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Hello guys, I'm looking for a new case around the £75 mark, I've done a load of research, and I've narrowed it down to these two cases. My first priority is SILENCE, I am trying to make my rig almost inaudible, and according to reviews these two cases are about as silent as PC cases get. The R3...

I'm pretty sure it's something else which has caused your power bill to double. Computers don't use all that much maybe about 100w at idle, which is the same as one of the old lightbulbs

When you have a mysterious computer problem, one of the first thing to do is to restore everything to their stock settings. Reset your CMOS If that doesn't work, try one stick of RAM at a time and run Memtest Try a prime95 test If those don't work, it's likely you have some faulty hardware.

^I hope you're right, because I've been an AMD user for years. In the meantime, I've jumped on the sandy bridge boat.

CPU temperature is the problem! 95 is way too hot. You should not want to really see it go above 80c Reinstall your cooler (it might not be seated properly), and if that doesn't help much, get an aftermarket cooler.

It's a nasty OEM board, I couldn't find many specs except that it's socket 775 and it's got some kind of SIS chipset which only supports some Pentium 4 CPUs. So I think the answer is NO, it will not support a dual core. No offence, but you really need to upgrade, that thing is crap :S

All the i7 9xx CPUs should work in that board. The RAM you've got is fine.

Deffo get a 2500k, I've got a 1055t @ 4GHZ and it bottlenecks my crossfire 6850s in some games at 1080p. The Phenom II architecture really does suck compared to Intel's, and I'm going to grab a 2500k as soon as I have the money.

I spend 4 hours a day maybe. Saturdays can be higher, but on Sundays I always give it a break and do something else :)