Recent content by CynicalAhole

Decided to try out the Cooler Master 212 instead of the liquid cooler. Idle temps stay between 38 and 41C at idle and get up to around 64 at full load. Reinstalled Windows 8 on the SSD-- It is blazing fast! Granted, I was using an older 5400rpm drive before so I expected some decent gains, but...

Looks like the low voltage was related to the old board. I test fired the new board, cpu, and a cheap stick of ram, and everything looked perfect. On a side note- the stock cooler sucks bad on this cpu. It will jump to 61C at 20% usage. I don't dare to do my stress test until I put a better...

The A10 7850 and an MSI board are $130 at Microcenter right now. As for the dual graphics option, the A10 only supports DG mode on the R7 240 and R7 250. I was reading a lot about them before deciding to go the X4 760K and discrete graphics route. I don't recall which site I read it on, but...

I'll look into the XFX. I noticed last night that the Diablotek seems to struggle with 4 hdd's connected to it. My 1.3v was coming in at 1.24 in the bios on my current system.

If you have a Microcenter near you you can get an A10-7850K and an MSI board for $130

Have you done any overclocking? Are your Ram CAS timers set to auto, or are they manually set to the timings specified on the dimms?

The ASRock FM2A55M-HD+ arrived today- The 760K is scheduled to arrive tomorrow.

I have my computer connected to a 50" plasma. Setting up the HDMI required connecting a monitor via DVI first, disabling onboard video, and setting the audio device output to HDMI. What's kind of a pain is if the video cards output does not synch with the tv, you will have to connect both the...

I ran my E6700 at 3ghz for approx 2 years with no stability issues. Seems to be the sweet spot for them. My E8400 on the other hand, likes to blue screen anywhere over 3.1

I'm piecing this together over the next couple months- So far the CPU, motherboard, and SSD are the only parts that are locked in. I may change my video card choice to the new R7 265 when it releases, provided they don't shift the price-point way up like they have been doing lately... Some of...

Right now it is running a Core II Duo e8400. It is the 2nd processor on this board, I upgraded from the original E5200 I built it with back in 2009. As for the PSU, it is a Diablotek PHD650 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817822004

I am looking at rebuilding my current (completely outdated) system with a sub $350 budget. I will be getting everything from my local Microcenter, so the pricing shown by pcpartspicker is not really valid, I just used it to make everything a little easier to keep track of. Option 1...

I am looking at rebuilding my current (completely outdated) system with a sub $350 budget. I will be getting everything from my local Microcenter, so the pricing shown by pcpartspicker is not really valid, I just used it to make everything a little easier to keep track of. Option 1...