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I was very pleasantly surprised and am still very happy with my ThermalTake Poseidon. The exact model I have I think was their original board with just blue lighting and brown switches but also corded without frilly bloat software. Just plug and play! Best of all, with boxing day deals and...

PowerTune/PowerPlay... These cards sound like they share some of the issues seen with the 7870 LE's. People needed to manually bump the voltage to get them to perform as advertised or fiddle with card bios flashing. I had to do it with my Powercolor.

Good morning! Unfortunately, there are very few (probably none as I can't think of any) laptops that can allow you to upgrade your graphics. Laptops are very much the original all-in-one computers and to upgarde you'll need to buy a whole new system. Personally, i have a Llano laptop and it...

Good morning! Recently i replaced old dual 9800gt's with a new (Powercolor) 7870 Tahiti Le. Weird card clock behaviour and better but disappointing acoustics aside, I now know what kind of flex people meant with these large heavy long cards. Also, a single 70c degree heat source under load is...

Thanks for the recommendations Fokissed and Kindredsouls. I just spent the last hour eyeballing price vs performance and the tahiti 7870 seems like a clear winner for an extra 20$ over the 660/7870 at 240$. The 650 ti feel atrociously over priced at 160$, and is easily outdone by the 6850 that...

Hello! This holiday season I budgeted and upgraded my work&play desktop. I'm not an overclocker, and enjoy a stable, quiet system that can take whatever I need to through at it (within reason). However, cutting costs I elected to wait until later this year to upgrade my old GPUs. Couldn't hurt...

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Good afternoon! I'm researching a much needed upgrade and am picking an lga 1155 motherboard to match with an Intel Xeon E3 1230v2 cpu. Obviously, I'm not looking for an overclocking king board, but assume that higher quality components make for a more stable and longer life. Two Boards I'm...

forgot to link the deal: http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=72414&vpn=VCGGTX670XPB&manufacture=PNY%20Technologies%20Inc

Hi! I'm definitely leaning towards picking up a 670 after a round of cpu/mob/ram upgrades. Just came across a PNY overclocked (980mhz) board for 370$ base price with a later 40$US mail in rebate. I'm having a tough time resisting the urge to pull the trigger on it, but am because it would be...

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