
2. Does anyone have some good graphs that show the benefits of using GPU-acceleration in cutting software like Premiere Pro versus software rendering? I've found a couple, but I'm going to be making a presentation to some investors and I would like the best that I can find to make my argument for the best computer hardware possible.
1. Does the 680 have a big enough bus in order to actually use 4GB of VRAM compared to the 660Ti?
2. Does anyone have some good graphs that show the benefits of using GPU-acceleration in cutting software like Premiere Pro versus software rendering? I've found a couple, but I'm going to be making a presentation to some investors and I would like the best that I can find to make my argument for the best computer hardware possible.
Got this in my email this morning:
Samsung 840 pro 256GB - 214.99 with promo code EMCXVVV23
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...22213-_-EMC-022213-Index-_-SSD-_-20147193-L0B
Samsung 840 pro 256GB - 214.99 with promo code EMCXVVV23
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...22213-_-EMC-022213-Index-_-SSD-_-20147193-L0B
Also wanting to know
Do The Mario
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I was hoping a kind soul could please give me some suggestions?
Koroviev
Member
Would you happen to live in southern California?
DJ_Lae
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Canadians, I jumped on this deal yesterday. It seems to have been extended another week.
Gigabyte 7970 with 5 free games. on sale for $379
Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs.
All games I was planning on buying anyway. Effectively made it a ~$100 high end video card barring Steam sales
Fantastic deal.
And quite a kick in the balls to everyone who ordered 7900 series cards from NCIX from before Boxing Day and never received their Never Settle bundle keys. I'd imagine their forums will be swamped with angry messages now that they're stacking those keys with the new bundle.
(almost makes me wish I hadn't ordered my 7970 so early, but I have little interest in Bioshock or Crysis so I would just be padding my Steam library)
Xdrive05
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Friendly AMD-HD Gaffers,
I decided to get a 7950 b/c of the Bioshock/C3 promo. But I've been on Nvidia for a decade, so I have no idea which 7950 to get, brand-wise and model-wise.
Here's Newegg's offerings.
I do plan on overclocking, so a good/quiet cooler and (especially!) unlocked voltage are very important to me. But I keep reading conflicting reports about which models are unlocked, and which ones have a potential to be locked.
I'd like to keep it as close to $300 as possible, so MIB's could help here.
Any opinions or advice for the uninitiated? Thanks much.
I decided to get a 7950 b/c of the Bioshock/C3 promo. But I've been on Nvidia for a decade, so I have no idea which 7950 to get, brand-wise and model-wise.
Here's Newegg's offerings.
I do plan on overclocking, so a good/quiet cooler and (especially!) unlocked voltage are very important to me. But I keep reading conflicting reports about which models are unlocked, and which ones have a potential to be locked.
I'd like to keep it as close to $300 as possible, so MIB's could help here.
Any opinions or advice for the uninitiated? Thanks much.
What's the problem?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
You should use Bluescreen Viewer as well to view the dumps. Pretty important info to help you start diagnosing things. I was going through some of this too but it wasn't as severe as you. It turns out it was a little too much OC on my reference GPU's. I've since toned that down and also unlocked voltage so I don't have to worry about power. I also lowered my OC to 4.6ghz as 4.8 voltage requirements were not pleasing me. I did a memtest as well and it found no errors so that was a big relief because I've never had to RMA any of my HW.
If I have a liquid solution I would totally go for it but I'm using closed loop and it works very well but is a step below proper water cooling.
Xdrive05
Member
Trying to push me into building now instead of this fall, are we? I see how this works.
Azwethinkweiz
Member
Just a heads up to you guys that want to get in on this. I got this same card from the US sale last week and the voltage is locked on it. So if you're looking to overclock, there's not a lot of headroom.
I have not 1 but 2.
I just bought a new desk and it doesn't have keyboard drawer. I really want one though, so let me know what you got and how you like it.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I bought a wrist padded mouse pad 3-4 weeks ago. I don't know if it's the break in period but it's been quite uncomfortable and leaves my wrist sore after a while. I actually started turning it on its side so the rest is on the right side and I just use the pad for the mouse and leave the wrist rest alone.
Mouse scrolling is smooth but damn if I ever want to go back to a wrist rest.
I did end up re-orientating the mouse so it's on my right side on my corner desk. I can rest my arm on the right and basically put no stress on my wrist and arm now. I have one of those sliding keyboard/mouse plates and it's nice but it can become slightly uncomfortable after a while.
I also am debating on a nice desk chair but that may have to wait.
Mouse scrolling is smooth but damn if I ever want to go back to a wrist rest.
I did end up re-orientating the mouse so it's on my right side on my corner desk. I can rest my arm on the right and basically put no stress on my wrist and arm now. I have one of those sliding keyboard/mouse plates and it's nice but it can become slightly uncomfortable after a while.
I also am debating on a nice desk chair but that may have to wait.
Mad Hatter
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I bought that GPU... A fair warning to those who want to overclock - you can't really do it with this card because the voltage is locked. Unless you're okay with OCing by 50Mhz. I feel ripped off
I just got the actual slides. I had a desk built and the rails they used are cheap and sagging so I order some 100lb rails.
If you want something sturdy and are a handy person you can pickup with undermount rails and some veneer core plywood of your choice and have a quick keyboard drawer.
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