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Mantle only has to be adopted by the game engine for the game to use it. For example if Frostbite engine gets mantle code, then all games using frostbite engine will use Mantle. And each engine could have more than a hundred games using it, so you can imagine how widespread Mantle could be in a...

When building a cheap but powerful gaming PC, it's better if you just get the fastest dual core i3 rather than a quad core or octocore. People will argue against this, but the fact is PC games will never be properly multithreaded, simply because they are limited by Microsoft DirectX. Even though...

Mine doesn't unfortunately.

Currently the only way my i5-2500 goes up to 3.7 GHz is by disabling 3 cores in BIOS. Otherwise it will only go up to 3.4 GHz even in single threaded applications, because the workload is always distributed among all the cores so they all stay active. Is there maybe some kind of software that...

Already checked both. It still downclocks.

i5 still downclocks to half its clock even after I went to BIOS and set "High Performance" and disabled Intel SpeedStep, it still downclocks. What gives? inb4: "Why would you want to prevent downclocking, that's stupid, this saves power and heat while CPU is idle". Thanks for the advice, just...

The sound of the PSU fan was driving me crazy, so I replaced it with the front header fan. The front header fan is still connected to the motherboard, so I set it to act like a PSU fan in BIOS. But the thing is, how would the motherboard control this fan properly if it doesn't know the...

Thermaltakie toughpower 875W

I don't know, but this might help: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA

It's the fan not the PSU.

Yes.