CaptainAanderson

@Kona: I am not new to overclocking at all, I know the risks and I choose to take them. If the chip lasts 3 years instead of 6 it won't much matter because in 3 years it will be time for a new rig. @Starkers: The 4ghz OC is completely stable, memory, proc, everything. But at a bclk of 183 (instead of 182) the system bluescreens after maybe 3 min of Prime95. I have an Antec 1200 case and a Cogage True Spirit Cooler, the CPU cores don't go much above 70C even with hours of

It is stable at 182, but anything above that and its not I wouldn't have pushed it to 4ghz if it wasn't rock solid

Hi everyone Ive been able to push my i7 930 to 4ghz (22x182) with reasonable (72c) max temps. I am using a Gigabyte X58A UD3R and the problem is that I cannot seem to get the system stable at any bclk higher than 182, so any help would be appreciated. My RAM is running at its rated timings, and below its rated speed (1456mhz instead of 1600) , so I don't think its the RAM. The QPI speed is currently 6.552 ghz (36x182), but increasing the QPI VTT didn't se

[quote who="LeegleechN" reply="19" id="2579901"]lbgsloan, Crysis is quite well optimized. Even though it's slightly old now, it's still probably the most advanced game engine out there (mainly because Crytek the company really likes making engines, and they chose to target PC only). By the way, your info is out of date. I have a single Radeon 5850 running it on all Enthusiast (1920x1200) at about 40 fps, which is very playable. [/quote] Thread is slightly old, but:

Excellent choice, the 5770 is probably the best value for moderate gaming right now... But I'm still waiting for This [e digicons]}:)[/e] or 2 gtx 470s

Wait for Fermi to drop on the 26th, even if you are planning on getting an ATI card because ATI may drop their prices then. From the resources that each card has dedicated to gaming Fermi SHOULD be faster than the HD 5xxx series, but it will also PROBABLY be more expensive (think gt200 and the hd 4xxx series pricing differences) and Nvidia has stated it will run very hot. If you can afford to wait a few months, then I think a card like a GT 450 or 460 would be the best va

I was looking at that, along with the Titan Fenrir, Tuniq Tower, and coolermaster V8 I've heard a lot of mixed things about the V8 though...

Anyone realize this thread is almost a year old? [quote who="Lord-Vale3" reply="16" id="2564892"]Why would we need multiple actual processors when we can add more cores, which basically do the same thing? [/quote] Not quite, six physical CPUs would outperform a six core CPU, with everythinig else equal. For a desktop, even a high performance gaming rig, this matters very little; a quad is all you need. Maybe in a few years with better threading more cores will be worth

Just as it says, I'm building a new i7 930 rig and I plan to overclock it at least to 3.8ghz, so i need a good lga 1366 CPU cooler for under $80 I have been looking for a Mugen2, but if anybody has any other suggestions then I'm all ears Thanks!

Don't build turrets early in the game, repair bays are better.

The i3 cpus, with a little overclocking, can perform as well as (or even much better than, depending on the overclock) an i7. They are 32nm, the newest manufacturing process, and many stories show the chips being able to consistently hit 4.5GHZ on Air cooling. AMD's lineup is value oriented and has some great choices, but the chips are aging and AMD is going to release new chips and motherboards soon that will make an AMD setup pretty much un-upgradeable. (Thuban, 890 chipset,

[quote who="Xer07" reply="353" id="2555053"]Nice Ace Combat 5 reference, Anderson... Chuck Norris is the reason why the Advent want to destroy the TEC. They're jealous because there isn't a woman alive who could seduce him... Xer0 \^/ [/quote] haha I actually didn't notice the ace combat reference, love that series and 5 is my favorite one (until 7 comes out[e digicons];)[/e] )

Chuck Norris eats eggs for breakfast

[quote who="MaarekStele" reply="25" id="2554640"]For $300, I would stay away from Intel and go AMD like MadDeez mentioned. You'll get the same preformance as the Intel processor iCore processors at a better price. [/quote] You don't get anywhere near the same level of performance from AMD, you just get a much better value and the performance is good enough (instead of ridiculous like a 975 Extreme) A core i3-540 is $139.99 at amazon (Dual core chip with 4 threads, 3

You could pick up an i3 and an h55/57 mobo, with memory thrown in it would probably be around $450, but the cpu would be nehalem-based... about as future proof as you can get right now

Killing a planet would be awesome, esp. with a (fully armed and operational) giant battlestation, but it would probably work better in a game that is free-roaming (something like an eve online rts). Blowing up a planet would screw up its phase lanes, therefore trade, ship movement, and culture and it just doesn't seem worth it in the long run. On the other hand, I think a good implementation of "scorched earth" would be the ability to turn all the structures in

I'm actually more into SLI than xfire (nvidia fanboy). I looked at the Asus board, yet another of the billion or so p55 boards. I'm not sure if the usb 3.0 and S sata are worth $50 over the MSI board. Thanks though, any suggestions are helpful

A novel way to look at sins strategy, but I worry that many of the art of war's lesson's on surprise and unorthodox tactics will be wasted in a limited environment... there's only so much you can do in sins. It is intruiging though, keep it going [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

I have a 790i with a q6700, needless to say the system is starting to show its age even with some heavy-duty overclocking. I plan over the next month or so to build a new 1156 or 1366 system... which is where all the geniuses on the forums come in [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] So far the boards I'm looking at are the MSI P55 GD65 with an i5 750 (~$150 for the board $200 for i5) The MSI X58 Pro-E with an i7 920 (~$190 for board ~$280 for i7) The Gigabyte GA-EX

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="10" id="2532193"] It tells me all the space is allocated. Maybe I should try making the partition the same size as all the data on the drive and then formatting the rest? Yep - that's how Drive Image works. You need a partition the same size as the one you're restoring. Or, if you can, restore to a disk which is still raw. In either case you will have to create a second partition. You can then if you wish merge the two partitions to give o

I've tried to resize the partition, disk management tells me the whole 900GB is partitioned and usable, but anywhere else in the OS it says its a 150GB disk with 50GB of free space. I tried using partition magic, but since the disk is already partitioned, it did nothing. I thought new tech was suposed to make things simpler.... [quote who="WinMonster2" reply="6" id="2531521"] Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Managment choose storage and it should

[quote who="yrag" reply="4" id="2531383"]BartPE disk with SwissKnife plugin. [/quote] I was hoping one of the forum gods would show up, I'll try it yrag.

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="1" id="2530288"]And the other captial ship (I don't even remember its name)[/quote] No matter how much i play this game i stil remember the Caps as Prog, Jalapeno, Shoe, Death, The other one Kol, brick, brick, brick, Marza Kortul, meh.., ehh.., well..., and EGG

[quote who="DethAdder" reply="1" id="2531116"]You might be able to go into the component manager in administrative tools. Go to disk management and see if it shows the rest as unallocated. From there you can format/partition and assign it a letter it as if it was another drive. I have to do that when I reinstall my XP cause my disk is sans service packs and will only show 131GBs upon install. [/quote] I have tried that, it tells me i have 50GB of free space and 153GB total, and t

MY hard drive was running out of space, so i went to best buy and picked up a 1TB WD Caviar Black. I used Drive Image XML to copy my old hard drive to my new one (instead of reinstalling everything, and to avoid buying a new OS). The problem is XP is telling me that my 1TB drive is 153GB, the same size as my old one. I have tried reparitioning, having XP rescan the disks, even reformatting and re-imaging from the old drive, it still keeps telling me that its 153GB. <