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    Adding a fan made system unstable?

    MSI x99 7 i7 5960x psu 750 corsair silver h110 I set up my system last week and overclocked it to 4.4ghz fine and stable, but I couldnt add the rear case fan as the h110 took up one more fan header than I had, so I ordered a fan splitter to split up two 120mm case fans which arrived today...
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    Is a Xonar DGX much of an upgrade from MSI Z97 Gaming onboard sound?

    Thanks a lot for that. Ive just upgraded from an i7 920 + xonar stx to a msi x99 gaming 7 and was thinking maybe I would sell the xonar and use the onboard audio given all the sales fluff about isolated audio, japanese caps, creative software suite etc... But it's atrocious. I was starting to...
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    Does anybody else's 580 GTX sparkle?

    Ok ive switched my screens round port-wise and it seems to have gone.. ill hold off on the RMA til it comes back, already having to RMA a fried SLR camera today...
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    Does anybody else's 580 GTX sparkle?

    I was pondering the memory, I seem to remember sparkling pixels from overclocking cards years ago. Balls :/ And yeah, pondered making a vampire reference but didnt want to admit to having seen the film ;-)
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    Does anybody else's 580 GTX sparkle?

    Could you do me a favour, especially if youre on a dual screen win 7 machine, open a large black page, or set your desktop to black, look at it for a few seconds, does it occasionally sparkle for anyone else? Im getting horizontal rows of 1-20 pixels flash up for a fraction of a second. Also...
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    Creative any better?

    Oh, balls, im a little short on pci slots -_- Its going to have to be pcie
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    Creative any better?

    Im hooked up with a Marantz amp and a pair of B&W speakers. Ive no intention of going to surround any time soon, this machine really is 90% music, most of my games are muted whilst i listen ;-) That was the other thing i remember from last time i had a few creative cards. Pick the wrong pci...
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    Creative any better?

    All my experiences of creative soundcards have largely been bad; bloated drivers, silly childish interfaces, pushing eax on an industry that didnt want it, my external NX 2 died twice, they refused to provide vista/ win7 drivers for the cards I did have etc. Last time I tried one was 3 years...
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    Not a great 5870 experience

    Absolute latest drivers, theyre still the latest as of today (6th nov) A mac is a pc, theres no difference these days. EFI mobo, 16x pcie slots, sata drives, ddr ram etc. While testing Ive used a regular 8800GTS pc card without a single hitch. You can use any pc components in the mac, the...
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    Not a great 5870 experience

    Just thought I'd write up my experience with this card if anyones interested. Please, no flames. Just so you know where im coming from. I work in cinema 4d all day and do a bit of gaming, left 4 dead and WoW mostly. Current machine is an 8 core 3ghz mac, 16 gigs ram, 8800gt running windows 7...
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    intel quads: in stock or just advertising?

    It wasnt anything spectacular. Wake up early (2pm, *cough*) switch on, pop, dead. And yes I do have more money than sense. *licks his 30" apple screen*
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    Which board meets these specs? (intel core)

    Maybe best if I tell you what I want and why I want it. I only need the speed and performance of a single drive, about 750 gigs worth, but I also need this backed up for when it eventually dies, tape/dvd backup is too much hassle. My first thought is raid 1, but then im wasting half the space...
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    Which board meets these specs? (intel core)

    Well... Whether pata or sata, this make no difference to optical drive speed. The top speed has, and always will be limited to to mechinical speed. a pata dvdr gives a full 16x burn speed, changing this to sata wont make a single bit of difference. Regarding Raid5, are you sure you know what...
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    Which board meets these specs? (intel core)

    Price is unimportant, but I need: Support for intel quadro Raid 5 (for 3 500gig sata drives) Two IDE sockets (I use 4 dvdr drives for work) I dont care about: sli/crossfire built in wireless onboard audio quality massive overclocks (I wouldnt take it any higher than 3ghz) Is the...
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    intel quads: in stock or just advertising?

    The last machine I built was a (now smoldering) amd 939 4400+. What would a 680i based board be?
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    intel quads: in stock or just advertising?

    Hey, I need a machine urgently as mine has just nuked itself and I have work to do. Has anyone else here ordered and received an intel quad core cpu from ocuk? Im trying to find out if theyre actually, genuinely in stock and ready to ship or not. All the other companies ive contacted have said...
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