Recent content by backoffmanImascientist

I always take a shot of Wild Turkey first, but I think you covered it real good otherwise!

Don't have any benchmarks, sorry. I'm just getting in parts for my new system; in fact the Asus board is sitting here right beside me, along with the cpu and memory.. need more coffee before I start installing, ;)

Was facing the same choice myself, and after looking and reading a tremendous amount on the subject, I decided to go 1440 because even for the casual gamer I believe that's going to basically be the new baseline-system standard for monitor resolution.

That $30 cooler isn't going to cut it for air; you need high-end air or mid-level water cooling for the 9590 "Volcano on a chip".

What does the prompt say, exactly?

"Microsoft couldn't help me.." I am shocked, shocked I tell you.. :) You should also take a look at the cable and the jacks it plugs into at both ends; make sure there is no apparent physical damage and that the plugs "click" when you insert them in the jacks, and perhaps try another cable.

Not heard anything good about the Seagate big drives; Newegg has Hitachi (before Westerndigital bought them) 2 Tb enterprise class/SataIII-6Gb/ 64mb cache 7200 OEM drives for around $65 each: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5AD1P08389

NEVER start a chip without at least minimal cooling, and 15 seconds is plenty of time to damage or even completely smoke one.

Your processor fits a 1155 socket mobo and no other. X99 and Z97 are on 2011V3 and 1150 respectively. They require CPUs specifically made to fit them. Here's a list of 1155 mobos that will fit your chip: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/motherboard/#xcx=0&s=14&sort=a8&page=1

At max estimated draw of 450W your PSU would be only be taxed at around 60% of rated capacity, so you've got at least 40% headroom with current configuration of 1 GPU. Even if you add a second card, you would still have plenty of safety zone left over. Not running a PSU close to its rated max...

Here's how to fix that issue: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1653253/fix-driver-power-state-failure-windows.html

A riser?

If you are stuck on 8 core AMD then I would recommend the 8350 because of lower cost, mobo cost and cooling cost - but neither are particularly good gamers compared to even previous gen Intel 4 cores.

Turn off any extraneous software running in the background, including web browsers, and anything else like weather bugs or streaming crappola. Something is sucking resources hard, and Photoshop is a resource hog. Don't even think about OCing until you get the system you've got at some sort of...

Get to desktop. Hit controll alt del to bring up Task Manager, select Processes tab. Find that .exe if it's there, highlight it and select END PROCESS, then try deleting the offending file.