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I posted before in this thread back in 2008. I had 2 hiper type-r 580 that both failed eventually. The first one had a silent death after about 3 years, had it replaced free just inside the cover period. The second one that hiper gave me, called a reconditioned unit, lasted me another 3-4 years...

Prolimatech Blue, I CHOOSE YOU!

If I choose an additional SSD, will the OS be installed on the SSD and the other included hard drive become slave for storage?

As I said I was getting a xfx pro core edition 650w and it's been working great for over a month now without any noticeable problems, the fan is silent in my antec p180 case even with the side panel off and I haven't heard any clicking. So far very impressed with the purchase and was able to...

I'll be having an xfx pro core edition 650w delivered in a few days, so I'll see what the noise is like. I expect a high standard, and not this clicking that some have reported, there are plenty who have not had those noise issues with the fan though. I ran into all the reports of so called coil...

I have a bottle of akasa tim clean, I was wondering if it would be alright to use it for cleaning the motherboard atx socket pins/inside plastic. 3 x 3.3v pins got scorched due to overheating, I think sourced to 1 poor connection in the psu connector. I think the blackening of the mobo pins is...

I've noticed the (pin12) orange 3.3v cable on the atx 4 pin clip-on is blackened for about 1cm out of the hole, I took a closer look and the metal pin inside looks a bit loose, compared to others, this can explain overheating caused by a high amount of resistance, it's interesting how it would...

Replied to other thread here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=21382687#post21382687

Kyle, saw your other thread here too http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18342273 "I read that plugging a p4 cpu connector into 8pin cpu power socket can cause problems, is this true? " - using 4 pin power on the 8 pin socket should provide enough power for your cpu to...

yeah, I've read plenty about their behaviour in the past and failure rates, but I think I've done alright with 2 models lasting about 6 years. The first one I had I cant remember any problems with, this "reconditioned" model hasn't been as reliable. I'm looking at getting an xfx pro core...

Hello all, had some trouble recently and looking to gain some extra insight where to go from here. my specs atm are intel E8400, asus p5n-d (nforce 750i), 4x1gb geil ddr2 800mhz, gigabyte gtx 560, creative x-fi pci, 3 hard drives, 1 dvd writer, 2x120mm case fans. 19" samsung lcd. PSU is...

I've previously discussed the oven method on my failing 8800gtx on here last year, had similar symptoms to yours, vertical blue/yellow columns - it is the vram failing in some way and/or circuit board soldering issues most likely - you might find in time it will start freezing at desktop, as...

You'll want a 1gb model if you play at a high res, but the 1gb models will give you more fps over all res compared to the 768mb model depends how much noise you like from your coolers, msi and giga, and the reference coolers are known to be quieter than palit, gainward, even zotac coolers I...

I still say MSI, wish I could give you a concrete opinion, still waiting for my gainward refund to come through from you know who (or not) - taking their time, it's been a week, was told it can take up to 10 working days when I phoned. So I won't be buying mine for a while longer yet...

I back these opinions, as I first hand experienced the gainward gs cooler so mine went back too for a refund, not the quality I expected. If your pc noise is constantly blocked out by loud audio depending what use you get out of your pc then it might be fine, but some of us will be...

If vsync is enabled you wont get the squeel problems as it will cap your fps to the monitor refresh rate, which I tested with the gainward in riddick butcher bay menus. However I like to have vsync disabled for various reasons, easily put up with as you're not on a menu long.

I'd say £20-£50 depending on model, condition, accessories, packaging etc

entry level and still a good gaming card I guess at lower resolutions, even high settings in some games, and some people use it as a dedicated physx card.

you'll never get any sleep tonight with those trailing alternating thoughts, come on you have to be up early in case the courier comes before midday.

You're joking, of course it must be, that's the first time I've heard a fan that sounds like that - and the msi can't sound the same or act the same, surely not. I'm going with know so instead of hope so, not that I know for sure of course :p