Recent content by avifish

Hey, I recently picked up an alienware alpha with the i3-4130T processor, 4 gigs ram, and 500gig hdd, I changed out the hdd and upgraded the ram and cpu but the temps for the cpu are a bit high. I installed a 4790s which isnt too much of an change in terms of wattage from the 4130t but the...

Hey so i recently ordered an Intel Pentium g3528 on amazon the other day and when I got home I opened it up and they accidently shipped me a Xeon e3-1246v3 :) I was wondering if their is a significant difference from my current i7-4790s and if its worth the whole process of switching the whole...

Hey, I recently bought a Gigabyte Z97M-D3H and was messing with the bios. I saw that I could change the CPU clock multiplier, so i was wondering what a safe overclock would be for the 4790s. As of now I have it running at 3.6ghz at really low temperatures, like 35* C. Also what would a good ram...

I have a desktop built Current specs are CPU- i7-4790S Mobo- ASUS H81M-e RAM- 5GB DDR3 (One 1GB stick and One 4GB stick both 1333) HDD- 1TB 7200 HDD and 320GB 7200 HDD I have a dual boot set up hackintosh and windows 10, i'd like to know whether adding 8gb RAM or swapping the HDD with a SSD...

Booted and worked perfectly except for my GPU, GTX 750.

I recently bought a HP Pavilion A6600F with a Pentium Dual core E2200 and 3 gigs of ram. Can I upgrade its CPU to maybe a E8400 or X6800? or even a Core2Quad? Thanks

I just bought a B85S3+ Biostar, by far i have great performance from everything except one thing.. the temperature is crazy and its not even stable, it fluctuates randomly. First the temp in Bios is ~47*C AT BOOT!! I applied Arctic Silver ceramique on it, and put the fan on.( I Tried reapplying...

I want to build a hackintosh Haswell. My parts are: Motherboard- GA-H81M-DS2V CPU- i5-4430 HDD- 250Gb Ram- 4gb ddr3 psu- evga 500w Can someone verify if this build works, and give me a good Wifi card

hmm based on all this i think i'll either go with an 4130 or a 4430, thanks

At the moment I have a H81M-E Motherboard, and already have a GTX 750 and a Pentium G3258 CPU,but based on youtube vids on how many fps gtx 750 should get, the pentium seemed to bottleneck it. and my budget is around 300$-350$.

I am building a gaming build and these are my parts i am thinking about: Motherboard: Asus H81M-E PSU: Evga 430w Case: An old HP case HDD: 1 TB 7200 RPS GPU: GT 750 Ti I wanna know if the 4790k is going to make a big difference, the main games i am going to play are Minecraft and Dota. Thanks