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Are you planning on keeping anything from your current PC to reuse? What resolution are you planning on gaming at? Here's a few suggestions: 1) Get an i5 or an i7. If you are building the machine purely for gaming then the i7 isn't going to make a difference. Typically the difference between the two...

He probably loads AIDA for hardware monitoring and/or the Sensor Panel. If you've never done this before I'd recommend you do Disk Cleanup and delete Windows Update Cleanup. I did this on my mom's computer while at her place on Thanksgiving and it cleaned up close to 30GB of junk. The less space use...

On your SATA 2/wireless computer do you have any network shares that load with Windows? I've found that loading Windows with wireless shares at least doubles the load times. I'm using a SATA 3 SSD on an Intel P35 SATA 2 board and load Windows in under 30 seconds. As soon as I add a network share it ...

I went to their website earlier to see if there's a new driver for MVP and saw they are giving away MVP 2.0 to people with Virtu or MVP software/driver. Download it if you want their latest software that has updates from 2013. http://www.lucidlogix.com/free_upgrade.shtml This offer is valid until Ja...

This should link you to the rebate forms. http://static.highspeedbackbone.net/rebates/TD9-10053%20PremBD%20Ecomm%20$60.pdf http://static.highspeedbackbone.net/rebates/OCZ-12338.pdf *EDIT* Just noticed the OCZ rebate is from 4myrebate.com, which is a rebate company. OCZ gives them a lump sum of money...

I was over at the local newspaper's site and ran across pictures from the Sandy Hook tragedy. There are a ton of them showing pictures of video games and computer parts. So in their eyes we're all nuts. I picked a few to show you guys/gals. http://www.chron.com/news/slideshow/Photos-from-the-Sandy-H...

Press cards probably = cherry picked parts and highly optimized BIOS files. Retail cards = whatever part they put on it and a "safe" BIOS file. I hate this new dynamic clock crap. The only thing I want is a low power state and a high performance state. If the card can't handle the heat the...

Nice performance but I just can't get past the name ECS. But things can change. When Hyundai first came to America it was a known fact that it was pure junk. But now it's a respectable/reputable brand. But like Hyundai, ECS has to have a string of good boards to get me to change my mind. The worst p...

Here's a good place to start.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/976?vs=827

I used a HD 6990 as a reference since I can't pick a card and then choose Crossfire. But in all reality a HD 6990 is two HD 6970s on one PCB.

CCleaner v4.08.4428 (25 Nov 2013) [/u] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/ssb2121/cc_preview.png Changelog: [/u] - Added Firefox 27 new cache location cleaning. - Improved Chrome cleaning: Flash cookies and last download location. - Improved Internet Explorer and Firefox Startup Items detection...

AIDA64 Extreme Edition v4.00.2706 (Nov 25, 2013) Changelog: Intel Processor Number detection for Celeron 2000E, 2002E improved power measurement for Intel Sandy Bridge+ fixed: memory leak when reading AMD GPU PowerControl information Download: http://download.aida64.com/aida64extreme_build_2706_dylf...

AIDA64 Extreme Edition v4.00.2704 (Nov 22, 2013) Changelog: preliminary support for Intel Royston SoC fixed: north bridge clock measurement for AMD K15.1, K15.3, K16, K16.3 fixed: unified shader unit count detection for AMD Oland, Mars fixed: GPU clock measurement for AMD Bonaire, Hawaii fixed: lock...

It's $20.99 at Amazon if it's still something you want to try. But given what it is and what you want if for I still say skip it.

I saw from other articles that there wasn't a noticeable drop in performance and no drop in some cases. I didn't ask the question but it is spot on with the last few upgrades I did. Went from Z68 to a Z77 and kept my 2600K. Then a few weeks later I bought a GTX 760 to replace the GTX 570 that was in...

Probably won't see much improvement. Some older systems won't give you the option to boot from a PCIe card. Care to send the link to the card on the Egg? I'm curious to see what chipset it's using (Marvell, ASMedia, etc...).

Until 4K monitors come down in price this isn't an issue for me any time soon. Thanks for uploading the chart, a single HD 7970 is killing the GTX 760 in SLI. I know running in SLI doesn't double the memory capacity but I was hoping that maybe the added horsepower would make up for the limitation. T...

Yesterday AIDA64 was updated to v4 and now includes a GPGPU benchmark. I ran it on a few computers and here's what I got.

Link to AIDA64 Extreme Edition: http://forums.legitreviews.com/about293 ... ml#p221571

Quick question. I see in your conclusion that the GTX 760 is too slow for 4K gaming regardless of memory buffer. So if you run 2 GTX 760s in SLI would the 2GB buffer be a detriment or would it be good enough?

Latest Stable Release: AIDA64 Extreme Edition v4.00.2700 (Nov 19, 2013) Changelog: OpenCL GPGPU Benchmark Suite Optimized 64-bit benchmarks for AMD “Kaveri” and “Bald Eagle” APUs Razer SwitchBlade LCD support Optimized benchmarks for Intel “Bay Trail” SoC Improved support for Intel Atom C2000 “Avot...