Recent content by iceveiled

Also a great guide for girlfriends who only play D3, WoW and Skyrim.

The mass effect game engine is super efficient, I'm always surprised with how great the games look and how smooth they run even on middling hardware.

This article could not have come at a better time for me! I'm currently building my GF a $600 gaming rig (she mostly plays WoW, but has seen me playing games like portal 2 and skyrim and has expressed interest in those) - I had already chosen the i3-2100 but was wondering about a good GPU to...

Yeah it's a nice card. Too bad the majority of games have crappy ATI driver support for the first few weeks upon release. I'll stick with my 570 for now.

I would like to know what kind of fan speeds on that GPU were needed to keep the system from not exploding with no intake fans and the stock CPU cooler, and only a single 120mm exhaust fan. That system seems like an oven.

Seems like a decent budget CPU if you're gaming at 1080p or lower with a single card on a budget build. But yeah...after all the wait and hype up of bulldozer...this is just disappointing. I was hoping AMD would step up bigger than they did and they would have another big war with intel...

nevermind..just remembered it's peak temperature minus room temperature.

*looks at OC'd CPU idling at 15.1 C* I still don't know how you guys accomplish this. Do you do your testing in a freezer? Great article BTW...man those HDD price increases really hit the pocketbook. I bought new hardware about 2 weeks before all that craziness and saved a lot of money by...

Haters gonna hate. My i2500k OC's all day 24/7 to 4.2 (I haven't needed to push it beyond that so it stays there for now) never goes above 36C on my H80, even after hours of games (WoW at 1080p a known processor intensive game, as well as titles like Crysis 2, etc), I have the fan profile set to...

Wow...so much buildup and it can barely hang with a 2600k. I'm pretty underwhelmed. I was hoping this would be a product truly worthy of the FX brand, and would drive Intel forward in competition. Guess not. Still, a great article. A lot of work went into this. Too bad the product isn't more...

Interesting that a $500 PC can finally play Crysis maxed out at respectable gamer resolutions. Next up: Metro 2033. In 2 years.

Seems like the $2000 builds make for some strange part choices. I'm looking forward to the $1000 build - single GPU and 2500k and I bet it will hardly be outpaced by the $2000 in 1920 x 1080 benchmarks - that's the resolution I play at so I don't really care about resolutions above that...

Looks good. As others have pointed out upgrade your storage drive to 7200 RPM's. I also agree with sadams about going with an air cooler versus that H50 with the puny radiator. I realize those watercooling kits are all the rage right now, but unless you go with an H80 or H100 you're really not...

Wow...that was impressively comprehensive. As somebody looking to piece together a new build in the next couple months I'm even more confident in the P67 chipset and sandy bridge processor combo.

what a joke. $9k and it still can't play crysis maxed out. It's obvious cry-tek LIED about how the game would perform. Sweet...let's develop a game that can only be played 3 years in the future.