Recent content by KillswitchScar

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    Thoughts on GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P

    Thank's for the input, i was looking at an asus board with a 4+2 phase and figured it woulden't like my mild OCs. i'm mostly concerned with the reliability of the board, i have only used MSI boards in the past.
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    Thoughts on GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P

    Hey guys, Was looking to upgrade my CPU this week (fx 8320) and need a new motherboard, was wondering what everyone thought about this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128651. Seems decent to me, was going to get the MSI 970 gaming branded one but it was sold out...
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    Need a good heatsink that does not need a backplate.

    My friend is looking for a good heat sink that does not require a back plate. Any idea guys? Budget would be about $40. Any advice would be great guys!
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    Thoughts on CPU coolers?

    thanks! i do like the way the phantecks looks. I also like the silver arrow as well. So many choices..
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    Thoughts on CPU coolers?

    Hey guys, how's it going? i'm going to be upgrading my PC soon and would like to get a new heatsink for my new 6300. I'm not going to do water cooling as i don't like the idea of a leak destroying my $1300 PC. My budget is around $60. I have looked at the CM 212 evo and it seemed to suit my...
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    Max GPU for My OC'ed A8-5600k?

    Hey guys, I was wondering what the best card i could use without my CPU bottlenecking it. I'm assuming it will be a 7850 but i would like to get some more feedback. My 5600k is running at a cool, stable 4.3ghz.
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    What tech specs need to be the same?

    I'm undecided on the motherboard as i'm not upgrading for a while. But for example lets say i have a set of 2x2gb g.skill ram right now in my 2 dimm slots. Now i decided to take those out and put in 2x4gb sticks of the exact same specs and series. would i be able to use the new set with the old...
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    What tech specs need to be the same?

    Hey. The motherboard i'm using right now only has 2 dimm slots and i was going to upgrade to 2x4gb sticks of RAM from my current 2x2gb. When i upgrade my board in the future what specs on the two sets of ram have to be the same in order to use them in quad channel? I know in theory the brand and...
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    Random Bsod on fresh install

    getting a lot of errors... it dosent say what they are just gives a bunch of long number codes and it seems to be reading my ram as 800mhz???
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    Random Bsod on fresh install

    alright. just burned it toa dvd. hopefully it's a driver interference issue and not dead RAM or a screwed up mobo. i'll report back
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    Random Bsod on fresh install

    also should i grab the .gz or .zip ISO of memtest? and are you sure it will work without n OS o some form? i'm fairly noobish in the software relam. i mostly build PCs and do web design fr people. :D
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    Random Bsod on fresh install

    alright. and if its not my RAM? ( fairly sure it's not. couldent hurt to ck though)
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    Random Bsod on fresh install

    CMOS reset did not fix it unfortunatly