Recent content by kartik_subbarao

I'm leaning towards the Dark Base Pro 901, NH-D15, and ROG Thor P2 1200. Have been waiting for the Black Friday timeframe, also to see if anything new might be released.

Thanks @geofelt for your detailed comments, these are very helpful! Always good to hear people's practical experience. Some thoughts: Regarding a completely matched 192GB RAM kit, [ EDIT: this topic is more involved than I thought, thanks for the heads-up ] Good to hear the datapoints on the...

That'd be, well, cool :), but seems unlikely with the 253W requirement etc.

I'm looking for suggestions on the quietest components to support a PC with the following constraints. Don't worry about cost, I'm just looking for the best technical info: CPU: i9-14900K Power: motherboard will be set to enforce stock limits: PL1 = PL2 = 253 W GPU: Nvidia RTX 4090 RAM: 192 GB...

Good news -- I removed all but one of my RAM cards and was able to boot up with BIOS A. I attached a FAT32 USB stick with the 1.10 BIOS file and used the UEFI Instant Flash tool to successfully downgrade BIOS A. I then added back my other RAM cards and successfully booted the system just like it...

I have an ASRock Supercarrier Z270 and used the Internet Flash utility in UEFI setup to upgrade the BIOS from 1.10 to 1.11. The upgrade process completed successfully and no errors were reported. However, when the computer rebooted with the new BIOS, it just hung with a blackscreen. I have...

1) Among other factors, I want Thunderbolt 3 capability, and haven't seen any non-Z270 boards that have Thunderbolt 3 support. Also the Z270 boards have more ports and PCI lanes which I prefer having. I don't mind paying more in this case if I can optimize my other considerations. 2) The...

Well, I'd just prefer not having to deal with a situation like this: http://www.overclock.net/t/1603927/xmp-enabled-on-gigabyte-gaming-7-overclocks-cpu I've seen other posts of this kind of thing happening (and worse) with other motherboards as well. With this system, I've spec'ed out the be...

With the current system that I'm building, I don't want to run RAM in overclocked/XMP mode. I've heard it can potentially trigger undesirable (for me) side effects like permanent CPU turbo boosting and other heat/power implications that I don't want to deal with -- I don't want to do any...

Thanks for the thoughtful response, will check out the components you recommended.

Ah -- actually, it's probably not going to be moved around often. I just wanted to see if I could get a lighter computer this time compared to previous systems. In any case, your points are well taken. Your responses have given me a lot of good food for thought -- I'll check out the components...

I'm looking for recommendations on cooling and a case for a build with the following requirements: * Intel I7-6700K (will probably wait for I7-7700K in January; assuming that cooling/case requirements won't change) * nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 * 64GB RAM * At least one Thunderbolt 3 port * Two M.2...

EDIT: Decided to post this to the Systems forum instead: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3273193/recommendations-cooling-case-6700k-1080-tb3-2xm-build.html