Recent content by Marek991

The smell was the same as when I once had a short circuit in one of the power outlets, so metallic in nature. As for the flickering, it would have had to come from the top of the psu. Anyway, I am going to contact Corsair and see what they think. Thanks for all the replies!

Last night I noticed like a candle light flicker coming from my pc, I thought I imagined it because my gpu has rgb lightning, but then I noticed a distinct smell of something having fried. My pc was still working fine, not crashed or anything so I shut it down, unhooked the power cable and tried...

Thanks...I'll think I'll get those then in case I ever want to buy a quad CPU. Now the last thing I need to know before I go and buy my new baby is whether I need to pay any attention to the manufacturer of the videocard? XFX of Sparkle? Any ideas?

That's great, can keep some of my hard-earned money :) But what about the memory? Is there a big difference between 800MHz and 1000MHz as the price differs only a 10 bucks.

Thanks for your quick reply. My current PSU is FSP Blue Storm AX500-A, is a rather solid PSU, but I'm not sure how power-hungry 8800GTS is. I don't need raid so no need to pay more because of it :)

Hi everyone, Like a lot of this forum visitors I am also one who wishes to ask your advice about my future build. I have put together all my previous computers on my own, but somehow the technology has advanced tremendously and I don't feel very sure of the pieces I need. I don't want to spend...