Recent content by magnesiumk

Warezme look up the speed of SSD Raid 0 Arrays.

Dude, I work at a department with over 200 computers, and we have an advanced anti virus program here. When I saw that, I had never seen that on a computer before. So, I checked our antivirus program, and it detected a worm. It's likely that a virus (worm) is slowing down your computer. Run a...

A virus can install into the NVRAM. It's possible. I've only seen it a few times. If it is the case, then the best option is to flash the bios with a new one from the manufacturer web page. If you're using the same hard drive every time, you can fully format the drive, and still get the virus...

Asus. You are so good at making mother boards! It seems that you follow market trends in product design and implementation, however innovation seems to be put on the back burner. The Taichi laptop was a great fresh new design. Market demand in mother boards may be created with fresh new...

I never saw upgrading to SLI at a later date to be worth it. The GPU prices never seem to fall drastically to a point where SLI is a good alternative. I think if you want to build an SLI rig do it now, however I prefer to have a single GPU that can be easily upgraded at a later date. I find this...

I also wanted to add, thank you for listing the 965BE with overclock at 4Ghz. It's easy to clock this processor up to those speeds. That's about what I run at, and it also runs much greater than stock speeds. This is important in future comparison tests. Thanks again.

Thank you so much for writing this article. Thank you also for including the Phenom II 965 processor to this test. I use it, and it is somewhat dated, and hard to find compared to newer cores. However it still kicks a lot of butt in gaming. I bought my Phenom II 955BE C3 last year with...

Antec Earthwatts is the quietest power supply I've ever bought. The case fans are much louder, and I always like quiet in my room. I strongly recommend any Antec Earthwatts series. There is one rated for 650 watts and $70. I would say this is a good buy. The series gets good reviews as well...

I have a $30 zalman heat sink, and the overclock on the 955 cpu can go up to 4.2Ghz. Very happy with that M5A97 mobo. It was available for $95

AM3+ supports up to 1866 Mhz. I run the regular M5A97 with a 955 Processor. I can clock the ram above 1600 Mhz, but it's not much of a difference. Altogether I like all the items you picked. It's very similar to my build. The PSU will be very very quiet. I suggest an aftermarket heat sink, so...

I own the phenom II 955. You can clock it to a solid 4 Ghz without upping the voltage. I bought the 955 with the intent on putting as much power as I could through it, even to breaking point. It was a cheap, and fun experiment. I learned that after around 4.1-4.2Ghz of performance.The...

I agree. I think all you need is a 2500K, then overclock it with a good aftermarket cooler. I personally prefer some of the big air heat sink fans. I don't think liquid cooling is worth the money. You made a good choice on the video card. I run the HD6950 when I made my build last year. One...