It's equally as good a board, the Gigabyte doesn't really do anything better to justify the price. The Biostar's in the OP are also very good too.
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It's equally as good a board, the Gigabyte doesn't really do anything better to justify the price. The Biostar's in the OP are also very good too.
runnin_blue
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My mate originally told me to play it safe & get a Gigabyte MB if I want a Gigabyte videocard because he heard of some people having issues with a Gigabyte card and different MB.
Fairy tales.
He's talking through his arse.
runnin_blue
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Ok, point taken. Whether it's a real problem or not, I'm sure he heard what he heard. But I'll definitely have a think about it. Thanks.
This'll be my first gaming PC in 12 years, I should have it by friday & I'm starting to get a chubby. But I have no idea what game to play first!
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MSI G45 is a great board for the price.
Take a look in your motherboard manual, but usually when you have two sticks of RAM and four slots you have to put them in slots with a slot empty inbetween. Usually they are colour coded - for example on your board two slots are black and two slots are grey, so you would put them in the two grey slots (you can see on the image below they are marked as DDR3_1 and DDR3_2):
Edit: Your motherboard manual does indeed say to put them in DDR3_1 and DDR3_2.
That should get it working and post fine. If it doesn't then there's probably some issue with your motherboard since the RAM works fine in singles - there won't be anything wrong with the CPU since that also posts fine with singles. You can tell if both sticks are detected by looking at the total RAM in your BIOS - for example if you have two 4GB sticks of RAM your BIOS will say there is 8192MB of RAM. On your BIOS it will most likely be listed somewhere under the "System" tab:
AMD are holding a livestream for new cards right now (although it appears to have not started yet due to technical issues) where they will be showing off new cards. Expect old ones to drop a bit in price.
I don't believe it's an official one, more retailers wanting to get stock shifted.
It's pretty cheap, hope it stays that way for a while. Even if the next set of AMD gpu's are disappointing an 7970 seems like a nice upgrade for that price(I'm on an unlocked 6950).
Yeah knew about that, still surprised about the prices.
For sure. Can't see whatever they bring out today matching the 7970 at that price point.
Every HD7970 is still 300 or more...
Except this one: http://afuture.nl/productview.php?productID=342008
245 for a HD7970 is pretty damn cheap, does that Asus version have any cons? Don't understand why it's so cheap.
Might just wait before I buy my gtx 770.
Except this one: http://afuture.nl/productview.php?productID=342008
245 for a HD7970 is pretty damn cheap, does that Asus version have any cons? Don't understand why it's so cheap.
Might just wait before I buy my gtx 770.
MSI R7970 TF is 252 at alternate(260 at azerty) as well.
Dutchie.You a Dutchie or Belgian?
If they don't announce something particularly amazing at a decent enough price (at least for me) then I'll be picking up a 7970 to replace my old 560Ti. I can get one myself for around £215, which is a real bargain considering the cheapest I can get a GTX 770 is still £300+. All depends on what AMD come out with.
is that store legit?
Yep, one of the highest rated stores in the Netherlands. Great prices and shipping.
was going to buy, they don't send it to where I live.
btw, almost got a 450w power supply. I had a second thought that maybe I will need a better one since oc is a possibility. is there a great deal on the uk, preferably amazon?
edit: is this one good?
Yeah but I'd like the extra VRAM
was going to buy, they don't send it to where I live.
btw, almost got a 450w power supply. I had a second thought that maybe I will need a better one since oc is a possibility. is there a great deal on the uk, preferably amazon?
edit: is this one good?
Stick to XFX, Seasonic or Be Quiet! would be my advice for UK buying at that price point.
I'm looking at a Be Quiet one which costs 69 pounds. The thing is that this Corsair seems to have a quiet fan and has a lower price.
Pretty much, and I never trust benches from AMD or Nvidia tbh.
Those arrive DOA a lot and a gaffer recently had one die. Get the BeQuiet.
is 530w enough for future light overclocking of an 7950/70?
Yes.
Was watching a Linus video the other day where he build a 3930K, Quadro card, GTX780 and another expansion card. Used a 550W BeQuiet dark power PSU, had the 3930K overclocked a little and it still comfortably ran the system. He said peak usage was about 500W. Thought that bit was quite interesting, because I would never have imagined enthusiast CPU +780 and a quadro card can run easily on a 550W.
Makes me think I could pull of a 7970 on my 430w (although it can pull 512w at full load).
OriginofHysteria
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Hey all, I've been thinking about doing some upgrading (again) and I'm still running the 2500k oc'd. Do you think its time to switch CPUs?
If you're just gaming no.
No, still a great CPU. Not much better out there. Overclock it more if it's low.
Found a deal on a local store on a XFX 550wats for 55 euros, cheaper than Amazon uk
That ridiculous acting made me do exactly the same. It was farcical.
Would the nvidia pricedrop happen any time soon? I have a feeling ordering a GTX 770 right now could end up biting me in the ass.
I ended up finding the total memory in the classic bios view and it shows both stick being detected if hey are in slots 1&3 which are the first two furthest from the cpu. If I try to reseat the cpu and check for bent pins will I need to reapply thermal compound? I'm using the stock fan and whatever was preapplied but it has been 24 hours since I installed it so I don't know if it would still be good to just reuse it.
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